Something from everyday goings on.
Arden decided she wanted to make a christmas list. So all she wanted for christmas was a toy T-Bone( from the Clifford the Big Red Dog TV Series) and a computer*. So she ran and got a piece of paper and a pen. Very excited she said “Dad what is the first letter of T-Bone?” “T” I said. “OK,” she said. Slight pause. “How do you make a ‘T'”
We had work to do…
*We asked her what a computer did, she said, “You push buttons and it makes silly sounds.” She is right in so many ways.
My friend Ed Peck has just come up with(in my opinion) a stellar idea, Haiku Musical. Distilling the High School Musical down into little bit size pieces. What more could you want?
Have you ever wanted to just to to a person when on customer service? well I found the answer. a website that lists the toll free numbers and key punches necessary to talk to a real person when dealing with companies. Find it here. It has credit card companies, banks car rentals you name it they probably have it. There is also a print version and a downloadable version so you can have it on the go.
Enjoy
I just read in Time magazine that the Arctic ice maybe totally melted by 2030. I never thought that my mortgage would last longer that the Arctic. Weird.
Ann and I started exercising. We have worked out a schedule that we each have two mornings a week to go work out. This means that I finally got some running shoes/sneakers to work out in. THis is the first pair of gym shoes I’ve bought in years. During the school year I always wear my Doc Marten boots or my Doc Marten shoes. During the summer(or Weekends) wear sandals weather permitting.
McKelvey’s take on this was:
“Daddy when I look down just at your feet you don’t look like my dad.”
I have posted some new pictures. Enjoy them. I have gone back to my old way of doing the photos. For a while I was trying to use this software called Gallery to organize things, but it was to complicated. now I am back to generating the photos using a different program called “Galerie”. easier is better most of the time.
I stumbled across this YouTube video over at the Make Magazine website. I’ve done this on a much smaller scale with McKelvey and Arden they loved it. When you put enough cornstarch in the water, it becomes a solid when force is exerted on it, then melts into a liquid again when the force recedes. pretty cool.
So I packed Liam up in the stroller to run an errand last Friday. I was going over to the local organic grocers to pick up our weekly share of vegetables from the CSA(Community Supported Agriculture) we are a part of. I was using the stroller to cut down on the use of gas, we walked across the lawn I mowed this morning using a manual push reel mower(used to reduce carbon emissions). I took this all in for a moment and said to my self, boy am I a liberal or what.
Well we are back from our grand tour. It is so nice to be back at home. That being said we had the best time on our trip.
We started off with a Native American ‘Pow-wow’ in NJ, the day before we got on the plane. There was some amazing outfits and dances, McKelvey said, “Daddy, I loved indians more than princesses.” Then on Sunday, we got to visit our friend Joanna & Rob and got to meet their new baby Henry. Then we got on the plane that evening and the kids fell asleep ’til we landed at 9-am Monday.
When we first moved into the new house, the house across the street was rented out by a visiting professor and his family. We became great friends over the 4 months they were here. While in Ireland, we played at their house ands took day trips from there. Ann had the exciting opportunity of driving on the opposite side of the street.
We visited Dublin one day, hitting the hop-on hop-off bus to take a tour of the city. We went up to the open top of the double decker bus. It rained. We went to the Dublin Zoo. It rained. However the kids had a lovely time anyway.
After much computer trouble I have gotten the pictures online. Enjoy.
More to come later…