Basketball and Kittens

So here are the Bball girls I have somehow ended up coaching the last couple of months. They have done a great job, considering that many of the girls have had little or no experience shooting hoops.


















And in other news... I was walking Arthur last weekend and we discovered some shivery kittens under a parked car. I know the mama cat. One of our neighbors gave her and her kittens a little covered cat bed and there is often food left out next to the bed. However, we live on a busy street, and I doubt these guys will be around long. :( They were alone this morning, one of the first chilly days we've had this "winter". I guess Mom was out finding breakfast and they were left alone, meowing their heads off... so I sat down on the curb, with Arthur next to me and soon they were curious enough to come over and check us out. They're so young they don't even know that they're suppose to be afraid of Arthur (rather, my ferocious terrier was afraid of them!). The biggest of the three kept climbing up my pants leg to get a closer look at Arthur. I let him get far enough along to see what would happen. The guy was going for Arthur's belly; his nipples to be exact. Poor things, I haven't seen them around here since that morning. The stray animal situation here is really depressing. Obviously, there is no concept of spaying or neutering here. The worst stories involve poison being put out on the street as a means of "animal control".

spooky times

Happy Halloween. Leah wouldn't stop crying.

I looked terrible and nobody would carry on a conversation with me much less make eye contact... so I washed the spook off my face by 11pm. Then the fun began.

This photo doesn't seem nearly as bad as I remember looking (maybe because the light is really bright? It takes away some of the sunkenness?).




hear no evil
speak no evil
see no evil


Later in the night, the monkeys turned into those wind-up dancing musical monkeys with the hand cymbals and kazoos.









Um, ya, it's a jellyfish. :)
She was "stinging" people with her red Crayola marker all night.











Smoking the shisha and drinking a Sakara.
Ahhh, now there's a true Egyptian couple.
Myra and Jed hosted the party.










Purple dude, Will, and chick in bathing suit, Erin, are dressed as characters from movie The Big Lubowski, Jesus and Bunny.









Paul and Traci are also characters from Big Lubowski. Can you guess?

Guy in middle, John, is going as the High School VP, Brad, dressed in the Egyptian cop uniform in the photo above.