Lace Curtain 2

Lace Curtains at the noon hour.

New Hat

Diane returned from shopping down in Jasper yesterday and brought me a new hat. Actually two of them. Had to try it on before dinner last night. Diane fixed chicken on rice with green beans and a salad. Yum.

Tomorrow's Mothers Day.

Ian at yesterday's track meet

Ian was all wrapped up in a hunting outfit. It was windy and cool at the meet; and on top of that he was hungry and after his dad to seriously commit to a stop at one of the local fast food joints once Lucas had finished up his track team obligations.

Leah and the delight of a chocolate muffin

Picture: Leah having breakfast at the Indy airport the other day.

Heading to the golf course where there's lots of green grass and water along with a place to hit a ball or two.

Miki in Japan

Picture: Miki at a very young age when we were still in Yokosuka, Japan, in base housing. Diane remembers that Miki really didn't want to have her picture taken at the time. She would have enjoyed playing with Leah and Naomi; in fact, the Aunt Miki that this young princess turned into did enjoy playing with Leah and Naomi.

March Madness, Tuesday Men

Picture: girl with cup.

Of note:

-Jack Butcher and a bunch of others said they wouldn't win because they can't make free throws. And that's exactly what happened when Kansas nailed a three pointer to tie in regulation and then took the Memphis Tigers to the woodshed in OT. Feel bad for those kids who had the opportunity to seal the deal but couldn't. Oh well. One of those little bumps in life. Great game.

-Lakeview Tuesday Men's League starts today. Finally. Now if we can get the rains to hold off till after dark. Or go someplace else entirely.

Pictures for a Wednesday evening: young ladies

Leah and Naomi

Picture for an Easter Monday evening

Babe in the woods

One picture for a snowy-rainy-sunny Easter Sunday

Picture: Leah enjoying some of the snow flurries this afternoon.

Hope your Easter was a good one. Ours was.

Friday afternoon fun: fun on ice; movie: Body Heat

Picture: a variety of birds hanging out by the feeder.

Movie: Body Heat with William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. Good one made in 1981 and had us guessing right up to the end how it was going to turn out - who did what to whom. Kind of a love story but more a whodunit with lust and deviousness on the side. Good lines, good acting, good suspense.

Becoming teens

Having fun with pictures and Picasa 2. Lucas on the right, Mikey on the left...

Fifty-four years ago...

Saturday's This and That

Pictures: Diane, Danielle, Naomi and Phil in Palm Springs. And a couple of shots from the golf course earlier this year: Opa, Ian and Lucas.

Daughter Number Two Danielle celebrated her 39th birthday on St. Nick's Day. She passed on this from her oldest, an almost four year old: "Naomi asked me “What number are you?” and when I told her she said “That’s a very big number!” eeek"

Started Tom Brokaw's Boom! Voices of the Sixties last night. So far, so good. He quotes Bill Clinton early on as saying, and this is a generalization from Clinton and a paraphrase from me: if you think something good came out of the '60's then you're probably a Democrat; if bad, then a Republican. Certainly there were very bad things (think assassinations and Vietnam for starters) that happened during that time. Btw, Brokaw is defining the Sixties as starting with November 22, 1963 and ending on August 9, 1974. But overall, I think of the Sixties as a time of liberation and a great leap forward. It is also the years of my early adulthood which means graduation, marriage, service, career start, and the beginning of a family, a pretty momentous period of time for anyone in any decade or century.

Also saw King Kong, a loaner from Colleen, last night. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it, especially the first part where all the guys along with the one gal end up on Skull Island doing battle with giant representatives from our distant past - raptors and dinosaurs and creepy crawly things which are nightmarishly hugh and all of whom want to do dastardly things to the humans. Should have ended with the capture of Kong but it didn't.

Heading to the golf course for a walk and maybe some golf - if the wind isn't so terribly chilling...

Birds Breaking Bread and Birds on the Wing

Picture of a few of our feathered friends breaking bread together. Camera smarts: using a lowered numbered aperture setting allows for the focus to come forward and be on the birds; notice the fuzzed background. (Focus on Aperture)

Note on other birds: Diane and Lucas are in the air somewhere (or will be shortly), winging their way east after the conclusion of their stay in the wild west. Glad we have some good old Hoosier weather to greet them. Due in after 11 tonight up in Indy.

Pictures from the Desert, Swayze and Norris and Golf

Pictures: Lucas with his Oma Diane and his cousin, Naomi, somewhere out in Palm Springs.

Had a chance to play some golf with Richard Swayze and Bob Norris this afternoon. They were thinking this may be the last day of golf for this year - I assured them that that was not going to be the case. You know that December is going to bring us a day or two or ten that is suitable for the golfers among us...

Monday Wrap: Lucas with aunt and grannie, Woodward's Book, etc.

Pictures: Aunt Danielle and Lucas, Oma Diane and Lucas, a few years back...

-Diane called mid afternoon, as I was sitting here feeling the rain and the cool, with the news that they had arrived in Palm Springs and were already enjoying the sunshine and the mid 60's temperatures. Grrrrr.

-On PBS right now: America at a Crossroads: Homegrown: Islam in Prisons.

-Down to the Loogootee Public Library early this afternoon. Picked up Bob Woodward's State of Denial, Bush at War, Part III. Getting to know some of the characters up close and personal. One, Dick Armitage, who played a part in the outing of Valerie Plame while a high mucky muck in the State Department a few years back, way back in 1999 wondered whether Bush had the bulk (heft) to fill the suit required of a president (paraphrase from page 8 of the book). I wonder if he still wonders that or if maybe his doubts were confirmed.

So it goes.

Breakfast with the Birds

Inspired by Jim and Wilma's granddaughter, Emily, who was going to The Cabin to 'eat with the birds', something Jim and Wilma have done on more than one occasion, and will do again tomorrow morning.

Deer Picture: Deer Posing

Thursday Wrap

Pictures: Bridge scene and more boat people.


At the President's Cup, Americans dominant. My oh my.

Bathing Beauties and Colorful Duo

That would be Danielle's two girls, Naomi and Leah. Naomi is the older sister, something I am sure she is repeatedly telling Leah.