INDEPENDENCE~!!

Sis with singer Chris Isaak - June 30, 2012

Ready to Celebrate?

Wigwam

Guess what this is!

View from our table at the Ice House Restaurant, Burlington, Vermont

Nap Attack!

38th Anniversary!

Today is the Wedding Anniversary of listener and her Sweetie!!  = ♥♥ =
38 years and still going strong!  The bride carried a single white rose and a white Bible.

Just for fun--indulge me please? :)

I posted this on Facebook on June 22, but stuff seems to get lost on FB pretty easily. But I thought come on--someone out there might enjoy this. And even (I can only hope) play with this silly toy on their own, and share the wacky results that ensue. :)

"> Hello, I am Eliza.

* Hi, Eliza. Do you mind if I call you Liza for short?
> We were discussing you, not me.
* I didn't think we had officially started our discussion just yet. I was just asking how you prefer to be addressed.
> Oh... prefer to be addressed?
* Yes. You may call me Renee. Should I call you Eliza, or Liza, or just "Yo computer simulated babe!"?
> We were discussing you, not me.
* I see that you were first created in the 1960s--so the "broken record" expression should not be lost on you...
> Oh... was first created in the 1960s--so the" broken record" expression should not be lost on me?"

Wow--it was NOT easy to find the Eliza link I used. Had to look back through history, which fortunately I had not yet cleared,


This is the first link I found when I tried to search just from scratch

Which yielded the following interaction:

Eliza: Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?
You: I can't find my socks
Eliza: Why do you say your socks?

Geez, what fun is that?

Summer sure is pretty

Buttercups!

Yellow Peony

For VT*Grand

 

Found this on Craigslist!  Can hardly wait until VT*Grand wakes up here in the morning and sees it!  Grandad is going to teach her how to ride it (got okay from parents).  Sweet!!

First weekend of Summer!

 

Empty and Broken

This was the centerpiece at our most recent Peer Group meeting.  

So poignant as I was still processing my experience of my friend's ordination the day before. 

One of my Peers is going to meet with me this Summer and help me write a liturgy

related to leaving the ordination process.

Photo for another too hot day...

I'll have a scoop of Almond Joy topped with a scoop of Moose Tracks.  Mmmm. Ice cream!

Kitty Bath!

Awww.  Here's Spinnaker washing Mizzen's face.  Mizzen loves it! 

 It means a lot really, as Mizzen still roots around like a nursling when she gets into her 

 white, furry bed. Spinnaker has made life a lot nicer for Mizzen.

Big Sister (2lbs) & Little Sister (1lb)

Candytuft

Happy Father's Day!! BOTH our kitties are HOME!!

Clouds dwarfing Vermont's highest peak...

Got Books?

Mizzen at 15.05 oz...up an ounce from the day before!

From Both Sides Now

What is your favourite colour Geranium?

The Chase is ON!

Spinnaker

Mizzen

Gap Filler

A Closer Look...

Can anyone name this bush?

Simplicity

Chess or Checkers?

Eldest likes both, and today he turns 37...!

Thankful

Better than Refrigerator Poetry

This is part of the rock garden at St. Michael's College in Vermont.  

There are many many stones with words on them.  I found this sentence as is!  :-)

Welcome June

Good-bye May

Japanese Lilac...?

= O =

R E M E M B E R

(Related story here)

America...

Library Volunteers are Awesome!

It's Friday and a Long Weekend. Shall we party?

HATE to mess up listener's pretty lay out, but this is the logical place to put this, lol!

This is the only way to do this: if I try and post it, the software thinks it is *real* HTML, and either makes a link, or tells me it can't post because some tag or other isn't closed.

Have a Brownie..

Incase you're wondering, these dessert photos are from the Volunteer Dessert we have each year for the good folks who volunteer at the Library.  :-)


Update from Renee. Forehead slap--I completely forgot that we'd be losing the Echo comments at some point. Had to re-jigger something so that the usual Blogger comment option would kick in. Here's the link to the Echo comments from earlier today.

Lemon-Lime Bars

Time for Breakfast...

Speaking of Time...we need to make a decision about what time the Blog resets each day.  What if we set it for midnight Central Time, since Renee is the founder of HEP?  That would make it easier on those on the west coast, be good for those who feel it currently resets too soon each night, and we east-coasters tend to be night owls anyway.  Just a thought.  What's your thought?

Volunteer Trillium

I found this in my front yard under the window!

Happy Sunday!

Today is the party for Dr.*Son over in Maine.  :-)  We're extra glad because we'll be leaving behind temps in the 90's to go to the coast where it will be 68-70F.  Ahhhhhhh.  Remind me to tell you about the harps!