See the pretty lady about to adopt a cat? Not me, the lady on the poster behind me. I’m just holding a kitten and wondering if I can get David to hold it and go all skwoogie for it. As it turns out, David managed to avoid entanglement, but it was a nice cuddly kitten and not all wiggly and ‘put-me-down’ like kittens often are. This was Sunday at the local Petsmart – they generally have cat adoption events by various groups on the weekend. We took stock of things tonight – we still have a litter box and a…
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Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith This book, like a lot of others in the “expose'” genre, attempts to explain the background of a small, intense, and very insular subset of the dominant faith of Utah. Actually, it attempts to explain the connections and rivalries between several similar but different subsets of same, and how they all disavow each other and the “mainline” faith. Oh, and how certain kinds of unethical, criminal, and horrific acts of violence and mayhem can somehow be justified by said faith(s). I grew up in Utah, so some of the…
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Jill, you were right about the lights in New Orleans being turned on just for the Presidential speech the other night: Daily Nightly: Friday Morning (Power) Line I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when the power came back on for blocks on end. Kevin Tibbles was positively jubilant on the live update edition of Nightly News that we fed to the West Coast. The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out…
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Hey, Kevin!! If you’re still lurking about, I uploaded pictures of many anemones (and other things) to Flickr just now. It’s weird that I didn’t take any photos of you all when we were at the house earlier that week, though. I think I was in “decompress” mode that day. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Many More Anemones! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 18 Sep ’05, 1.09am PST
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0033.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 7.47pm PST
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These guys were pretty good at the end – they went off the rails into Celtic jazz on their last piece, very fast and very dramatic. The harper broke a string and played on as if the Devil himself was goading him. After the big finish he leaned over into the mike and announced “Thank you. And yes, it was the G string that broke,” to an even bigger round of applause. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0030.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 6.18pm PST
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0027.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 4.58pm PST
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Aids walk chicago By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 17 Sep ’05, 4.35pm PST
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Bush to Offer Hurricane Aid Package – Yahoo! News Rather than speak before a live audience, Bush planned to stand alone and broadcast his message directly into the camera from the evacuated city’s historic Jackson Square, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity since the site had not been announced. The square and its most famed landmark, the St. Louis Cathedral, were on high enough ground to avoid flooding but did not escape damage from Katrina’s 145-mph winds. Two massive oak trees outside the 278-year-old cathedral came out by the roots, ripping out a 30-foot section…
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The other day, we went to the cluster of big-box stores over on Barrington Road where many of our simple needs may be met: Home Despot, Staples, and up until 2 years ago when Stuey died, pet supplies at PetSmart. David had some errands to run at the other stores, and I decided to loiter with intent at the PetSmart, where I knew there would be some cats in their Adoption Center. Last weekend’s visit to a similar pet place near our hotel in Salt Lake started up a powerful hankering; it had been nearly two years since I’d even…