CNN Vetted some of my flood video!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-670560

Photos from Little Pine Picnic

Todd's 2011 Visit - Little Pine Dam

My dad, brother, and son (Ed, Todd, Dan) waiting for dinner at a family get together at Little Pine Dam.

Dad and Jody waving at us as we canoe past pavilion.

30 Cats in 30 Days

30 Cats in 30 Days

Where's my dinner?

30 Cats in 30 Days - Gif Two

From ECKSCLAMATIONS

30 Cats in 30 Days

30 Cats in 30 Days - Gif One

From ECKSCLAMATIONS

30 Cats in 30 Days - Steelers Fan

30 Cats in 30 Days - What's in a name?

So Ange is smiling because she knows she just suckered me into keeping "The Cat".

The cat needed a name. I raise other peoples kids. Put the two together - Foster Kitten.

Foster Kit for short. Get it?

30 Cats in 30 Days - Foster

The Milton Harvest Festival parade was on the 18th of September this past year. I had watched my share of the parade, gorged on Gunzey sausages, and made my rounds of the festivities. It's hard not to. The festivities take place on the street in front of my home.

My phone rings and I see that Angie Witter is calling me. "Hi Ang. What's up?"

"Can I drop something off at your apartment?"

"Sure."

I figured that she had watched the parade with her uber-son Trace and needed to stow folding chairs or blankets. Not so. She comes up the steps bearing a furry present - a cat. Angie explains how the "poor little thing was lost and wandering on the parade route" and was sure to get squashed by a fire engine. "You would like a cat, wouldn't you Kurt?"

I tried to explain that I really didn't need a pet running around the apartment. I even got Tracer on my side when I suggested that the cat would be better off staying with her two dogs and several cats. Ang quickly turned that argument, explaining that her hubby Tim would wig if she brought home another pet. Trace attempted his best fists on hips, I'm not leaving unless we take the cat with us, Superman pose, complete with protruding lower lip. Angie (I thought at the time) wavered and asked if I would watch the cat long enough for her to go get her kitty carrier. (Had I been thinking quicker, I would have realized this for a scam. She managed to carry the cat to my apartment and she only lives five minutes from downtown. Why would she need a cat carrier?)

Just in case the cat belonged to someone downtown, I took a picture of the cat (with Trace) and floated a lost cat poster around the neighborhood. No one ever claimed the cat and Angie hasn't stopped back in the past nine months with a cat carrier. Hmm?

30 Cats in 30 days

30 Cats in 30 Days

The Nexus commercial has led me to post 30 cat pictures in 30 days.


 "Ackkk! When did the mouse get a laser! My eyes!"

All aisles open Thanksgiving eve.

Whoopdy doo.

Ten days before Turkey Day - three self-check out lanes and one full service for about 16 customers.

Fail.

Dan in front of Chinese Buffet

2009 Pig Roast - Portrait

Charlie

I mentioned about a week ago that the long time Director of the ThunderBoomer Girl Scout Camp had passed away.  I wanted to post some pictures of Charlotte.  Or Charlie - that being what most of us called her.

One of the jokes at camp was that you could never get a picture of Charlie.  Usually you would get a picture of her hand in front of her face about 2 inches from the camera lens.  Or you would get her backside -

There are two shots that I have where she manages to partially hide behind other objects.  One is with an inner-tube at the pool - couldn't find it to scan it.  The other was behind two polaroid pictures.  That picture I do have a scan of.  It is on a page in one of the scrapbooks we kept.  It is a large scan, so click on it and it will open up in a much larger frame.  Charlie is the one hiding in the top right.

I did manage to, over the years, get a few decent photos (and some not so good photos).  Here are a few more of Charlie.

Life Guarding Photos

Had a great meeting today with the Director of the Milton YMCA and others.  We were discussing the Fall schedule for the pool.  Lifeguards and lessons instructors are getting more difficult to staff - we thought.  After getting everyone together, we seemed to be able to generate quite a list of prospects.

One thing I did re-realize is how much I miss instructing the Life Guard Classes.  I did have a great time this past Spring helping Ann Lawton at the East Lycoming YMCA.  I really should look into getting back into it.

Anyway, decided to post some old LG pictures with some new ones --

Really late Boston Pics

I just never got around to them -



While in Boston, we hit a Red Sox game.  We also went to the Museum of Science.

Addie, Sam, and Socrates

Just a few pictures of my niece, nephew, and my son's dog.