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Monday, May 21, 2007

Weekend With WOWSkunk

Where do I start?! What a great weekend. I arrived at my friend, Cindi's, around 4:30 P.M. Friday. We enjoyed dinner at Kodiak Jack's. The following night was party night. The first guests arrived on their motorcycle with pop-up camper attached. It was a friend of Cindi's, Mike, and his daughter, Megan. Other guests arrived periodically after that. Cindi's other friends (by that I mean other than me) at the party were a lot of fun. We had a lot of laughs--and a lot of warmth, wink, wink! Oops, lest you misunderstand--there was a GIGANTIC bonfire during the party. This first picture shows you the size of the pile (notice Cindi's grandson in the front).

The size of the actual burning pile gets lost in the dark background.

I always manage to see different images in a lot of pictures. This next photo looks to me like there are demons in the flames. (Besides Cindi's demons, ha ha. Oh, maybe these are Cindi's demons!)

This pictures looks like a (ever so appropriate) fire-breathing dragon:

This truck belongs to a friend of Cindi's son, Cory. Notice the car and motorcycle between the wheels, to give you some perspective on the size of the truck!

All in all, it was a fun weekend and I now feel I have a lot of new friends that I hope to see again and become better acquainted with. Here they are, bringing up the rear.
Thanks so much Cindi!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

My Second Post of the Day

I had a strange experience this afternoon. I often have to catch little critters that my cats bring inside to play with and then get bored with. Today, the field mouse that kept showing up in my living room was eating my hanging plant (philodendron). My female cat, Mrs. Whiggins, would get real close to it and just reach out and touch it with her paw and the mouse did not run away! However, when I got close to it, it would amble away (and Mrs. Whiggins didn't even chase after it!). NOTE: when you have an in/out door for your cat, you have to decide whether you'd rather have an indoor litter box or put up with the critters! Anyway, here is Mrs. Whiggins looking like she has spring fever...not!

I had finally cornered the mouse into a small cardboard box and put it outside where the mouse finally emerged and that is what Mrs. Whiggins is looking at. I'm surprised she didn't go out the kitty door and come around front and bring the mouse back in!


The mouse is still on the porch; however, it is no longer living. Must've died of fright or else eating the philodendron was its downfall...

Ooops, best laid plans...

We ended up postponing our trip to Costa Rica. We have until near the end of February 2008 to use our airline tickets. Not sure when we will actually be able to go. John felt (and I agree) he shouldn't leave the country without taking his youngest son with us--teenagers will be teenagers, LOL.

Since we didn't go to Costa Rica, we spent some time in the country again taking pictures. The chipmunk was eagerly chowing down on bird feeder spillover:

This tree photo is the opposite side of the "tree of men" in my previous post. We were so drawn to that tree that we went back for another look and discovered the "devilish face" on the other side of that tree. (See the possibility of horns rising from the forehead?)