Mykah's 2d Birthday!

Mykah Alexa opening her birthday present from us. She's 2 on Friday!

Video: Mykah dancing

My shoe!

So we just got a new baby ferret. Don't know what to name him yet, but we know what fascinates him.

He claimed my shoe - grabbed it and wouldn't let go. So I took it off. At which point he proceeds to drag it all over the room, even other other, sleeping ferrets, in search of a place to hide it. I followed behind him with a camera and got a fairly good record of his attempt.

he dragged it into the potty box...

Finally, into the closet.

Here he's just hauled that shoe over the top of poor Sinclair, who had been sleeping.

Our Granddaugher Mykah, walking

Ode to an Iron Pan

When my son, now grown, was a baby
I bought a small iron pan from a discount store.
Not many things from that time do I still have.
Too much darkness and chaos in the years since
have destroyed nearly everything.
This iron pan I still have.
It is precious to me.

Years have tempered it
Obsidian black
moon-like
scrying glass
handle like a needles head.
I gaze into it like a mirror
a pool of dark water
with dark metallic waves spreading out
from the center
as if the fairies had dropped a tiny rock into the middle
and turned the surface to liquid
which then froze.

My first grandchild was born today.
Her name is Mykah Alexa.

Valentine's Day

Hawk and I celebrated Velentine's Day early. He got me a soundtrack from the movie 'Labyrinth,' the DVD of the movie 'Sweeney Todd' and a Dr. Who T-shirt. I got him a bathrobe, a billfold and a box of chocolates.
This is the first holiday we've really celebrated in years. Things are finally starting to get back to normal just a bit.