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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
~sticking my head in the sand~
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Maybe venting to the whole world will keep that rain and snow away...I hope! There is nothing worse that wanting to play outside and you can't. :(
I am a snuggie person...I always have one nearby!
I'm wishing for spring to come your way ~
- March 14, 2012 at 12:47 PM
- NanaDiana said...
I hate these early false Spring starts, too. It makes it twice as hard to go back to the reality of March. Stay warm and maybe you can get some wonderful inside projects done...if you can get you-know-who off your lap! xo Diana
- March 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM
- Crystal Rose Cottage said...
I feel for you and know exactly what you are saying. I would be that way right now too but it is pretttttty nice here in Ohio! We have really lucked out this winter and I hope we can continue our luck! In the meantime, your photos are very uplifting...try to keep focused on them!~Hugs, Patti
- March 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM
- Kelly said...
You're too funny! All I can say (and please don't hate me) is that we are having the weather you want. So......get in your car and drive over to GA. You can see those sunny blue skies and 80 degree temps you're longing for. The weather has been unusually warm here for us this time of year. We didn't get a lick of snow this winter. Now the bees and ants are out in full steam too. You've got to take the good with the bad, I guess. Hang in there. I'm SURE your day will come and the sun will be shining on you before you know it. That snuggie sounds very comfortable though.
- March 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM
- Fleaing France & French Shopping Tours said...
Beautiful images, especially the roses!
If you need a dose of warmth head this way, we are having lovely days this time of year.
Greetings from the brocantes of France.
- March 14, 2012 at 2:32 PM
- Michele @ The Nest at Finch Rest said...
Oh how horrible! But I think I may have one even better for you - by better I mean more upsetting:
We have had PERFECT 70s weather for days now and I am so sick I am not even getting out of bed much.
I think that's worse than rain.
It's been a very bad week, and I am taking my antibiotics and my codeine cough syrup and nothing is helping so far.
Trade ya.
Love the pics you chose, I hope soon we are both up and happy and in our gardens playing in the dirt.
Hugs <the germ free kind
- March 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- June said...
Rant away Shellagh. I'm ready to join in : )
I want to stick my hands in the earth.
- March 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM
- sissie said...
Hey Girl,
Go ahead and vent all you want and yep, it's good for the soul. You always feel better when someone cares enough to listen.
We bloggers are like that you know.
I hope your rainy days go away soon, but look at it this way.....April showers bring May flowers.....
So stay in your snuggie until the time is right.
- March 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM
- Faded Charm said...
I feel your pain my friend!!! At least you don't have snow still on the ground and we were without electricty for two mornings in a row...ughhh!!!!!
Where oh where is that beautiful warm sunshine??? Maybe you and I need a trip to go find some? Sounds fun!!!
- March 14, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- It's me said...
I feel with you...love from me...xxx.
- March 14, 2012 at 4:31 PM
- Wild Oak Designs said...
Yes, vent you may. I feel it too....although our weather seems sunny, it has been bitingly cold....and we know now that rain is due this weekend...all weekend....so go ahead and let out your venting...it makes it easier on the rest of us...
False spring is hard...
Hang in there and stay in touch...
- March 14, 2012 at 6:10 PM
- Heaven's Walk said...
Oh, you poor dear! I feel so sorry for you, Shell! You just stay all snuggly with your furbaby til the sun shines again.
(I promise I won't tell you that it was 75 with not a cloud in the sky today...with 80 in the forecast for this weekend, and my deck furniture is all out, and the gardens have been cleaned up.....Nope. Won't say a word...)
Sending sunshiny hugs to you, sweetie! ♥
xoox laurie
- March 14, 2012 at 6:40 PM
- Blondie's Journal said...
We must have gotten the weather you had...it was 80 degrees today! But believe me, before this I would have been begging you for your Snuggie...even the pup's to wrap around my cold feet!
Hopefully the sun will shine soon! :)
- March 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM
- Stephanie said...
Gorgeous pictures! We are enjoying some good Spring days now - yours are on the way!
- March 14, 2012 at 7:09 PM
- Sandi said...
Hi Shellagh,
I say come and visit me...ha ha!! We are having wonderful weather here in lower Michigan. Forecast is 70's and 80's all week long!! I can't believe it. I went to town today wearing a sweater not a coat and had to take the sweater off because it was too warm. Loving it!!
So sorry for you though!!
- March 14, 2012 at 7:37 PM
- Shanon at Vintage Sparkle Chic said...
Ha! You are very entertaining! Won't you appreciate it even more when the glorious sun does come out and your plants are growing because they have been nourished? We are, as always, in a major drought here in Colorado, I wish we could share some of that rain. Love your post, as always.
- March 14, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- Sherry said...
I live in the same part of this beautiful country as you do and I too am very tired of the sideways rain and feeling sooo cold. I love the beautiful spring pictures you shared.
- March 14, 2012 at 8:48 PM
- GardenGirl said...
I knoooooooow! Me toooooooo! Now, where's my snuggie... ;)
- March 14, 2012 at 8:50 PM
- It's All Connected said...
Sunny and warm in Ontario and I'm lapping it up! ~ Maureen
- March 14, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- The Blue Farmhouse said...
Love those images....they just made my day brighter because I've been stuck inside with the flu!
- March 14, 2012 at 10:02 PM
- Boxwood Cottage said...
OMG this garden is so beautiful I'm all in awe! Is that your garden? Well I'm in love and I'm coming over to move in with you right now, despite the rain (that we have here too).
I hope it's okay to pin your lovely garden pictures to my pinterest garden inspiration board, if not please let me know and I'll delete them. Thanky you for sharing and for inspiring us!
Sending you warm Spring wishes for happy garden days soon to come from Germany
- March 14, 2012 at 11:58 PM
- PURA VIDA said...
Winter just lingers on in march
- March 15, 2012 at 12:57 AM
- KarenSue Farash said...
Oh my! Sometimes I wish we had snow and cold weather until I hear about the wet cold and for 6 days! It would get tough. But just think of the flowers you will having! So much better then ours. We will be having a long summer, I think. Can't even work outside because of the heat for 8 months! But I will say we are having beautiful weather now! Stay warm and dry, spring will come soon!
- March 15, 2012 at 3:05 AM
- Lili said...
Oh I hear ya sista! It's been pretty much the same around here lately complete with the 70 degree teaser weather. Gosh there is just so much garden inspiration on here and I'm SO ready! xo ~Lili
- March 16, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Vintage Home said...
Well I guess we are all feeling the lack of spring! We have had rain snow hail & sun all in one day!
We are trying to imagine what working in the garden will be like....soon...please!
- March 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM
- All Things Chic 2 said...
Come to my neck of the woods , Eastern Canada no fun when it comes to teasing spring days...BUT I MUST SAY OUR "SUMMER'S" ROCK...Come by and visit me sometime when you get a chance!!! You make me laugh...Blessings Lori
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Vatopedi Monastery (Athos)
|Holy Monastery of Vatopedi
|Rank or attached monastery
|Type of community
|Cenobitic Monastery
|972 by Ss Athanasius, Nicholas and Antonius
|Approx. size
|Liturgical language(s)
|Music used
|Byzantine chant
|Feastdays celebrated
|March 25
The Monastery of Vatopedi is one of twenty monasteries on the Mount Athos peninsula and is located on the northeastern side of the peninsula. It is second in hierarchical rank among the monasteries. The name of Vatopedi is derived from the flora of the surrounding countryside (''vatos'' = shrub, ''pedion'' = plain or ground).
The monastery was founded in 972 by three monks, Athanasius, Nicholas, and Antonius who were students of St. Anthanasius of Lavra and operates as a coenobium. The major parts of the monastery were constructed during the Byzantine period and then later during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it reached its peak. The monastery is monumental in size with a tall wall in which the buildings are placed in triangular form.
The katholikon was built in the tenth century in the Athonite style. It is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The katholikon still retains some mosaics from the Byzantine period. There are nineteen chapels within and outside the monastery proper, with five within the katholikon. The Greek skete of St. Demetrius and the Russian skete of St. Andrew (Serri) belong to Vatopedi.
In addition to many relics, the monastery possesses a library of over 10,000 printed books and about 1,700 manuscripts.
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Mike and Danny: In Love
Note that these stories, including this one, are not an endorsement of unsafe sex. They take place many years before the appearance of AIDS and before it was standard practice to use condoms to reduce the risk of infection from sexually transmitted diseases. Remember always: that was then, this is now. Sex is precious, and so are life and health.
Chapter 13
Ty had liked Marty from the start. There was something about himhis thoughtful face and the way it would break softly into a smile when something pleased him. But mostly, when Ty thought about it, it was the way he held himself so still, as if to keep in check a host of restless feelings inside.
Walking through the door with Mike the night of the storm, he'd looked around the lamp-lit kitchen, like an orphan or a runawaya little lost and hoping this was somewhere that would feel like home. It was only a fleeting expression that quickly vanished as he said hello and took them all in.
"I wonder if he knows he's queer," Rich had said to Ty when they talked about him later.
"What makes you think he is?"
"You can just tell."
"The way he looks at you."
Ty thought for a moment. "Like an orphan?"
Rich nodded. "You could put it that way."
"Is that what you saw when you met me?"
"Yeah, when I finally took a good look at you."
Ty shook his head, not sure he believed all this. "And you're right about this all the time?"
Rich laughed. "Damn near."
"Must have made it easy finding someoneyou knowlike yourself."
"For sex?"
"Well, yeah, that too." Ty was still an innocent about the ways of the world. All he knew was Rich and the tumult of feelings that welled up in him sometimes when they were together.
"Knowing's not worth much if the other guy don't want you to know. He can take a swing at you."
"That ever happen to you?"
Rich studied him a moment, and then reached out his hand to touch his face. "Time or two," he said.
"Guess you got lucky with me."
Rich's dark eyes met his. "That ain't the word for it."
They had made love while Mike was gone at Tully's helping Marty with the cows.
It had started out as a game of checkerssomething to do until the power came back on and they could go back to watching TV. After Ty had won a game, Rich had walked onto the side porch, smoking a cigarette and looking out into the night, listening to the rain falling in the trees.
Ty had looked at him then in the soft glow of the lamplight from the kitchen, his angular shoulders under his tee shirt and his hips slung to the side as he stood in his bare feet, his weight on one leg. His jeans fit loosely around him, the frayed cuffs touching the floor.
Ty had walked up behind him, put his arms around his waist and said simply, "You are beautiful."
He felt Rich's hands touch his and press them into the firm muscle of his belly.
"You are a fuckin' miracle," Rich said, taking a last drag on his cigarette. "And I thought I didn't believe in miracles."
He pushed open the screen door with his foot and flipped the butt in a long arc into the grass, the ember glowing for a moment before the rain snuffed it out. Then he pushed Ty's hands down so they rested on the front of his jeans.
Under the denim, Ty could feel Rich's cock growing long and full. And they stood like this together for a while, Ty pressing his own cock hard against Rich's backside.
He slipped one hand under Rich's tee shirt, searching for his nipples, rubbing one and then the other with his thumb, and Rich had arched his back, sighing and letting his head fall backward against Ty's cheek.
Then Ty had pulled Rich's tee shirt off him so he could caress the naked skin of his chest and his belly, pushing his fingers under the waistband of his jeans to get a touch of the coils of curly hair inside.
Finally, he'd unbuttoned the waistband and pulled down the zipper, slipping his whole hand in to grasp his hard cock and pull it out. The feel of his erection had never stopped amazing him. Warm, almost hot, as he stroked it, the skin soft and smooth over what felt like hard muscle under it.
"Give me your hand," Rich said, pulling it from around his cock and lifting it toward his mouth, where Ty felt a slick of wet spit drop into his palm.
"Go to town," Rich said, bringing his hand back down to his hard-on.
And Ty began stroking him again, the saliva spreading between his fingers and Rich's cock getting harder.
A while later, when they heard Mike's truck pulling into the driveway, they were both naked, Rich lying in the porch hammock and Ty straddling him, his toes touching the floor on both sides.
"Ride me like a horse," Rich had said, laughing for a moment in the midst of it all. "A mustang."
"Giddyup," Ty said, laughing along with him.
That sex could be funny like this had come as a big surprisenot long after his discovery of passion itself, the feeling of being lifted with someone else right into the stratosphere. The dead serious book he'd read from the seminary library had said nothing about this. All about Christian duty and God's will, it had neglected to mention what sex was surely intended to bean intense, mind-altering experience.
"Mike's back," Ty had said, looking out through the porch screens.
"Aw, hell," Rich said, not ready for it to be over.
They had both comeit was something that never took long unless they let itand Ty could feel Rich still firmly inside him.
When the truck stopped in front of the house, they heard two doors open and Mike talking as he got out.
"He's got someone with him," Ty said.
"Shit," Rich said, his body suddenly jerking into motion under Ty.
They had tumbled out of the hammock and grabbed their clothes from the floor, Rich hurrying to the bathroom to wash Ty's cum off his chest. When Mike and Marty walked in, Ty was sitting at the kitchen table where he and Rich had been playing checkers.
The next day, while Rich was working on his motorcycle, Ty had been pleased when Marty showed up again. There as he came walking from his truck was that lost and hopeful look in his eyes, and Ty wanted more than anything to make him feel at home with them.
In the pool, Marty had seemed happy. When he smiled and laughed, Ty decided that he must be keeping no secrets from himself, and he was learning that he was safe here. It was simply a matter of time until he started talking about it all, knowing that there was nothing he needed to hide.
But it didn't work out that way. He'd been wrong, and maybe Rich had been right. All along, Marty had not understood.
"He doesn't have a clue," Rich had said then, as Marty hurried to his truck, stopping only once when he got through the gate to pick up a shoe he had dropped. The two of them had watched from the pool as he gunned the truck's engine, spinning his tires and kicking up dust and gravel stones as he took off, never looking back at them.
"Why'd you talk to him like that?" Ty had said.
"Like what?"
"I dunno. So unfriendly. You even said not to come to the party."
"I only told him to think twice," Rich said, still hugging him in the pool.
"Same difference."
He began to wonder whether Rich had done the right thing. The two of them had sat up late that night watching TV, but he couldn't keep his mind on it, his memory drifting to the look on Marty's face before he jumped out of the pool and ran off.
And after Rich had finally fallen asleep in bed, Ty had lain awake much of the night, unable to get Marty out of his mind. There had been a time when Ty would have reacted in the same waynot ready to accept the truth about himself.
But the kindness of Mike, who never lost patience with him, had helped him find his way through his own fears and confusion. It wasn't right to treat Marty the way they had.
The next day he got up early and found Mike in the kitchen, cooking up eggs and bacon while he finished a big bowl of Wheaties. Sitting at the table, he told Mike what had happened and everything he'd been thinking.
Mike had simply listened as he ate, getting up to pour himself more coffee, his work shirt still unbuttoned and hanging out of his jeans, his stocking feet padding softly on the linoleum. His face was unshaven, and he looked a little tired from the long days he'd put in.
"So you think you should be doing something?" Mike finally said.
"That's what I'm asking you, Mike."
Mike shrugged. "I can't say I really know Marty. Maybe it was a mistake bringing him here that night."
"No, Mike," Ty said, and he was thinking of how lost he'd been until he'd found Mike and Dannyand most of all Rich. "I think he really needs us. All of us."
Mike sat back in his chair and studied his coffee cup. "You know, sometimes the best thing is to do nothing at all," he said.
"I know that, but I can't do nothing."
"Then you do what you have to do," Mike said, as if everything were that simple.
So later that morning, Ty had driven his car over to Tully's place, hoping he'd catch Marty there still milking the cows. He parked his Rambler next to Marty's truck and walked into the barn, where he found him washing the milking machines, his sleeves rolled up as he scrubbed the disassembled parts in a deep sink full of soap suds.
"Morning," Ty said.
"Morning." Marty's voice was level and steady, and he didn't stop working.
It was like church canvassing in a way, showing up at someone's door and not knowing whether they'd be polite or rude to you. He'd often been left standing on the front step, the door suddenly closing in his face when people found out who he was and what he wanted.
"Rejection sometimes is your only friend," someone had told him once.
While he'd been in a whirl of confusion the whole way there, he found a calm suddenly settling inside him. This would be whatever it was going to be no matter what. Now that he'd shown up at the door, it was all out of his hands.
"I've been thinking about you," he said, deciding that just stating a fact was the best way to start.
Marty didn't respond.
"We could have been a little more friendly yesterday," Ty said, aware thatthough it was still the truthhe was already choosing his words carefully.
Marty still didn't respond.
"I just want to apologize," Ty said.
"No need for that," Marty said, not looking at him.
"We weren't thinking."
"Like I said" Marty looked over at him now. "There's no need."
"OK then," Ty said, realizing that he was already running out of things to say. "We still want you to come over Saturday night."
Marty put down the scrub brush he'd been using and stood with both hands on the edge of the sink.
"You two have sex with each other?" he said, the look on his face now like someone trying to fathom the impossible.
Ty, who'd never had to answer a question like this before, was speechless for a moment. "When you really love someone," he finally said, and the answer when it came to him had all the clarity of the truth that it was, "it's what you do."
Marty shook his head and looked away.
"I was like you once," Ty went on. "I couldn't believe thatnot with another man, no matter how much you loved him."
He couldn't tell if the look on Marty's face was one of scorn or disbelief.
"But it happensit happens in this worldand it's supposed to happen," Ty said.
The words as he spoke them were tightening his throat, and he could feel the beginnings of tears in his eyes. It did not matter anymore what Marty thought about him or what he was saying. The truth was what it was, and it couldn't be denied. Not anymore.
He thought of how it felt to press against Rich's naked back, arms embracing him as they stood on the side porch that night, listening to the rain.
"And it's wonderful," he said, almost to himself. "Wonderful."
Marty went back to scrubbing. For him, the conversation seemed to be over.
"Don't expect me Saturday. I won't be there," he said.
"OK," Ty said. "But if you change your mind" He didn't finish the sentence. Instead, after a moment he said, "So long," and went out the door to his car.
Mike had been right. Sometimes the best thing is to do nothing.
On Saturday, Rich and Ty went into town for a keg of Budweiser, ice, big bags of chips and pretzels, cole slaw and potato salad, steaks for the grill, a bag of charcoal, a stack of plastic cups, and the rest of what they needed for the party. Ty went to a Hallmark store at the new mall and came out with streamers and balloons.
"Kinda girly, don't you think?" Rich said, like he was trying not to laugh. "It's a bunch of men drinking beer, not a baby shower."
"Eat me," Ty said, using one of Rich's pet expressions.
"Right here or you wanna wait till we get home?" Rich said and laughed. They were in the parking lot, sitting in the front seat of Ty's car.
"I have a choice?"
"I love it when you get pissed," Rich said and laughed again. "It's so fuckin' out of character."
Sometimes, like this, it felt like the two of them were complete opposites. All they had in common were an unexplainable affection for each other and the inability to keep their hands to themselves.
Rich was already reaching over to him to slip his fingers between his legs. "I'm serious. Anybody ever gone down on you in your car?"
Ty remembered the night in the park and the stranger who emerged from the bushes and got in with him.
"Somebody tried once," he said.
"What happened?"
"Cop showed up."
"Fuck, you're kidding."
"Fuck, I'm not." Ty still felt odd talking like this. He wondered if he'd ever use four-letter words without sounding like someone just practicing how to say them. Meanwhile, they tripped off Rich's tongue with the ease and grace of a psalm from the King James bible.
"He bust you?"
"Gave me a warning."
Rich shook his head, his hand still on Ty's leg. "Tell you what I think. You still got a blowjob coming," and he gave Ty a sly grin.
"Not here, if that's what you've got in mind."
"Yeah, right here." Rich was now pawing with both hands at his crotch.
"Aw, c'mon," Ty said, turning on the ignition and starting the car. "There's people around."
Rich reached with one hand to the ignition and switched it off.
"No, you're gonna get your cock sucked, and you're gonna like it," he said.
"What if somebody sees us?"
But there was no stopping Rich, who had enough strength in his hands to break bones, if not crush rock. Ty sighed and let Rich have his way, opening his pants and getting his hand into his shorts before taking a quick look around through the car windows and then diving down into his lap.
From that point, Ty was torn between the intense pleasure of Rich's mouth on his cock and the terror of being seeneven observed from a surveillance camera somewhere, and he looked around for one pointed their way from high on a lamp post or a wall.
The excitement made him go hard and soft and hard again in seconds. His eyes would fall closed and then they'd fly open again as he kept scanning the parking lot around them for shoppers on footor security guards running toward them from all directions.
"If I get busted this time," he said. "I'm really gonna be fucked." And for once the word sounded exactly like someone who'd used it so many times he owned it.
Rich just kept it up and said nothing, stroking the inside of his thigh and humming once in a while like he was enjoying every minute.
Suddenly Ty gripped the steering wheel and after a moment of frozen time felt himself starting to come.
"Ahhh," he cried out, clamping his teeth shut to keep the sound inside him. "Ahhh," the sound escaped from him again. And then his eyes went shut and stayed shut, as wave upon wave burst from between his legs.
Finally, he sank back into the seat, gasping, and when he opened his eyes there was Rich grinning at him.
"How was that?" he said.
By the time Danny got home, late in the afternoon, everybody was there waiting for himMike, of course, Rich and Ty. And Ted and Ed had driven over from Hastings.
They gathered at the front gate as Danny got out of his Camaro, with a big smile, and wrapped his arms around Mike, who hugged him long and hard, while the rest of them cheered and clapped. As he came through the gate, Mike's arm still around him, they slapped him on the back and the butt and cheered some more. Someone handed him a beer.
Of all of them, Ty knew Danny the least and hung back while Danny said hi to everyone else. Finally, when his eye fell on Ty he came over to him and shook his hand.
"Looks like you're part of the clan now," Danny said.
"Oh, I don't know about that," Ty said, embarrassed to be included, like the youngest kid in a family of brothersand always the last to get chosen for a team.
"Mike told me about you," Danny said, and Ty flushed with even more embarrassment, that the two of them would have taken the time to talk about him.
"I love Mike," Ty said, suddenly filling with feelings and losing all control of them. "He's the best friend I've ever had."
Rich walked up to them then and slipped his arm around Ty's shoulders. "We gonna get to see your movie, Danny?" he said.
"It's just an old documentary. Nothing exciting at all."
"Who the fuck cares? You made it. We want to see it."
"OK, soon as I scare up a 16-millimeter projector."
Ed, who was listening, said, "You're the director, right?" He had been in the pool and was standing there, wet hair, sideburns and walrus mustache, buck naked.
"Yeah, I guess so."
"You can tell me," Ed said with a sly grin. "Did you fuck any of the stars?"
Danny laughed and said no, he wasn't that kind of director.
"Did they fuck each other?"
"No, it wasn't that kind of film."
"Hell, here I thought that's what people did on those movie sets." He tried to look disappointed. "Didn't you?" he said to Ted, who was walking by with a beer and a paper plate of food.
"Don't pay attention to him," Ted said to them. "He's just wants to stand here and show off his dick."
"Big dick you meant to say," Ed said
He put a hand on Ted's shoulder to keep him from walking away and helped himself to some chips from Ted's plate.
Mike had now joined them. "Phone call for you," he said to Danny.
Danny looked puzzled.
"Didn't say who it was," Mike said.
Danny turned and went inside the house.
Mike looked now at Ty and Rich, gave them a smile and said, "Thanks, you two. It's been a nice surprise."
"Anything for you, Mike, you know that," Rich said, and he let go of Ty to give Mike a mighty hug.
Then Ty put his arms around them both.
Evening light lingered in the trees, and the mosquitoes came out. The clouds of smoke from the grill discouraged some of them, but the house was too hot to escape to, and the only thing to do was strip down and get into the pool, where there were citronella candles burning on the deck, most of them staying lighted if they didn't get splashed with water.
It was an experience unlike anything Ty had ever known. All around him were men like himselfthe world somehow tipped upside downand he was not the minority of one he'd always felt himself to be.
It was OK to hear a joke told that only a queer man would understand, let alone find funny. He hadn't even known there were those kinds of jokes. And there were the constant reminders that men were free to touch and give each other friendly glanceslooking into each other's eyes for longer than a couple seconds at a time.
He'd even been surprised when he realized how the other men took an interest in him, not for his intelligence or his personalityneither of which were his particular strengths anywaybut for his looks.
"Got yourself a real cute one there," Ed said to Rich once, loud enough for Ty to hear.
"Ain't he, though," Rich said looking at Ty and smiling. "Best part is he don't know it." He reached over to pull Ty to him then, and Ty felt himself go beet red. As Ed winked at them, he guessed what Ed was picturingthe two of them naked together and having sex.
It wasn't like this hadn't occurred to him about the other men there, but now as he looked around at them, he saw each as one of a pair and began imagining them that waylocked in a sexual embrace that bonded them into one.
Having so recently discovered sex himself, he wanted to know what it was like for them, but then realized he would surely never know. He couldn't begin to describe what went on in his own soul as he made love with Rich. Anyway, it was what sex with someone had to bethe ecstasy of being so close there were no words for it.
It was, he'd discovered, not what he'd been led to expect at all. Like the Creator who had created it, sex was a mysterylike peace and most other good things, it passed all understanding.
After the steaks had been grilled and they'd eaten until no one could eat anymore, they'd moved the beer keg in its tub of ice to the edge of the pool, and all of them had got in the water. There, after some splashing around, they had settled into their pairs and let themselves be absorbed by the glow from the candles, the sound of crickets in the grass, and the darkness that surrounded them.
Rich held him, their naked bodies touching under the water. He had slipped one hand between Rich's legs and was softly stroking him there, tracing the length of his thigh with his fingers and then finding his testicles, holding them as Rich's cock filled and lay across the back of his hand.
He looked at the other men, naked together, and sensed that their hands, too, were touching and caressing each other under the surface of the water. Most of all, he was curious about Mike and Danny, for as much as he'd come to love Rich, the man his heart still felt drawn to was Mike.
He kept glancing over to Mike, who rested against the side of the pool with one arm around Danny and a smile on his face. It was a look of complete contentment. Ty felt he was finally seeing the man he'd come to know since that winter day he'd first arrived at the door, canvassing for the church.
This was the man who sat that day with his cup of coffee at the kitchen table, the man he found more than once out working on his tractor, disking a cornfield for planting or cutting hay, the man who met him one rainy noon for lunch at the Farmer's Daughter Caf�. Most of all, the man who had held him in his strong and loving arms that day when his world had fallen apartthe man he'd gone to because there'd been no one else.
And here the man was, complete, with Danny by his side. The only thing that would make it more complete would be seeing the two of them going off together into the house to their bedroom which before the night was over, they surely would.
Mike's dog Rusty let out a woof, and they realized that someone was pulling off the road and into Mike's driveway. It was a pickup, its headlamps lighting up the row of vehicles parked along the yard fence before it headed into a spot next to them. The lights illuminated the yard for a moment and then went out as soon as the truck's engine was turned off.
Mike looked over at Rich and Ty. "Did you invite someone else?"
"I can't tell who it is," Rich said, and Ty felt his body move away from under him. "Guess I should go find out."
Rich got out of the pool, pulling himself from the water to sit on the edge of the deck, then getting to his feet. He went down the ladder a few steps, then jumped the rest of the way into the grass and walked away across the lawn, his naked body dimly lighted by a faint glow from inside the house.
The cab light popped on for a moment as the driver got out, and there was the sound of a man's voice talking quietly to Rich as they met at the fence.
Danny had twisted around in Mike's arms and was peering over at them. "I thought I knew who it was, but it's not them."
Then Rich and the other man were coming back toward the pool, their voices growing closer.
"You eat?" Rich was saying. "We got plenty food in the kitchen. Help yourself. I'll get you a beer."
Then the two of them reached the pool, and Ty could see who it was.
"Hey, everybody," Rich called out. "Make room for one more."
It was Marty. He had come after all.
Continued . . .
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For some truly innovative modern classic furniture designs, look no farther than Verner Panton. Born in Denmark in 1926, Panton first studied architecture in Odense, then later at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. After spending a few years working in established design firms, Panton decided to go it alone and opened his very own design shop in 1952. With nobody else to answer to but himself, Panton became quite well known for his daring new designs. Of particular note, Panton designed a collapsible house in 1955, as well as houses made of either cardboard or plastic in 1960.
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* [http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings Bindings] - A project that houses a lot of bindings to different C libraries
* [http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings Bindings] - A project that houses a lot of bindings to different C libraries
* [http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent Descent] - An [[Eclipse]] plugin for programming in D
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The D programming language, also known simply as D, is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language by Walter Bright of Digital Mars. It originated as a re-engineering of C++, but even though it is predominantly influenced by that language, it is not a variant of it. D has redesigned some C++ features and has been influenced by concepts used in other programming languages, such as Java, C#, and Eiffel.
From Wikipedia:D (programming language).
To program in D you will need two things - a D compiler and a library. The official compiler is called DMD and is available in the AUR.
Template:Package AUR is just the compiler, and Template:Package AUR includes the standard library.
You now have to choose the library you want to use, Phobos or Tango. If you are having trouble deciding which library to choose, have look at a comparison between the two.
Phobos is the standard D library. It is available from Arch's community repo:
# pacman -S libphobos
The D community, after being unhappy about several aspects of the standard D library, wrote their own library called Tango. Tango can be installed from [community]:
# pacman -S libtango
Though at the time of writing, the current release of Tango has a bug making the math modules unusable. It is therefore recommended to install Tango from SVN. The package libtango-svn available from the AUR.
Testing the installation
To make sure that everything is installed and set up correctly, a simple Hello World program should suffice.
For Phobos:
import std.stdio; int main(char[][] args) { writefln("Hello World!"); return 0; }
For Tango:
import tango.io.Stdout; int main(char[][] args) { Stdout("Hello World!").newline(); return 0; }
Paste the code into a file, name it hello.d, and run
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- QtD - Qt bindings for D
- GtkD - An object oriented GTK+ wrapper for D
- Derelict - Bindings for multimedia libraries, focused toward game development
- Bindings - A project that houses a lot of bindings to different C libraries
- Descent - An Eclipse plugin for programming in D
- rdmd - A utility that allows one to execute D files like shell scripts. In AUR
- Digital Mars - The official home of D
- dsource - An open source D community, hosts several open source projects
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This post would have been a little more helpful to you all back in November. You know…when you were actually gearing up for holiday cards and all snap happy with your kiddos and dogs. Oh well. Better late than never and I have actually gotten a few e-mails about how I got the "white lights" in my backgrounds. Hopefully it will help you prepare for next year's holiday shoot.
Or maybe you're a super duper clickin' mom and you can use this for your Valentine's Day shoot? Dunno.
I've wanted to try the Christmas light bokeh thing for a while and snagged this picture during the Christmas 2010 festivities.
Yes, I know you've all seen it before, but I loved creating the glowing orbs of Christmas bokeh. Just screams holidays to me. Fast forward to Christmas 2011 and I decided to try it out again, this time with human subjects.
After a little research, I stumbled upon this quick "how-to" on Flickr. The photographer also shared some updated pictures in a later shoot as well. Fantastic!
From inspiration to application…I just had to figure out how to string white Christmas lights in a fashion that was easy to move in and out of my portrait area. Also, I knew I wanted to use a white background instead of black, so I wasn't sure how the bokeh thing would work. You never know until you try, so this was my basic set up.
Looks highly technical, doesn't it?
To create my "light board", I bought a large piece of heavy duty white cardboard from Michael's for under $5. It is the kind of board you would use at a presentation booth. Look for it near the poster board. I wrapped two 50 light strands of lights around the cardboard…
…and then taped them in the back to hold them in place.
Nothing too fancy, just spaced them out and taped them down.
To get the bokeh effect you should be shooting from far enough away that you won't see the pattern of the lights anyway. Well…that's how you're supposed to do it, although I had trouble with a few shots. See my boo boo shots near the bottom of this post.
I took my "light board" with me to Katie's for the WOWN Holiday Shoot. If you missed it, please take a minute to check out the adorable offspring of my hood friends. For the shoot, I set up my large white muslin backdrop in her living room. I took photos of each family with just the white background…
Then I would have my "assistant"…errr…Katie, move the "light board" into the portrait area to get this look…
The light board has to be WAY farther back then you would imagine to create enough depth of field to get the "orb" look…or bokeh. You also must use a very low aperture and get up and personal with your subject…not too hard with these cuties. Just be sure to focus on their eyes and you should get that wonderful holiday bokeh.
Here are some more shots, first with just the white background…
And then with the added light board…
Some of the shots with the bokeh look turned out better than others. It was trial and error. The better pictures came from using a lower aperture and an increased distance between my subject and the light board. Since this was my first time using the board and I was trying to keep a ton of kiddos smiling, happy and in one place, the set up wasn't always perfect.
For instance, this shot is not my favorite…
Of course, the little guy is gorgeous (THOSE EYES!) and his look is adorable. However, the bokeh isn't the greatest. The orbs are a little small. You can see the dark lines of the lighting cords. Maybe I'm being too picky, but its something to work on next year.
I'd also like to work on getting my white background whiter. That blueish tint kind of irritates me. Although, from the research I've done, I've realized that getting that "high key" look involves much more artificial lighting than I want to get into at the moment.
Again, I LOVED trying this out and will for sure do it again next year. Maybe I'll even tackle getting Dixie the wonder pooch in the mix. I hope this gives you all a little inspiration for next year's holiday photos as well.Pin It


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I had prepared these ladoos after the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi was over. I perform the coconut pooja (called Vaina Pooja in Konkani ) and I had plenty of coconuts. Lots of coconuts means lots of coconut based dishes. Being a Konkani I am not complaining! Traditionally a sweet dish is prepared from the first coconut (meant for ?pooja) that is broken and then offered to God.?
My mom used to make these in the form of burfis. The procedure for making the mixture remains the same, however instead of making the balls, you roll them on a greased plate and then cut them in the shape of barfis.?
Made with minimal ingredients, these ladoos are an absolute delight. The jaggery cooked with coconut gives it the sweet taste with nice texture and the toasted sesame seeds add the right amount of crunch.
- 2 cups shredded coconut (fresh/frozen)
- 1.5 cups jiggery (powdered)
- ? ?tsp cardamom powder
- 2 Tbsp sesame seeds
- 2 tsp ghee
- In a small pan toast the sesame seeds on a low flame until toasted. Keep aside.
- Heat a heavy bottom flat pan (preferable non-stick) on low flame. Add the shredded coconut, powdered jaggery and gently stir it for about a minute. Be very careful as it gets burnt very fast.
- After a while the jaggery starts melting giving enough moisture. ?Keep stirring making sure that the coconut mixture does not get stuck to the bottom.
- It takes about 17-20 minutes to incorporate, for the liquid to dry and thicken up. Add the sesame seeds, cardamom powder, ghee at this stage and mix well.
- Note: Do not stir this for a long time as it becomes hard after cooling.
- The mixture also thickens up after it is cooled. After it has slightly cooled grease your hands and get ready to make the balls.
- Take small lemon sized piece and roll into balls pressing tightly as you go along. Continue with the remaining mixture.
- ?This makes about 18-25 medium sized laddoos. Store in air tight container.?


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We've seen SMS garage door openers that connect APIs to physical objects. A new app and hardware combo built on the Twitter API looks to give you a physical treat for retweets.
The Kickstarter project has half a day to go and a ways before it becomes a reality outside of the prototypes created by project creator Benjamin Redford.
The app, nicknamed "Molly," delivers candy based upon a specified number of retweets. In addition to the wonderful feeling of being retweeted, Molly also gives a physical treat, as the video (embedded above) shows. Molly's sibling, Olly, is a similar concept with smells and is another part of the project.


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Good morning. I hope you are all well.
We have a new challenge at Noor Design UK with everyone's favourite.
"Anything Goes"
The image is from Pion Designs Sofiero's Ephemera collection. Isn't she lovely.
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SHIP BOTTOM, New Jersey (Reuters) - A temporary flashing sign on the causeway to New Jersey's Long Beach Island thanks owners of oceanfront properties who have accepted a plan to build new barriers to protect them from storms like Sandy, which ravaged the U.S. northeast coast last year.
And to pressure homeowners who have not agreed to the plan, the blinking sign also tallies the number of holdouts.
Some towns still coping with the clean-up and reconstruction since the superstorm surged ashore in October are embroiled in legal tangles that pit resident against resident and are delaying projects to build new wider beaches or protective dunes to prevent a repeat of the destruction.
Along the New Jersey coast, hundreds of property owners in about a dozen resort towns are refusing to agree to plans under which the federal government would build 22-foot (7-meter) tall sand dunes that would protect oceanfront homes and interior neighborhoods but block the view of the sea. Some owners are resisting because they worry that signing on to the projects would force them to cede long-term rights to the strip of land the dunes are built on.
Town mayors are in a bind because without unanimous support, the projects, which have strong support from residents who don't own beachfront property and support from many who do, can't go ahead.
Washington has approved $60 billion in disaster aid for battered East Coast cities and towns. According to project guidelines, if mayors can't deliver signatures for a solid mile of oceanfront or, if the town is less than a mile wide, from everyone along the ocean, they can't get a project approved. The towns could take control of the land under the "eminent domain" law to force the holdouts to comply. But local funds, not federal money, must be used to pay for the taking of the land.
In Ship Bottom, a beachfront town 80 miles south of New York City that has 1,150 year-round residents but swells to several times that number during peak summer weekends, Mayor William Huelsenbeck said a committee of "concerned citizens" was going round knocking on the doors of resisters to make the case for complying.
As neighbors confront neighbors, Huelsenbeck was also using the road sign, which stands on the only entrance to the island, as his "scoreboard" to put more pressure on dissenters. "Thanks for helping us help you, Ship Bottom. 18 easements to go," the sign flashed this week.
There's little doubt that these defenses would work. Since the late 1980s, the Army Corps of Engineers has built coastal defenses along 48 miles of the 127-mile (204-km) Jersey Shore by widening beaches, erecting artificial sand dunes and planting vegetation, at a cost of about $700 million. Waterfront homes in towns with these engineered beaches largely escaped the damage of Sandy's epic surge. Those without, didn't.
Long Beach Island residents who refuse to give the necessary project permissions declined to be interviewed, saying they feared being publicly identified and harassed. But mayors of several towns said the holdouts have told them their refusal is less about losing the view than concern that town authorities may eventually build a boardwalk or snack stand on their easements.
"They've backed property owners into a corner," said Patrick Greber, who controls an oceanfront home in Ship Bottom through a trust. "They say they're never going to develop the property but won't put that in writing."
The dissenters may also be biding their time in the hope of getting compensation if the government does invoke its eminent domain rights. Harvey and Phyllis Karan, residents of the tiny barrier island township of Harvey Cedars, won a $375,000 judgment in March 2012 after successfully suing the town for devaluing their property by building dunes that blocked their ocean views.
"Holdouts are looking at a new lottery based on the Karan case," said Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini. He and other mayors noted that towns have limited funds at their disposal.
The Karans' payout, though, is in question. In October the dunes sheltered their house from Sandy and their case is being appealed to the state Supreme Court, where shore towns are arguing that the prior ruling did not take into account the "special benefit" of the protective sand.
The New Jersey state legislature is considering a bill that would require courts to factor in the value added by the dunes when assessing eminent domain awards for diminished views.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has promised to support local officials trying to win over the resisters.
"It's selfish (for homeowners) not to co-operate," Christie told Reuters in an interview. "Those that resist, they're not only leaving their own homes in peril next time, but those homes behind them as well."
With the memories of Sandy still fresh, other homeowners need less convincing. In the town of Holgate, where residents previously refused to allow the engineered beaches, the surge from the storm shoved scores of houses off their foundations. In nearby Brant Beach, just a few miles to the north, the artificial dunes successfully protected the town against the surge. Everyone in Holgate has now signed easement papers to take advantage of the federal money, Mancini said.
In the town of Bay Head, where many Wall Street executives own vacation homes, oceanfront property owners are getting started on new defenses without waiting for government payouts. Crews with heavy equipment have begun moving three-ton boulders into place to extend an 18-foot-high (6-meter-high) sea wall by about 1,300 feet.
The existing sea wall, built in 1963 after a destructive storm, saved many large homes from being washed away by Sandy. The new extension will cost the owners of a typical 100 foot (30 meter) oceanfront property $170,000.
Engineered beaches are still needed in the remaining unprotected 50 developed miles of the Jersey Shore — they are not needed along 25 miles of state parks.
The U.S. Congress has authorized projects for many towns that will take several years to complete and cost hundreds of millions of dollars - with 65 percent paid with Sandy aid and the rest out of state and local coffers, said Keith Watson, a coastal engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Where there are jetties and inlets, the Corps, the primary U.S. agency for controlling the risk of coastal flooding, will use an interlocking concrete unit it invented and that it employed in overseas projects in Egypt, Ireland, Oman and other countries.
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My home is similar in style to this...I have been contemplating planting ivy to grow up the front, but my husband says its bad for the stone...not sure if that's true or just an excuse! SIGH!
Have a wonderful Thursday!
live well...
As pretty as the ivy is your husband is right Kristi it's really bad for the house. The trailers will eat out the mortar...SORRY!
Enjoy your Thursday!
Came across your blog while bloghopping. I hope you don't mind me suggesting something in between. Virginia Creeper is used here in Europe often on buildings as the air roots are less intrusive as ivy. You could maybe try that but I have a husband who says the same as yours...lol.
Greetings from Holland ~


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Pet sounds
Our playlist is lounge; it's languid, an anthem for escapism. To reflect on our own unique brand of leisure, Watergate Bay Hotel has composed not only just an anthem, but a full playlist of tunes which you can hear around the various public spaces in the hotel and restaurants. We love our music and hope […]Read the full article
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In a purely political exercise this afternoon in the Senate, Senate Democrats narrowly passed a bill 51 to 48 to extend Bush-era tax cuts for middle class Americans for another year. With Vice President Biden presiding over the Senate, Democrats lost only two votes: Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who regularly votes with Democrats.
Under the plan, income tax rates for individuals making up to $200,000 and families making up to $250,000 would remain the same in 2013. Rates on upper income Americans would expire on Dec. 31st.
"This is a big victory for the American people today," Vice President Biden said in a show of support for Senate Democrats. Biden's presence in the Senate chamber was a symbolic move, his vote was not needed to put Democrats over the top.
The bill follows through on an election-year call from President Obama to protect the middle class from an income tax hike next year. He has campaigned on the message that wealthier Americans should pay more in taxes to help reduce the national deficit.
"Democrats believe this country can't afford more budget-busting giveaways for the top 2 percent of earners," Majority Leader Harry Reid told his fellow senators on the floor.
But Republicans argue the Democrats' bill would mean almost a million small business owners in those upper tax brackets would see a tax increase. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Democrats are not serious about the nation's fiscal problems.
"We know this is not about the economy. We know this is about the election," he shot back at Reid on the floor.
"Thank goodness it's not going anywhere because it would be bad for the economy. The single worst thing we could do to the country," he said of the Democrats' bill.
House Republicans have no plans to take up the Senate-passed bill; they will move ahead next week on their own legislation that would extend the Bush-era tax rates for all Americans for one year. A similar version failed today in the Senate.
The legislative maneuvering has set the stage for two competing messages heading into November.
As the Senate Democrat's political messaging leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters,
"The House can either pass these middle-class tax cuts, like we did, or it will be clear they're putting millionaires first."
Or the Republican view as articulated by Mitch McConnell: "Here's the Democratic plan for the economy: 'We'll get this thing going again. We'll get it going again by raising taxes ... give us your money, and we'll handle it for you.' That's their tax plan. That's their plan for the economy and jobs."


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