~Patrick's Open House~

Patrick is my nephew and Godson. He has earned a 4 year academic scholarship to Michigan State's engineering program. Yeah Patrick!! Plus, he's just a great guy. Love 'ya Peejmonster.

Here's the graduate, relaxing in between greeting visitors.

Patrick & my Mom.

Patrick & his Godparents, Uncle Andrew & Me.

Supporting the home team, Go Spartys!

Patrick's not only going green for the team, he's going green for the environment. This is his new on campus ride.

The post open house, pre-postparty chill out. L to R: Brandis, Jenny, Camela, Helen & Sammy. And lets not forget the pups in the background, King, Gizmo & George.

Cousins

Laura came to visit briefly with her girls one Saturday before we moved. Here's the pix of the kids sitting still momentarily.
Back row L to R: Mitchell & Peter
Front row L to R: John, Roslyn, Elise & Laura with Julia on her lap















And of course this pix includes George as Julia was petting him.

Jim's B-day.

Here's a month belated pix of Jim and his big birthday present ....
a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar.

Hey, hey they're the Monkees!

Here's a pix of Peter & John making monkey bread, a recipe that Pete learned in his "life skills" class (a.k.a. home ec). It turned out so well that they are banned from making any more of it because it's irresistibly fat butt. Butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, bread dough ..... mmmmm. Not to mention it made Roslyn look like a monkey.

RIP George Carlin

George Carlin died Sunday of natural causes. He was a master at verbalizing the obvious logical things that most people missed because they were too obvious. Here's one of his ideas:

George Carlin's Solution to Save Gasoline~
Bush wants us to cut the amount of gas we use. The best way to stop using so much gas is to deport 11 million illegal immigrants. That would be 11 million less people using our gas. The price of gas would come down.

Then bring our troops home from Iraq to guard the Border. When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the border, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo and ship him to Iraq .
Tell him if he wants to come to America then he must serve a tour in the military. Give him a soldier's pay while he's there and tax him on it. After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country. He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal patriot.

This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Iraq and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves. If they refuse to serve, ship them to Iraq anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo.

Problem solved.

GI Bill 2008

You can help petition W to pass the new GI Bill, instead of vetoing it like the numb-nuts that he is. Just click here and add your name to the petition.

The new bill will cover 4 years of tuition at the most expensive state school, $1K a year for books and a monthly living stipend for all vets that have served at least 1 day of active duty since 9/11. There's all sorts of other perks for the vets in the bill. Please truly support our troops by helping get the new bill passed and pass along a link to everyone you know.

Red Wings win the 2008 Stanley Cup in 6!!

Tradition has it that the players of the winning team take turns bringing the Cup home with them for a while and showing it off. Some have eaten their morning cereal out of it, others have placed their babies in it, Stevie Yzerman is said to have taken the Cup jet skiing. If you won the cup, what would you do with it?

History lesson.

Today Ros & John were watching a t.v. program. There was music playing in the background when the camera panned back and showed a turntable playing a record. (See below for you young pups.) Roslyn's reaction was, "What IS that thing??"

Just put me in the museum.