Happy Birthday Girl

Wishing Mom a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 

Mom likes to say that she was born on Pearl Harbor Day.

She also declares her years in Celsius, so she's 31c  (which she learned from George Carlin).

Some how she managed to raise the four of us with lots of love, lots of humor

and lots of patience.

Mom with us when we were kids.

     

The Murphy's In The Details

Saturday mornings have become a cross 
between a carefully choreographed ballet and 
the old TV game show, Beat The Clock.
Between 9am and noon, armed with shopping 
cart and Whole Foods cloth bags I catch a bus,
get the Philly Car Share, Prius (parked in the 
garage of my Mom's building), drive to Whole
Foods lot on South St, shop Super Fresh 
(across the street), load the car. Then shop
Whole Foods, load the car, deliver my stuff
to my apartment, then back to Mom's, end
my car reservation, deliver her stuff, help 
her with chores, mail and meals and other things 
that are difficult because of her blindness.


Sometimes Murphy lurks in the details.
Icey, rainy yesterday, returning to the car 
with my Super Fresh purchases, the car 
was GONE!! Called PCS. Turns out 
(as suspected) a  new member took the 
first PCS Prius she found, though HER 
car was waiting on the floor above at 
the marked official PCS space.


After this happened to me once before, I made a
little sign that I attach to the steering wheel.

It seems to have worked well for several years until
yesterday morning when I forgot to put it on. :-0


I want to thank the Philly Car Share employees,
Brio, Tara and everyone else whose quick thinking, 
understanding and kindness saved the day.


Now I just want my Whole Foods bags back. 




** http://www.phillycarshare.org/

Some Cookie!

 

                                                    © Bea Weidner 2009

My wonderfully talented friend and 
colleague, Bea Weidner (see my 
6/3/09 post) has just opened 
CookieFriends, her new Etsy shop. 
Bea has been making delightfully quirky 

edible cookies for years. People say,
"They are too wonderful to eat". 

Well now you can have your cookie 
on a greeting card to keep, send or both. 
Go to Etsy and see the rest of her wimsical 
cookie cards

http://www.etsy.com/shop/cookiefriends

I want two of each. One to give and one to send.

 © Bea Weidner 2009

     

     Happy Thanksgiving!

   

    

Kibbles From Heaven

Washed and dried my cat boys' stainless bowls.

Tizzy waiting, so I measure his kibble first. 

He dives right in.

Suddenly, a change in the weather. 

Hailstones the size of kibble!

Tizzy heads for the hills.

Doling Fred's portion, I had hit the canister edge, 

broadcasting cat food all over the kitchen.

;-o

BOO!!

(click on images to enlarge)

What do a Farmer, a jar of pickles and an old 

lady ghost have in common? 

The answer is Tony Johnston's delightful, 

spooky story, BOO! A Ghost Story That 

Could Be True, that I illustrated for Edie 

Weinberg at Scholastic/Cartwheel.

Thrills and chills and laughter as well as a 

surprise ending for young readers. 

A treat to illustrate. As I laid out the pages 

and began the drawings, I discovered the trick. 

The story begins at night, ends the next 

morning...... as it began... sort of.
(read the book, look at the pictures) ;-)

Rainy Days And Wednesdays

Just now: Among items I'm 
sorting trying to make some 
studio order out of studio 
chaos. Poverino!  =^..^=
;-)