damn spammers

Due to the inordinate amount of spammers leaving comments for nude pictures....I am limiting the ability to leave comments for a time...apologies, but it is getting ridiculous. Some of you may be able to leave comments....but anonymous posters will be unable to.

Thanks for understanding. I really do like hearing from you all, near and far.

quick fly by

To wish you all a very Happy New Year.

I hope your holidays have been peaceful and full of friends and families.
Ours has been  full of good friends and family, good food and great nog :)

I am excited to see what 2011 brings.

Can someone explain to me how this is okay?

I am so frustrated and angry about this. I have written the following letter to local news hoping they will investigate further and encourage you to do so as well.

I mean...am I missing something here?

'Each Christmas, Thrifty Foods generously shares a bonus with their employees. Something that has been done for years.

Thrifty foods is also known for hiring adult workers with special needs, many of whom survive on disability pensions.

As I understand, a worker on a disability pension is encouraged to work and allowed to make up to $500.00 per month, above the amount they recieve on their pension cheque, without consequence.

Thrifty's is very good about ensuring hours are kept within this so as not to have people lose pension monies by working for them.

I have however discovered the bonus that Thrifty Foods gives to all of its employees - approximately $350.00- will be taken OFF the pension cheques of those workers who also receive a disability pension. These workers will not be allowed to have their bonus.

The workers with disabilities are being penalized because they have 'ostensibly' made more than $500.00 in a month even though it is a bonus and given as a gesture of goodwill.
A bonus like this says thank you.
It offers an opportunity to feel good about oneself, to feel connected to their larger community and it helps out people at a time of year when we all need a little extra.

I am outraged that the gov't is bound by such tight guidelines that a bonus may not be enjoyed by a person with disabilites, the same way an able bodied person could, and it screams of discrimination to me.'

The Cutest Rein-dog on the planet

Niko loves to dress up and will smize and give me many poses when I pull out the camera..

Seriously cute dog!

After a hard day of chapeau modeling and herding cats..Niko takes a nap with his Ginger bread Teddy.

Dear Grinchy Feet

I know you may find some humour in the timing of my foot disasters at holiday time, but I personally find them to be extremely troublesome and disruptive.

It is the holiday season once more.

Let's take a look at our history.

I know the time you made me trip over that crack in the cement right before a show went up, 2 weeks before Christmas and broke my foot, you thought you had me beat.

But I was too resilient.. A cane and a David and I got better fast.

You did not win. Christmas still came....you could not stop it or me.

And let's talk about that time you saw fit to send me hurling down a flight of stairs Christmas morning only to crack a tailbone and smash the presents I had worked so hard to make when I landed ( decoupage plant pots I was carrying )......

and yet, Christmas still came.

Then there was the time you tripped me over a small child's toy during rehearsals for Thomasina Sawyer, 2 weeks til opening.......sprained my ankle......but ...ha.....I kept going and got better.

and now? Now....you have plagued me with this achilles tendonitis thing.

Acute at first 2 years ago, just a tease for what was to come. You even had to throw the extra irony of delivering me this blow in Greece...."Achilles Tendonitis" ...in Greece...ha ha ha very funny!

...but.... the laugh was on you.....physiotherapy and a little rest and some Santa magic and once more Christmas could not be held up by your evil green ways Grinchy feet.

So today....you wave that gnarled toe at me and cause yet another flare up of your stupid tendonitis.

That is just mean oh heartless one.

You can huff and you can puff and you can turn yourself green....but Christmas WILL come once more...because you see...... I have something you will never understand......I've got the Who's down in Who ville cheering and singing! Music soothe the savage beast.

So there Green Grinchy Feet...you get one day, that is all.......rest from the bustle for one day...and then you are banished once more.

I WILL see Christmas on two feet..the bells, the singing, the joy.

The hot cocoa and fireside chats.

I am betting it will even come with snow!

So take that, I have some snow boots now and I am kicking your green ass to the curb!

Haul out the Holly....

It's the most wonderful time of the year..bedeck the halls and watch the magic the lights, the sleeping furries, and the fairies all bring to home and hearth for the holidays.

Sigh..... I heart the tree.