88 Degrees in April

I need to move to Canada.

This is from the weather channel for yesterday.

OBSERVED

Hi
88°F
Lo
67°F
Precip (in)
0in.

Nothing much to report, same old S**T different day. Everyone here is doing fine. We hope that we will be able to get to see any and all of you soon, but our schedules are making it difficult. (That's code for I have a job now, and I work opposite hours from my husband)

Yeah Vermont!!!

Vermont becomes 4th state to allow gay marriage
Wed Apr 8, 2009 1:40pm EDT


BOSTON (Reuters) - Vermont legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after lawmakers overrode a veto from the governor by a wafer-thin margin, making the New England state the fourth in the United States where gays can wed.
The vote, nine years after Vermont was first in the United States to adopt a same-sex civil-union law, also makes the tiny state of 624,000 people the first in the nation to introduce gay marriage through legislative action instead of the courts.
"We've shown that truth and fairness and justice and love are more powerful than one man's veto pen," same-sex marriage advocate Beth Robinson said to cheers from supporters in the state capital of Montpelier after Vermont's House of Representatives passed the bill by a 100-49 vote.
Known for picturesque foliage, quaint dairy farms and a counter-culture spirit, Vermont joins New England neighbors Connecticut and Massachusetts in allowing gay marriage. Iowa legalized gay marriage last week.
Lawmakers in next-door New Hampshire and Maine are also considering bills to allow gay marriage, putting New England at the heart of a divisive national debate over the issue.
Washington D.C. extended new rights to gay couples on Tuesday, too, with a unanimous City Council vote to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside the district. Some city lawmakers lauded the move as a prelude to legal same-sex marriage in the U.S. capital.
OVERRIDES GOVERNOR'S VETO
Vermont's bill, which becomes law on September 1, looked in peril after a 95-52 vote on Thursday in the Democratic-controlled House that was five votes short of the support needed to clear a veto from Republican Governor Jim Douglas.
Douglas vetoed the bill on Monday, urging lawmakers to focus on the economy instead. Supporters needed two-thirds of the votes in each chamber to override his veto. They got that easily in the state Senate, which passed the bill 23-5 earlier on Tuesday.
The vote came just four days after Iowa's Supreme Court struck down a decade-old law that barred gays from marrying. The surprise ruling, which made Iowa the first in the heartland to allow same-sex marriages, may have influenced some Vermont lawmakers to change their vote, gay marriage advocates said.
California briefly recognized gay marriage until voters banned it in a referendum last year.
The group Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, which helped to legalize gay marriage in Massachusetts and Connecticut, has set a goal of expanding such marriages to all New England states by 2012. Maine and New Hampshire already offer same-sex couples some form of legal recognition.
Forty-three U.S. states have laws explicitly prohibiting gay marriage, including 29 with constitutional amendments restricting marriage to one man and one woman.
(Editing by Chris Wilson)

Earth Hour 2009

Tomorrow 8:30 pm Local Time.

http://www.earthhour.org/home/

Yard Work

So I had been out cleaning up from this winter, enjoying the 50 degree weather (when it came). Trimming way overgrown bushes down to a more reasonable size. To give you a size reference the bottom of the window is just over 5 feet tall. Just high enough for me to keep banging the top of my head into. The before pictures were taken early spring and mid summer of this past year. The after pictures were this week. The bushes are not done, I wanted to give them a chance to recover before I cut back the front to where it should be. (Or it might kill them)

Before

After

Then this morning I woke up to This!

March - In like a lion, out like a smaller lion?

Is it Spring Yet?

I thought I heard someone mention spring. This was taken this morning,

we have another 6 inches fore casted for this afternoon.

Out of everyone I know, and I mean EVERYONE. I am the only one that still

loves a good snow storm. Even in March.

Ok maybe not the only one.

Self Tagged

Here are the rules.

1. Go to your picture folder & select the sixth folder.
2. Select the sixth picture in the folder.
3. Tag six people....

I, much like my sister have changes the rules too. It is now a Tag Yourself option.

Here is my 6th picture. It is my sixth picture of the first folder (I don't have six folders, at least not is one spot).

This is Ruby running crazy through my mom's back yard after a huge snowstorm last year. She is going on 5 years old and still runs just as crazy. Just look at the slightly crossed eyes and the helter skelter dog tags.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is... well I'll let them tell you. I will be turning off my lights.

Will you?

The Earth Hour is scheduled for March 28th at 8:30pm your local time. Spread the word.

Go Here for more information.

To My Valentine

Happy Valentines Day

I couldn't decided between them, so you get both.

I love you.

"I'm Yours" Official Video






"Lucky" Official Video With Colbie Caillat

Redundancy

I have noticed of late, that only two of my many household critters have been showing up on the blog. There is a perfectly good reason for this, as I do not have favorites. Most of the other critters when I am trying to take a picture of them look like;

this,

or this.

I think its genetic.

Kitten Antics and Pierced Ears

Stella has lately decided that every surface is her own personal cat tree. She likes to sit on top of the TV, on top of the freezer and my shoulder while I'm trying to make dinner.

Ruby on the other hand decided she was going to try piercing her ears. She managed to get a scratch so deep on her ear, it actually poked all the way through her ear. She was running all crazy like through the woods near dusk, and must have run into a tree branch or bramble that sliced a pretty good chunk out of her ear. She is doing fine, we are holding off on the gold hoops till she gets a little older. She was very patient while we cleaned her ear and applied neosporin, and has been a bit more cautious while running through the woods. Although I expect this to wear off as she forgets what happened the last time.

My Little Polar Bear

Mass Hysteria!

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!


Mayor: What do you mean "biblical"?


Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath of God type stuff! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!


Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, and volcano's!


Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!


Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Thats right! You can panic now.

Rockin' in the New Year

This is how we spent New Years.

"Hey!" (in the James Brown it's too hot in the hot tub 'hey'.)

Actually it looked more like this...

"The whats dropping? Don't let it fall on you. Zzzzzzzzzz..."

Happy New Years to All and to All a Goodnight.

Where do i begin.

First, it got cold.

Very Cold.

Our Furnace decided it didn't want to work anymore, and died shortly after Thanksgiving. Everybody was cold while we waited to have a new furnace installed.

Ahhhhh, heat. It took them a day to install it, luckily it was warmer out side than it was suppose to be that time of year so nothing froze.

Then Harper and I turned into rabbits.

Not really, we were playing at the Children's Zoo in Central Park.


Then the girls decided to grow up on me. I had to take them to the doctors to get a special operation to... well you know. They are both recovering fine and don't remember much of that day.

Over Christmas Harper had to explain to Popo and Great Grandma that this is a map of the United States and it holds those funny collectible quarters. She managed to put the pieces that the two previous generations had taken out back in the right order (in a matter of minutes).

Happy Holidays to you all.

Our holiday cards will probably be ready by next year (2010 that is).

Best Buds

Jack: We are best buds.

Ruby: We are?

Jack: Of course.

Ruby: Awhhh, now your making me blush.

What is Tagging?

I'm not really sure, but I'm game.

I was tagged by Harper.

The Rules:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open it to page 56
3. Find the 5th sentence
4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with instructions
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the most intellectual - Pick the CLOSEST.

Ok this is weird. My closest book is -

"Gun's Recognition Guide" by Ian Hogg and Terry Gander

The sentence reads...

"There is also a safety notch in the hammer and the trigger is disconnected from the firing mechanism unless the slide is fully forward."
(It is describing a Walther P5)

Andy, you are next.

Ps. Just to make sure you don't think we are complete psychos here, my next closest book (i'm not making it up) is "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi. It would have been much more interesting.

Ruby and The Copy Cats

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

out with the faux...in with the new.

Ok that was bad. Here's the story. Every time we saw the house, I kept looking at the banister and thinking that there is something amiss. Well as it turns out there was something funky about it. Its painted to look like wood, which had the odd effect of making it look like plastic. Not good fresh new plastic but worn out, beaten up, at the end of its life plastic.

See for yourself.

Well that left me with a few choices. One, I could take the time to strip numerous layers of paint and finish out of all the nooks and crannies, sand it, and then have to refinish it.

Or

Option number two, just paint over it all. (which still isn't as fun as it sounds)

I choose paint. (it was cheaper)

My New MMA Studio

(MMA means mixed martial arts)

I guess carpet squares have many uses.

Wedding pictures

This was what I was up to last weekend. My sister in-law got married. It took place in Brooklyn, right near the bridge. These pictures were taken by someone else. (they let me borrow them)

The Groom's side.

The Bride's side.

The Bride and Groom.

The Paebaek Tea Ceremony.

(Korean Ceremony to honor the parents)

The sweet wonderful people that I borrowed the pictures from.

Fun in the rain.

Yes, that is the bride running through the down pour that happened later that night.