Let me introduce my dear Anna to the blog world. You can see she's not much impressed with the whole idea, nor with the idea that I was leaving her 'yet again' for work today.

What doesn't show in the photo are the velcro tabs she uses to stay connected at all possible times to me, but that face can assure you that if she's ever lost in Utah, she will put her Herrier nose to the ground and will be singing 'do you know the way to san jose' all the way home!

Temple Grandin writes in 'Animals make us Human' that : "Dogs are very different from a lot of other animals we work with because they are hyper-social and hypersensitive to everything we do". Isn't that the truth! What a great companion she has become.......

Oh, Sunny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling....

With apologies to the original "Danny Boy", I'd like to introduce my new beau, my Sunny Boy. The moment the sun rises, my Sunny begins to hum her sweet tune to me,turning the sun's rays into electricity. Yes, my " long just a dream of solar"is now a reality, thanks to RealGoods and SunRun and financial arrangements they've thought of that make it possible! I am a 'host' home for more than 20 solar panels on my roof, and will make more electricty than I use.....wooooohoooooo.

A Dragonfly day

After a day of yardwork, and cleaning out a back bedroom (no small job, the way I accumulate stuff), I sat in the atrium with my afternoon coffee booster. And here she was, perched on the tip of the aloe plant, next to the small pond, sunning herself. Not a bit shy. What a sweet gift to see at the end of a tiring day.

First blog post-forward from here

So here we go.......A blog. Who would have guessed? What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?

Arriving kicking and complaining in the 21st century......

A caveat to the young ones who have 'friended' me on Facebook, these are the musings of an older friend caught in a time warp tonight. Read with caution. But if you are lucky, you also will be 62 one day! Thinking about some concert that took place when you were 18........ .............currently watching KQED's Paul McCartney concert at Citi Field (go Mets!) in 2009, "Good Evening New York City": time has wrapped itself around and inside out for me. 44 yrs ago The Beatles were in Flushing Meadows. I was in nursing school. Wow, that went fast....... I was not at this concert. My main claim to fame in those days is that I walked out of the Janis Joplin concert at Forest Hills, as I thought she was just screeching and had no talent. Oops..... Since then, the song "Yesterday" has been recorded by 2200 artists and performed 2 million times,' they' say. Must be figured out by someone who also does baseball statistics.. This concert fuses Paul McCartney, at near 70, with the young boy he was, with his comrades, in 1966, the screaming girls, the now bald drummer, then and now. Hard to keep track on the film what is then and what is now. Just like life (I warned you!) at this age. Sargeant Pepper's Yesterday calling Hey Jude, to us all, just Let it be...... In the language of my youth. what a trip!