Jupiter

This is Jupiter, one of my kitties.  We got him and his brother Neptune from Operation Kindness, a rescue shelter.  When we first saw them, they were at the the back of their cage, eyes wide, hissing at us.  When we adopted them we put them in a room separate from the other kitties, and they immediately ran under the bed.  They hid under the bed for weeks. Neptune was the first one to venture out when we were in the room and after a few weeks, he would let us pet him. He is so loving and happy to see us. Jupiter took several more weeks before he would even show himself; he still had his collar on so we could hear the jingle, jingle under the bed. He will now let us pet him most days, but we still can't pick him up - it's been 4 years. But he is happy, so all is good!

Snow

It snowed in Dallas! We have about 5" on the ground, and it has made everything beautiful. The cardinals stopped by to eat and I snapped a picture of the male.

Tuesday's Teaser - Capitol Game by Brian Haig

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The Capitol Game

by Brian Haig

Chapter 3

Cauldron never involves itself in unfriendly takeovers, for one thing.

(This company has created) a polymer coating. Paint if onto a combat vehicle, any vehicle really, and it pretends it's thirty inches of armor.

RIP BB

Today we had to put our oldest cat to sleep. On Wednesday, the vet discovered a baseball sized tumor on his liver. By last night, he'd stopped eating and drinking and couldn't find a comfortable position due to the buildup of fluid in his abdomen.

He adopted us in the fall of 1998 as a young cat of about 9 months old. We've enjoyed him and he's loved being with us. We will miss him.

The Mourners at the DMA

Today I got my medieval fix by visiting the Dallas Museum of Art to see the special exhibit of The Mourners, a collection of 40 sculptures carved for the tomb of the Dukes of Burgundy in the 15th century.

Carved by Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moiturier between 1443 and 1456/57, the unique devotional figures, known as “mourners,” were commissioned for the elaborate tomb of the second duke of Burgundy. Crafted with astonishing detail, the alabaster sculptures exemplify some of the most important artistic innovations of the late Middle Ages.

The "phenomenal" works "capture the entire spectrum of emotions connected with human loss," he said. "When the sculptures are grouped together, the viewer is transfixed."

During the 14th and 15th centuries, the Valois dukes of Burgundy were among

the most powerful rulers in the Western world, presiding over vast territories in present-day Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands from their capital in Dijon. The significant artistic patronage of the dukes drew artists, musicians and writers to Dijon, which became a major center of creativity and artistic patronage.

In their normal setting in Dijon they are only partially seen as they blend in between miniature Gothic arches lacing the base of the wealthy and powerful couple's black marble tomb. This prolific creativity and innovation extended to the ducal court’s sculpture workshop, which produced some of the most significant art of the period. The tombs of the first two Burgundian dukes, John the Fearless and

his father, Philip the Bold, are among the best examples. Both tombs were originally commissioned for the family’s monastic complex outside of Dijon, the Charterhouse of Champmol, and were moved following the French Revolution to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.

Tuesday's Teaser

Tuesday's Teaser

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Impact

by Douglas Preston

"The mine in Cambodia wasn't an impact crater. No? Then what was it. It was an exit hole."

Tuesday Teaser on Thursday

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Last Man Standing

by David Baldacci

Web attended six funerals over three days. By the fourth one, he couldn't muster a single tear. He walked into the church or the funeral home and listened to people he mostly didn't know talk about fallen men he knew better than he understood himself in some ways.

Tuesday's Teaser - Killer View

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Killer View

by Ridley Pearson

Page 90

But he was riding [a snowmobile] fast, and often blind, into the path of a sniper who wasn't shy about shooting cops. He began slowing down at every curve and wishing the snowmobile didn't whine like a chain saw, announcing his approach.

Demasiado Caliente!

Argh!!!! It's time to run away from home!

I'm Ready For Summer To Be Over

And here's why:

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Pirate Latitudes

by Michael Crichton

Chapter 16

"The privateers had been formed up in two ragged lines, their hands bound."

"You are all heretics and brigands and you will swing at end of a rope in good time. Until that day a man can either live comfortably or not."

Tuesday's Teaser

Wow, has it been a week already? How did that happen? :)

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The Queen's Gambit

by Diana A. S. Stuckart

page 1

"Crimson flowered against the alabaster brocade, the vivid hue spreading and dulling to claret along its petal-like edges."

page 75

"Even with my chemise serving as shirt beneath it, and the plain brown jerkin tied over it, the borrowed tunic clung to my female curves in a manner that made my sex evident."

Ok, so I don't quite follow the rules. Instead of 2 teaser sentences from my current page, I try to find 2 sentences that are great teasers for the book. :)

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The Girl With Braided Hair

by Margaret Coel

page 63

"I don't want her forgotten. She could be any of us, any Indian woman beaten up, shot, left in the wilderness."

Where in the World Wednesday

Today's where in the world is National Geographic's Photo of the Day by Paul Hoagie. Wow, what a picture. Manarola is one of the villages in the famous Cinque Terra. Now I'm off to see if Manarola can be added to my (already planned) Italian vacation without too much re-planning!

Tuesday's Teaser

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Jerusalem

by Cecelia Holland

Page 14-15

If what the Templars said were true, and the Saracens were coming out of Egypt, the Kingdom of Jerusalem lay naked before them: she knew all the Christian armies were far away to the north, near Homs and Aleppo. She had to get to Ascalon, to do whatever she could.

Weekend Whimsy - Le Mans (Spoilers)

This weekend is the weekend of the Le Mans 24 Hour race. I'm a huge race fan...F1, IndyCar, WRC, ALMS, FIA GT, MotoGP. Le Mans is one of the highlights of the year. 24 Hours of racing. Ahhhhhh! I don't watch it live; because of the time difference, it starts too early for me. A number of years ago, when VCRs were used and Speed TV broadcasted all 24 hours, it was difficult due to the 6 hour length of videotapes. I'd have to get up in the middle of the night to change tapes. Now, DVRs make it easy! :) I became an Audi fan back in 2000 when they changed the entire rear end of the car in just over 5 minutes. That was incredible. This year's race was close, with the Peugeots faster, but with 2 hours or so remaining, it was Audi's reliability that won.

Where in the World Wednesday

Since we just returned from a week in Yellowstone National Park, today's "Where" is Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone! This is the view from Artist's Point. The falls are 308 feet high, which is almost twice as high as Niagara Falls. As a desert person, this is an incredible amount of water. WOW! This area of the park is what gives it its name of Yellowstone. Most of the park isn't yellow, but here it is spectacularly yellow.

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We were on vacation - Yellowstone National Park - so I bought a book set in Wyoming. This is a new author, but I liked the first book, so I bought the next three in the series. This is from book 4.

Trophy Hunt

by CJ Box

4th in the Joe Pickett mysteries

The animal [a moose] had been mutilated. Its genitals and musk glands had been cut out, and its rectum was cored. Half of its face had been removed leaving a grinning skull and long, yellowed teeth.

Although water had always been considered the single most precious commodity in the state, the effect of huge releases of underground water on the surface due to CBM [coal bed methane] wells was still unknown.

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Once again, I am actually reading a book!

Shroud for the Archbishop

by Peter Tremayne

2nd in the Sister Fidelma mysteries

Brother Eadulf had been her companion on the long and tedious journey from the Kingdom of Northumbria. ... They had become friends during the council at Hilda's monastery at Streoneshalh, by the coastal town of Witebia where, together, they had solved the dark mystery of the murder of the Abbess Étian of Kildare.

Weekend Whimsy

Well, this past week has been hectic. I got a call Wednesday morning about a job and the interview was scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Whew! I spent those 2 days prep'ing for the interview; I hope it pays off!!! They are interviewing at least 2 more candidates; because I was at the top of the list when ranked using résumés, I was interviewed first. Now the waiting begins. I'm keeping all my fingers/toes/eyes crossed!!!