rat glamor

This will be me in a couple of months... only imagine one on each shoulder! :)

oh rats-

literally.

I am having such fun with the two classroom pets I brought home today... I will take them in to school tomorrow, and I plan to pick up a wire cage this weekend, which they are sure to like better.

Zoey has been absolutely adorable!

I just love her "surprise attack" manuevers. And that isn't the rat's tail where it looks like it is-- It's a strip of newspaper sticking up!

BUT, the girls' tails will get quite hideous looking when they are older.

Mary Mary quite contrary...

...how does your garden grow?




I have been intensely reading the Jung Quality Seeds catalog, and during my second read I am plotting out the various flower and vegetable (fruit?) gardens (and bushes!) for our yard this spring.

Here's what has made the veggie/fruit list *so far*: mini-eggplants, summer squash, zucchini, grapes... and I am only on page 29 of 99!

Did you know you can buy three pussy willows for $9.00?!!

wouldn't it be nice...

if it were warm out
then we wouldn't have to wait so long...


This kitchen photo from last summer captured the freshness of open-window days.

kindergarten presidential checklist

My friend Andrea teaches kindergarten, and during the week of Presidents' Day, they made this list of things a president *should* do... She said it was a lucky thing she thought about adding the word "should"!

sunshine... on my shoulders

yes we can! :)

My carpool partner and new friend, Gloria, and I spent an intense 2 days in Cleveland canvassing for Senator Obama's campaign. We knocked on 200+ doors, talking with many enthusiastic voters and leaving an informative Obama door-hanger with details about voting and specific polling place locations. I even spent 20 minutes chatting with an old retired professor in his historic home, discussing our country's issues and learning some of Cleveland's history.

I have many funny stories to share, but not enough time at the moment...


So, here are a couple of blurry photos from a MOST exciting event-- Lucky us, it just so happened that Barack was holding a town hall meeting in Parma Saturday night, only 20 minutes from our location... and even without tickets, we got in! He spoke for about an hour and 15 minutes, and I was so impressed. The first half was his usual stump speech, but for the last half he answered questions from the crowd, and Senator Obama answered each question thoroughly. His responses were so intelligent, from such an amazingly rational perspective with real problem-solving steps. Everyone left there with a feeling of real possibility, like maybe there truly is a chance for the United States to become united again.