Our New Kitty!!!

We have a new addition to our family. This new kitten, which we have not yet named, decided last week to adopt us. We started out last week on one of our usual family walks around the neighborhood. We got to the end of our street and I heard a kitten crying. I said "oh, somebody has a new kitty" (didn't realize it was going to be me LOL) Up pops this kitten, she zeroed in on us and of course my girls zeroed in on her. She came be-bop-in over and we all took a turn petting her. After a while we said "time to finish our walk". Well, kitten decided to walk with us. So we took her back to the yard she came from. She just turned around and came after us. She followed us back home, up the driveway and past our barking dogs. We took her back twice to the neighbor, but no one ever answered the door. We posted signs and a message on our neighborhood website. No one ever claimed this sweet little girl. I took her to the vet today. She's 3 months old. She's a real doll and her motor runs all the time. So now we have 2 dogs, 2 cats, a 5 year old goldfish and 3 hermit crabs, whew........ :)

Everything for the Garden...

This is a really cool catalog I have that dates from 1938. I came across it last night when I was cleaning out some cabinets. I totally forgot I had it. I love the photos in it. I wish I could order some of this stuff, but then it wouldn't do well in my very shady yard. I selected a few of the vegetable photos to post. The catalog has a total of 144 pages and it's in excellent condition. I have more photos posted on my Brady Bears Studio blog. I posted all of the flower photos there.

Highlights from my garden...

I planted a small garden this year. My yard gets very little sun, but I had one small spot I decided to plant. I put out pumpkins, which have taken over :), tomatoes, peppers, basil, zinnias and sunflowers. My tomatoes have not done very well, they keep rotting. I think we've just gotten to much rain, which is very unusually for us this time of they year. My Zinnias are doing well but I only ended up with a few Sunflowers. I think most of the seeds washed away with all of the rain. Anyway here are some highlights of what came up and some flowers around my yard.

a Vase of Flowers...

here are some photos after I picked some of my flowers. They are scattered around my yard. When they are gathered togher in a vase they make a brilliant statement.

My San Francisco Trip....

My friends and I just got back the first part of June from a fabulous girls trip to San Francisco. We went to celebrate our 40th birthdays. We've all been friends since middle and high school. We got to stay for 4 1/2 days and it was amazing. San Francisco is totally different from any place in the US that I have visited. There are people from every place in the world. You don't need a car to get around the city. We took buses, trollies and cabs everywhere. We visited Alcatraz, Golden Gate Park, Japantown, Chinatown, Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf, Somona Wine Country, Muir Woods, Salsilito, and Cliff House. I loved the hustle and bustle of everything, and the fact that everyone there was totally different. I loved just walking around the city watching people and looking at the buildings. I could go back and spend another week visiting sites we didn't have time to see.

below are some photo highlights of our trip and a little a bit of history.