Li Life

• Luxury boarding facilities will pamper your pet

  Some people have security blankets. Molly, a 3-year-old Maltese from Manhasset, has a toy porcupine.

• Celebrations

  Dayney-Fazzolare

• Congregation raises tents to raise awareness of Darfur

  The tent, rising on a sunlit lawn, is both a grim reminder and a message of peace and hope.

• Irene Virag: Virag: Forgot eggplants? What was I thinking

  I don't know whether time speeded up when I wasn't looking in my vegetable garden this season or I was simply too busy worrying about the roses to notice the Swiss chard, but suddenly everything was going wild. The lettuce was about to bolt, the squash was trying to strangle the tomatoes, the beans were reaching over the obelisk and the eggplant - ohmygod, the eggplant was missing, and it was all my fault.

• Beth Whitehouse: In Westbury, a Treehouse for kids and parents

  Four-year-old Andrew Margaritis, dressed in a white martial arts uniform snugly cinched with a green belt, gleefully flipped his mother onto her back at Orly's Treehouse in Westbury one recent Thursday morning.

• Who's Cooking: Allen Bernhard of Rocky Point

  ALLEN BERNHARD

• Long Island photos featured on blog

  Diana Faria, regrettably, has never been to Paris. She always wanted to know what it was like to live there, to pass by the Champs-Élysées, or feel the breeze by the Seine River.

• Beth Whitehouse: PARENTAL GUIDANCE: Ways to put child's sleep issues to bed

  My 2-year-old wakes up at 2a.m. daily screaming, "Mommy, I want to come down!" This has been going on for more than a month. We've tried several times letting her cry it out for up to an hour, but that hasn't worked. Out of pure exhaustion, we've resorted to bringing her into our bed. How do we get her to sleep in her crib all night?

• Babylon

  Reports from county or village police, July 3-12.

• Hempstead East

  Reports from county or village police, June 29-July 5.

• Huntington

  Reports from county or village police, July 3-12.

• East End

  Reports from county or village police, June 29-July 12.

• Love Story: I found Mr. Right at a friend's wedding

  Penny and Norman Schuster of Lawrence have always shared a good sense of humor. Penny recalls the day they met and their first date.

• Smithtown

  Reports from county or village police, June 29-July 5.

• Islip

  Reports from county or village police, July 3-12.

• Oyster Bay

  Reports from county or village police, June 29-July 5.

• North Hempstead

  Reports from county or village police, June 29-July 5.

• Teen remembered in yearly swim

  It's July 1999, and 17-year-old Maggie Fischer of Brightwaters is rigorously training to take part in the Great South Bay Cross Bay Swim. The strenuous 5.2-mile benefit swim starts at the Fire Island Lighthouse dock and concludes at Gilbert Park in Brightwaters, and she and a group of enthusiastic swimmers are just crazy enough to brave it.

• Brookhaven

  Reports from county or village police, July 3-12.

• Anniversaries

  65th

• Anniversaries

  60th

• WINNERS

  Shetal Shah

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: HUNTINGTON

  HUNTINGTON

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: BABYLON

  BABYLON

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: ISLIP

  ISLIP

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: SMITHTOWN

  SMITHTOWN

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: BROOKHAVEN

  BROOKHAVEN

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: OYSTER BAY

  OYSTER BAY

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: NORTH HEMPSTEAD

  NORTH HEMPSTEAD

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: HEMPSTEAD EAST

  HEMPSTEAD

• TOWN HALL AGENDA: EAST END

  EAST HAMPTON

• Reunions

  FRANKLIN K. LANE HIGH SCHOOL '58. A 50-year reunion is Sept. 20 at the LaGuardia Marriott. Call Barry Pearlstein at 561-799-3909; e-mail bsp2@comcast.net; or call Gary Busman at 609-235-9288.

• Pet and Home Sitters come to your cats and dogs

  Like George Costanza said in that episode of "Seinfeld":

• High hopes for Sitting Pretty bird-sitting service

  Talk about a fledgling business.

• Wanted: Bethpage assailant, Holbrook home invader

  Nassau County police and its Crime Stoppers department are looking for a man who stabbed another man at a Bethpage nightclub.

• Snapshots of Long Island abound online

  Maybe it's the blogosphere's way of saying that Long Island is a place you have to see to believe. Because as Long Island-centric blogs pop up on the Internet, an increasing number are using photos to tell their stories, lifelong love affairs with the beaches, mansions and the overall landscape of LI.

• LI KIDS: THIS WEEK

  THEATER

• Birthday

  104th

• Putting swimming in focus

  If your child wears glasses or contacts, he may be happy to learn that prescription children's swimming goggles are available through aclens.com. You give the company your child's prescription and eye doctor's phone number, and the company makes goggles to order. They sell for $30.95 and come in black, blue or green, and usually ship within a day or so, says Peter Clarkson, chief executive of the Ohio company. The lenses are 100 percent protected for ultraviolet light, types A and B. Lenses are available to correct for nearsightedness or farsightedness.

• Creative License

  Bert Fayda has been a wine enthusiast for more than 30 years. All of the Huntington resident's friends call him a wine snob. He says "the plate is on a BMW convertible and it gets more attention than the car."

• Take me home

  Flora, a 5-year-old pit bull mix, is a cancer survivor. A malignant tumor was removed from her rear leg, and now this gentle girl is looking for a new permanent home or a foster family. She loves to play ball, enjoys the company of other dogs, but has a different opinions of cats. Contact Bideawee in Westhampton at 631-325-0200.

• LI KIDS: KIDS STUFF

  Gator Golf