Monthly Archives: August 2011

My little hometown, Coeymans, N.Y., has flooded;  some of the small Catskill villages are virtually destroyed.  The Albany Times Union posted some amazing photos of the damage.  Here is the link for that: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/And-the-rivers-roared-2145609.php    

Irene was some hurricane….I’m glad all our friends and relatives on the east coast are ok, which isn’t to say none of them experienced the inconvenience and just plain scariness of the storm.  Joanne, in Newport News, VA, had flooding;  … Continue reading →

One year ago today, I received an email through Classmates….it was from Don Ennis,  a man I had not seen since his highschool graduation, one year before my own.  We had been friends and South Main Street neighbors, so we … Continue reading →

The days are shorter, the temps are in the 50s in the mornings, flowers are going to seed…..late August is definitely the beginning of the end.    But we’re spending as much time outside as possible while we can.   Hummingbirds are … Continue reading →

Just looked at titles of my latest blog entries and see they are all trains and dogs.   It’s like I’ve disappeared from my own blog.  So this one is about me.  Sort of a state of the psyche report. It’s … Continue reading →

Nope, not one…..Mr. McGregor should’ve had one of these:  

Don is at the ‘building mountains’ phase of creating his train layout.  Here are some photos of them.   It’s really fun to watch this process, not to mention to discover his creative side.  Who knew? The first posted photo should … Continue reading →

None of the blinds have little plastic things on the ends anymore…Vera chewed them off;  food left out ‘disappears;’ reading glasses apparently look like chew toys to our girl; she races around the house like, well, a greyhound;  we put her … Continue reading →

Vera was just plain antsy today, and so, remembering the cure when my children were like that, I arranged for some friends to come play.  In this case, they were Noel’s dogs, Rugby and Zoey.   They had a ball together:

And, my-oh-my, there is a lot to adjust to.   I’m talking here about Vera.  She is a big dog; I’ve never had one of those before, so I totally wasn’t thinking how easy it would be for her to reach things … Continue reading →