LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY BABY...

The baby I am talking about is my Parakeet "Baby". He is about to drive me crazy!!! You know on the cage there are two little doors where the food and water go. Well, I only have the food in one. The other I don't use because he has a bottle that attatches to the side of the cage. Well, he figured out that while he is standing on the food bowl perch he can lift the door of the food. So, he lifts it and drops it about a HUNDRED TIMES AN HOUR!!!! You hear clunk...clunk....clunk...clunk...it was driving me crazy so we got a clothes pin and put it on there and now no more clunk, clunk, clunk...or so I thought. So I am sitting in the recliner the other day watching TV and low and behold I heard clunk...clunk...clunk...he is standing on his head, hooked on the the side of the cage doing the other door. Oh no SIR!!! So, now they both have clothespins on them and I am waiting to see how long it takes him to figure out about the big door. Oh well...see ya!!

P.S. Say a prayer for my dear brother Rick.

Bye!!!

Philly

Mark is having a great time. He is all registered now for his conference and the fun starts tonight. Anyway, while he had time off today he went and toured Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. He said you could just feel history. I would have loved to have gone on this trip with him. Oh well..money wasn't there. He rode in the subway to get back and he said it was smelly and nasty. Better than walking I suppose!

Enjoy the pics...more to come.

Mark posing in the hall where the Declaration and Constitution was signed. 

Carpenter's Hall 

City Tavern...has been serving since the 1700's. 

Grave of Benjamin Franklin and his wife. 

Independence Hall 

Independence Hall 

Liberty Bell. 

Where Declaration and Constitution was signed. 

Where Declaration and Constitiution was signed. 

Where Declaration & Constitution Signed 

PHILADELPHIA, PA

Mark is in Philly as we speak at a conference. He will be back on Saturday. I hate it when he is gone but it gives me and Jeremy some needed time. Mark's flight out of Iron Mountain this morning was 5:55 a.m. I woke up with him at 4:00 and I asked him if he wanted me to go downstairs with him and see him off. He said no, because I haven't been feeling well, I needed my sleep and so he kissed and hugged me and he was off. Then I dreamed the whole time that he missed his flight.

He will be e-mailing pictures and I will be putting the ones I like on here.

Jeremy is doing great in school. His house should sell soon if the people that we are talking to buy it. PLEASE PRAY!!! That is his college tuition. He needs it by January. That is when he will be transferring to CMU or NMU. He wants to go to Columbia in Chicago. (Not the Ivy league Columbia) This Columbia, I believe is more like an art school. I don't know why. He said that it has his graphics programs that he wants to take. I would prefer he went to CMU or NMU. He has friends at Columbia and NMU so we'll see. I guess it's as to which one he can get accepted at.

That's all. Love ya! P.S. Guess my Astros are out of it this year. Oh well...there's always next year. Got to get back to my rat killin'.

R

Severe Weather Alert....HE HE HE Hee!!!

I always keep an eye on the weather. Today we had thunderstorms and a lot of wind this morning. And I don't think it got above 60. It is very chilly out now...about 50 or so. Anyway, I was checking the weather online and this is what I found....

/O.NEW.KMQT.FZ.A.0004.060910T0400Z-060910T1000Z/ONTONAGON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ONTONAGON...L'ANSE...MARQUETTE...IRONWOOD...IRON RIVER...IRON MOUNTAIN...KENTON...SIDNAW305 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 2006 /405 PM EDT FRI SEP 8 2006/...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A FREEZEWATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES OVER THE INTERIOR WEST HALF OF UPPER MICHIGAN AREEXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 30S AFTER MIDNIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT ANDTO AROUND FREEZING BY DAWN ON SUNDAY. READINGS NEAR THE LAKESUPERIOR SHORE WILL REMAIN IN THE 40S...SO THERE WILL BE NO FREEZETHERE. A FREEZE WATCH MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE.THESE CONDITIONS COULD KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

How about that!!! Guess it's time for Mark to take the A/C out of our bedroom window upstairs! Love ya!!

Labor Day---Trip Down State

We went downstate to see Mark's mom for Labor Day. We had a good time. It is always good to get back home though. It's an 8 hour drive and quite tiring. Anyway, enjoy the pics. Some are silly, but hey, that's us!

Take care!

This is what I watched for 8 hours. Herman the bug. Or what was left of him. :) 

Trees changing.  

Lake Michigan. 

Lake Michigan. 

The Mackinac Bridge...AKA the Might Mac. I think this is the best picture I have ever gotten of it.  

Going over the bridge on Friday evening. The sun was pretty. 

Mark's sister Sue. I'm not exactly sure what she was doing. I guess smiling pretty! 

Katelyn drawing at Don Pablos while Uncle Mark is trying to make up his mind on what to eat. 

Sue, Keith and Katelyn at Don Pablos. 

Katelyn eating chips at Don Pablos. 

Saturday we went to Flint and ate at a mexican restaurant called Don Pablos. We go there every time we go down because up here there isn't any mexican food. Taco Bell doesn't count! This is SOOOOO good!!! 

More of the wonderful mexican food. 

And you can't forget the Guacomole!!! (I fixed it mom!)

This is Mackinack Island. It is pronounced Mackinaw. Anyway, The big white thing in the middle of the picture is the Grand Hotel. It was the hotel in the movie Somewhere in Time.  

My pretty girl. She had such a good time running back and forth in Grandma's backyard.