We always enjoy this festival. What I like about it most are the unique shopping opportunities, but the food is not bad either. We had Buffalo Burgers, but you can get whole grilled Turkey legs or kabobs, or corn on the cob or.... I enjoy the people in costume too. I guess some people like the cannons and flint locks. There are more pics of it in my gallery than would fit on the front page.

I also got a new kitty, much to my husbands dismay. I'm becoming that crazy cat lady. Kitty was newly orphaned and is not really weaned. He can eat, he has teeth to bite me with, but he would rather suckle if he could. He was covered with mud and ticks when my mother-in-law found him. I'm sure I will post pics of him here when has calmed down a bit and stops being bug-eyed scared. I think his name is going to be Vinnie

Just got back from a visit with my ailing mother in my home town. I was gone for 10 days. Mom is more or less ok now. I'm really glad to be home here in my own little nest. I learned why I left that place. It was there I learned to be a loner. I'm glad I didn't miss spring here. When I get turned around, I'll go in search of spring flowers and blossoming trees.

But I really can't think of anything to say at the moment.

My daughter, Lorraine and I have birthdays 10 days apart, so we usually try to get together for a Birthday Weekend. This years weekend was the best in a long time. We didn't have much time together, but it was great seeing her. Her boyfriend was nice enough to endure my childhood family and sleep in the basement. What a good sport!

We went to see "Coraline" Saturday afternoon. We saw the 3-D version. Our whole family are "Nightmare before Christmas" freaks, and this movie was by the same director and made much the same way that "Nightmare" was. It was mostly done with stop-action animation, the old fashioned way. Not completely the computer generated stuff. We all loved it. I highly recommend it!

We were lucky here, we didn't loose power like 10's of 1000's near here did. There are red-cross shelters set up all over our area--filled to capacity--some shelters have no power. It was just crazy Tuesday night, it RAINED for hours and it was only 20 degrees. The temperature is not predicted to go above freezing till Sunday. Our little truck was stuck in the driveway for a time, and we lost most of our holly tree, but that was as bad as it got for us. Now I can just sit back and watch the neighbors tree fall one limb at a time.