Halloween photo submission

This isn't exactly the photo I submitted for my friends blog, but I thought it was funny with Lucas' tongue licking his chops because we're holding cheese.

Halloween

I absolutely love Halloween! A friend of mine has started posting Halloween pictures and now I'm starting to get into the mood. It usually takes me awhile as the hot weather doesn't get me in the mood for any holiday. She posted a link to a good Facebook page with lots of pictures and decorating ideas.
https://www.facebook.com/ThePumpkinSeasonWhenWitchesFly/info#!/ThePumpkinSeasonWhenWitchesFly

If anyone has any links to others, please leave a comment with them.

I also need to take Lucas and Holly's picture today with their Halloween attire on so I can submit it to a friends blog. I'll have to post it here later.

Have a wonderful Sunday...back to work tomorrow!

Scratch pads for kitties

Wanted to post this before I forget. You can enter to win a case of Stretch and Scratch pads for one of your local cat shelter/rescues. I've ordered these in the past for my local shelter, which they said they love.

http://www.moderncat.net/2012/09/07/win-a-case-of-stretch-scratch-scratchers-for-your-favorite-cat-shelter/

Holly growing up with Lucas

My husband was recently talking to me about how Holly has gotten more mellow as she's grown. I'm not so sure sometimes, as just a few minutes ago she was bouncing off the walls barking because the neighbor was outside walking their dog. This is the dog who lives next door that she seems to hate through the fence, but I'm sure she'd like once they met outside the fence. I call the neighbors dog Lucas' girlfriend (her real name is Cocoa), as he always enjoyed meeting up at the fence. That is, until Holly came along.

All these thoughts of growing up and getting calmer (ha!) got me looking at their pictures that I've taken since we adopted her in March 2011. I can't believe she's almost 2 years old! I wanted to share some, and I'm sorry if you think there are a lot, but I could actually post many, many more as I love them all. Hope you enjoy, and I hope you're enjoying your Labor Day!

 

The night we brought Holly home

 

I miss this little one and can't believe how she's grown.

 

She made old Lucas play

 

This is the rescue we got Holly and Lucas from. We

call him Uncle Gary. The guy in the orange shirt is

Lucas and Holly's dad.

 

This is typical Holly being very upset when Lucas has

a toy and she doesn't. EVERYTHING is Holly's. And

they have at least a minimum of 8 toys laying around,

but she wants that one!

 

This is at my mother-in-law's retirement party at our

house. My dogs are included in everything at our house.

 

This is at my parents house on Father's Day. The dads

got a t-shirt from the dogs.

 

Holly just loves being next to big brother Lucas

Our first Christmas together. Our local shelter

has this every year, and I'm looking forward

to this year again.

 

 

 These are all my in-laws, with Lucas and Holly's

dad sitting next to them.

 

 

Of course Holly tries to get the front seat every time.

 

 

 Lucas and Holly in their summer attire. Saw some ties on the

internet that I thought were cute. I sent them a question

and they never responded. So my mom having a

sewing machine, she made some for them for all the seasons.

Old photos

My grandmother passed away in 2005 at the age of 103. A couple years ago I ended up with a box of old family photos. I know it isn't all our family photos, but I was happy to see the ones I had. I passed them around to other relatives to see if they wanted any of them. I don't have children, and most of my cousins do have them so I thought they would want some of them for their children. They took some of them, but not very many at all which surprised me. Even my sister, but she never seemed to have an interest in this kind of thing. If I had children I would want them to know their past, and have a piece of it. But that's just me.

I'm trying motivate myself to go through them and find some people in them, or donate some of them. Some of the pictures go back to the 1930's from the St. Petersburg, Florida area where my grandmother vacationed from Pennsylvania. I was going to see if the Historical Society in St. Petersburg would like some of the pictures. I would love for people to have them that want them. Not that I don't want them, I just have no one to leave them to if anything happens.

One photo I found is of my grandmother and two other gentleman. It is labeled of a Christmas program and one of the gentleman's names. I actually found the name on Facebook with the area where she used to live, so I sent a copy of the photo through a message. That was about 3 weeks ago, and I still haven't heard back. I have a feeling this is going to be harder than I thought. I tried to find relatives of the man, but I don't think they have children. Hopefully I'll get a reply back soon. Here's a copy of the photo.

I love looking at old pictures. Hopefully I'll have better luck with the rest of them.

After the storm

Well we didn't get much of Tropical Storm Isaac's wind, but we did get about 15" of rain in our area. Thankfully only our yard was flooded and we didn't have any on our street or in our house. A lot of other people in the western community weren't as lucky. Houses got flooded, and a majority of people couldn't leave their homes because of the water levels. The worse was on Monday, and on Thursday a majority of the water was off of our property. Yet again, others are not as lucky as there are still some stranded. Then I watch the news and see what Louisiana is going through yet again, and I count my blessings. I hope those people have the strength to clean up and build again. I don't think I could do that more than once.

This is one side of our yard. It's about 3/4 of the way gone now.

My little Holly girl was funny the way she trotted around in the water. I think she's

the first dog I've owned that actually likes the water. She still chased cars along the

fence through it.

 

 

 Brought my boy Lucas to work a couple times this week.

This is his pathetic look, as in why did you stop petting me mom.

 

 

Well I hope everyone has a very nice, long weekend off.

Storm

Oh what fun during hurricane season. Now we're under a tropical storm watch for Tropical Storm Isaac. At the beginning of the week the news had us in the center of the "cone". Now we're out of the "cone", but we still have a watch in effect. Hopefully the wind and rain won't be too bad Sunday and Monday. I'd hate to have to drive to work in that.

For those who live on the west coast of Florida and along the Gulf Coast, be prepared and be safe.