The Squirrel Gets the Suet!

Mr. And Mrs. Cardinal

Rudolph in the Snow

December 23, 2012

December 23, 1972!

Friends

Game Day!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Cousins Meet for First Time

        
 

J.P. Weddle (24 months) and Lizzie Hamilton (18 months) listen to Ryan Weddle (424 months) read.

Snow on the Punkin

JP

Lizzie

Scarface

J. P. Weddle's jack-o-lantern

October Leaves

Cool autumn day!

"Pro-Life"

Though I consider myself to be "Pro-Choice" I can certainly understand and relate to this by Joan Chittister, a Benedictine Sister and a best-selling author and well-known international lecturer on topics of justice, peace, human rights, women's issues, and contemporary spirituality in the Church and in society.

‎"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed.

 And why would I think that you don't?

 Because you don't want any tax money to go there. 

That's not pro-life.

 That's pro-birth.

 We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

On Change -

 "It's been my habit of mind, over the years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head.  Everything someone assures me to be true might not be.  Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode.  Most things don't stay the way they are very long.  Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical.  Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is.  I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come."

from Canada by Richard Ford

Our Beefeater

With the Olympics going on in London there have been a few features on TV about the Tower of London and the Yeoman Warders who serve as guides.   I was reminded of our visit on July 14, 2000, and the excellent guide we had.  I didn't remember his name but I was able to read his name tag and did some Googling to find out he is Mick Casson  who served as a Yeoman Warder for 15 years, retiring in 2003.  He still gives talks about the Tower and his experiences.

Sunday Wildlife

 Deer down in the stream, raccoons in the foreground

This is the first time we've ever seen raccoons out back.  They have probably been around but we saw them today.

Check Me Out!

Bastille Day Horseradish!

Today I dug, cleaned, chopped, processed, and jarred about three and a half quarts of horseradish!