annie's war

hey family bloggers,

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thanks.

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Stuff around my house today

Thatch and Susan gave me this for Easter. I hope I can keep it alive.

China Bunny

The Sheik of San Francisco Abdul de Fatata Razwyck

Chris Simpson @ 1 yr.

Guitar Bear

Strange, awful, detailed. Do we really want to examine this experience? Try it

Stink bugs you suck it

Dive bombers from Hell plus smell

I will hunt you down.

My weapon

Easter

Logan Hale who lives next door to Chris and Amy.

Tabitha my grandniece.

We had Pickles the overweight pony and the "friendly critter petting zoo" come to the house on Easter. Besides the rabbits there were ducks, Indian fantail doves, fluffy banty chickens, a pygmy goat and Chippy the sheep.

Mags loved Pickles. Abbie wanted NOTHING to do with any of it.

Jim and I took Maggie to the Magic Shop in Oldwick to the Bunny Hole. They do this every Easter creating tableaus with stuffed animals. This year's theme was the royal wedding with the parts of William and Kate played by large rabbits.

Hope

Out and About

Charlie and I traveled to South Carolina to visit Evelyn & her family.

A tour of Charleston led by Tommy Dew ended with him insulting me, so Charlie had to challenge him to a duel.

Mega house on the battery in Charleston.

Beautiful gardens in Savannah, and . . .

. . . magnolias,

and guys.

Back in time for Easter and a short burst of sunshine, with brunch, at Sara & Dave's.

Cousins are fun!

Jimmi Goes to Chile

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Stinky Boston Bruins

Instead of watching the Bruins blow another play off game - I'm going to post some pictures of my kid.

A few things you should know about Harper:

1. She's a very fast runner. Someday she'll win an Olympic Medal for the 100 meter dash.
2. Make no mistake, "Gumpa" is her answer for everything.
3. The girl will eat anything. Today she had capers, chickpeas and a pepperoni/cream cheese sandwich on rye.
4. She loves to get her hair "cut, cut, cut."
5. The Bruin's lost 3-1.
6. Dave is pissed.
7. I'm going to bed.

Hibiscus Show

We went to the flower show at St. George Botanical Garden just before we left St. Croix. The variety of hibiscus is rather amazing. Heres just a few.

Ice Cream Fest

Hunter and Hope came over on Sat while their parents went out to dinner. We made flatbread pizzas and then ice cream sundaes.

Hope's Creation

No grapes were selected in the making of these sundaes, strictly sugar and plenty of it.

I think the color is off in my camera as Hunter does not actually wear candy pink blusher and lipstick.

the hookers, the madmen and the doomed

by Charles Bukowski

Listen to G. Keillor read it HERE.

today at the track
2 or 3 days after
the death of the
jock
came this voice
over the speaker
asking us all to stand
and observe
a few moments
of silence. well,
that's a tired
formula and
I don't like it
but I do like
silence. so we
all stood: the
hookers and the
madmen and the
doomed. I was
set to be dis-
pleased but then
I looked up at the
TV screen
and there
standing silently
in the paddock
waiting to mount
up
stood the other jocks
along with
the officials and
the trainers:
quiet and thinking
of death and the
one gone,
they stood
in a semi-circle
the brave little
men in boots and
silks,
the legions of death
appeared and
vanished, the sun
blinked once
I thought of love
with its head ripped
off
still trying to
sing and
then the announcer
said, thank you
and we all went on about
our business.

Hike to Tuckerman Ravine

A couple of us were climbing around on Mt. Washington on Wednesday. We'd gone up to Tuckerman to watch the spring skiing. Unfortunately, the weather was lousy and the wind was heavy in the bowl below the headwall, so when we arrived there were only a few hardy skiers hunkered down amongst the rocks (see below), waiting for a break in the weather. I did get this shot of the ravine wall above the shelter at Hermit Lake. Jim, to the far left of the top photo is where you and I climbed up to Boot Spur last summer.

Yes, Virginia, Santa is missing.