My first real walk since getting sick.
Toby (he doesn't like getting his picture taken. He'll look you right in the eye until he sees a camera and then he'll look away. It took several tries to get this one)
This park is in the middle of the city - I love walking here. We saw three deer, but only got photos of two of them. Tom and I saw a red fox here last year and snakes, frogs and other critters are plentiful.
The photos are a bit fuzzy, but they were taken at dusk without a flash.
I have a good dog.
He's made a couple of "mistakes" in the house, but it was while I was sick and I had not learned to listen to his "language" yet.
He got off the leash in the yard one day and came and waited by the door instead of wandering off.
He's never jumped up on my lap, but today he did, over and over...until I showed him Henry's dish so he could make sure that the cat didn't have food (Toby only gets a prescribed amount because I bought really premium food until his coat comes back and it's pretty calorie rich)
His tail wags all the time. Well, except when I found his mistakes...or when he goes to his "room" for the night ( large dog crate). But now that he knows that I'll come back and let him out, he takes a treat and goes in by himself.
He stays right by me most of the time or wanders into the hall to lay on a blanket I put down for him.
Henry...doesn't like the dog - at least they're not "buddies" yet - but tolerates him very well. The cat does not mope around like he did before I got the dog - he's not as clingy with me.
The problem is that the cat is now spending more time on my computer than I am (literally). He's been sleeping on the keyboard. One morning, he was apparently sitting on the F9 key and when i got up there were 137 help windows open. He also opened outlook - my apologies to whoever he sent the email to.
(and I'm not mentioning food, because this is not the "what my cat had for breakfast" post - other than his insulin.)
MzEllen Reads: "Save the Males: why men matter, why women should care" by Kathleen Parker.
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Next up:
Yet another false rape cry.
Clearfield police said a teenage girl's claims that she was raped in the middle of a church parking lot in broad daylight are false.
In a statement sent to the Deseret News on Friday, Clearfield Assistant Police Chief Greg Krusi said laboratory test results and other evidence analyzed did not match up with the girl's claims about being attacked.
"The juvenile was formally interviewed again by investigators at which time she admitted to fabricating the story due to personal issues occurring in her life," Krusi wrote.
At least this one wasn't aimed at a real person whose life could be ruined by a "wolf" cry.
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And...the most offensive site of the week:
Since I followed a couple of links to this site, and the sites that I followed to it are full-egalitarian (and don't seem to much care that "soft-complementarian" is different than "hard-patriarchy"...I really have no clue whether a Godly man who leads his home and church is equivalent (in the eyes of this blog-writer) to the taliban, Hitler and those who kill their daughters for dating the wrong man.
If a picture is worth a thousand words...this says volumes about what the posters of this logo think about those who disagree with them on the gender issue.
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In the spirit of the above link (NOT), here are a few things to ponder...
"Muslim "judge" rules kidnapped Christian girls "converted to Islam and cannot return home"
Two girls (ages 10 and 13) are kidnapped by a Muslim "fruit vendor" who turned them over to a friend, who organized a "marriage". Here's the thing...
The girls' uncle does not conceal his preoccupation, and denounces to AsiaNews that the Muslims involved in the kidnapping are acting as a "gang", recruiting the girls in order to "make them work in a bordello". This alarm has also been heard by the Catholic commission for justice and peace (NCJP) in the country, which confirms the words of Khalid Raheel: the kidnappers are believed to be human traffickers linked to prostitution, known to the police and under the protection of some local politicians.
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New York: Muslim stabs his sister because she was a "bad Muslim girl"
Infuriated because his younger sister was going to clubs, wearing immodest clothing and planning to leave her family for a new life in New York City, Waheed Allah Mohammad stabbed her outside their Henrietta home, prosecutors allege.Afterward, he told Monroe County sheriff's investigators that he attacked his sister because she had disgraced their family and was a "bad Muslim girl," according to court documents.
Mohammad, 22, is scheduled to appear Friday in Monroe County Court on charges of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the May 8 attack on Fauzia A. Mohammad, 19.
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Remember these two girls?
"Contrary to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline, he didn’t actually say he was innocent. He said he had done nothing wrong. That’s not the same thing. According to an earlier story on this case, he confessed to killing his daughter, and explained that he had done it to cleanse his family’s honor. When he appeared before the judge, it is unlikely that he changed this story. He just said he didn’t do anything wrong. And by the lights of the Islamic culture from which he comes, which thinks that a father killing a daughter who has sullied his family’s honor is perfectly justified, he indeed hasn’t done anything wrong. "
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Here's something new:
A popular Hamas children's television program shows a giant bunny character who is lured into stealing money — and then is sentenced by a child host to have his hand chopped off.
Oh wait, that's not very "new", Muslims have also made anti-Semitic children's programs as well.
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Contrary to "popular belief", complementarians do not teach that it's "nothing wrong" to kill their daughters, sell them to prostitution rings or stab them for going to clubs. Nor do we make children's shows that encourage amputations as punishment for minor crimes.
To those who are attempting the comparison between godly male leadership in Islam. NOT HELPFUL.
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Another set of "black and white" twins! (although being a fan of a certain adult beverage, I'd most likely call them "black and tan".
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The Senate restaurants, which include not just the stately Senate dining room in the Capitol but a huge cafeteria and coffee shops scattered in the two-building Senate compound, have lost $18 million since 1993 and are slated to lose $2 million this year.
Without an immediate $250,000 subsidy from the taxpayers, they won't be able to make payroll next month. The restaurants have lost money for 37 of the 41 years they have been in “business,” but the taxpayers have made up the difference.
The food in the Senate eateries is “noticeably subpar,” said California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who, as chair of the Senate's Rules and Administration Committee, supervises these culinary/fiscal horrors.
MY favorite quote?
And the Senate that knows it can't even run a restaurant will soon vote to have the government run health care.
Indeed.
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File under: Look, mom...it followed me home...can I keep it? 
GORHAM, Maine -- A woman checking her laundry Wednesday afternoon found an 8-foot-long snake wrapped around the clothes inside the washing machine at her Gorham home.
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The pope would not have been impressed
(personally, I like snakes - the big ones...I don't like surprises)
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Global COOLING?!?!?
Late last month, some leading climatologists and meteorologists met in New York at the Energy Business Watch Climate and Hurricane Forum. The theme of the forum strongly suggested that a period of global cooling is about emerge, though possible concerns for a political backlash kept it from being spelled out.
However, the message was loud and clear, a cyclical global warming trend may be coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and a new cooling cycle could impact the energy markets in a big way.
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(mostly) "clean" (the only off-color one was "roof sex" and that involved furniture. The part that made it worth watching was the apartment owner getting after the cat for scratching up the furniture). "Western Spaghetti" is wonderful!
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Photo of the week:
Saturday, she was fine. Chased a moth even.
Sunday she sat on the stairs, hunched over and cried when I touched her.
This morning she was laying on her side in her bed over the heating register, crying when I pet her.
This afternoon she went to sleep.
Simone was about 16 years old and the most affectionate and cuddly cats I've owned. She was known (even among people who don't like cats) as "Sweet Simey". She consented to be worn as a hat by my son and stuffed into the front of his t-shirt. She slept with my daughter and Amanda doesn't remember life without her. Simey even liked little kids.
The trip to the vet was hard, but not as hard as seeing her hurt.
God created man in His image, we are the ones with souls. It is our job to take care of the earth and those that belong on this earth with us.
Animals don't fear death, they fear pain and Sweet Simey didn't deserve pain.
(The photo is from a time when she was fat, healthy, happy and very relaxed...)