Happy Halloween!

Trick or treat, smell my feet
Give me something good to eat.

If you don't, I don't care,
I'll pull down your underwear.

~ traditional kids' Halloween chant ~

Castles

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
~ G. K. Chesterton ~

Yes, It Is!

It took all 25 of us to get the job done. It's just phenomenal.

~ Jonathan Papelbon ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

~ Missy Dizick ~

'Nuff Said

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

~ Mark Twain ~

Yeah, Let's Not Forget...

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

And It'll Put Hair on Your Chest, Too!

Next to music there is nothing that lifts the spirits and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.
~ Harry James ~

The Series Will Barely Be Over And It'll Be Presidential Primary Time!

If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.

~ John Kerry ~

And All the Mosquitos You Can Eat!

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
~ John Berryman ~

A Quote from the Only Yankee I Ever Liked

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

~ Yogi Berra ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

~ Jean Cocteau ~


Photo of Eddie and Lila courtesy Lucinda McQueen.

One by One

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

~ Mark Twain ~

Imagine...

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sounds Good to Me!

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater...suggest that he wear a tail.

~ Fran Lebowitz ~

What Are You in the Middle Of?

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in
the middle of it.

~ P.J. O'Rourke ~

We're Tryin'

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can make a difference, in fact, it is the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead ~

Retirement

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

~ Russell B. Long ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

~ Doug Larson ~

A Challenge We Can't Afford to Fail At

The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.

~ Al Gore ~

Shall We Dance?

Every Saturday night,
he creeps down our back stairs,
sneaks out of our house
to go waltzing with bears!

~ from "My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Bears" by Dr. Seuss ~

Read a Poem Today

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

~ Simonides ~

Applicable in Many Situations

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Ah, Autumn!

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

~ William Cullen Bryant ~

Good Thinkin' Chris...

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

~ Christopher Columbus ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A house rabbit is a poor substitute for a cat.

~ Kurious Kitty ~

Greetings from New Jersey

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

~ Ogden Nash ~

Amen

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Yeah, But Psychoanalysis Is Still Cheaper!

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

~ Carl Gustav Jung ~

Interested People Use Libraries to Find Out Interesting Things

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~

See--It's Okay to Eat Cinnamon Buns in Bed

"I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."
~ Proverbs 7:17 ~

It's Nice to Know That Perfection Isn't Everything!

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

~ Ted Williams ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

~ Martin Buxbaum ~

From This Week's News

We've come a long way, but we have a long way to go, and we don't get there if we don't sit down and work through issues.

~ Mike Huckabee ~

Or One Made of Shaving Cream...

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
~ Lynn Redgrave ~

Slaves Throw Off Your Chains

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
~ Ivan Illich ~

Record-Breaking Temperatures Expected Today

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

~ Jane Austen ~

After a Day Spent at the Fair

Recreation is not the highest kind act of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.

~ Samuel Irenaeu Prime ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

~ Leonardo daVinci ~

Take a Walk Today...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves.
~ John Muir ~

Tattoos

Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.

~ Billy Elmer ~

Keep Laughing!

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

~ Mahatma Ghandi ~

Consequences

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

The Right Word

I love Mark Twain! Here's one of my favorite quotes from him:

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Treasure

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

~ Walt Disney ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

It's All Dave Barry's Fault!

Today is the library's 10th-year-in-the-new-building celebration. Cookies are baked and the tent is up...and it's raining.

I'm sure we'll still have a great time, but if anyone complains, we can blame Dave Barry for the weather!

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

~ Dave Barry ~

So When Does She Find the Time to Write?

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~ Sara Paretsky ~

Experience

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
~ Henry James ~

Details

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~ William Morris, designer and poet ~

Take Note

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
~ Luciano Pavarotti ~

Graffiti?

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
~ Bill Cosby ~

And the dictionary defines graffiti as "unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface." That sounds accurate for gray hair--who in their right mind would authorize it?

The World's Bravest First Grader

The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn't have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known. The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tried to teach us all. Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

~ Ruby Bridges ~

Happy Labor Day!

There is no good moral or economic reason why all workers cannot or should not share in the success and prosperity they helped create. We need to restore the promise of the American Dream. And that means choosing what kind of country we want to be.

~ Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

All cats like being the focus of attention.
~ Peter Gray ~

Everyone's an Author

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page.

~ Mark Houlahan ~

A Haiku for Fair Season

commingled scents
livestock and fried dough
--county fair

The Bestest Friend

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Get Up, Get Up, Get Up!

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford ~

Sage Advice from the Bard

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest.

~ William Shakespeare ~

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself...

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
~ George Will ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
~ Jim Davis, creator of Garfield ~

I Hope You Can Get to the Sea

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen ~


The painting is "Girl Carrying a Basket" by Winslow Homer.

The Customer is Always Right

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

~ Orville Redenbacher ~

I Don't Think He Was Talking about Bedbugs...

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me.

~ Richard M. Nixon ~

Documentary Film Making

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

~ Alfred Hitchcock ~

He Probably Meant Pale Pink, But I Like Fuchsia Better!

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
~ William Carlos William ~

The Only Thing That Counts

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Sunday's Cat Quote

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.

~ Beverly Nichols ~

Hurricane Dean's Comin'

Table from http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2905.htm

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
~ Sophocles ~

Poison

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.

~ Lord Chesterfield ~

Ain't It the Truth!

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
~ Elvis ~