Kennisons' Meeting Place

They certainly have had a great 3 years and counting. Kevin, weren't you the one to post the New Zealand picture of the travelers??? They(she) certainly have a great get away planned. I hope that the weather cooperates.

We had a party at Stoney's last weekend to celebrate our old neighbor Mr. Leon's 93rd birthday. His niece and great-niece came down from New Jersey. Several of the old Stoney's regulars came, as well as a couple of longtime Mass. House residents. It really raised Mr. Leon's spirits, especially when Attila, the Hungarian bartender who was Mr. Leon's favorite, showed up.

Yo says Hi here is the horse

A lady never goes out without her hat. Derby is coming! Spring is here, spring is here, life is skittle...... Yo says hey from keeneland! A horse is a horse is a horse of course.....

Here are some pictures of my flowers. They are gone now, but they were great while they were here. Enjoy.

It's been exceptionally warm here in Connecticut. It's been in the high 70's all week (and I guess last week also). Our yard needs a lot of work (remember how I wanted to level that little bit of yard we have). Grass is a mess, but we still need a little. After you everyone left last August we had to replace the well pump ($4,000). This week the furnace went out ($3,500 to ?). Luckily it's not cold. I posted a few of the photos (and even some movies) of the Utah trip here . Have a good weekend!

We are so pleased to see the winter finally over. Kathy and I don't handle the cold very well. It takes fleece and down to get us through. This bed of "Crazy Daiseys" is truly an act of nature. Kathy planted these in another area across the driveway. They languished and finally were shaded out by the evergreen plantings above. Our neighbor planted some along the road next door and they came over to visit us. Welcome! We are finally makeing a big push to conquer the mass of wild vegetation behind the house. It has been a tangle of green briar, black berry vines and coral honeysuckle, with a good helping of poisen ivy. We have enlisted the help of of Javier, Angel, Junior and Omar, all related to our dear housekeeper, Veronica. They are pulling the vines and then covering the soil with layers of newspaper and 6" of bark mulch. Now on to the new landscaping. More crazy daiseys?

Kevin, I viewed the golf video and the music video. You guys certainly had fun in Texas. So what is new?? It is always fun in Texas.

I took this movie with my Casio camera. I've had this camera for several years but I've never tried to post a a video from it. The camera saves the movie in an AVI container with some funky format. I was able to load a Quicktime plugin Perian which lets me view it on my machine. Once I could see it I used the Quicktime Player and AppleScript to export the movie to MPEG-4. This works fine on my machine but I'm not sure about Windows. I don't have access to a Windows machine at the moment but I'll fix it if it doesn't show. I also screwed up my video editor (iMovie) so I can't edit the clip so it's coming to you raw! If you do see the image below, double click to see the movie. WIDTH="352"HEIGHT="288" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"> CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">

This is a view from  Promontory Point looking back at the Wasatch. So far not bad. Still cool here in Nothern Utah.

We are so happy that Carey has added Texas to his territory. He had to give up New York, but hey, look what he gets in exchange. We'll update you as the weekend progresses. Golf is planned for Saturday. We will just wing everything else. Wish us luck.

Amazing. The last to get a cell phone has done it!. Due to my friend Michele, I now have a pay as you go cell phone. It is at&t. If you have at&t for your cell provider, we can talk for free. If not, I pay using my prepaid account. I think that the iPhone people are at&t. I do not know about the rest of you. Let me know. Otherwise, only use this number for emergencies. Thanks. This is not an April Fool's day message. It is really true. 1-302-753-7032