I want to say that I very much appreciate all your comments, folks...we've going to get a little break here over the next week, plus school will then be out, so that should ease some of it, although I'll still have to keep the kids pretty close to home for their own safety. Our place is sort of a refuge for a lot of the more disaffected and unaccepted kids around town anyway, and it is a safe and honest place to be. We don't mind that, because my own mother was kind of that way. We've always taken in strays, both human and animal. The energy is just that way here. We might be the biggest weirdos on the block, but we are intelligent, loving, concerned and willing to help. Hell, I'd even help the little bastard who is causing the biggest problem, but I don't think he's very receptive.
Anyway, I'll be offline until after Memorial Day as I'll be helping to run one of the biggest Pagan festivals in the country for the next week. Five days of naked women, dancing and drumming around the fire, swilling the best home-brewed mead you can imagine, listening to kickass bands, shopping for unique jewelry and groovy gimcracks, and otherwise wishing that I didn't have to work for a living. I'll try and take a few discreet digital pics and share them when I get back. If curious, check out our organization's web site at
http://www.kchsa.org and the Gaea Retreat Center's site (where the Fest is held each year) at
http://www.campgaea.org .
Thanks again to all of you. I thank my gods daily that I found such a great place to hang online.