Just a small note of thanks to everyone for making yesterday easier for me with your grace and care.

Thank you, one and all.

Much love,
Christy

Slovenian landscape via bslmmrs. Lovely.

Taking a little time off today to take care of some things. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Drop me a note on what’s on your mind or catching your eye in the news in the comments.

And take a little time to enjoy life and exhale a bit…

Icy cold glass of tea via Arria Belli.

We’re having a new air conditioner unit installed this morning, as well as some updates to our system in the whole house.  Beginning at the crack o’ dawn. *YAWN*

Happily, it will be a more energy efficient system overall once they are done, which makes me really happy.

But, there’s a downside.

This will require some lack of power to parts of the house pretty much most of the day. And much noise.

Since the ancient A/C unit fried itself on Monday, it’s been sweltering in here. Which has sucked rocks.

So whatever the fix-it gods need, they get.

I will obviously be dealing with a helluva lot of noise, much carpet tramping and dust, a very curious 6-year-old and a freaked out dachshund and kitteh.  So I won’t have much leftover for blogging today, I fear.

If there’s something I need to know about, please leave me a note in the comments.

And let’s hope it only takes a day.  Otherwise I may have to decamp to some place with WiFi — and blasting A/C — for a morning blog-o-rama tomorrow.

Cross your fingers…

This year, I tried a little something different with my yard. We added in a small raised bed square foot garden — it’s an 8 feet by 4 feet box made of lumber, with a nice little trellis structure made of electrical conduit and nylon netting at the back.

It’s a travel day for me again.

Thought everyone would get a jolt out of this latte art to start out the day.

Will be back in the blogging saddle tomorrow. If there are news bits you’d like me to look at, please leave a link in the comments or a pointer to where to find it.

Between the moon and NYC via Tony the Misfit. Love this shot.

It’s a travel day for me today.

So posting will be light to nil, but I wanted to be sure that everyone had an open discussion thread.

For those who might like to hang for a bit on Friday, June 19th, I’m planning to grab a cuppa at the Starbucks in Rockefeller Plaza around 11:30 am ET.

Mary and Alice in wonderland via JeffChristiansen.We’re homeward bound. It’s a travel day for us.

Have another cuppa.

Thought you could use a fresh discussion thread.

Cheshire Cat via Joe Penniston.The Peanut and I are still out galavanting on a “momma doesn’t take her laptop along for the ride” family trip.

Sometimes you just have to go wireless, I suppose. Especially when your child begins to ask you to pencil her into your schedule.

Life is short. Find some bliss today, too.

Consider this an open discussion thread.