
Okay, the Matterhorn reflecting in water is beautiful… but it is also a fairly poignant reminder of global climate change.

Okay, the Matterhorn reflecting in water is beautiful… but it is also a fairly poignant reminder of global climate change.
I mean, obviously he had some other important things to do… like making sure the bear and wolf populations are kept to a minimum through the clever use of air power, and making sure there aren’t too many sneaky animals trying to get put on the endangered species list, and trying to get the levels of coal waste up to acceptable levels in our rivers and streams, not to mention getting all those pesky bad hombres out of the country… but still…

I am the sunshine of my life…
I, light up my life…
I am my sunshine, my only sunshine…
Go ahead, take any love song and change all the ‘you’ words in it to ‘I’ or ‘me’… which ever makes more sense grammatically… then, walk around singing it at the top of your lungs… all day. It will cheer you and everyone you are close to up.

Some days, you just have to hang around the house… our house, in this case, because they are still redoing their kitchen.

We did take a walk.

And, as usual, she had to touch every flower she saw.

The thing about Olivia is that she is such a kind, gentle, sweet kid.

Most two-year-olds… (and much older when it comes to boys)… will rip leaves and petals off plants.

Not Olivia. She caresses them, or pets them… like the living things they are.

It really is rather astounding.

Okay… that’s just weird…
Hey, it happens. Modern life requires a lot of thinking, and that can be exhausting. Some people are just more comfortable if they have leaders who do their thinking for them. I mean, why should you waste your precious brain cells trying to figure out who to hate, and and how to make your life better without having to do much work? It is so much easier to have someone who is smarter than you… someone with a brain that works biggly and hugely… dictate your thoughts to you. To dictate not only ways to make your country great again, but to have dictated in the first place the idea that the country wasn’t great anymore. What a relief to have a strong leader who can dictate your every though and action.
If only we had a word for leaders who dictate all this stuff.


Flip it… flip it good…

That kid is so cool.

Yeah… darn glad to meet ya!

Beam me up, Scotty… which is funny… because her parents are huge Star Trek nerds.

She is so cool that she doesn’t even use a pillow like the rest of us do.

I mean, most of the time. Also, my younger daughter, Mollie, was off school today, so Olivia got to spend time with her. She loves Mollie. Oh, and my older daughter, Jessica, is coming tonight… because it’s wedding shower weekend!

Oh yeah… rising from the deep… like a moist, sexy merman!!!

I am slowly rising out of the water… like some kind of primordial life form, ready to try living on land. HA!