JiMJAMMiES

Happy Birthday Sam!

2008-03-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Samuel!

The robot above is Dextre. The new robot being installed on the ISS. Sam and I were wondering what he looked like today.

Happy Birthday Edward!

2008-03-05T10:49:00.000-08:00

It's my older brother Edward' birthday today. So all of us Butler's here in the frozen north would like to wish him a happy birthday!

To this day whenever I go to visit my brother I am always amazed at the variety of interesting stickers he has. When I was a kid he had a ton of these STP stickers and they were cool.

Blog-Mania!

2007-09-19T02:31:00.000-07:00

Well the interconnected web of our family blogs just keeps growing. Now the kids Sam and Eva also have blogs of their own. Cool!

Jessica Blogs In

2007-04-28T21:03:00.000-07:00

Jessica has taken the plunge and started her own blog. Check it out.

Happy Birthday Sam!

2007-03-12T19:34:00.000-07:00

Sam's 7th birthday was yesterday. He had a great time and got a lot of great presents, pictures will follow soon.

Hey Bat-Friend!

2007-03-05T20:09:00.000-08:00

This is just a quick shout-out to the Mighty Bat-Friend (Matas) from all his bat-friends up here:

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That's Electrogue (Sam), Kep's Vision (Jessica), Wrecking Ball (Matt) and Marionette (Eva) saying "Hey hero, we're thinking of you!".

Happy Birthday Edward!

2007-03-05T20:08:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to Uncle Edward from the long-lost north west Butlers!

Happy Birthday Jessica!

2007-01-03T14:39:00.000-08:00

Jessica's Birthday 2007

Happy New Year!

2007-01-03T14:38:00.000-08:00

What? It's still the new year.

Merry Christmas!

2006-12-25T18:08:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to one and all from the Northwest Butler's! It has been a great Christmas day. Jessica's sister Ellen was here with Evan and we had an awesome spaghetti dinner including a Finish Pullah bread Jessica made. The kids really loved their new toys. Sam has been playing Lego Star Wars all day and Eva has been making magic and flying with her magic butterfly wand and wings. New pictures will be up shortly.

This is it

2006-11-12T19:26:00.000-08:00

This is now the JiMJAMMiES blog. Accept no substitutes. The one that I used to maintain on my home server is no more.

I wish that there had been a way to migrate data from one to the other, but no such luck.

Edward

2006-11-10T11:16:00.000-08:00

I asked my brother Edward for a picture a while back. He sent me a picture of a fish and knife. There ya go:

The Butlers Have Landed

2006-11-07T11:59:00.000-08:00

Well, we made it. We have arrived at the new pad and had most of the basic services hooked up. Now we just have to unpack...

Happy Halloween

2006-11-01T11:47:00.000-08:00

It's actually the day after Halloween, but Happy Day of the Dead has a strange ring to it. The kids had a great time this year. Anakin Skywalker and Princess Eva made the rounds of our neighborhood and were a big hit.

Pictures will be up soon.

Done Deal

2006-10-30T13:40:00.000-08:00

We put our deposit down and got the keys to our new spot. So we officially have a place to move to.

Now we just have to deal with the moving part...

Woot! New Digs

2006-10-27T19:27:00.000-07:00

It looks like Jessica may have found us a new spot... more news as it develops.

Moving...

2006-10-27T13:11:00.000-07:00

I mentioned in a previous post, we're moving. Really moving. Our landlord wants us out by the 11th, so we're dealing with that.

One good thing about the new blog here on blogspot is that it will not get disrupted by the move. We will though so I don't know how frequently I will be posting...

GRP

2006-10-26T21:35:00.000-07:00

Gay Rivet Pearson and her father.

ACK

2006-10-26T19:16:00.000-07:00

Annabelle Kennedy, 1914-2002

Annie Isabella (Annabelle) Ridgway Clark Kennedy passed away Friday, May 24 in Katy, Texas. Mrs Kennedy was born at Anna Residence on Oaklawn Plantation, Franklin, LA. on December 21, 1914. She was the daughter of Ira Pullen Clark of Columbus, GA. and Elizabeth Gay Thomson of Thomson, KY. both deceased, and the sister of Thomson Clark also deceased. Mrs. Kennedy was a longtime resident of New Orleans. She was preceded in death by her son Colin Angus Kennedy, Jr. Mrs. Kennedy is survived by her daughter Elizabeth Gay Rivet Pearson and son-in-law Rune S. Pearson with whom she made her home in her later years, and three grandchildren and their families, Edward S. Butler IV of Redondo Beach, CA., Nola Elizabeth Butler, her husband Jonas Kulikauskas and great-grandson Matas Gediminas of Pasadena, CA., and Matthew Franklin Thomson Butler, his wife Jessica and great-grandson Samuel Richard, of San Rafael, CA.

Friends are invited to attend a graveside service at Hope Mausoleum on Saturday, June 8 at 11 a.m. Mrs Kennedy was devoted to her cat Fang, and a protector of all animals, and the family requests that in lieu of flowers a donation will be made to the Humane Society.

"Then the Man threw his two boots and his little stone axe (that makes three) at the Cat, and the Cat ran out of the Cave and the Dog chased him up a tree; and from that day to this, Best Beloved, three proper Men out of five will always throw things at a Cat whenever they meet him, and all proper Dogs will chase him up a tree. But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone."

--Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, 1902

Annabelle was not an easy person to love.

I should have a hundred stories about the fights we had, but I can't remember what they were about. Except that they were frequently when things were going well. I remember the day that I tried to congratulate her for quitting smoking. She wasn't having any of that. Annabelle didn't take praise lightly.

Conversely she was at her best when things were at their worst. She was my foul-weather friend. She knew a lot about how to survive when things were bad, or worse when you had made things bad for yourself.

She helped me in some of the worst moments of my life. She used to say, "it'll pass".

Most of the stories about Fanny that I do remember are funny. She was funny. She had a giant black purse full of funny stories about New Orleans. The bar under the stairs with the stars painted on the ceiling. The time she and her friends flipped their car off the bridge into the lob-lolly mud. The time Christie swallowed the bumble-bee.

Annabelle had alot of stories about the animals she had taken in over the years. There had been alot of them. "Animals are good. They love you unconditionally," she would say.

Annabelle was not an easy person to love, but we do.

2006-10-26T16:46:00.000-07:00

So far this experiment is going pretty well. I have been able to use the tag, search and individual page entry features exactly as I would have hoped.

Matt

2006-10-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

Sgt. Rock by the Awesome Brian Bolland.

Check out Matt's personal blog.

Fluffy

2006-10-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

I am Fluffy... FEAR ME.

Get all the latest Fluffy news.

Eva

2006-10-26T15:38:00.000-07:00

I'm amazed!

Find all the latest Eva news and check out her personal blog.

Magoo

2006-10-26T15:09:00.000-07:00

Hey, did we put the candle in the pumpkin or the...

Catch up with Magoo.

Maxwell

2006-10-26T15:04:00.000-07:00

I want to get down.

Find out what Maxwell has been up to.

Agnes

2006-10-26T12:25:00.000-07:00

Foolish mortals.

Get the lowdown on Agnes.

Jack

2006-10-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

This is Jack. He want's to play frisbee.

Find out what Jack has actually been doing.

Jessica

2006-10-26T12:15:00.000-07:00

Check out Jessica's personal blog.

Sam

2006-10-26T03:51:00.000-07:00

This is Sam. He want's to play "Pull daddy's ear off."

Find out what Sam has going on and check his personal blog.

Virtual Moving day...

2006-10-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

In the real world the JAMMiES are moving, so it seems fitting to start working on moving the blog as well.