08/06/12 12:05 - ID#56659

Models, tents and chickens

The only good shot I got from (e:flacidness)' fashion show:

I got a new tent!! Finally tried it out at Brushwood last weekend. It was awesome! Great size, easy to set up, love the dual-doors & vestibules.

Doggies at the ATM

Body painting yummies at Infringment on Friday.

Office chickens

Our latest school-saving project

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Category: pets

07/24/12 12:02 - ID#56638

Skateboarding nisha!

Mataya tried to teach nisha how to skateboard, but when I tried to take a pic nisha hopped up. Mataya offered to take the picture... Goofy!

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Category: pets

07/22/12 06:34 - ID#56635

Flying kitty

Flying? Sleeping? Holstein the cat.

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07/17/12 09:06 - ID#56623

Mickey rats

Beach #1: closed
Beach #2: closed between the time we pulled in and the time we changed clothes
Beach #3: beach at Mickey Rats. We thought (e:tinypliny) would enjoy the sign. The water smelled like sewage & fish, so we had a beer and left.
Backyard: sprinkler, better beer. Ahhh...

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Category: friends

07/17/12 10:46 - ID#56621

Birthday gaming

We celebrated (e:puddlediving)'s 39th birthday last night with gaming. This is 7 Wonders. Also played Alhambra. We have a new set of expansions for it but didn't use any of them because two players hadn't played the core game. Happy birthday, Lana!

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07/16/12 05:22 - ID#56619

Fireflies in the ANF

We took a camping trip in June to the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania's only national forest, to see the synchronous fireflies during their mating season. These fireflies are best known in Asia and the Great Smokey Mountains but Allegheny Defense Project noticed them last year and brought researchers in to check 'em out this year.

They're amazing. Breath-taking amazing.

I didn't even try to take pix of the fireflies - incredibly difficult shooting conditions, much much harder than fireworks. So I took pix of camping.

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07/16/12 05:14 - ID#56618

A lovely wedding

A couple of the coop house kids got married on Thursday afternoon near the upper rapids at Niagara Falls State Park. A simple Episcopalian ceremony, a picnic, and croquet!

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Category: pets

07/14/12 11:03 - ID#56611

Rainbow kitteh

Basement kitteh in disguise.

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Category: home

07/11/12 05:27 - ID#56605

Burned houses demolished

The three houses destroyed in the fire in Bloss (e:heidi,56570) have been demolished and the fourth is gutted for rehab.

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Category: home

07/08/12 02:19 - ID#56600

Laundry

I set up the new wireless router today at Wendy's so I'm hanging on the back porch watching my laundry dry and surfing. Maybe I'll go for a little walk in the woods later. This is the longest stretch of unplanned time I've had in bloss in forever. It's lovely.

Last night I visited with my friends Hannah, Liz & Jennie at Liz' folks' place in the far northwestern region of Tioga County. It's in the same county as Bloss but it's over an hour's drive, 50-some miles. I got stuck in traffic! Unexpected at 11pm on a Saturday. The fireworks in Galeton let out the same time I left Liz' house. We made s'mores on the front lawn then it started to rain so we hung on the porch in candlelight. We could just barely hear the Galeton fireworks. Liz said that some nights she can hear her neighbors across the valley talk on their porch.