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Coat color
Jul. 14th, 2009 06:43 amI found the name for the kitten's coat color pattern: "mackerel tabby."
GeoCities Rescue Project
Jul. 13th, 2009 07:06 pmI'm not involved with this project myself, but the Organization for Transformative Works has started a GeoCities Rescue Project. This sounds like a very worthy undertaking to me.
The joy and awe of a new kitten
Jul. 13th, 2009 07:47 amI had forgotten that something so tiny can be so perfect.
We have a new kitten.
What? At the same time?
Jul. 8th, 2009 07:40 amI just checked and found out that this year's Blogathon falls on July 25, 2009, which is right in the middle of the Great American Irish Festival weekend. So I'll have to choose between them, and since I'm really looking forward to the Irishfest, I guess that means no Blogathon for me this year!
A friend of mine predicted this correctly: the Google Chrome browser is going to become an operating system.
10 PM, a little play before bed ....
Jun. 29th, 2009 10:05 pmTsk tsk, it's 10 PM, and I have been caught not working, listening to really old Israeli records and checking LiveJournal. Whatever shall we do about this? I'm feeling altogether too good, happy, and productive lately. Mischief must be made. :-)
Edited to add: It's almost 11 PM now, and I could happily play on the computer for hours yet, but Logan insists that it's time for bed. Since I do have court at nine in the morning, he's probably right. I can have fun again tomorrow. :-)
Edited to add: It's almost 11 PM now, and I could happily play on the computer for hours yet, but Logan insists that it's time for bed. Since I do have court at nine in the morning, he's probably right. I can have fun again tomorrow. :-)
We're back!
Jun. 25th, 2009 05:52 pmJess and I are back from Georgia, and tomorrow I'm back to work. Tonight I'm catching up on mail, e-mail, LJ and Facebook, since I'm a week behind on everything. I'm experimenting with the new LJ Messenger tie-in which has apparently replaced LJ Talk (this one ties in to Windows Live Messenger instead of Gizmo). I'm logicalargument@livejournal.com on the new LJ Messenger if anyone wants to let me know what interesting things I have missed this week. :-)
Departure at around 6 AM ....
Jun. 16th, 2009 09:48 pmI'm just going to give Logan a bath, and then I'll be heading up to bed. We're heading out as early in the morning as we can get ourselves (and two dogs) on the road. See y'all!
Sacred Heart
Jun. 15th, 2009 07:44 pmI'm sad to see Sacred Heart in Gloversville being closed. That was the church I attended in the 1990s when I was trying to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. (I am ineligible because I'm married to someone who was previously divorced before marrying me - and getting a Roman Catholic church annulment of a marriage between two Jews, my husband and his ex-wife, isn't a very practical possibility.)
It is a beautiful church, and it was one of only two churches where I have ever really felt comfortable and at home. The other, of course, was Fulmont, and that didn't work out either. I enjoy Northway, but it has always been too far away for me to become an active member of that church community.
I guess I'll probably always be a wanderer without a church home, and maybe that's just part of who I'm supposed to be, as CatEcumen the Ecumenical Cat.
It is a beautiful church, and it was one of only two churches where I have ever really felt comfortable and at home. The other, of course, was Fulmont, and that didn't work out either. I enjoy Northway, but it has always been too far away for me to become an active member of that church community.
I guess I'll probably always be a wanderer without a church home, and maybe that's just part of who I'm supposed to be, as CatEcumen the Ecumenical Cat.
I have just learned that the Celtic cross, which is one of my favorite symbols, has been used as a white-supremacist symbol. I'll make sure not to bring anything with that symbol on my trip to Georgia.
We're starting to pack. The snowbrushes are out of the car, the dog crates are in, and I'm trying to decide what should go in the suitcase, what should go in the "hotel bag," what should go in the "dog bag," and what should go in the bag I'll carry with me in the passenger compartment on the trip.
Arrangements have been made with Ken's home health care service to have someone stop by every day during the week while I'm away to check on him, and to make sure that he gets whatever he needs. We shopped for a bunch of prepared dinners tonight and I'm leaving little canvas bags all around the house to assist him in carrying things from one room to another in the absence of his fetch-it person.
I have even built up a nice artificial tan to prepare my skin for that Georgia sun!
We're starting to pack. The snowbrushes are out of the car, the dog crates are in, and I'm trying to decide what should go in the suitcase, what should go in the "hotel bag," what should go in the "dog bag," and what should go in the bag I'll carry with me in the passenger compartment on the trip.
Arrangements have been made with Ken's home health care service to have someone stop by every day during the week while I'm away to check on him, and to make sure that he gets whatever he needs. We shopped for a bunch of prepared dinners tonight and I'm leaving little canvas bags all around the house to assist him in carrying things from one room to another in the absence of his fetch-it person.
I have even built up a nice artificial tan to prepare my skin for that Georgia sun!
I have SO missed traveling. We still have a few more days before Jess and I leave for this week-long trip, and we can't fully pack yet, but I am so looking forward to getting away for awhile and just being.
Gratuitous Icon Post
Jun. 9th, 2009 10:25 amYay for recycled icons! I found this old one which had been made for me several years ago in a now-defunct LiveJournal community, Solaris Designs, by LJ user munedust. It's even more appropriate for me now than it was back then, since I am now a blonde. :-)
If all goes as planned, I'll be visiting Georgia (the state, in the U.S., that is) very briefly later this month, only for a couple of days. I'll probably end up doing a whirlwind tour of the Atlanta area but there isn't likely to be enough time to explore anything in depth. Any suggestions for sights to be seen that can be seen when time is very limited?
I'm going to be a step-grandmother!
Jun. 3rd, 2009 05:14 pmMy stepdaughter and her fiance are expecting a little boy in September. They have already picked out his name: Alexander Scott Mitchell (no, not Summers).
A consistent ethic of life (cross-posted)
Jun. 2nd, 2009 09:08 amDoes anyone have some good links to articles/essays to recommend about a "consistent ethic of life," a philosophy which is "pro-life" not only as to unborn life, but extends to us mere borners as well (opposition to capital punishment, etc.), whether it is explicitly based on religious faith or is stated on general ethical and moral principles? I know there's a lot of good writing out there on this, and given enough time I'll find it, but I'd like to know what other people would recommend as the best written and most coherently argued pieces.
Someone I know linked to a rather chilling and frightening article, George Tiller is Dead: For Whom Shall We Mourn? Sadly, this kind of attitude is too common, and yes, it scares me.
Someone I know linked to a rather chilling and frightening article, George Tiller is Dead: For Whom Shall We Mourn? Sadly, this kind of attitude is too common, and yes, it scares me.
It's the first of June already ....
Jun. 1st, 2009 07:01 amWhile it is June, it is still too early in the season to walk the dog barefoot in upstate New York. The sidewalk directly outside my house is still COLD! Poor critters, they have to go out barefoot all year!
Happy June, everyone.
Happy June, everyone.
The strangeness of being fifty ....
May. 31st, 2009 10:28 pmNot only have I gone blonde, not only do I now have a dog, but now I even have a nighttime skin care routine.
(*shudder*)
No wonder they call it "the change of life." :-)
(*shudder*)
No wonder they call it "the change of life." :-)
Planning a trip to Georgia
May. 31st, 2009 05:42 pmI probably should be trying to finish my memorandum of law on a grandparent visitation issue this afternoon, but I'm distracted with trying to plan for a trip to Georgia with Jess in mid-June. She is traveling back to Georgia to attend her mother's wedding, and I'm trying to arrange things so that I can go with her. By sharing the driving in my car, we can reduce time and expense. In order to make this trip, I need to arrange to reschedule a couple of court cases, make sure that Ken's needs can be met adequately while we're away, and, of course, make sure that I will have enough money for food, gas and other travel expenses.
I've been wanting to take an extended road trip for a long time. I've been as far south as Virginia, and I have flown to Florida for a family visit to Disney World back when my niece and nephew were very young, but I've never driven as far as Georgia. I think it will be a lot of fun, but it's going to take more planning than I would usually do to get two people, two dogs and all the necessary stuff for a week into a relatively small car, as well as making sure that I'll still have a husband living here when I return. :-) Luckily Jess is a very efficient planner, so I will have expert help!
I've been wanting to take an extended road trip for a long time. I've been as far south as Virginia, and I have flown to Florida for a family visit to Disney World back when my niece and nephew were very young, but I've never driven as far as Georgia. I think it will be a lot of fun, but it's going to take more planning than I would usually do to get two people, two dogs and all the necessary stuff for a week into a relatively small car, as well as making sure that I'll still have a husband living here when I return. :-) Luckily Jess is a very efficient planner, so I will have expert help!
Pentecost: to go or not to go?
May. 31st, 2009 07:05 amLogan insisted on waking me up at 7 AM, so maybe I should be going to church this morning. I do have quite a bit of work to do today, but I can go to church in the morning while the other humans in the household are still sleeping and still get the other work done this afternoon.
I think I heard a message for me yesterday, when I stopped by Northway Church in Clifton Park on my way home from visiting my mother. The stage of my life in which church has been a spectator sport for me needs to end. As much as I enjoy Northway Church, it's just too far away for me to be anything other than a viewer and consumer of church-as-entertainment. I can't really get involved and participate at a church an hour's drive away. If I'm going to do church at all, I need to get back to one of the churches here in my own local community, where I have at least some ongoing real-life involvement with people.
I promised myself not to return to St. John's Episcopal Church until at least September, when I have satisfied an obligation to someone there, but there is still the option of Church of Christ in Gloversville as well as the option of going back to Fulmont. Both those services are at 10 AM.
Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Now where did I put the one bible (out of the dozens I own) that I'm particularly looking for this morning?
I think I heard a message for me yesterday, when I stopped by Northway Church in Clifton Park on my way home from visiting my mother. The stage of my life in which church has been a spectator sport for me needs to end. As much as I enjoy Northway Church, it's just too far away for me to be anything other than a viewer and consumer of church-as-entertainment. I can't really get involved and participate at a church an hour's drive away. If I'm going to do church at all, I need to get back to one of the churches here in my own local community, where I have at least some ongoing real-life involvement with people.
I promised myself not to return to St. John's Episcopal Church until at least September, when I have satisfied an obligation to someone there, but there is still the option of Church of Christ in Gloversville as well as the option of going back to Fulmont. Both those services are at 10 AM.
Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Now where did I put the one bible (out of the dozens I own) that I'm particularly looking for this morning?
