With tomorrow being X's birthday and the summer solstice, and me busy tidying up of details for TWO parties and this thing called LIFE, I do believe I'm going to be a little behind with posting.  I am already behind on commenting, and I do apologize for that.  I will tell you right now:  I WON'T GET CAUGHT UP. 

(I'll try to get X to post at HER SITE tomorrow, as her b-day seems to be about the only time that she ever blogs.)

If by some chance you are missing me, bored, or PLAIN CRAZY, you can find me at MY OTHER BLOG, where I write a little more in-depth.  Think ... a paragraph as opposed to a TITLE.  I also have a VIDEO BLOG.  I know, I know ... like I need to spend more time blogging, right?  I post videos there almost daily.  It is ALMOST interesting.  Okay, it's not really interesting at all. 

There's also Twitter, which is kind of like Xanga's Pulse, and Flickr, where I post the photos you see here PLUS the ones that don't quite make the cut. 

These links are also in my left-hand sidebar for my your convenience. 

(About the photo?  My first-ever Xanga self-portrait ... from SIX years ago.  So many friends have been celebrating their Xangaversaries this week, and I will celebrate six years in August!   Heh, remember that poor little camera that was held together with duct tape?  Sometimes I miss the days of point-and-shoot cameras.  Mostly NOT; I love my DSLR, but am now ready for a new one.  Soon.  Maybe.)

Oh, and did I mention that it is X's birthday on Friday and there is a celebration that day and there is a party on Saturday and there is a party on Sunday and Parfrey's Glen is closed due to the rain/flooding and plans are changing and the weather is iffy and I have more errands than I have time to do them in and more people to invite and less days to do it in than yesterday and that I am definitely running in place, like in the cartoons, where they rev up their feet before they GO?!

Please listen to audio file while looking at the photo.   Other ambient audio-photo(s) HERE. 

Audio goes with photo ... best listened to on headphones.  (This is the first installment in a series that I have been planning, literally, for YEARS.)

[ I updated the timestamp on this post; I apologize to those who are seeing this come through their subscription list for a second time. ]

My forecast says that this will be an amazing weekend ... grilling out, Father's Day goody-ness, time with the family, working on fun projects, and awesomeness abound.  The weather forecast might not be nearly as promising as my personal forecast, but I don't mind. 

Have a great weekend!

We have accumulated several more inches of rain and everyone in the county has been advised to STAY OFF THE ROADS.  That includes you, grass. 

Also, in an ironic twist of fate, the Wisconsin Dells Ducks (which normally run tours on the NOW DRAINED Lake Delton) are being used in a nearby town to rescue those who are stranded by the most recent (TODAY!) flooding.  (An aside:  While I always thought that riding the ducks was a fun tourist attraction, it must have been terribly traumatic for some WWII veterans.)

JUST posting a video.  I plan to work this hard MORE OFTEN.