Celebrate your FREEDOM and remember all the men and women who are ensuring us that FREEDOM....

Have a fun and happy Independence Day!!!!!!!!!!

Spring is definitely rockin' my world right now.  I spent a whole luxurious half hour today - yes, I was self-indulgent - watching the Goldfinches flutter and perform their aerobatics around the thistle feeders in our front yard.  It is virtually hypnotic sometimes.  Try it.  Those lucky little buggers sure can flit and fleetly fly...insert instrumental from the Goodnight Song from "The Sound of Music"....doot doodle doot doo doot doo doo Doot doodle doot doot dooooooooo.  WOW! I may resurrect my Turbo Blog, for today, for Spring's sake....and why the heck NOT?!?!

I deeply breathed the air, wore some flip flops, watched the clouds, marveled at the birds, bought a mum, got dirt under my nails, filled a bird bath, filled a bird feeder, smelled some sage, raked some rocks, made a list, hefted a watering can, planted and hung a flower basket, threw out some bad bulbs, perused The Enchanted Forest and noticed the many dead-fallen trees that will make great firewood, played with the dogs, and turned my face to the sun....

Happy Spring, peeps!

Yes, pet names. Not the cutesy things you call your significant other, but the names you have chosen for your pets. Is the choosing process important to you?

They are a big deal for some people, like myself. I just realized the other day how seriously I and my various family members have taken the process of naming our pets. One of my brothers has always named his dogs after world leaders: Ike(Eisenhower) and Julius(Caesar). My sister went the literary route and used names of famous writers for her dogs: Agatha(Christie) and Edith(Wharton). My family and I chose to use musical names for our dogs: Floyd (as in Pink) and Loretta (Lynn).

We all love our little buddies and have had a lot of fun naming them...Could it have started as we were growing up, with my dad naming our pets after brands of beer? Yikes!!! Maybe so...

To everyone, Irish or not - have a great day and be safe when you're drinking that excellent Irish whiskey...take a cab!!!  Love ya!