The Boyz Were Missed..But

We had 3 lovely kitties to play with in Arkansas

Snowball is 13 years old and loves headbonks


Redbud is a big purry mushy lovebug

He had surgery recently for a tumor and his hair is just growing back


I tried to take a pic of Bo-Bo and Redbud got his tail in the way


Bo-Bo says: My brother is rude!!

Home Again

We made a quick trip to Arkansas this weekend.

Our friends that we visit live out in the woods and it's so nice to sit and watch the animals.
The deer come to eat corn daily, but it was too dark for a picture.
They were kind enough to leave a treat for this bunny and his squirrelly buds, though.

The birds are so pretty all kinds, This pretty cardinal kept chasing off the smaller birds so he could have the yummy seeds all to him self.

It rained most of the weekend, but we went to some antique shops and drove out to the lake. It was a nice break.

St Patricks Day around the WWW

The Official Site

The Official Food

The History Channel

Links for the Kids


Green Stuff to buy
and
Green Stuff to Drink

Welcome Back Ice Cube?

Adding to old TV being remade into new movies is
Welcome Back Kotter.

Too bad Travolta will be busy doing Dallas.

The Stow Away

We are going out of town for a couple of days and The Boyz are helping me throw some things together for the trip.


Rhett wants to include himself


Sorry Buddy!

See all the cute pets at the Friday Ark and this Sunday's Carnival of Cats will celebrating it's second anniversary at Music and Cats

Dallas, The Movie

Why are they doing this, and this?
And why would they film it here?
Instead of HERE?

Not that I won't go see it, I'm sure I will.

On The Island: New Stuff

The new Schlitterbahn Park has opened at last in Galveston, well part of it has anyways and just in time for Spring Breakers.

Also the new causeway that has been under construction like forever is now accepting outbound traffic. Rumor has it the other two bridges will be destroyed to make room for the new inbound causeway that will begin it's long contruction very soon.

Photo from Galveston Daily News

Stop Smoking Laser Therapy

I don't smoke, but know a lot of people who do. I've been hearing a lot on talk radio commercials about this cold laser therapy. Another site claims you will quit in 14 days guaranteed. They also spell Lazer with a Z instead of an S. Allllrighty then.

The Apprentice: Week 3

The Return of Brent
Week three begins with Andrea bursting into tears at the realization that Brent was not fired.
Psst....The Donald hates crying, Andrea.

Meanwhile, Lenny is annoyed when he finds out Lee and Dan will not be participating in the next task do to the Jewish holiday.
Ok, he's pissed off.
We find out from Trump that George will also be absent.

The Task
Each team is instructed to organize a retreat for some GM dealers showcasing the new Chevy Tahoe.

Gold Rush forged ahead with no theme and little direction. PM Teresa believes in just assigning tasks and trusting hoping they get done correctly. Of course they don't. The generator did not get ordered, the golf course thing Tarek was setting up sucked and Teresa spends too much time laying blame and not taking charge.
The models Charmaine hires are pretty and dumb, make that pretty dumb and to top off the day the comedian she also hired offended the audience.

Synergy on the other hand under PM Andrea chose an outdoorsy type theme including fly fishing, skeet shooting, and rock climbing. After being informed shooting guns is not allowed in the park (duh) they opted for the maybe not much safer activity of golf cart racing. They then took the execs for rides in the Tahoe to help educate them about the new product.

To The Boardroom
The teams are rejoined by Dan and Lee and it's off to the boardroom to get the results.
Synergy is the clear winner and as a reward are sent to the aquarium to swim with the sharks.
Gold Rush seemed relieved that excerpts from the evaluation forms were not read aloud.
They go back to the suite where much yelling occurs.
There sure is a lot of yelling this season.

She's Fired
Theresa insists on bringing Lenny and Tarek to the boardroom.
Had she brought Charmaine, maybe she would have been spared.
As Lenny said, "too bad her brain is not as large as her boobs".
Citing a clear lack of leadership as the reason,
Trump tells Theresa...You're Fired.

Chevy Tahoe/Apprentice Contest
Pain of the Week Contest
NBC The Apprentice

Google Mars

Google has something kind of fun.
It's a Google map of Mars, you can look around and click related links.
I don't see any little green men but maybe NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will.

Monday Beer Blogging

A lucky woman in Oslo turned on the tap in her apartment to wash some dishes and beer came out instead of water. I don't think I would have been brave enough to taste it.
Well, maybe I would.

More Fishin' Pics

Some friends came over last night to do some fishing.
8 year old Eric got a big flounder just moments after throwing in his line and it happened so fast I didn't even get a chance to take his picture!

a stingray for John


followed by a blue crab for Eric


and a trout


I love it when the kids outfish the guys....:)

First Fish of Spring

John caught the first fish of the season today,
a little speckled trout



Of course he was thrown back to swim another day
(the fish not the husband)



And if you thought Spring only brings flowers and robins?
You were wrong.

Bubble Boy

Just a boy and his catnip bubbles.










Rhett says: MINE!

Don't miss The Carnival of Cats on Sunday
hosted this week at Justin's Random Thoughts

Shopping: Mystery Box is Back

Midnight Box has the $1.00 deal again today.

Not that we had any luck the first time or the second.

Maybe third time is a charm?

Zillow

This link was sent out from our corporate office to use and to share with clients.

It includes a Google-Earth like mapping tool to find out the value of your homes in places you live or may want to live. Just put in an address, neighborhood, city or zip code.

Zillow is a beta site for now, but the searches are really fun to do and I wonder what else they will do here.

Big Announcement from NASA Today

The net is abuzz wondering what the big announcement from NASA today will be.
While lowly humans are waiting for the big news,
Laurence Simon is of course..... asking the cats.

Update:
Well, no little green men alert but water was found on one of Saturn's Moons.
I wonder if there are any weird lobsters in there.

Please Pass the Butter

A strange looking type of lobster has been discovered in the South Pacific.

No word on how it tastes.

Shopping: Pet Toy Product Alert

Please be careful if your kitty has a toy like this . We read on a message board today that an online friend's kitty choked on one of the googly eyes that had come loose (he's OK now)
Rhett has a similar toy, and now it is eyeless.


Rhett says: Hey! whose been messin' whiff my stuff?

If your pet blogs you may want to link to The Friday Ark.
See you there!

The Bachelor: Final Post

Thankfully, Dr. Travis and Sarah have finally
announced they are no longer a couple.

No Cream, No Sugar Please

If your morning begins with a cup of coffee (or in my case an entire pot)
you may want to read this article from Yahoo News.

Then again you might not.

The Apprentice

Just for fun, a few more personal sites from our candidates.


Pepi (fired last week) has an attractive site and a photo of himself with Bill Clinton.
He also as a list of awards flying through the index page...cool.

Roxanne has a retro-look going featuring rollover buttons and pictures of herself doing jazzersize...yeah, that's interesting.

Charmaine like so many other is mostly photos and partially "under construction"
I like her and wish there was more about her on her personal space.

and
Dan has a timeline on his bio page going all the way back to his birth.
Thanks for sharing, Dan.

Time to Tighten the Belt

With retirement looming only a decade away, we are becoming increasingly concerned about money, or lack of it.

In an effort to better use the money we do have and the money I hope to be making soon, we have enlisted the service of a financial consultant.

I think it will be a useful service, but getting the paperwork together was a pain and presenting it to the guy was somewhat embarrassing.

Like we needed to be told we spend more than we make.
Well maybe we did.

I forgot!

I can't believe it.....I forgot to vote yesterday.

The Apprentice: The Easiest Task Ever

Lenny hit the nail on the head when he said this is the easiest task ever.
All they had to do was stand on the corner and ask people to text a one word message and promote the new Gillette razor "fusion".
Frustrated with PM Lee and Team Goldrush spending too much time brainstorming, he took to the street and went right to work helping his team to a win.

Team Synergy lead by Pepi got a late start and decided to blame Brent for the loss. Trump also focused on Michael who had the idea of wearing bathrobes to get attention.
Stacy is fired for not being able to "handle" Brent and Pepi is fired for poor leadership.
Brent, who in my opinion did not deserve the treatment he got from his team goes on to play another day.

The Official Site

The Apprentice at Yahoo

Excedrin's Pain of the Week contest

RIP: Kirby Puckett and Dana Reeve

The baseball world is saddend today by the death of hall of famer Kirby Puckett.
Puckett passed away yesterday at the age of 45 following surgery for a stroke.






Also Dana Reeve widow of actor Christopher Reeve has lost her quiet battle with lung cancer.
She was 44.

Remember the Alamo

Today is Alamo day.

I took these day-time and night-time pictures a couple of years ago and had to wait a very
long time to get them with no tourists in the way.
The green sign in the background is for the Crockett Hotel where we stayed and I got stuck in the elevator there....that's a long story.
so......
Read all about the shrine here

Oopsy!

Looks like somebody took the turn onto our street a little wide last night.





Now I am looking around at my neighbor's cars to see who is the drunk driver.
I'm just nosey that way.

Bad Kitty! Part: (who's counting)

I only left him for a minute, just to fill my coffee and there he was standing on the unscreened part of the screened porch like that was a normal thing to be doing. Then he casually hops back through this gaping hole in the screen that had magically appeared.



Rhett says: I saw a bug



Update: John is adding some extra boards this time, we'll see how that goes

Music to Drive By

I am driving a lot now and though I normally listen to TalkRadio I thought I would pick up some new music. I chose this and this.

I also have Jimmy Buffet, Jim Croce, the soundtrack to West Side Story and the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar to round out the 6 slots in my player.

You should hear me belting out "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" going down the gulf freeway....well maybe you shouldn't....ha

Targeted Advertising

Targeted web ads kinda freak me out.
I saw this at a cat lovers message board I frequent.
Anykitty''s name look familar here?

Boyz will be Boyz

From Cuddles

to
Cat fights

and
Best buds again


See all the cuddly pets at The Friday Ark and don't miss this
Sunday's Carnival of Cats.
This week the carnival will be at CatCall.
Host Laurence Simon has promised a kitty raffle (no, you don't win a kitty) if 100 entries are received this week, so get your cat blogging sent in.

Gorgeous Gingers

Rhett was invited by Fat Eric to be a "Gorgeous Ginger" .
The page is adorable and filling up quickly.

Rhett says: orange cats rule!

The Apprentice

Just for fun, a few of the candidate's personal Web Sites.



Allie has lots of sexy photos on her site but little substance.

Andrea's site is difficult to navigate and took awhile to load.
The music is annoying, and I didn't stay long enough to see what was inside.

Brent's little home-made site was a huge disappointment. I really wanted to know more about the weight loss business he spoke of, but it is not even mentioned.

More to come.........