Hudson Valley Heroes

It's really great to know that we have such amazing people protecting us here in the Hudson Valley. Firefithters Vincent Andre and Tim Welch from Middletown rescued a 6-year-old boy from a home that was fully engulfed with flames yesterday. Check out the full story at the Times Herald Record website.

Fat cat in a little door

I just installed a cat door to the basement so our bulimic cat can go back and forth to the litter box without us having to keep the door open. I opted for the larger sized cat door for this very reason:

Lost: Bentham, Project Runway, Unlucky Penny

So, I'm not the biggest Locke fan. I know he's pivotal to the show and his story is so interesting because he's the chosen one, blah blah blah... But I'm not talking about bad-ass, deep thinking, boar killing, island Lock... I'm not a fan of the off-island, wussy Locke. Whenever there's a Locke-centric show I roll my eyes because inevitably it will take us to his story off-island where he's weak, whiney and yet still somehow thinks so highly of himself. Think of his pathetic past playing Stratego at the box factory, hunting down his con-man dad and paying phone sex operators to pretend to be Helen. I think the creators of the show do an amazing job of showing us how powerful Locke is on the island, but how weak he really is in the real world.

OK - last night's observations:

Remember the runway? You know, the one that Sawyer and Kate were forced to build while they were being held in the polar bear cages? I think we saw it last night! At the time, even Juliette didn't even know what it was for (she joked it was for aliens). I'm thinking that Ben knew somehow that he would be flying back to the island in the future so he had it built. Take another look at the crash site from last night... the plane is almost fully in tact and they're clearly not on the main island. From the logo on the folder Caesar found it's safe to say they are near the Hydra station (the one Jack was being held prisoner in). Also, Locke is clearly staring across the water to the main island while eating his delicious mango.

Widmore is evil. I don't care what Widmore says, my money is still on him being the bad guy. I'm sorry, but that McCutchen-drinking, Alex-killing madman is up to no good. I am surprised that Matthew Abbadon died... I assumed he was kind of like Richard Alpert off of the island. Come to think of it, did he really die? You never know on Lost! So, Widmore being the bad guy means that Ben is a good guy... I'm fine with that. Ben seemed to sincerely want to save Locke's life, only to wind up killing him (again!). When Locke mentioned going to see Ms. Hawking it set Ben off. I think his crazy brain realized at that instant that the only way to get Locke back to the island was to use Hawking to send them back the old fashioned way... on a plane. and Locke would have to be dead for that to happen.

Was Penny born on the island? Widmore said that he was 17 in 1954. He also said that he was on the island for 30 years so he must have left in 1984. If Penny was born after he left the island, that would make her, at most, 23 years old. There's no way she's 23. So is she the daughter of Widmore and the blonde soldier "Ellie" (Who I believe grows up to be Eloise Hawking)? If that's true, is Penny Faraday's sister? Or is Penny Widmore's adopted "daughter" like Alex was Ben's "daughter"?

All in all, an ok episode last night. I'm looking forward to getting back to the island action next week. I'm curious to find out why Lapedis, Sun, Ben and Locke didn't flash to another time during the crash like Kate, Hurley and Jack did. I look forward to you're thoughts - post them below at will...