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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Success and other things

First up I just really need to say thank you. With ALL of your help..buying our bags..clicking that donate button..we raised $958 and i called the vet last week and paid them directly. My dear friends s-ro and michelle really helped in that last push! There was only a little left and the balance due was $0. Amy was able to bring Hannah’s ashes home where they belong a few days ago. I am working on sending you all buttons..i just ran out of envelopes and need to send out the last 2-3.

Let’s see what have we been up to? You wouldn’t believe it’s summer with all the grey, chilly temps, and rain around here. But we braved the rain and went to the Printer’s Row Book Fest which i think is now called Lit Fest or something stupid. Printer’s Row is the neighborhood my friend Joy lives in located in the South Loop.

I saw a guy playing banjo

Sparkly Raindrops

and wood type

Zander’s been doing well with his baseball, except it’s been cold at every game and nearly rainy

and samuel has been just as lazy

Last weekend we went to Rib Fest to see a band nat likes. I think their name was Margot and the Get Down Stay Downs…they were pretty good and she played her guitar with a toothbrush on a song it was impressive. After eating many ribs and enduring far too many drunk annoying people we headed to Chicago’s Blues Fest in Grant Park on Sunday to see the Master himself HoneyBoy Edwards play with Devil in a Woodpile. Look close, i only had my 50mm lens. He’s singing Sweet Home Chicago and is turning 94 in a few days.

Nat likes to drive his Mini Cooper all around….

On Irving Park you’ll find the forrest preserves in Chicago. At sunset if you pull over like in the picture above and look 50 yards OR LESS to your right you will see anywhere from 5 to 15 deer grazing. We like to stop and watch them for a bit, but usually dumb people let their dogs loose to chase the deer, or even worse people go running around and scare the deer. One chased a guy and nearly hit him. I don’t know why people do this. But last sunday evening we stopped and no one was around to scare them. I even took some pictures cause they liked to come really close..so close you can see their fuzzy antlers.

and that brings us currently to this weekend. Which has my sister’s bday AND father’s day. oh boy.