Cathy's Attempts to Help Me With Ceramics Class

FYI,

The Today Show featured "Top 5 Websites" which were very interesting.

Here is a FREE site - How to's on video:

www.expertvillage.com - how to site on how to...play the sitar to care of hermit crabs to gravel roads to body wraps and more.

Give this one a try! I highly recommend that this be added to our site.

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How pitiful to have not posted for so long

What have I been doing lo these many months? Work, Summer Reading Program - Very Ladybug-like, Cooking up a Storm, then off to France for two weeks with a side trip to Spain and then back to Build Your Own Fairy House and then prep for the new school year. We hosted a Spanish Exchange student for three weeks and Cathy and I are taking a ceramic class - throwing on the wheel. Next week we are off to Jonesborough, TN for the National Storytelling Festival.

All of these topics ought to have a separate entry but for now this will have to do.

Happy Fall.

I Write Things Down...

on scraps of paper, envelopes, post-its and I find them at random times and sometimes I can barely remember why the quote appealed to me and what I was thinking at the time that I felt compelled to scribble it down while driving on I 95 or cleaning or walking the track...

Here are a few examples:

Are you an IDIOT?
No, sir, I'm a dreamer.
-Scrubs

Small dog licking your face
-B. Dylan

Stupid's supposed to hurt
-Kid in the library who's friend fell off skateboard


i been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
and bendin over backwards just to try to see it clearer
my breath fogged up the glass
so i drew a new face and laughed
i guess what i'm sayin is there ain't no better reason
to rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons

-Jason Mraz

For the cake lovers out there

The Public Library Association (PLA) recently held a conference called Turning the Page: Building Your Library Community, a unique, online professional development opportunity for public librarians, trustees and library supporters. At that event they had a most appropriate cake made on the Food Network's Ace of Cakes program.

Is the end ever in sight?

Our house project is almost complete. The addition is beautiful and needs only a few little tweaks. It's a little too soon to re-grade the lawn, so Marvel tore down the garage and we will soon have a new one in a slightly different location. Maggie needn't worry that her new best bud and lunch-time companion will be gone soon.

Spring Break in NYC

We had a whirlwind tour of New York City. Hannah and I have been there several times but it has been years since Reene or I visited a NYC museum and Hannah has never gone to any in New York. This was Rachel's first trip to the Big Apple. So we bought the City Pass and managed to visit five of the six attractions: The Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Empire State Building and we took the circle Line cruise around the Statue of Liberty. Add to that, Greenwich Village, Rockefeller Center, Ground Zero, Saint Peter's, Times Square, and Young Frankenstein.

Letterpop

I experimented with Letterpop. It was easy to upload my photos and to work with the stock photos. There's a wonderful assortment of templates from which to choose. These are divided into catagories such as holidays, birthdays, journals, etc.

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