I've been busy coordinating the PTSA bookfair that starts next week. Thank GOD for wonderful friends and volunteers. It makes the job easy. You know who you are - THANK-YOU!
Ingrid had a school project to make a clothes-pin doll that resemble one of our ancestors. She chose Polly Snow Morton (her Great^5 Grandmother on the Morton side). Here she is knitting a shawl to go on the doll. She is actully kniting a lacy pattern with yarn-overs and knit-2-togethers. Very Cool. I am working on my 3rd pair of socks. Lovin' this couch time with her.....
Last Sunday we went looking for Bald Eagles that had reportedly been roosting near the Hudson River. Well a day late - an eagle short. However, on the way I noticed a LARGE bird on an overhead power line. We stopped and turned around and it was still there. It was this BARRED OWL. We learned about them in 4H at a meeting last year. He flew off to this tree right along a busy road. Sat there for a long time while we spied him thru the binoculars and took some pictures. They don't do him justice - but a good remembrance of the "occasion".
The other neat part was that along our road on the very same trip home, we also saw a Red Tailed Hawk. And then, almost best of all - - - on our way home after dark the next day a strange critter ran accross the driveway and shuffled off into the woods. We think it was a large mink, or more likely, a small fisher. VERY COOL INDEED. The following is the girls first musical composition, complete with staff, time signature, G-cleff and lyrics (with hyphens where you are supposed to sing on more than one note!!!). It is a RIOT. I only wish it wasn't on a white board. I can't save it!!! It is entitled: "Pet P.J.'s". Here are the lyrics if you can't read them in the picture and want to sing along! My pet dress-es in my P.-J.'s. They get fur-ry. With fur. My P.-J.'s feel funny.
I'm still fighting with the BLOGGER ways. The following picture SHOULD HAVE been where the owl picture was. This is Cohoes Falls. It is the area the Bald Eagles were in for several weeks. The falls are on the Mohawk river. The Mohawk actually divides into 4 branches as they all dump into the Hudson river. The area is loaded with islands. A very picturesque location. One of our favorite places to go hiking is one of the islands that has a trail all the way around. There are also a lot of hydro-electric generating stations in the area. Some are over 100 years old and quite historic.
The following came to me in an e-mail this morning. I thought the message was very good. Consider this when you have YOUR next cup-o-joe and/or are "stressed"! g
Last Sunday we went looking for Bald Eagles that had reportedly been roosting near the Hudson River. Well a day late - an eagle short. However, on the way I noticed a LARGE bird on an overhead power line. We stopped and turned around and it was still there. It was this BARRED OWL. We learned about them in 4H at a meeting last year. He flew off to this tree right along a busy road. Sat there for a long time while we spied him thru the binoculars and took some pictures. They don't do him justice - but a good remembrance of the "occasion".
The other neat part was that along our road on the very same trip home, we also saw a Red Tailed Hawk. And then, almost best of all - - - on our way home after dark the next day a strange critter ran accross the driveway and shuffled off into the woods. We think it was a large mink, or more likely, a small fisher. VERY COOL INDEED. The following is the girls first musical composition, complete with staff, time signature, G-cleff and lyrics (with hyphens where you are supposed to sing on more than one note!!!). It is a RIOT. I only wish it wasn't on a white board. I can't save it!!! It is entitled: "Pet P.J.'s". Here are the lyrics if you can't read them in the picture and want to sing along! My pet dress-es in my P.-J.'s. They get fur-ry. With fur. My P.-J.'s feel funny.
I'm still fighting with the BLOGGER ways. The following picture SHOULD HAVE been where the owl picture was. This is Cohoes Falls. It is the area the Bald Eagles were in for several weeks. The falls are on the Mohawk river. The Mohawk actually divides into 4 branches as they all dump into the Hudson river. The area is loaded with islands. A very picturesque location. One of our favorite places to go hiking is one of the islands that has a trail all the way around. There are also a lot of hydro-electric generating stations in the area. Some are over 100 years old and quite historic.
The following came to me in an e-mail this morning. I thought the message was very good. Consider this when you have YOUR next cup-o-joe and/or are "stressed"! gThe Coffee or The Cup 
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups .. . . . Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything." Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. Have a blessed day and enjoy your coffee!
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