Meg's posts with tag: 2006
|  | My aunt and cousin took the kids up to Traverse City Sunday, but Rob and I stayed behind to visit Vera and for Rob to do a conference call with the board members of his company on Monday. (We couldn't do it from TC because it's possible we might have missed it and ended up being in the middle of Michigan without access to a land line.)
Since I was available in the morning, my gram decided to have me meet them at the monastery (same one as pictured yesterday) for the "official" tour of the Solanus Center. (It was ecumenical to the point of being pretty "anything goes as long as you're good." The artwork is pretty neat, though. And the space itself is beautifully done.)
After the tour Gram and Gramp and I went over to the cemetery across the street and saw the sites there. It's a beautiful cemetery, designed by the same guy (Olmstead) who designed Central Park in NYC. I thought the crypts (isn't that what they're called) built into the side of the hill were especially cool.
I buzzed over to King Used Books after the cemetary and picked up 2 scifi books and a Bible History book written by Isaac Asimov. Then I headed back to Canton where Rob was just beginning his conference call. As soon as it was over we set off (with a minor set back as I frantically searched the house for my aunt and cousin's retainers *sigh*) for Traverse City.
Meanwhile, the kids were picking cherries, watching "Cars" and hanging out in the lake. (Thanks to Mary for the great pics.) |
| | We had whipped cream on top of the girls' birthday brownies last weekend. I used a Kitchen Aid at the time, but Rob made a comment that though he knew cream could be whipped by hand, he really didn't think I could do it.
Well, I couldn't turn down a challenge like that, now, could I?
Not only do I have photographic evidence, but I have three witnesses who not only watched me whip, but who partook of the evidence.
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| | Nathan's cub scout pack went on a one night camping trip last friday. We stayed in the "back yard" of a couple that used to have a cattle ranch (They've since sold off the cattle and retired.) right along the Cache la Poudre river (which is running full with melted snow).
We saw bats, a snake, a falcon (I think that's what it was. I'm pretty lame at identifying birds, though.), LOTS of spiders, nymphs (from the river -- probably May Flies), the remains of a beaver damn, water spiders, and a goose (which isn't that big of a deal since they swarm the city twice a year). |
| | Zoe and I first met in 1992, at a farm up in the thumb of Michigan. She was my best companion for many years.
I moved to San Francisco in 1995 and there we discovered the sorrow of year round fleas. We also found that with 3 kids under the age of 3 in one house, the dog got very little attention. So in 2000, Zoe moved out to Colorado to live with my sis. (Where there was almost no fleas and lots and lots of attention.)
On Tuesday, April 18th, Zoe was rushed to the Vet school after trying for an hour to throw up and being unable to. They took an x-ray and found that her stomach had gotten twisted (which is apparently more common in young, active dogs with large chests). She was in severe pain and my sister and her husband decided it was time to put her to sleep.
They called me before they did it but I had no one to watch the kids and didn't think I could handle it anyway if I went down there. So they stopped by afterward and we looked through old pics of when she as a wee little thing. (I'll post those after I get them scanned.)
She was just shy of 14 years old. She had a long, happy life and I'll miss her. |
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