It was a nice day. Was a little warm but it rained this afternoon and it cooled things off a little.

Went to the Nelson-Atkins for a couple hours. We went into the new section that opened back in June, had some lunch then went through one of our favorite areas. After that we came home for a few hours, I watched some football and played online. Early evening we went out to dinner. I took some pictures of some clouds, they were heading out to deliver some rain to some other place.

Overall, it was a good day.

Have had a couple headaches this week, both have been mild.

Am hoping it starts to cool off soon and begin to feel more like fall.

Will do some chores on Saturday and then on Sunday will have some fun. The 30Th is my birthday. As always its going to be a low key affair.

French Mime Marcel Marceau has died. I had heard of him, known about him since I was a child. Don't understand the allure of mimes, or clowns for that matter. Mimes are a step above clowns and both rank pretty low on the entertainment ladder to me.

We are getting some rain today. It may not amount to much, but we need it so badly that any amount is welcome.

Allergies are beginning to bother me more, and will continue to do so now that we are officially in fall.

My birthday is Sunday, and I am uncertain as to what to do still. I think we will go to the Nelson Atkins Museum, look around the new wing and have some lunch. May not do anything more than that before having a nice dinner out some place.

We got a small amount of blessed rain this week. Though it wasn't much, I am happy we got something.

Shortly after I was notified by Amazon.com that my Best of Designing Women" DVD had been shipped, I found out that Alice Ghostley had passed away. She played Bernice on the show.

Brett Somers has also passed away. Just loved her on "Match Game", even if the show sucked loved the banter her and Charles Nelson Reilly had.

Going to do some catch up in one big post.

The chiefs suck and will always suck, at least until Carl Peterson is removed from his job.

The weekend was wonderful, it was cool with lower then normal temperatures and we felt like we were alive again. Of course I had two headaches last week leading up to the weekend and Mom had a headache Sunday afternoon leading up to the warmer temperatures we have now.

Cant think of anything fun I would like to do on my birthday. Of course, what I really want to do is nothing, zip, zilch, nada. But Mom feels we have to do something on our birthdays and so I am trying to think of something to do.

The weather has been weird everywhere. Hot where it usually isn't that hot, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, dry spells etc.

Have several things weighing on my mind that I wont go into. But need some time to give each of the things some serious thought.

Cats are doing fine, the dogs are doing well. Everybody's great, crazy but great.

Need to do some chores, laundry and yard work this week. Don't know how much of any of it will get done, but oh well.

I would very much like to thank Mother Nature for the one and a quarter inches of rain we got early this morning. Was so sure rain would pass us by, but we got a wonderful thunderstorm. The cool air was as welcome and refreshing as the rain. Looks like we have a chance or two in the next few days for some more rain with the cooler temperatures.

Happy the weekend is here and in a good mood. Need to get some things done this weekend, mostly cleaning and culling.

The strange dreams continue. Dreamt that my dad and I were traveling together. At some point we stopped for some food and it wasn't very good food. He didn't seem to understand that I don't eat red meat or pork anymore and insisted that I eat some nasty looking burger. We ended up in a hotel and for some reason (for whatever reason, but it is a dream and I don't think it's supposed to make sense) there were only a few of my cats with us. As we were leaving I was allowed to take one of my cats. I picked Ashley ( our male Himmy-Tab mix) and put him in a carrier. We continued our trip and ended up at a run down house where Ashley got loose and ran away. There are some other odds and ends to the dream but that's the largest chunk I remember.

We did a little bit of shopping today and had lunch at a nice place. Spent the afternoon watching college football and napping. Haven't sleeping well (what a shock).