Fortunately, we have Meijer's, an alternative that has 'everything.' I don't like motorized carts and think they should be required to have a walking, orange-jacketed supervisor to lead them through the aisles. They should also have flashing red lights and back-up horns.
The two black boys are really nice cats. Glad I kept them.
I'm reading Thomas Keneally's great book, THE GREAT SHAME, about the British transporting of Irish so-called "criminals" and protesters to Australia in the early-to-mid 1800's. It was Step One in the Irish diaspora, the second step being the huge emigrations due to the potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s.
Why start them on the religion habit? Give the children the choice later, when they can make up their own minds.
I could paint and write in the Brown Palace until the cows came home.
I remember in August 1999 we were on a cabin cruiser charter on Lake Mead when the sundowner hit us and the temperature got to 120F, right on the water. Then we had our bathing suits on and dove into the lake. The cold shock nearly gave me a coronary!
Love your photos.
I am watching Sparky. He seems lighter, a bit more spry that when he was very sick. To me, when I notice what looks like improvement, it always seems to foretell a fail. So I am watching closely. He spends lots of time in my lap, and that's good.
Very cool!
An old friend of mine who used to drive vehicles for the Detroit mob said they took him to a meat packer, ground him into hamburger, and fed him to some hogs on a MI farm. I don't believe it though. I think he is under the goal posts at the Meadowlands Stadium in NJ.