Birthday at the Art Museum

We went to the Phoenix Art Museum yesterday to celebrate Roy's Birthday! 

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation

Steele Gallery - Awesome!!!

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Baby Kitty!

Baby Kitty knows what's up! Shabbat Shalom 🐱 be blessed and rest ☺️

Contracts and Cats

Buddy and Snickers helping me with work!

poems of childhood by Eugene Field

Saw children riding tricycles on the sidewalk tonight and thought of the poem that my mom loved:


Pittypat and Tippytoe
by Eugene Field (1850-1895)

All day long they come and go---
Pittypat and Tippytoe;
Footprints up and down the hall,
Playthings scattered on the floor,
Finger-marks along the wall,
Tell-tale smudges on the door---
By these presents you shall know
Pittypat and Tippytoe.

How they riot at their play!
And a dozen times a day
In they troop, demanding bread---
Only buttered bread will do,
And the butter must be spread
Inches thick with sugar too!
And I never can say "No,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!"

Sometimes there are griefs to soothe,
Sometimes ruffled brows to smooth;
For (I much regret to say)
Tippytoe and Pittypat
Sometimes interrupt their play
With an internecine spat;
Fie, for shame! to quarrel so---
Pittypat and Tippytoe!

Oh the thousand worrying things
Every day recurrent brings!
Hands to scrub and hair to brush,
Search for playthings gone amiss,
Many a wee complaint to hush,
Many a little bump to kiss;
Life seems one vain, fleeting show
To Pittypat and Tippytoe!

And when day is at an end,
There are little duds to mend;
Little frocks are strangely torn,
Little shoes great holes reveal,
Little hose, but one day worn,
Rudely yawn at toe and heel!
Who but you could work such woe,
Pittypat and Tippytoe?

But when comes this thought to me:
"Some there are that childless be,"
Stealing to their little beds,
With a love I cannot speak,
Tenderly I stroke their heads---
Fondly kiss each velvet cheek.
God help those who do not know
A Pittypat or Tippytoe!

On the floor and down the hall,
Rudely smutched upon the wall,
There are proofs in every kind
Of the havoc they have wrought,
And upon my heart you 'd find
Just such trade-marks, if you sought;
Oh, how glad I am 't is so,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!

Tea with breakfast

So Alyssa, I finally bought some whole leaf English Breakfast tea from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and I am steeping it in the lovely Japanese tea pot you gave me!

Poor little Snick

Snickers has Horner's Syndrome which is upsetting and we have been treating her with antibiotics and ear drops for weeks now, she is such a wonderful kitty and she belongs to Alyssa so it is very important for her to Get Better Soon!

Dinner!

Roy cooking dinner for us last Saturday night on an old three burner Coleman stove my dad gave to us about 15 years ago (it works great!) and we had a wonderful time camping at Potato Patch above Jerome, Arizona. If you have not yet visited Jerome you should definitely go it is an old mining town hanging half off the mountain, and be sure to visit the Haunted Hamburger which is a famously delicious place to eat. Potato Patch is a lot cooler than the valley at about 7,000 feet and the pine trees smell so good, Marissa loves to listen to the sound of the wind moving through the trees. Did I mention that Roy makes the best food ever and we are all terribly spoiled?