What will the neighbors think?

Like our new look? Orange you glad it is not your house??? Orange is one of my favorite colors......always wanted an orange house....took some convincing though......Mira asked "why can't I just have normal, boring parents?" when she saw it for the first time after school one day. Happy Day. Love, Michele


What will the neighbors think?
by markk

I'm having a two-ton metal
hamburger delivered & dropped
into my front yard at on shorewood dr.
tomorrow the shutters all come off the
house, to be replaced with elephant
ears, I'm installing a burglar-
alarm system in the guts of
the old treehouse in the backyard,
I'll be raising chickens soon, white
head-bobbing peckers all over the
yard, the driveway has always
bothered me so I'm having the
second grade class from sidney
fenn elementary school over to
paint it in oil-base, hopefully
it will come out looking like a
jackson pollack masterpiece,
last week i installed speakers
on the outside of the house, i
play rage against the machine
incessently, along with the
love songs of frank sinatra,
my mother-in-law stopped by
last week, she gasped, what will
the neighbor's think? i said, i
don't really give a rooty toot toot,
but if they've got any barrel-aged
bourban in those boring houses
of theirs, tell them to bring it
over, i'll be laying naked in a
chaise lounge on the back porch.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Below is the poem that Mark wrote and read last night at the candle light vigil.
It was great to see so many people show up in the cold and rain to honor our troops, but to say enough is enough. Buzz read a long list of all the Ohio soldiers killed in Iraq. Very sad.-Michele



how do you support the troops?

Support our troops,
but what does that mean?
Does it mean that
speaking out against an unjust war
Is an act of treason?

There are those who think so.

Does it mean that
when you question the motives
That brought a nation to war,
you embolden the enemy?

There are those who think so.

In this country there exists
A blind patriotism
that demeans democracy,
there exists a red, white and blue bias
that refuses truth.

How do you tell a mother that her son died for a lie?
How do you tell a son his father died for politics?
How do you tell a daughter her mother will be gone for
the rest of her life, and for no reason you can find?

Tonight across the country
there are candles burning
In memory of lives wasted,
of families destroyed

And there is nothing else to do but honor that memory.

But tonight, we also start anew,
for the state of the union is strong,
and because we are strong,
we must be the change
We wish to see in the world.

We move forward with love from here.

(by markk, recited in front of New Court House, Medina, Ohio 3/19/07)