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Penn Relays

I helped manage a wedding today while the family went to the Penn Relays.  They brought me back a few pictures of what I missed.  My Mini-Me (1) told me that Usain Bolt wasn't human-he's a machine.  He ran the anchor leg in the 4x100 meter relay in 8.79 seconds...WOW!  He got the baton 10 meters behind the others, and at 50 meters he was 10 meters ahead.  I'm sorry I missed it!  My husband is a Penn man, so he was able to fanangle his way on the field and get some up close shots of the Olympian with his teammates, the Mayor, and the Governor (also Penn Men).  Enjoy!

Philadelphia Loves the Big Apple

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Signs of Spring

2010 Philadelphia International Flower Show

Best Old House Neighborhoods-2010

Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania is one of the many wonderful neighborhoods in Philadelphia, but it just earned the distinction of being named one of best Old House Neighborhoods in the Northeast according to This Old House.

Mt. Airy is a community known for its exquisite examples of 18th and 19th Century residential architecture.

Mrs. O - In Philadelphia

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Michelle Obama came to Philadelphia today as part of her "Let's Move" campaign. The First Lady, along with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited the Fresh Grocer located in North Philadelphia. Mrs. Obama was appropriately dressed in colorful layers of white, gray, and navy blue finished with her signature belted style.

SN-OMG!!!!!

I can't believe this mess. I am so sick of the snow. If i'm not looking at it, i'm thinking about shoveling it, salting it, getting around in it, and checking to see how my parents are making out in it (they still live in the DMV area). It's stressful for us here in Philadelphia, but you know they're stressing in DC. Employees at a Safeway in NW left the lights on, the doors open, and they were gone!

Mayor Nutter did a good job up here, but Mayor Fenty is really taking a beating about the city's response to the blizzard. I don't know why anyone is surprised because I can't thing of a time growing up that the District was EVER really prepared for the snow. At some point someone down there will realize that even though they're below the Mason-Dixon line, they are a Mid-Atlantic state and not the "true" South. There will be snow.

Anyway, lucky for me I have two little helpers, but they're too busy worrying about making money rather than helping us out of the igloo. When we finally decided it was time to brave the mess, the kids were gone-with the shovels!!! By the time they got back, the snow was hardening, and they were tired. Guess what?? So what!! I had to pull a little old school tough love and had them out there sweating, but we're all clear and all is right again in the world until....

My next door neighbor paid the kids to clean out her driveway. She got her car out a quarter way down the alley and got stuck. Know what she did? She gave my ELEVEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER her car keys and left. Said she had an appointment she couldn't miss. Has this woman lost her damn mind? At the very least she could have knocked on our door and asked an ADULT to help her out of her jam.

My husband and two other men in the neighborhood went out back and dug her out so the car could get back up into her driveway. As of this writing, she hasn't come back, we still have her car keys and a bill! Trust Me, she will pay for that foolishness. I have never heard anything like that in my life.

If there is any explanation she can give that makes sense, i'll let you know.

Shovel safely everybody-remember, you can't get through the snow make it to the Emergency Room.