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Together on the couch 05
Originally uploaded by mgenovese.

Ever try to get two children of like heritage on the couch to behave for a nice picture?

Ever try to herd cats?

Lesson learned: Keep the tick

My sister-in-law found a tick behind my niece Olivia's ear last week. She removed the critter and kept it in a bag so the doctor could see it. When she brought her into the doctor, he was able to send the tick away for testing to find out whether the tick had Lyme's disease, or even if it had bit Olivia in the first place. They'll get any results on the tick in a few weeks. Olivia is on a round of amoxicillin, just to be safe.

I thought I was pretty up on what to do in all sorts of odd kiddie-related situations, but it never would have occured to me to keep a tick, although it makes sence, once you think about it. It takes all the "what ifs" out of the situation, and that's great. Thought it was worth passing it on.

What's that buzzing sound?

John
Originally uploaded by danishsprite.

John's been threatening to do this for awhile. He really needed a haircut yesterday, and decided to take matters into their own hands instead. He announced, "I'm shaving my head" and all this buzzing started in the bathroom.

This is not the best photo, but I think John did a nice job. He didn't really save his head. He buzzed it. It looks good.

Pics from down under (sorta)

Hike in the Woods
Originally uploaded by mgenovese.

Just uploaded a couple recent pics from our end. The one here is Caleb and I going on a hike behind my house, Slaughter creek in the background.

Also, we have 2 new additions to the family down here. We adopted 2 cats from the local shelter this past weekend: Bella, and Blue. Blue is very calm and sleeps on our beds at night, and Bella sits on the desk and swats at my fingers as I type.

Speaking of Sesame Street...

I suppose this should be a response to Kris's post about sesame street, but I find its easy to miss the comments to a post.
This is a list of someone's top 25 Sesame Street Moments. I might have a slightly different list, but there are some memorable ones here... including a video of the Telephone Martians!

Naked Smiley Boy

Jayden
Originally uploaded by davemayp.

Jayden says:

gglrgllglglgl llglr loooooooooollglrglg!

Nifty Hair Tie

NiftyHairTie
Originally uploaded by danishsprite.

I know you Hunnies are creative, so I'm passing on this photo. I new friend from India gave me this hair tie today. It's basically a flexible wire (about 8") surrounded by segments of clear plastic tubing and decorated with beads. It actually stays around a ponytail quite well. She said longer ones could be worked into a braid as well.

What I find facinating about it is not this actual execution of the hair tie, but what certain substitutions in it's design could create.

It reminds me of the barettes my mom used to make decorated with braided ribbon and beads on the ends. (Heather, I know you must have had these . . . were they a WNY thing?)

I'll let you girls mull on this.

(Guys, next time John comes up with a new computer program I'll let him fuel your creative energy with that.)

one for the thumb...

superbowl
Originally uploaded by chadcanipe.

Well, as many of you know, I'm not a huge sports fan. But I'm pretty excited about the outcome of yesterday's super bowl. I grew up in Pittsburgh during the 80s- just after the Steelers had their 4 super bowl victories. Every year was an attempt to get back and get that 5th victory. I'm glad they've finally gotten it- the city has been waiting a looong time for this.
In my short little life, I've never seen anything quite like a Steelers fan. I honestly think that if you took blood samples from everyone born in Pittsburgh, you would find a little Steelers symbol in their genetic chain. In some cases, it replaces the genes needed for intelligence and/or decent hairstyles, but they're still a lovable bunch.
So even though I'm so out of it that I've only known they were going to the superbowl for the last week, i can still muster a "here we go steelers, here we go...!" cheer from some rarely-visited corner of my mind. :)

Happy Birthday, Hunny!

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Originally uploaded by danishsprite.

Yesterday was Hunny's 15th birthday. It seems like yesterday that the vet opened the waiting room door and let Hunny walk out on her own four paws to meet me.

Heather and Karen, do you remember how Hunny spent her first few nights tapping all the walls? I remember at one point she'd woken us all up, and we were standing in the hallway, watching her tap her way down the hall.

Heather, I think you said, "Of all the cats in Rochester, you bought the crazy one."

No arguments there. I still don't know what she was doing. She did the same thing when I moved to Canandaigua and Hamburg, but not in the two apartments between.

Anyways, Hunny will be waiting for me next summer. She still remembers me. When I came home for Christmas last month she spent all night in my bed patting my head (shouldn't that be the other way around?) and purring. And attacked John a few times. Nothing has changed. She's still my girl.

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

(- Dorothy Parker)

Hi everyone! Just wanted to mention that when I put the blog up, I never meant for the subtitle to remain the same . . . I just never can come up with anything good (at least, not whilst I'm at the keyboard).

So I wanted to let everyone know that you do have 'administrator' access to Hunny House, and you're welcomed to surprise us all with whatever you can come up with. (I know you are all creative, maybe you'll have better luck than I.) Just log in, go to 'setttings', then enter your new subtitled under 'description.' Republish the blog. That's all there is to it.

The one thing you do NOT want to do is click on "Delete this Blog" at the very bottom of the page. Sure, we can always start over, but if we can avoid this, all the better.

As far as that is concerned, you guys are welcomed to post any links that might be of interest to you. If you don't know how to do that, email me the link, and I'll put it up for you. Good luck, and happy blogging!