waiting for rita

it's the day before
hurricane rita hits
scooter keeps looking out the window
like he is expecting
someone
maybe he is waiting
for her

weather channel
24/7
hunker down
here we go

perfect

flowers
that i picked from my yard
before rita
could blow them away

pugs at polls

Two voters with pug dogs stand in a voting booth before casting their ballots at a polling station in Wolfratshausen, southern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Stefan Kiefer)

made me cry

A small dog is leashed by a rescuer in New Orleans on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005. Thousands of animals have been stranded and separated from their owners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the area over a week ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

made me cry again

Hurricane Katrina refugee Valerie Bennett, of Slidell, La., presses her face to her dog, Lady, after they were reunited at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005. She and her husband, Lorne, had to leave behind four of their pets when Lorne, a liver transplant patient, had to be evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to a liver specialist for supervision. (AP Photo/John Amis)

new friends

Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they are evacuated from the Convention Center in New Orleans, La., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. Hunderds of people waited several days to be evacuated. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

small survivor

US Airforce Lt. Nathan Brosheal holds a kitten rescued and airlifted to New Orleans International Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. (AFP/James Nielsen)

canal street

A hurricane evacuation route sign is still nearly underwater along Canal Street in New Orleans, La., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005. Officials continue to rescue flood victims stranded in their homes a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

sinking sand

This set of images made available Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the same area of the Chandeleur Islands, approximately 100 kilometers east of New Orleans, La. The top image, taken in July 2001, shows narrow sandy beaches and adjacent overwash sandflats, low vegetated dunes, and backbarrier marshes broken by ponds and channels. The bottom image shows the same location on August 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline. Storm surge and large waves from Hurricane Katrina submerged the islands, stripped sand from the beaches, and eroded large sections of the marsh. Today, few recognizable landforms are left on the Chandeleur Island chain. (AP Photo/USGS)

friends okay

finally heard from my friends
all of them
they are all safe
they are all lost
it is impossible to know what to do
many are not going back
the ones that are going back
are upset with the ones that are not
i am kind of a mess
i wish i could help
fix it
make it better
or at least easier
so many people
so much death
so many questions
the answers-
unthinkable

everything you need for your "shotgun" wedding!

we is educated

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOOTER!!!

today is Scooter's birthday
he is one year old

Scooter came to live with me
on December 1
he was three months old
so i figured September 1
has to be his birthday
aren't i smart
(i also figured that December 1
is his anniversary)

for his birthday
he gets to chew
all the paper he wants
all day
for that is his passion

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOOT!!!