lightnin' from an hour ago

Betty and Tom

You know Betty and Tom, don't you? No? Well here they are!

A Cop Walks into a Doughnut shop...and buys it!

Hey Michiganders!
Lila's friend Ann (who is here in AZ) sent an email regarding the cops in Clare, MI who bought the local donut shop (aka bakery). If you are ever in Clare, check it out! Here is an article from the local newpaper: Clare Cops Buy Doughnut Shop. The link to the bakery is here: Cops & Doughnuts.
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Identity Crisis

Kathy,

I thought you may enjoy these photos of poodles with identity crisises. Maybe not.

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that's our Dawn (and Cosmo, too!)

lightning up the sky

Friday night monsoon action in San Tan Valley, AZ.

sticky (note) situation

'Deadline' - A Post It Stop Motion @ Yahoo! Video

next round is on the bounty hunter

That could be a lot of beer!

west town

Dawn, being the adventurer that she is, randomly steered us to this terrific bit of awesomeness over by the Superstition Mountains. How cool is this??

dilapidation.... is making me wait

old dilapidated garage in Payson, AZ

Duke

Would you believe that we met the Duke on our journeys around Arizona on Sunday? And he generously posed for this photo?

What's that you say? The Duke is no longer with us?

Oh, well he still makes a striking figure.

Found this in an antiques joint on our journeys yesterday.

new biz card

So I was at a networking meeting on Thursday and a terrific graphic designer (Erin) was talking about branding and having a unified look to your collateral materials. So I decided to design a business card that ties in, stylistically with my website. And this is what I came up with. Any thoughts, comments, complaints, suggestions?

By the way, the new cards were necessary because I am almost out of cards, but also because I recently got a local phone number for the business.

Giant Evil Red Dragonfly

Today Dawn and I stopped by the grand opening party at the new Midfirst Bank over at the corner of Rittenhouse and Power. They made a nice presentation/introduction of themselves to the community with food, prizes, and face-painting and balloon animals for the munchkins. So, Midfirst, welcome to the neighborhood.

Upon leaving we spied this gigantic dragonfly enjoying the antenna on Dawn's car.

vulture

spied a trio of vultures today in Q.C., AZ. Here's a mediocre shot of one taking flight to get away from me!

da moon

Technically, monsoon season has begun here in AZ. No storms, yet, but we have seen some clouds which is a nice change of pace. Even after dark for the moon here.

dawn's handiwork

well....

they gave it the ol' college try, anyway. Pretty exciting right up to the end.

The Wings game, that is. What did you think I was talking about?!?!

Go Wings!

Hawkeye

Dawn made us go out yesterday evening for a "photo challenge" expedition. I'll be posting pix from it for a few days, I'm sure. Here's a frazzled old hawk we ran across.

Lil' Cos

Click on him and he'll give you a little attitude!

whack a kitty

we especially like it when they escape!

I'm an Eagle Now!!!!!!!

Good news, everybody!

Yesterday I got the call... I have been un"rif"fed! (reduction in force ... or laid off!)

I will be teaching 2nd grade at Ellsworth Elementary School in the same district that I was in (Combs district). The Eagles!

It looks like they called back at least 17 of the 20 teacher that were given notice. Maybe all of them. So, .....YEAH! Now we can stop looking for a cave in the desert to move into!

Thank you everybody for your well-wishes and prayers! It worked!

Thanks and Love,
Dawn!

worst music video ever

found on youtube: called the worst music video ever

I Wanna Love You Tender.... Enjoy! I dare you to not laugh!

guess who.......

Kids with beards and other hockey news

GO WINGS!
I went online to find out if the Wings won yesterday's game against the Penguins and found this cute video of the winning school who created a video. Apparently, winners are very superstitious and don't change anything when they are in the playoffs. Like shaving! I guess Ronnie's a wings fan too - he hasn't shaved lately either....well, he shaved some - but still has a fuzzy face!
http://redwings.nhl.com/index.html

Coyotes may be leaving the desert
The Phoenix Coyotes - the hockey team - not the wild animals in the desert have filed Chapter 11 and an investor from Canada may be moving them up north - we will see what happens in the near future.
http://coyotes.nhl.com/index.html

The Mystery Case of Obama and the Missing Honorary Degree

President Barack Obama is here in the valley of the sun this evening to give the ASU commencement speech. There has been some hubbub about ASU not giving Obama an honorary degree for his troubles because he has not yet established his body of work.

The always pointed Daily Show comments on this below....

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lovely wife, lurvely dog

aw, ain't they cute?

happy friday, everybody

Hello~

Kind of a no-post post of postiness here. I hear its about 70 in the Detroit area. That's terrific. That was the overnight low here last night! Going to 101!

Dawn's school had a science fair on Wednesday. Many of the kids projects were very well done.

I visited the dentist this week. Always a good time. Dawn's been busily preparing for the end of the school year and doing homework for her certification classes. Cosmo has become a professional napper.

I think the library is on the agenda for the weekend.

What are you doing where you are?!?!?!?!?!

if you love me....

you'll read my magazine! Well, not mine exactly, but the magazine of the writer's group that I am peripherally a part of (and if I were any kind of writer I would know better than to end a sentence with a preposition, which explains this parenthetical aside). If you like speculative fiction short stories, you may enjoy The Nautilus Engine which can be found at:

http://rnwrrn.googlepages.com/home

or more simple to remember: www.TheNautilusEngine.com

We pop out a new one every three months and the latest one (our 8th issue) just went live on May 1st. Nine short stories, a featured artist, book reviews, movie trailers, and great links. We archive four issues at a time so you can look at some old issues, too. Take a look and lemme know what, if anything, you think about it. Thanks, Ronnie

purple tree!?!?!

Look at this crazy tree with the beautiful purple flowers! It's crazy purty if you ask me! So how you like it??