Fiery Sky.

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours;
let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. "

~Kahlil Gibran

once upon a time...

A told me this story today, and I thought it would be the perfect way to introduce you to the newest member of our family, Argon.

Once upon a time there was a cat who got lost outside. He was dirty, scared and hungry. He was even more scared when a truck took him to a shelter and he had to stay in a metal box surrounded by other animals. The cat had to live there for a while, and had to have medicine and eat strange food, and listen to scary sounds all day and night.

One day, he met a family that he liked. They had come to the shelter to find a new cat, since their sweetest kitty had died only a month before and they had a hole in their hearts. He loved the little boys who pet him, and decided to make them his family. He went home with them and was so happy to have a soft bed to sleep in, kids to snuggle, and good food.


The cat was so happy that he played with the kids all the time, gave them snuggles and even ran to jump in bed with them if they made any noises while they slept. He loved getting under the covers and lying on the pillow next to the kids most of all. He loved them so much he even let the kids carry him around some times.

The cat was happy to have his forever home and lived happily ever after, the end.

corner view:: wisconsin weekend

This week the corner view is 7:45PM Friday, 7:45PM Saturday, 7:45PM Sunday. Friday night we checked into our weekend vacation cottage, went out to dinner, and then walked across the street to the park to play as the sun was going down. The boys found a basketball in the grass and played for a bit.



Saturday evening we were still in our cottage. We again went out to dinner in town and came back to go play in the park. At the edge of the park there were fruit trees, berry bushes and a restored prairie. I walked the edges looking as the boys played.


Sunday evening we were back home. The boys went with my husband and several neighbors to a neighborhood park on their bicycles as I watered the garden!

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summer weekends.

We got away for a weekend that we all needed. We found a lovely cottage in a small town just over an hour away. It is a town full of stone cottages, old mines, log cabins, art galleries, interesting history, good restaurants, quirky old homes (a sweet yarn shop) and extremely steep hills.


The favorite thing about the cottage for the boys was the mail slot. Yep, it was fun! They also loved the cozy beds, antiques and giant hammock in the big lawn out front.


While we were only gone only 2 1/2 days, we packed in a lot of fun. The whole weekend was cool, even chilly - long pants and jackets in July! So we were able to go on long walks up steep hills to see old mining equipment, badger holes and restored prairie, walk through town, and visit many parks. Such a lovely place!


The boys loved finding out where the term Wisconsin Badgers came from. While the badger is indeed now the University mascot, the term comes from the miners who came to work in SW Wisconsin in the early 1800's who dug holes in the sides of hills to provide themselves with shelter in our cold winters as they worked to mine lead, zinc or other minerals. They dug holes like the badgers did to hole up for winter, and the name stuck!


While we were indeed perfectly happy hanging out at our cottage, going on walks, trying all the different restaurants and having ice cream at a local shop where we could also play Yahtzee!, we did venture into Iowa on Saturday to re-visit a river museum and got lucky to be there for a conservation event ... the boys saw freshwater snails, crawdads, turtles, snakes, and fish.


Very exciting! The museum also had a large lizard exhibit which we had to go back through many times before we could leave.


We had such a nice weekend the boys were sad to go. They really really miss that hammock!


And I miss seeing bats and birds and all the stars.

corner view:: the unveiling

Well, I took photos for this weeks corner view. And then my hard drive crashed. After a new hard drive was installed and my system restored from backup, I discovered my photo library was being excluded from the hourly backups due to file size. My poor husband had planned on backing up photos a different way and then forgot. SO. I lost a lot of photos (a LOT). I'm feeling a bit crushed. But I did have a pic of me in my blog folder from April - so here is 'unveiling'. 

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