The Generosity of a Cat

So today Surely, age 17 months (my Maine Coon) has demonstated a new level of moral development: generosity. Yes, it is true. This week we bought her a couple of very real looking little mice filled with cat nip. She has been playing with them incessantly. This AM, I discovered she had put one in my purse. Thinking it was only an accident, I removed it and threw it into the living room for her. Now, two more times, she has re-inserted it into my purse! She wants Mommy to have her mouse today :-)

Garlic and Art.......

This weekend is the Garlic and Arts festival in nearby Orange.Yup, it's true.
I think I first went there..mmmm...did we go 5 years ago, Jet? Then 4 years ago Jet and Beno were there together. Then 2 years ago they went there, right after getting engaged at the cliffs. Now they will go again, both days, to play and to work and to display the first B&J Greene product I hope.
I will go with Polly and Cheryl.
Hope the weather holds out for it!!

Video Screening Night

Fun time screening "Evnetually" by Ben and Jess as well as a few other shorts by the likes of Ian and Aaron and even Spike. Great food and a wonderful time around the campfire. Thanks to all who came and made it memorable :-)

Labor Day = Labor?

So this is Labor Day weekend, eh?

I guess that means day to labor. It started out that way anyway.Today, Saturday, started bright and early. We went to the Williams' house and unloaded stuff from their cellar that we had put there a few years ago. Brooks,Mindy, Jess and Ben helped Baird and me. Mindy and Brooks had some yummy food for us too. Mmmm.... We brought all of the boxes and stuff up to the garage, vacuumed & cleaned it up, put it in our vehicles and took (most) of it to a storage garage in Amherst. A bit of it went to the dump and a few things came home. We also took stuff from the Amherst garage to Jess and Ben's for the art room and work room in their cellar and dleivered Aaron's bike to his place. Aaron's at the Honors College orientation this weekend.

Now it is 4PM and I am getting started on some projects that I want to do this weekend.
There is labor and then there is labor. Translated: some of it is actually fun and even rewarding.