Monthly Archive for August, 2007

Guardian Angels Around My Bed…

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This is so cute. I know I sent an email on it, but couldn’t resist posting it here. Maybe you have friends who’d get a kick out of linking to this…

Angels as told by kids

I only know the names of two angels. Hark and Harold.
Gregory, 5

Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it.
Olive, 9

It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to heaven, then there’s still the flight training to go through. And then, you got to agree to wear those angel clothes.
Matthew, 9

Angels work for God and watch over kids when God has to go do something else.
Mitchell, 7

My guardian angel helps me with math, but he’s not much good for science.
Henry, 8

Angels don’t eat, but they drink milk from holy cows.
Jack, 6

Angels talk all the way while they’re flying you up to heaven. The basic message is where you went wrong before you got dead.
Daniel, 9

When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath and counts to ten. And when he lets out his breath, somewhere there’s a tornado.
Reagan, 10

Angels have a lot to do and they keep very busy. If you lose a tooth, an angel comes in through your window and leaves money under your pillow. Then when it gets cold, angels go north for the winter.
Sara, 6

Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his son, who’s a very good carpenter.
Jared, 8

All angels are girls because they gotta wear dresses and boys didn’t go for it.
Antonio, 9

My angel is my grandma who died last year. She got a big head start on being an angel by helping me while she was still down here on earth.
Katelynn, 9

Some of the angels are in charge of helping heal sick animals and pets. And if they don’t make the animals get better, they help the kid get over it.
Vicki, 8

What I don’t get about angels is why, when someone is in love, they shoot arrows at them.
Sara, 7

Very, very cute… :)

Meet the newest member of our family…

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This is Amber, she’s 3 months old and she’s a holy terror — argh!!

Since we lost Pudgy  earlier in the year, we’ve slowly inherited a major mouse investation and they’re so cute, with big brown eyes and big round ears, that I could not use the neck-braker traps or the goo traps; it seems so cruel! We put down a live trap, but they were too smart for that!

So, since Kitty, Lil’ Bit, the Arching, Hissing, B _ _ _ _ has joined our family, we haven’t seen any mouse signs, not from the first night of her introduction (we haven’t found any little mouse bodies either — hoping they don’t get too brave — I’ve warned them to stay away or it’s curtains!).

So with squirt bottle in hand and folded up newspaper, the training begins__beating her off my sliding glass door screens as she tries to get to my precious golden finches and hummingbirds…off my table where she wants to chew off all the African Violet leaves and flowers…off my furniture where she dashes up to me and scratches the arm of whatever seat I’m sitting on after being disciplined for just having done that…well you get the picture…

She is cute though and in our hearts, so she’s here to stay…help!! :0

So to sooth myself today, after being out at our Big Creek Hydro facility this morning, I took the back road up to Huntington Lake and took the long, scenic route home. It was absolutely beautiful…guess I’m lucky this is my view driving back to my office. Enjoy!!

I want your cameras!!

OK, niece families. What cameras are you all using? I love the pictures. They are so clear and bright and beautiful. I have a Canon PowerShot SD450 (digital) with zoom capability and all my pictures are turning out too big and too grainy when I try to upload them to my precious header images!! What’s up with that???! I want what you guys have (like I said to Barney in an email this morning, said with a pouty voice!!!)!

Or someone give me some training and tell me how to adjust the settings on my Canon. I also have a regular Canon 35mm… What am I doing wrong? I want the great closeups with the clear edges and bright colors. OK. I feel better. Someone share please…

Signed,
Frustrated :(

Happy Birthday to you, you’re another year older today…

Well, Nana made it through another year (that’s how she expressed it)!

We celebrated her 70-something birthday at the Cheesecake Factory Tuesday evening. We gorged ourselves and had a wonderful time. She was in all her Queen Bee glory!!