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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Valentines - What a Wonderful World

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Happy Holidays - Elf Yourself

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Fall Pictures from central Maine...

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Nero chasing the ball

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Friday, October 17, 2008

A boy and his dog....

Our neighbor and his dog "Fluffy", or Mido/ Midas.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Upon Moving Mom in with us....

We've had an extremely busy summer! As you know we have been busy painting rooms and rearranging the entire house. This operation has two desired end results:

Prepping this big ol' house in anticipation of the economy turning back around. Once the whole political thang is over and 'we' as a country come to our senses and boot out the current administration and "hopefully" get some real change happening in Washington! We SIMPLY can not endure another 4 years (with the very real potential of eight years) of the same ol' idiocy that has reigned with the republicans!! AKK!! Our personal plan?? Make this old house as shiny and inviting as is physically possible for two ol' Lesbians to do, so when we do sell, we will squeeze as many pennies out of the equity in this place as is possible. This house, after all, is what will be financing our pending move to the southwest! *dance, dance*
Mom was declining in both her physical health and mental state. It was time for her to move in with us. She has developed emphysema and gets VERY short of breath at the least little physical excursion. She is legally blind, has been her entire life. She does well with what she can see - however her right eye is basically useless and her left one is bad as well - she also has no depth perception, so walking on uneven surfaces is not really an option. Her knees are shot, too. Stairs are very difficult. She has never had to take any prescriptions until the whole emphysema thing happened and then she immediately got confused as to when what and how she was to deal with a couple pills and some inhalers! It was time... I was stressed out about her being alone in her apartment, I was stressed about her being a half hour car ride away should something immediate occur on her end, I was just stressed.

I have always known that at one point in my life my Mom would be living with me full time. In fact it was told to me over and over that it was and would continue to be my job to watch over my Mom.

Different folks have commented to me about her living us. 'A relationship killer!', 'A sure fire disaster just waiting to happen!' - these are just two things folks have blurted out to me upon my telling them that we were moving my mother in with us.

I know it won't be easy. Mom knows and goodness sake Nancy certainly knows! We are 3 grown women, two menopausal and one elderly. We all have opinions and needs and wants, in other words, we are 3 strong vocal women. The potential for disaster is there, but I have faith in us, as a couple and as a family.

It'll take compromise and gentleness as well as lots of love. I love my Mom and I love Nancy more than anyone knows. She is so special to me and I know this is the woman who will be with me for the rest of my life. Our golden years. Nancy has known since we started dating that me and Mom were a package deal. She took that on and has run with it! Completely changing our lives and our home we have worked hard this summer! She is a trouper and must really love me for doing all this work to the house and moving Mom in!

I am simply struck dumb sometimes at how lucky I am to have found her. *gulp*

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Circus at "The Big 'E" (The Eastern States Exposition)

Nancy's Mom is a tour bus guide and she took Nancy on a recent trip down to Springfield, MA to the "The Big 'E'" (eastern states exposition).

These are a couple pics of the elephants in the circus.

Here's a link to the set on Flikr.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Chinny, chin, chin!

I came across this little scene the other day at work.

These two little Chinchilla's are sooooo cute and playful together. The gray one is sleeping in the wheel on her back with the other one sleeping over her belly!

Everybody all together, now!

"AWWwwwwwwwwww"

Monday, July 21, 2008

An afternoon at the pool with Ryan

Ryan and Nancy in the pool!

Ready? ONE, TWO, THREE! GO!!

KER-SPLASH!!!!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

new hair

My hair had been driving me NUTZ! It was so long and scraggly - it looked as though I was just about to take flight the side "wings" had become so bad!!

I hadn't cut it since before my shoulder surgery!

I was planning on just making an appointment for later in the week and being done with it... until I looked at myself in the mirror when I got home.

OUT came the shears!! Off came the fluffage!

I LOVE it!! I won't have to cut it again for months!

I need some dangly earrings now!!!

HAHAHA!

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Laff! It's good for the soul!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Senate OKs Out-Of-State Gays Marrying In Mass.

Move Expected To Boost State's Economy

Senate has voted to repeal a 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from marrying in the state. The law prohibits couples from obtaining marriage licenses if they couldn't legally wed in their home states. After Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay marriages in 2004, then-Gov. Mitt Romney ordered town clerks to enforce the little-known law and deny licenses to out-of-state couples.

The repeal effort has the support of Gov. Deval Patrick, whose 18-year-old daughter announced last month she is a lesbian. The Massachusetts Senate voted Tuesday to repeal the law. The House is expected to vote this week. An analysis found repealing the law could draw thousands of couples to Massachusetts, boosting the economy by $111 million over three years.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

July 4th tripity, trip! Food, fun and folks!

This was our annual July 4th lobster pot! Sunday we gorged ourselves on Lobster, corn on the cob, and fresh strawberry pie ala mode! YUM!!! We had Mom down and our friend "D" came over and ate with us too.

"P" house and puppy sat for us while we went to Peaks Island Thursday afternoon, stayed over one night and then back home.

She REALLY helped with painting the double living rooms downstairs! More pictures of that coming soon!

Last fall we went to a benefit (for George Carman who suffers from cystic fibrosis) motorcycle ride and pork roast. I won a gift certificate for a nights stay and a dinner voucher at the Inn on Peaks Island.

It was simply wonderful!! Gorgeous weather, beautiful views, delicious food, yummy drinks, fantastic company (smooooooch -----> sweet meat) super comfy king size bed, pristine room with a luxurious jet tub - simple divine!!!

This is The Inn on Peaks Island, where we stayed on the third. GORGEOUS!!

Arriving on the island.

Nancy and I on our private deck.

The king size bed!

The view from the couch.

Heading back down to the dock Friday morning.

Us waiting on the ferry.

The ferry we rode over and back.

A video on the ferry back to Portland.

Some of Augusta's fireworks. Taken with my new phone, a Samsung Slider.

More fireworks, even more pics and videos HERE.

Hope you all had a WONDERFUL holiday!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

New Studio space!!!

These are shots of my (EMPTY!!!

) new studio. This is looking east, towards the front of the house. This is the entrance door leading out to the hallway. I'll put a new-to-the-studio bookcase on that portion of the wall behind the door and next to the window. I've run out of places to store my book's and magazines thus, the need for more book case storage! Perhaps there needs to be some weeding of the mags??? Ak!!!

Empty room, yes... but smelling oh-so-clean of freshly shampooed carpet!

These sports hats of Nancy's won't be staying.

I'll probably set up my sewing machine and fabric stash in this area. (That's the door leading to the hallway.)

Yeah... that's Dilly's dog crate, not positive yet where her "room" will end up in the new upstairs layout.

Probably in the dressing room??

This is looking west, towards the back of the house. In the first picture I was standing in this doorway, it leads into our new bedroom. I'll put a large shelf cabinet here with the VCR and television on it. It'll be on a swivel stand so we can watch TV from the bed if we so choose. This doorway will be blocked by this cabinet and the TV.

That concludes todays little tour of the new studio - as I set it up!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Happy Pride!!

Yesterday was the 22nd annual Southern Maine Pride.

frustratingly, I missed it because I had to work in the afternoon. *pout*

Apparently it was well attended and had some good entertainment too!

Thanks to Justin for the pic at the top of this post. Link to the Portland Press Herald's story.

The Purple Princess Speaks

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