Photo Proof that Cats are Lazy.....

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.
---T.S. Eliot

So sleepy.....

1992-2009*

Zzzzzzzz.....

1993-2009*
   You don't mind if I sleep on your desk, do you?

I have an exhausting day of laying in the sun planned.....

                                          It's nap time.......

   
                                       I'll just sleep here....because I slept all day. 

                                          Do no disturb....cat asleep!




If I tried to tell you how much I love my cats, you wouldn't believe me - unless your heart is also meow-shaped and covered in stray fur.
---Lexie Saige




*R.I.P
Baby and Little


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Food: Easter Cupcakes --PINK SATURDAY

I made these cute Easter cupcakes last year actually, but they turned out so darling, I thought I'd re-post them. These are strawberry cupcakes with a strawberry cream frosting.

I used both my circle and round scallop punches to punch out the circles from pastel-colored card stock. Then I stamped different images in constrasting inks. The bird stamp pictured here is one of my favorites!

Some of the others had flowers etc. I don't have any Easter stamp sets, but the flowers and birds were sufficient. I stuck the punched, stamped circles on toothpicks to make my own super-cute cupcake picks.  I love cupcakes; they are so fun to decorate. This idea could be used for just about any theme; birthday, baby shower, wedding, holidays. And I just used paper and stamps that I already had in my craft closet!

I am also linking this to Pink Saturday, hosted by http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
(Note: I WAS going to link this to Pink Saturday, but I missed the cut off date! Ha ha.....my bad. Anyway, you should still check it out!)

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Outdoor Wednesday: A Trip to Door County

It's time again for Outdoor Wednesday hosted by A Southern Daydreamer!



For our first wedding anniversary in 2008, Erik and I took a weekend getaway to historic and charming Door County in northern Wisconsin. We stayed at a beautiful bed-and-breakfast there called The White Gull Inn. The Inn is famous for it's Door County Cherry Stuffed French Toast.

The White Gull Inn

Our anniversary is April 27, but we actually took our "anniversary" trip in mid-May, so the tulips were blooming!

I was enamored of this beautiful gate that opened into a memorial garden adjacent to an old church that was next door to the bed and breakfast. The Inn is located in a small town called Fish Creek, which is one of several popular towns to visit on the peninsula. I wondered if this had once been part of a cemetary originally.

Here's the picturesque church the garden belongs to. I think it was built in 1871.

In the patio area behind the inn (that small bungalow is one of several guest cottages that can be rented) they have the fire going for a traditional fish boil. To read more about what exactly a fish boil is, click here.
We watched the Master Boiler throughout the process from our private veranda on the second floor of the Inn, but we had dinner elsewhere!
There's lots to do in Door County. My parents used to take us camping to Door County often when I was a child. There's a lot of water sports and activities, boat tours, museums, hiking, biking, shopping, historic tours, antique-ing, cherry picking and much, much more.

There are many beautiful state parks on the peninsula; one of the largest, Peninsula State Park, is near Fish Creek. With Green Bay on one side and Lake Michigan on the other side of the "Door", there's lots of lighthouses around ( There's even a Lighthouse Tour). We went hiking in Peninsula State Park and visited this lighthouse at Eagle Bluff.

This lighthouse was built in 1868.

And here's my hubby, with Green Bay in the background. This was right near the edge of the bluff that the lighthouse sits on.

We hiked all over the park.

Besides hiking, we drove all over the peninsula,visiting all the other little towns and of course, stopped at many antique stores along the way!  As part of our Romantic Weekend getaway package, we also got to take a very pleasant tour of Fish Creek in this horse-drawn carriage.

And even though this isn't an outdoor picture, I can't resist showing a picture of the beautiful canopy bed in our room!

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Vintage Voice: It Happened in March....

March 2, 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president by one vote the day before inauguration.

March 2, 1939: Massachusetts finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after it's adoption.

March 3,1855: Congress appropriates $30,000 for a camel corps.

March 3, 1931: President Herbert Hoover signs a bill making The Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem.

March 4, 1789: Only 11 states are in attendance as the first Congress meets.  North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified the Constitution, so the Union included only 11 states when Congress convened for the first time.

March 5, 1963: Members of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA) picket the White House, demanding that Mrs. Kennedy put clothes on her horse. As it later turned out, SINA was a hoax, the brainchild of social satirist and professional put-on artist Alan Abel.

March 6, 1836: The Alamo falls.

March 6, 1854: Know-Nothings steal the papal stone from the Washington Monument. The "Know-Nothings"  political party was known nationally in the 1850s as the American Party. During the 1840s and 1850s they had become quite powerful politically. Basically, they were anti-foreigner and anti-Catholic and swore to support and vote for American-born Protestants only. A marble plaque, taken from the Temple of Concord in Rome, given by Pope Pius IX for the Washington Monument, (begun in 1848), was stolen and dumped into the Potomac River by the Know-Nothings. It was never recovered. Today 190 commemorative plaques can be viewed from the monument's interior staircase and among them is a replacement for the stolen plaque, sent by the Vatican in 1982.