Archive for September, 2007
Who writes this stuff?
Friday, September 21st, 2007A warning screen has been popping up on my monitor screen telling me that my “mouse batteries are critical.” Somehow, I don’t know that telling me that batteries are critical to the operation of my mouse warrants a warning screen. What could they mean? Oh, yes, maybe that the mouse batteries are [...]
Happy 14th Birthday, Grace!
Friday, September 21st, 2007Well, today is my “baby’s” 14th birthday….and I bet the rest of the kids are glad they’re not The Baby.:-) It was hard to find just the right photo to capture the “Graceness” of Gracie.
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Lazy Weekend
Sunday, September 16th, 2007Well, I’ve not had quite such an unproductive weekend in a very long time. I read a novel…I’d say the first in a very long time, but I did just finish Anna Karenina not very long ago. This was a modern novel though. I have trouble exercising discipline when reading fiction; so I just tend [...]
Amy Wilhoite
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007I’ve mentioned Amy Wilhoite here a couple of times and had her linked in the sidebar as she’s gone through a terribly difficult time in her life battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. She passed away and went Home for her Ultimate Healing yesterday after a few days with a fungal lung infection that caused difficulty [...]
Ain’t it Purty?
Sunday, September 9th, 2007I know that some members of the family who haven’t been home in the last couple of weeks would not even know that this is indeed our fish tank. I bought five new fish: two turquoise guppies, two platies, and one algae eater. We already had one red-tailed shark. The lady at the store told [...]
Anna Karenina
Monday, September 3rd, 2007What a wonderful book. Tolstoy creates a story with very realistic and believable characters who exhibit all their faults and foibles. The story as a whole is a contrast between the lives of Anna Karenina and Levin.
I was going to write some important quotes from the end of the book, but that [...]