Archive for July, 2007

Crashing the party

July 25th, 2007

This morning when the shuttle pulled into work, this site is what we saw:

BMW from across the street now parked in mail room

A car from the dealership across the street rolled out of its service bay and crashed into the mail room of our office. Thank goodness it was very early in the morning and no one was yet in the mail room.

BMW from across the street now parked in the mail room

R.I.P. Mairose Bros Grocery

July 23rd, 2007

Well Mairose (Hyde Park, Cincinnati) is finally kaput. When we left for work today the building was standing, a solid neighbor for many years. Today we came home to find bricks, bent steel, and splintered wood. Goodbye Mairose.

Our church, St. Mary’s in the background, will build a new parking lot and attractive landscaping for the Suburbans, Escalades, and Navigators that shuttle kids to and from school each day. The street does open up quite a bit with the building, which was very close to the curb, no longer there.

Mairose Bros Grocery is reduced to rubble on Monday July 23rd.

Sunflowers Blooming

July 20th, 2007

The sunflowers I planted nearly 2 months ago started blooming this week!

Sunflowers in bloom on our back deck.

SiCK

July 15th, 2007

The movie SiCKO by Michael Moore is incredible. The evidence presented that our health care system is broken is just so overwhelming. I choked back tears watching the stories of the 9/11 rescue workers who could not receive medical care in the US as good as that given to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. When Moore took these men and women to Cuba to receive free health care that rivaled any checkup they’ve ever received in the US I was outraged. No words can sum my reaction up better than those of Blue Cross’s Vice President of Corporate Communications, Barclay Fitzpatrick “You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore’s movie…”