A pic of Miss Kay's tummy. Dang that incision looks long in this view!

http://flickr.com/photos/24126461@N00/

Sigh, Ivan Dixon passed away. You know, "Hogan's Heroes", "Raisin in the Sun", etc. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228853/

The thing that twangs my heart the most is that he and his wife were married for 53 years. How many other successful actor/directors in 70s & 80s can say that?

So I'm playing in an online poker tourney hosted in Germany. I laughed very loudly and said, "I just went all in with this guy and we ended up splitting a 60 euro pot!"

What Dulci heard: "I just went along with this guy and we ended up splitting a 60-year-old's butt."

Li'l Miss Chaos comes home in the morning! Whee! Her sister Anarchy ("Annie") who is usually a spoiled brat has been really clingy and loving all evening ( Read more... )

The "something" in Kay's tummy was a lump of food. She'd eaten a bunch and drunk plenty of water when she shocked herself. Seems her digestive system is taking a while to reboot.

$3000 and rising...

Stoopid little furbutt also had something in her stomach. So, surgery and another thousand dollars. :(

It's always scary to see your pet lying motionless and drooling on the kitchen floor, barely holding her head up and not responding to sounds, motions or paw-pinching ( Read more... )

Grand Ledge's darlings:

http://noise.typepad.com/get_prepped/2008/03/champs-in-more.html

My god-daughter is the second girl to the right of the trophy. The one who's hunching at knees, hips, and shoulders. Pffff...Amazon genes...

Always a fun time, but this year extra special. My hometown, Grand Ledge, has like 5 parades a year, which is kinda parade-happy for a town of less than 10,000. But these cheesy parades just look so cool going through a sort of "Main Street,USA" downtown which hasn't changed substantially in a hundred years ( Read more... )

So last night I went out to the barn to visit the cats, clean the boxes, give 'em food & water, yaddah-yaddah, same as every night ( Read more... )