Fiddle and bass

Kenny went fishing with our friend Fred today; he caught (and released) 7 bluegills and a largemouth bass. (Possibly fewer than 7 bluegills but 7 catches: Fred said one of them looked familiar.) Afterward we went to a coffeehouse in Oneida where Kate and several other fiddlers/violinists played a recital. Kate and her friend Liz [...]

Hot

It’s been hot and muggy, more so than I’ve been used to. I’m heading to Newport News next week and wondered, if it’s this hot here, how hot is it there? Actually when I checked it was one degree cooler.
Still I did get the grossly overdue mowing in the orchard done… turns out the trees [...]

A job

Heather’s been dissatisfied with her current job for some time now, and decided last January that if things didn’t get better in six months she’d look for a new job. Indeed they didn’t, so she did. After a few weeks with one interview and not much else happening, last Thursday she got calls from four [...]

High

The Adirondack High Peaks are the 46 peaks in the Adirondacks that are over 4000 feet high. Or rather, they were, until later surveys showed a couple of the 46 really are less than 4000 feet, and one that wasn’t on the list is higher than 4000 feet. Revising the list would have made too [...]

This day and that

Father’s Day is the third Sunday in June, so the latest it can be is the 21st, which it what it was this year. That puts it two days before the 23rd, which was my parents’ anniversary… and is ours.
This is a favorable conjunction from the LOOT LOOT LOOT perspective, especially since Heather forgot she [...]

The heres and theres

So:
A week ago Friday we went to my niece’s high school graduation in New Hampshire. We drove there during the day, attended graduation in the evening, drove about an hour back in a Syracusewards direction to Lowell, Massachusetts where we had a hotel room reserved, spent the night, and returned home Saturday. My other sister [...]

More misc mundane

Besides the Buffalo trip…
Kenny had last week off from school, but kind of a rough time. He’d come down with a virus in the middle of the week before; by last weekend he was pretty much over it, but was coughing a lot due presumably to postnasal drip, and sometimes he’d gag, and then… well. [...]

The mundane lately

Kenny got his first tip on his green belt yesterday. I guess it’s mathematically possible for him to get the second tip a month from now and then test for brown belt in April, though I’m guessing May — or perhaps even later — will be more likely. That’s out of the intermediate levels and [...]

Hereby resolve

For the dojo we’re supposed to come up with a list of ten goals for 2009 — not exclusively martial arts goals, but goals of any and all kinds. I view these as not quite the same as resolutions, or rather as a particular type of resolution. These are not things we’re going to try [...]

Christamas hath made an end, well-a-day

Heather went back to work Friday, and most of the local school kids and University staff resumed their labors today; but the New School had a day off (for the kids, not the teachers) and I took one more day myself. So tomorrow it’s back to work.
Did I mention the New Year’s party? No? Heather’s [...]