Elena 
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Outside my window…
This year as I walk along the tow path every morning, I have been delighted to come across this deer and her two fawns just about every morning!
I am thinking…
How neat it was to see old friends at the wedding. Here is Mr. Pete with two of his buddies. They have known each other since second grade. So how do you keep old friends close? You have one marry your sister and make the other one a godfather to your child!
This is my good friend T and her husband Ike with Rosie – just like they were 10 years ago!
I am thankful…
for my brother-in-law Joe! Who always plans the family reunion, comes to all of the family weddings and even came to my mom’s funeral. He truly is a sweet and giving man. He had a heart attack over the weekend just as he was getting ready for this year’s reunion. Hopefully they caught it in time and he will make a good recovery. The whole family is keeping him in their prayers.
I have…
donated money to Melissa and Aaron Klein, the bakers in Oregon who were charged the outrageous fine of $135,000 because they refused to bake a $200 wedding cake for a lesbian wedding. The Kleins had done work for the same-sex couple before, including a wedding cake for one of their mothers. They simply did not wish to be associated with a gay wedding, and for that they were penalized. If you care to donate – here’s the link.
In the kitchen…
Cinnamon Pork Chops for dinner on the George Foreman Grill.
I am wearing…
Blue shorts and a white T-shirt
I am reading…
I am going…
- to walk or work out every day with Pfilates.
- One more wedding this coming weekend. Word has it that it will be HUGE.
From the Learning Rooms…
We’re enjoying a little bit of a break but Noah is still working on:
- British Lit and British History -with the Great Courses currently reading
- Instacert to study for CLEP test in Biology
One of my favorite things…
I am hoping to …
- Get lots of flute practice done.
- Organizing my office and closet.
- Planning some high school courses.
a break in this current heat wave!
The five Justices who compose today’s majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts’ permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003. They have discovered in the Fourteenth Amendment a ‘fundamental right’ overlooked by every person alive at the time of ratification, and almost everyone else in the time since. They see what lesser legal minds—minds like Thomas Cooley, John Marshall Harlan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Learned Hand, Louis Brandeis, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, and Henry Friendly—could not. They are certain that the People ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to bestow on them the power to remove questions from the democratic process when that is called for by their ‘reasoned judgment.’ These Justices know that limiting marriage to one man and one woman is contrary to reason; they know that an institution as old as government itself, and accepted by every nation in history until 15 years ago, cannot possibly be supported by anything other than ignorance or bigotry. And they are willing to say that any citizen who does not agree with that, who adheres to what was, until 15 years ago, the unanimous judgment of all generations and all societies, stands against the Constitution.” Justice Antonin Scalia
A picture to share…
Man and wife – according to Facebook they’re doing well one week later!
Beautiful pictures. Prayers for your brother-in-law! Love what you are having for dinner.
wonderful pictures thanks for sharing