Archive for November, 2012
Both Rockwell and Melinda are in this Edition.
Rockwell placed 3rd in his age group in a track competition, and Melinda had a part in the 5-6th grade play “Bunnicula”. Kath said the play went off really well.
Melinda and Rockwell received their report cards recently.. Melinda received her first b she ever got.. in Spanish. It’s sort of unfortunate, because all the kids in the school have been taking Spanish since they where in kindergarten, and this is the first year she has ever taken it. I’m impressed she received a B in this situation… Way to go Melinda! Rockwell received all “satisfactory” I guess they don’t give letter grades in his grade. He did really well, he loves math. All of his teachers love him. Actually, we received another “I wish all my students where like Melinda” note from a teacher. That always makes us feel good.
Anyway, Here is the newsletter.
Posted on 30 November '12 by admin, under Activities, kids, school. No Comments.
Hannah and I did 12.5 miles on the bikes today. We rode to the Greeneway, and all the way to the end and back. We went at a leisurely pace.. took about 1.5 hours. I have to remember to do that more often. We talked the whole way. It was nice. Maybe we can try to make it a Saturday thing.
Posted on 24 November '12 by admin, under Activities, sports. 1 Comment.
“Beta Club? Why you no make it into Alpha club?”
Well, it was funny to me at least.
Hannah was asked to join the Beta Club as school. I’m not exactly sure what the qualifications are, but I am pretty sure the teachers have to recommend you. It’s good to be recognized, isnt it?? Congratulations H! Keep up the good work. I know you have been giving school work some effort, and it really shows. I have told her before so she knows; often the effort is worth more than the raw intellectual power… Put both together and watch out!
Posted on 19 November '12 by admin, under kids, school. No Comments.
OK, actually chickens… The last few days I have found feathers in the yard from Rockwell’s chicken. Nothing special.. but then this morning I go out to the coop and let the chickens out, and look at Rockwell’s chicken… Omygoodness… did the chickens have a knockdown drag out fight or something ? Rockwell’s chicken is half naked!
OK, wait.. its half naked on its belly too… whats going on.
Turns out She is molting. And if you have not seen this before, you would probably want to kill it and put it out of its misery.. because a molting chicken is UUUGLY. Ill have to get a picture before the day is through just to show you an ugly chicken.
OK, here is a molting chicken.. This picture does not do the ugly justice.. you cant see the missing feathers on her belly and under her wings. Holding her is as much fun as holding a brillo pad instead of the “normal” of a nice downy pillow!
Posted on 18 November '12 by admin, under chickens. 1 Comment.
Ran the “gasping gobbler” 5k fun run today. I would post a web page if they had one…:p. Anyway, there were about 125 people in the race, and I came in 50th at 29:37:00 I made my goal of under 30 by a hair. Not bad after not being able to run this summer.. I just picked it up again a month ago. Hannah did not want to get up at 7:30 on a Saturday.. her sleeping in mornings on weekends are precious to her.. as in “ahhg.. my precioussss”..
Here is another picture of all of us that ran that day.
Posted on 17 November '12 by admin, under Activities. 1 Comment.
Hannah and I drove out to Charleston this weekend for a neat event: The Charleston Young Adult Book Festival.
There were 40 authors there to sign their books! It was fun. The events were spread out on King street. You had to walk between the book store and the theater and the Charleston music hall. It was a bigger event than you would give a book fair credit for.
Hannah Took some books from her library to get signed. Here she is getting her “Hack the SAT” book signed by Eliot Schrefer
And here she is talking to “Pseudonymous Bosch” Author of “The name of this book is secret”. Hannah had this book since elementary school. Hannah requested that he wrote her name in morse code. He looked up at her, thought for a second and realized she was serious.. Smiled and knew he was bested, and said, “OK, how about if I write your name backward”.. It was a good interaction.
Here she is getting one of her books signed by Gitty Daneshavari. Gitty asked what Hannah was afraid of, and Hannah replied “snakes.. What? wait! I’m not afraid of snakes!, I WANT a snake! I’m afraid of fear!” And Gitty replied ” Ah yes! Phobophobia! Very nice. This was a good interaction too. Actually, they all were.
Here she is talking to Trenton Lee Stuart We had attended a forum with him and Pseudonymous earlier in he day.
Over all it was a good day! We stopped at Grandpa Bob’s house and had Dinner with Bob and Anne. Christine was there with the youngest cousin Ethan. Ethan was giving Hannah fits! Chasing her around and bugging her. We all thought it was hilarious, certainly because of the karma/payback factor.
Posted on 11 November '12 by admin, under Activities, kids. No Comments.
So on the way to school, Hannah said “Some people have to wait until they are 21 to vote”. I was in the process of thinking of what she might be referring to, and about to say “the voting age is 18” when she said “Ill be able to vote in the next Presidential election”.
Ahhh. Yes, people that turn 18 today wont be able to vote till they are 21!
I’m just glad she is even thinking about it.
Posted on 7 November '12 by admin, under kids. No Comments.
OK.. This is supposed to be loosely based off of the play “Antigone” (by sophocles.)
I like a couple things she did here.. the Latin.. (“Unicornium humilitatum et iris mannis breui dabitur mori dolore.” = “Unicorns and rainbow ponies shall soon die of grief.”), “that escalated quickly” a funny saying we say to each other too often. The poetic verse when the sheriff talks to “Mit”. The flying pigs. I also like that she gives her homework to me to email to her teacher… It lets me read it!
anyway, without further adieu: givertaker
Oh, and congrats to Obama in winning a second term.
Posted on 7 November '12 by admin, under school. No Comments.
There was a line even before it opened! Lots of interest.
Posted on 6 November '12 by admin, under Activities. No Comments.
She might have Dengue fever… I guess its semi common down there. A couple of the teachers and students have it? I guess it’s caused by the “aides aegipti mosquito”, and they are out in force this time of year. It probably does not help that the school does not have glass windows.. heh. (they have louvers) The principle said they “will be supplying citronella candles and Deet spray to each classroom” We will know tomorrow if she has it. She has to go to the doctor for a blood test.
Posted on 5 November '12 by admin, under school. 1 Comment.
