Big Happenin's !

No fires on Maplewood - just one hot rockin' block party!! It was our neighbors, Garth and Karen's annual Solstice Party. My friend Mark is the drummer in a blues band - "The Upstage Crew" they came to play and they were great! They have a harmonica player that'll knock your socks off! (that's why we wore sandals). We had pork, totems, ice cream, lawn art, kids, fire trucks, bikes, cop cars and Shawn's fire baton (a little known talent) - if we had any more stuff it would have been overwhelming! Click on "My Pics" on the right to see more photos...

keep it in the 'hood Cats!

Tooting my horn (again!)

I think this may some of the prettiest weeks for our back yard garden. I don't know what the white flower bush is, but it sure is pretty. It took a few years before it really started blooming a lot...

I really like that I have constant reminders of family members when I look at the garden...Mom's variegated hosta, Nancy's evening primrose, I don't remember if the cone flowers came from Sue, but I know she loves them, and Sally got me started on the pond idea.

Bloom where you're planted Cats!

In the olden days...The kids and I used to watch a very quirky TV show called Pete & Pete. It was a Sunday morning thing to do in our house. While we didn't get much churchin' in we did learn a lot about life...

Matt and I watched my favorite episode this weekend. It was called "King of the Road" (or some might remember it as King O Frod). It was about the Wrigley Family's annual trip to Hoover Dam. Our family will be heading to Hoover dam this year, but not in the family station wagon. Now I can just dream of being like Pete and Pete's dad, Don Wrigley, immortalized by older Pete in this quote from the show:

He was the king-- the King of the Road. He had earned his crown over the years by being the best on the road in the three major dad-driving categories: 1) Never asking for directions-- no matter what. 2) Roof stack packing, and three, the true measure of dad greatness: Making "good time" on the road.

Happy travels cats!

More Houghton pics

Shawn posted some other shots of the house, there is summer scene of the house too...Let us know if any one want to take a UP tour this summer! It could use some visitors!!!

See-sters!

Aenr't they ccute together?? THis is Shawn and Shiela on the way back from Chicago after seeign The Jersey Boys at the old Shubert theater in Chicago. They had a great time. Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valie and The Four Seasons - I'm sure my sisters would be singing all the old songs afterward too!