Thanksgiving 2009

Lynn shot some nice pictures of the kids @ the cabin. I especially like this one because everyone is true to form. Ben harassing Nick, who's probably getting ready to chomp down on his arm. Jacquie happily playing along with her goofball cousins and Katie trying to play it straight, giving the camera a look that says, "Hey, what did you expect?"

Out of the mouths of babes...

Ben's decided he wants to take up bassoon in band, a switch his band teacher describes as 180 degrees different from trumpet. There are a zillion different valves (or whatever they're called on a bassoon) to manipulate, and he has to learn bass clef after playing treble for 2+ years. Peter and the Wolf seems to have something to do with this - Steve downloaded it last summer and Ben's spent months listening to it before he goes to bed. So this morning I wrote a check for his first bassoon reed. Let the fun begin.
"I know it's totally different (from the trumpet)," he said as I handed him the check. "But the bassoon sounds awesome. It sounds like a fart."

Play?

We got to the cabin for a weekend a couple weeks ago - seems like a long time already. We thought this was a nice picture of Tiger, our most photographed family member.
Then we've got Nick, our second most photographed family member, on the "bridge" he constructed out of not- very-big sticks.

this is a test...

This is only a test to see if the feedburner email feed is working...

Labor Day weekend - not just for working anymore

Hard to believe...

...but school resumes on Wednesday night for me, and in a week for Ben and Nick. (Steve reports that the med students already back at it). We survived a very soggy Chelsea Fair, and I think the boys are eager to get back to a routine (even though it's going to mean waking up a whole lot earlier than we have been the last few weeks.)


I worked a lot this summer:
The boys played Spaceball (and I wrote about it - www.annarborchronicle.com).














We caught a minor league baseball game in North Carolina (and I wrote about it - for the Orion Review!)...

Then we came home and had an energy audit that told us where all the (many) leaky spots are in our house (and, yes, I wrote about it for an edition of Our House that's yet to be published).


















We burned two Christmas trees because last year's Christmas in July got foiled by a crabby dispatcher.














I chose to keep this one on the down-low...

Summer speed update

schools out. baseball. work. drive, visit, drive, baseball, beach, parasail, drive, indian mound, historic, cool, barefoot. stimulus grants, interviews, energy audit, insulation. bike, play, frogs, crickets, good books, grill, sunshine, strawberries, blackberries, mullberries, spinach, lettuce, snowpeas, tomatoes soon. cabin porch roof. wedding wedding wedding.
To be continued...