Kari's Facebook Posts
Jan 1 - Nov 11, 2024

Pretty agave plant....once upon a time, it was a little plant trapped in a Christmas ornament. It bloomed this spring and now it's getting new colors. 💖

Sunbeaming with Ziggy

Many thanks to Jarl Brendan for the tickets to see the Budos band, and to Charlotte McGonagill and Craig McGonagill for attending the experiment! This was a new band to all of us. Mike, Jarl, and I were at a different concert, and they played an actual album in-between bands. After a few songs, we were like 'these guys are good, wonder who they are' and luckily it was loud enough for Mike's phone to decipher it. So, here we are! Good show! Another band with no vocals. The main set was probably about 2 songs too long for me. I very much enjoyed the break between the main set and the encore, and the encore was good! We enjoyed the opening band - Native Daughters. They had two drum sets - 🙀 and dinner at Old Chicago beforehand was quite nice. 🤗

Happy Friday! Happy All Saints Day! Feliz Dia de los Muertos! Ziggy is contemplating coming to work, but she'll probably pass.

All gone! 🙀🙀🙀 We had candy for 60 kids and it was gone by 6:50 pm.

Happy Halloween! We are all ready for trick or treaters. Ziggy made sure I finished the decorations yesterday from a warmer spot in the garage (was 33 deg / 1C). Last year, we had 56 trick or treaters. We'll see what happens this year! 🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻

Another great day with the OEDIT Aerospace Committee! We met yesterday for the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade AI Grant pitch reviews in Denver. Our subcommittee is one of 7 who helps ensure taxpayer dollars for the small business grants are used well. I have been volunteering for OEDIT for 9 years and always enjoy seeing all the great Colorado companies as well as catching up with our committee members during the breaks.

Bunny heading home after foraging in the neighborhood

We think there is a squirrel on the east side of the house, so I moved on of our cameras over there to see what it's doing. So far, I have only captured video of our favorite rabbit friend. 🐇🐇🐇🐇

Lovely evening - Ziggy and I started putting up Halloween decorations. She was ready to stay out all night. 63 deg (17 C), clear starry skies, no wind.

The scale is missing! 🙀🙀🙀⚖️⚖️⚖️ At the vet for Ziggy's monthly arthritis shot, and they remodeled their cat room. But not everything is back yet, including the baby scale Ziggy likes to loaf in. 😿 She noticed. She definitely noticed.

Happy roll, until you realize you forgot about the pumpkins! 🙀🙀🙀🎃🎃🎃 Ziggy hates pumpkins. I am sure she is looking forward to Halloween being over. We did a lawn toast instead.

Last rose of the season?

A girl and her fox

Good news! I have been accepted into the Space Development Agency TAP lab Apollo cohort to work on uncorrelated track algorithms. This is 2 days a week in Colorado Springs from Nov 5 - Jan 28. While the position is unpaid, I get full access to their existing software and data, putting me in the best possible position to demonstrate software they need on January 28. If I pass the demo, it can lead to a contract with them.

Developing software products is strategy #4 for my company. I started working towards building the company to do training services in 2015. Easy to find free work, hard to find paid work. Then, I switched to Project Management services. While I was able to make money, the conditions of those contracts did not lead to a position for adding staff and growing the company in new directions. So, 2 years ago, I started working to qualify for offering services as a government contractor. While there are contracts like that in Huntsville and with the Department of Energy that I am still pursuing, overall people were requesting a thing plus services. So, my participation in the SDA TAP lab will hopefully help me develop a thing to sell. 🙏

https://sdataplab.org/

So smoky this afternoon. Not sure which western state was sending their smoke our way.

All things Ziggy.

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So close.

Updated Oct 20, 2024 9:35:57 pm

Lovely evening to grill dinner

Many thanks to my brother for tickets to see The Hu and Iron Maiden! Great show yesterday, and great company! First 3 pictures are adjusted - we were under a black light and it made for weird colors!

Lovely date night yesterday - Mike and I had dinner at Indulge in Golden. Then, we met my brother and his girlfriend to see an amusing play at the Miners Alley Playhouse, which is now in the building where Meyer Hardware used to be. 🤗

Finished moving the rock this morning. Looking forward to when our neighbors get their back yard finished so I can repair the erosion damage to our landscaping. The rock is in position! The iris is still blooming - with drops from yesterday's rain. Thank goodness we finally got rain! The roses are getting ready to bloom again, the yarrow has new blooms, and it has been so warm that my grape hyacinths are coming back up. Don't worry about them with the winter coming - they are little tanks that do what they want.

We voted! 🤗 Mike is wearing his sticker. I don't ever wear mine because....no idea. I just don't.

Busy as a bee? No, busy as a rabbit

Pretty night. I was outside moving rock and getting yelled at by our local raccoon 🦝.

4-hour telecon this morning :) but it was neat - there's always a lively discussion at the Aerospace Subcommittee meeting for the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) Advanced Industries grant reviews. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the full committee meeting!

Kudos to CSBR and Exail. I think all business happy hours should serve nachos. 😄 Exail is a French company that now has a Denver office.

Cool moon tonight

Many thanks to Schlep Schlep for helping to move the old TV out of the loft. It looks so spacious!

Lol

Many thanks to Craig McGonagill and Charlotte McGonagill for tickets to a neat concert last night! We went to dinner at a lakeside tavern, then off to Denver to see Steve Roach at the Presbyterian church. The building has fantastic acoustics, so they use it for concerts as well as a church. The music is "ambient" - no songs per se but 2 lovely hours where we escaped the dates of the world watching the lights and listening. 💖

bought pumpkins yesterday for Halloween. The pumpkins were rejected this morning. Heartily rejected. The pumpkins have been moved to more appropriate locations.

The pumpkins have arrived! (aka, I went grocery shopping...nothing fancy here 😄) I put one out back as a gift to the rabbit and the squirrel. I cut it since they usually need a starting place.

Lovely happy hour with Auntie Linda yesterday. 🤗 Tasty snacks and good conversation. We also got to say hi to Cleo. 😸

Happy 31st date-versary to my hubby! We went on our first date at T-Was 31 years ago today. We've checked and the math still adds up...
Picture 1: Mike and Jarl in 1991
Picture 2: Me in 1992
No picture....Oct 11, 1993: T-Wa Inn (Vietnamese restaurant)
Picture 3: Mike and I in 1995
Picture 4: Mike and I in 1997
Picture 5: 2001 in Kenai Alaska. Mike joked it looked like I was taking pictures for a U2 album cover
Picture 6: Christmas 2006. The little baby in the picture with Rob is now in college
Picture 7: Kyoto in 2013 with Ann and Dan
Picture 8: Fete du Bordeaux in 2016 with Amy and Diana
Picture 9: 2022 Balistreri dinner (photo credit: Diana)
Picture 10: 2024 Balistreri dinner (photo credit: Jarl)
ta da! 31 years! time flies

I think maybe my camera saw the aurora? I compared my picture to a professional one taken in our area... A lot of light here from the city and I-70. As I explained to my cousin, I was "squinting at the sky". It was too faint for me to see.

Great visit with Gwen L. Jessen today! We did a tour of the house and Mike's dad wanted to be on the bunny cam. 🐇🐇🐇

From Saturday: we went to the Cat Care Society Happy hour at 240 Union with my parents. Great appetizers and the new TOPC proposals for cats and other creatures! The shelter's TOPC (Tails of Painted Cats) fundraising event is held every other year. At Saturday's gathering, supporters paid to sponsor artist materials. My parents sponsored a cat and a panda. We sponsored the fancy fox. Over the coming months, local artists will volunteer their time to create the statues, which will attend various local art showings before being auctioned off at the fundraiser event next fall. Recent TOPC events have raised over $100k for the shelter, so it has been a key fundraising event. We have adopted 5 cats from the Cat Care Society. They are a no kill shelter that specializes in helping senior cats and cats with medical problems who might be euthanized at other shelters who don't have the same facilities or expertise. In fact, many Colorado shelters send cats they can't care for to the Cat Care Society. 😺🩷

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Updated Oct 09, 2024 1:05:26 pm

Busy morning! I took Ziggy outside and got 9 pounds of apples going for applesauce.

Flower Watch 2024: The succulent bloomed and the hydrangea looks very happy!

New from our development. 😑 The water wars continue.

Updated Oct 05, 2024 3:19:57 pm

Apple butter is done 🤗🍎 And yes, that's what you get from 4.5 pounds of apples

Happy Caturday!

I got apples from my parents yesterday. They are nice and firm, so I was able to save myself some trouble and remove the skins before making apple butter. (My arthritic hands don't like the sieve step.) Our house will smell nice this weekend. Apple butter in the crock pot right now; apple sauce tomorrow.

Lovely day on Thursday - after working from home in the morning on the lunar lander wiring harness, I headed to Colorado Springs to spend time at the Catalyst Campus, where my company rents flex space. I worked on an application for an upcoming accelerator at the Catalyst Campus and attended an evening event on the SDA TAP lab. I was inspired by the event that the Space Development Agency actually has a very nice set up for supporting companies like mine, so I submitted an application for their Problem Statement 9. We'll see where it goes. Sales have been down for the past year and a half, so I am considering a shift in strategy for 2025 that includes getting some software products ready for licensing. My company will turn 5 years old in January.

https://sdataplab.org/

Beautiful view from the dentist chair. Just a normal cleaning, but I enjoyed looking at North Table Mountain

Rabbit rabbit rabbit 🐇🐇🐇

I finished with the bulbs out front. Hoping for pretty flowers next year!

Toronto, Part 10: After visiting Niagara Falls, we went to a town called Niagara-on-the-Lake. Cute historic town with a lovely park on Lake Ontario. We went from there to a quick wine tasting followed by 2 1/2 hours of traffic to get back to the hotel. Toronto, like many nice cities, has been growing steadily and outpacing its transportation infrastructure. We headed home on Friday to a very happy purry cat. 🤗

Toronto, Part 9 - Niagara Falls: After lunch, the bus took us to the top of the horseshoe falls. Fast moving water and so much mist! After that, we started making tracks back towards Toronto, driving by the Floral Clock and then heading to a few touristy spots.

Toronto, Part 8: Niagara Falls! We took a bus tour from the hotel to see Niagara Falls. The tour included a boat ride on the Canadian version of Maid of the Mist as well as lunch at the Sheraton. Having seen the falls from both sides now, I definitely recommend the Canadian side.

Toronto, Part 7: Quiet day on Wednesday as we rested up for a full day Niagara Falls tour on Thursday. We went to the pier at the house and of Bay Street on our way to a very lovely dinner.

The bulbs for the front garden arrived just as we were leaving for Toronto. My supervisor and I got the first half planted this morning.

New daisy! The daisy plant I added this year got its first blooms!

Last night on the top deck with a very happy cat 😺

All things Ziggy. She has enjoyed having us back home but it was too hot for sunbeaming. 84 deg (29 C) and very sunny today. Even though it's officially fall, our summer weather will continue another month or so.

Toronto Trip, Part 6: Vampire Weekend concert on Tuesday. I am putting all my concert pictures in one post so it's skippable if you don't like Vampire Weekend and one-stop shopping if you do. 😁 Great show - Mike actually streamed the first show on this tour during the eclipse. They were playing in Austin with a set timed specifically for the eclipse.

Toronto Trip, Part 5: Tuesday was a quiet day. I worked on some business development stuff from the hotel as well as post cards. Who knew the post office would be in Aisle 5 of Shoppers Drug Mart? The evening event was to go see Vampire Weekend at the Budweiser Stage! The venue reminded us of Fiddlers Green in Denver. Mike was happy to find the shortest T-shirt lines that we have seen in years. He took a picture of me with their mascot frog. We're not sure and the Internet is not sure how the frog became the band's mascot. My theory is someone's family member said they liked frogs and it was plausible (even if not true) so it stuck. These rumors tend to stick even better when they're not true. Kind of like me and roosters or me and salt & pepper shakers. I never collected roosters and I don't use salt and pepper shakers, but both rumors have stuck around for years. Decades. So, now Vampire Weekend likes frogs. These things happen. The opening band seems young but has actually been recording albums for 14 years. Sigh. Getting older has its 🙄 moments. I open Google on my phone wondering how long these kids have played together only to learn they're not kids. They were decent. The music frequently reminded us of one of the bands David Lynch would feature for the closing scene of Twin Peaks. "The owls are at the Road House." ❤️ The last video in this post is for posterity, so Mike can point to it in case anyone thinks he is exaggerating the annoying squeaking of trains in Toronto.

Toronto Trip, Part 4: After the Hockey Hall of Fame, we had a late lunch at what turned out to be a pretty fancy restaurant. Mike had seen a sign for their prime rib sandwich when we passed by it in the morning. At 2 pm, they didn't care much about dress code. We liked the knife hilt art. After lunch, we mostly enjoyed hanging out at the hotel. We ventured all the way across the street for dinner at the train station food court.

Toronto Trip, Part 3: The second part of the Hockey Hall of Fame was the hall itself, complete with the opportunity to say hi to the Stanley Cup! We enjoyed seeing all the trophies and inductee information, but we felt bad for some of them. Some of the drawings were sooooo bad! You work all your life to be at the top of your peer group, excelling in your career and achieve top honors for ....well, you'll know them when you see them.

Toronto trip, Part 2: On Monday, we went to see the Hockey Hall of Fame. On the way, we saw a cool area that looked like it was once an open street that has been roofed in. Good plan! 🤗 The first part on the Hockey Hall of Fame was focused on memorabilia. Apologies if you're not an Avalanche or Islanders fan. There were hundreds of things to look at, but I took pictures focused on our teams. 💙 We liked the interactive activities. There was one for testing your defensive skills that literally chucks pucks at a participant wearing safety glasses and pads. No, I didn't try it. Ziggy reminds me almost daily that my reflexes are slower than an old cat. 😸

Yay for vacation! Quick trip to Toronto this week for a much needed break. Many thanks to Auntie Linda, Leah, and Travis Kerbaugh for taking care of Ziggy!
We left for Toronto on Sunday.

Fun from Tuesday - my company had a table at the Project Management Institute's local chapter event - Women in Project Management Leadership (WPML) whose success today is a credit to the leadership of Pam Wagner with our chapter. Many thanks to Kristen Rogne - Oelke for lining up some great speakers! I had the perfect view from my exhibitor table on the second floor. I was there advertising contract project managers as well as training classes. I had some giveaways via drawings as well as promotional materials. A lot of people stopped by. Here's hoping some of them need something that I sell! 🤗🙏

Great to see Auntie Linda on Friday - and her adorable cat, Cleo 😻

Happy ducks - the rain last night filled the pond. 💕💕🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

Great to see Soul Coughing with Almond Kohler and Jarl Brendan at the Ogden theater Saturday night! After being broken up for 25 years, the band decided to do a tour. 🤗 Great show!

Beautiful rainy morning! So happy for the water! Happy Equinox!

Have you heard the news? There is new crinkle paper! Long Live the Crinkle Paper Empire! 😺🩷🩷🩷🩷👑👑👑👑👑

So fast!

Who was on my scale?" At the vet for Ziggy's monthly arthritis shot

Torch lilly blooms from Tuesday afternoon

Celebration. I came home. My poor pandemic cat feels better now.

My hubby reported this sad scene about me needing to be at a client site instead of the home office. Sorry, Ziggle. Gotta go to work to keep the treat budget strong. 😿😿😿💲💲💲💲

My hubby says this picture should be our Christmas card this year. "Merry Christmas, I guess". 😄 I don't like wearing hats, but he likes me in hats, so when I saw the pink cowgirl hat at the photo booth for today's Project Management Institute event, I thought of him. But I didn't realize it took multiple pictures! This was after I thought it stopped taking pictures. 😁🩷

"All hail the American night!" - enjoyed listening to "American Prayer," by The Doors while taking in the full moon. 🤗

Today's event! 🤗

Updated Sep 17, 2024 8:59:20 am

"I was promised churu for my troubles." - Ziggy

Promise kept. 💖

Ziggy is done for the week. Coyotes last night, and swipe to see tonight's visitor - our very large owl. She is on the opposite side of the house, under the bed. The owl has always unnerved her more than the coyotes. 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

Thanks to my hubby's help with the sprinklers, all the plants are in and settled. Here's hoping they do well this fall! There's a lot of leftover rock - when our neighbors do their landscaping, I plan to use it to backfill areas along the west fence that washed away.

Lunch break - nice lunch at our local BBQ spot with my hubby. The hydrangea is in, working on the 3 roses.

Not to be left out of Flower Watch 2024, one of the torch lilies is working on a flower. The other one is like "hey - I thought we agreed no blooming this year!"

Flower watch 2024... Another succulent that I didn't realize would bloom is about to bloom! Oh and Charlie, my grandpa Bill's prayer plant, wants you to know he has been blooming all year.

There's a project afoot.5 planter rings, 4 plants. I couldn't find a clove currant, so that will have to be a spring planting.

Busy day Thursday! I taught 2 classes on Space Mission Project Management at UC Colorado Springs - great to have Adam Thodey in one of them! Lively discussion always helps keep a class awake after lunch, and if you know Adam, you know you can always count on him for solid discussion. The classes were done through the Rocky Mountain chapter of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). After that, I checked in at the Catalyst Campus (my new office space!) and went to the AIAA dinner at the Space Foundation. Many thanks to Stacey DeFore for inviting me to the Lockheed table as well as telling people that my company is "small but mighty" 🤗🩷 Also thanks to Christopher Zeller for his tireless efforts organizing events for our AIAA chapter. Long day in Colorado Springs, but it was great!

Friday happy hour buffet

Turn the sound all the way up to hear the coyotes talking 💖💖💖

I am doing contract work in Systems Engineering for ispace. They are a Japanese company with a branch in Luxembourg for rovers and Colorado for NASA lunar missions. The project in the U.S. is "Mission 3" and launches in 2026. "Mission 2" was built by the Japanese team and launches soon! Here's the update on Mission 2. 🤗

From Tuesday - Had a lot of fun volunteering for DisruptHR on Tuesday! Another great event - inspiring talks on how to approach HR differently in my company. I have some key taken-aways that I plan to put into practice. I think volunteering in the Green Room for the speakers gives me the best view! (There's a monitor near me where I can see the slides)

Glad we got to see him inducted into the Hall of Fame 🤗

Updated Sep 12, 2024 12:43:20 am

Ziggy recommended we hang out outside before dinner

Now it all makes sense....the whole to thing started with animal abuse charges against an American citizen in Canton, Ohio. She has been arrested and charged.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-ohio-woman-accused-184439112.html

Updated Sep 11, 2024 11:48:40 am

So sad. Liz was a friend from the Project Management Institute's local chapter who I have known for years. Such a wonderful person. I will miss hanging out with her at events. Big hole in our chapter 💔

Updated Sep 11, 2024 10:01:31 am

RIP James Earl Jones 😞😞

Updated Sep 09, 2024 9:53:49 pm

Most definitely!

Updated Sep 09, 2024 2:01:38 pm

Sunbeaming bliss

Many thanks to my brother for getting me a ticket to his show last night. Visually stunning setup at Metro Airport in Broomfield - old planes, the band on the tarmac, and a cool balloon lit up next to them once it got dark. Great crowd - 800 tickets sold. Still tired after my run in with covid followed by a long work week (didn't take Labor Day off) - ended up leaving after 3 hours. 🤗

What an entrance! My brother's band played at the Broomfield airport Friday night. The airplane club brought them to the stage in a 1943 plane.

I was so tempted to get the drumming skeleton at Lowe's. Good thing I didn't - I have been informed he is holding his sticks wrong 😄😄😄

This morning 's outside time was almost ruined by kids on bicycles singing songs, dogs, and wind. Ziggy took shelter on the porch, until 🙀🙀🙀🐦🐦

Sprinkler system is fixed! Kendall from A&A Sprinkler was able to get under the stair and replace the broken piece. 🤗 No major surgery on the landscaping needed! I put the area back together today.

Just when you think you're all sorts of observant.... Sometime during the last week, someone cut one of the tragic trees down. What is unusual is the way it was removed - usually the landscaper pulls trees out with the little tractor to make a hole for replacing it. Mike is going to check the weather camera to see if he can solve this who dunnit. Pictures are Aug 30 and today

Craziness. My dad's family lived in Smithtown. 🫤🙀

More details:
Thousands of books and computers were destroyed in the process and the facility's Richard H. Handley Collection of Long Island Americana, which housed priceless historical documents, including papers signed by Thomas Jefferson, were completely damaged. Efforts to restore the precious artifacts are underway and the library has engaged specialists from Detroit, who are working to preserve what they can through freezing and restoration processes.

The flooding cost approximately $10 million in damages, library officials told AccuWeather.

Besides the library, Harbor Road in Stony Brook also collapsed, creating a huge sinkhole and causing the Mill Pond at Avalon to completely wash out.

Suffolk County executive Ed Romaine had declared a state of emergency for Suffolk County in the aftermath of the storm and had signed a disaster declaration, calling on the state and federal governments to assist with rehabilitation. He estimated damage costs for the entire county at over $50 million.

Updated Sep 05, 2024 8:19:09 pm

Busy afternoon! 3 more plants arrived. My very sleepy supervisor made sure they were successfully planted in the front garden. I also found the sprinkler line on both sides of the gate. A&A Sprinkler will be here tomorrow to help formulate a plan on what to do with the hole in the line under the stairs.

Quiet night on the top deck

Afternoon wander.... With the tax stuff finally prepped for a meeting on Tuesday and the tax accountant meeting on Friday, I completed my application for a contract at Los Alamos National Labs (follow up from my trip). And then it was break time!
First, I went to the skyline neighborhood along Rooney Road. For a neighborhood full of 3-story houses, they expect a lot of people to sit! Lots of park benches. Lots and lots.
From there, I went to the new walkway area to check out the wall, Rows 1&2 in the north neighborhood, the splash pad, and back home. Lennar has built so much since the last time I was over there! There are 6 signs up along row 1&2, so maybe they will be doing construction on the part of the neighborhood closest to us soon.

Sprinkler part 2: Mike is going to rent a water pipe finder to see if the pipe is actually under the stairs or if that's just the path the water found.

Lovely cool morning. We were able to get out before the sun rose - 60 deg (15.5 C) It's supposed to be another hot day - 87 deg (30.5 C) this afternoon. No sign of autumn yet - probably another month of summer left here.

Ok, done with grocery shopping, dinner, finding sprinkler leaks, hand watering because of sprinkler system leaks, ticking off the cat by ringing the door bell with my elbow due to mud from sprinkler leaks, (there's a theme from this evening 😄) changing cat litter....for real, back to the corporate taxes. I can't say the universe was conspiring against me since I really don't like doing QuickBooks, but the universe and I need to settle down and finish up. 🤓

After all these years, this is still my favorite Iron Maiden album. 1988 was a good year for music. 🤗 Ok, back to the corporate taxes. 😄

Many thanks to Jarl Brendan for Mike's birthday presents! Enjoyed the movie today! Repo man is always fun!

My brother's next show!

https://1943events.com/

Updated Aug 31, 2024 1:18:20 pm

Coyotes!

From power point to real life! Today, I received my first batch of plants from High Country Gardens. This fall's project has 14 new plants, a bunch of bulbs, and 5 new ring planters. 6 creeping thyme have been planted. The rest of the garden plants seem to be doing well . Good luck little dudes! Party on!

Many thanks to my dad for using Ziggy to help sponsor at the Cat Care Society's golf outing! And he brought back a ton of goodies for us. 🤗

Leftovers! We've been a couple of sickies this week and appreciate dinner from Terry and Gwenn Sanders ! 🤗

Security inspection! Random checks are important for ensuring office safety. 😾👀👀👀

There's a rabbit around!

For the first time ever, zoomies led Ziggy to Hastings (my glass top table). I told her even though he is a guardian dragon, I don't think he is strong enough for a 15 lb cat to launch off of. Her disagreement was loudly noted. 😄

Winter fuzz is coming in. We had a couple of weeks of cooler weather that seems to have sparked Ziggy's refuzzening. Even though it is only 84 deg (29 C) today, it is too hot too roll in her sunbeam. She opted for a brief bath and the shade after aborting a roll with one foot in the air.

Lovely day for lunch on the patio of Willy's Wings with my hubby 🤗

So sad 😿

Updated Aug 26, 2024 7:50:51 pm

All lilly and no torch. My new torch lilies seem to be well rooted. Maybe they will decide to bloom next year .

Making sure Super Fan Cassandra knows to keep her distance 😾😾😾

(Cassandra is a very friendly dog who lives a few houses away. She LOVES Ziggy and gets very excited whenever she sees Ziggy outside. Unfortunately, it is unrequited love. Ziggy's ears say it all 😄😄😄)

Slow start to a Monday morning, because the outdoor furniture is inside! Very happy whenever it comes in for storms. It's the best of both worlds!

Got home from my walk 20 minutes ago! Whew. I felt like I was racing the storm, but it wasn't as close as it seemed while I was out.

Sunday wander with Mike to see the new paths that were installed. Looks like they plan to put bench seating around the big circles, which will be useful.

Bird TV - live! Quiet evening on the front porch, which has the birds out. 😺👀👀👀🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦