New dimensions in cyberphotos!

It took some doing, but I finally got a Flickr badge here on my blog. I'm so excited! You can click on any photo to enlarge it.
Here are some photos, taken last Saturday by our favorite photographer and Carmelita chronicler, Jasper whose cute little face is included.. We had just returned from a Bar Mitzvah which is why we are so spiffed up. I will return later to tell you all about it, I've been too long at this keyboard.

We are good citizens

Since my disablement I no longer take dance class or go to the gym to work out, so the high point of my (our) day is our doggy walk. (We both need our exercise) We live near a Parkway (site of the first bicycle path in the country!) which is transversed by ramps leading to a footbridge. The ramps are closed in and Caramel can run them unleashed. One day last week, at the top of the ramp, I found a spilled-out gift bag of stuff that looked like it belonged to a teacher, hand-made greeting cards from students, audio tapes and address labels. I was horrified to think that someone lost her stuff or worse, was mugged, so I went on-line to try to find her. I couldn't find her phone number but I was surprised to find a site that listed the occupants of her building by apartment number. The name was not the same as hers but I called and left a message anyway. The return call was from her ex-husband and this is what he told me; they are divorced but on good terms, she had thrown the stuff away, apparently when she moved out, and someone went through her trash and left the stuff on the ramp. She was injured on the job as a teacher had to retire. He was so surprised and gratified that a stranger went to all that trouble to find her that he called twice to thank me. He said he was an immigrant from Pakistan and in this country for 10 years. He is the owner of a construction company and he offered to paint my house for free! Can you imagine? A good deed appreciated!
In other news, we have a forecast of snow and temps in the 20's tonight. It was 67 degrees last Fri. What the heck! Miss Carrie, southern belle, does not like it. C'est tres froid!

Scanned, probed, rayed, and worse, shopping.

This week, more medical comedies of errors, more mammos and a cat scan. I never do get to see the cat. I know everyone is waiting on tenterhooks for the news: yes I got a winter coat! I braved a department store, found a fat brown coat that covers my significant butt and with hood for bad weather AND it was 1/2 price. Because I had car custody that day and gifts to buy, I made many, many stops to shop; ugh. In the supermarket I overheard two rather prim young women of a certain religious sect buying a bag of instant-light charcoal briquets. She: "If it doesn't work, we can use it in the summer." Alarmed, I stuck my nose in saying, what are you using them for? "Something, they replied" Said I, I don't mean to be nosy but this has chemicals in it and must be used outdoors. Actually, the bag had a huge warning printed on half the bag with the words carbon monoxide and use outside only. Oh, they replied, thank you for telling us. God certainly saved us today! Thought I, No, it was me and God would have done better to teach you a little practical knowledge like learning how to read labels!