A walk through Huntley Meadows, the local wetlands made very viewable by a boardwalk the winds across it, always turns up some interesting stuff. Yesterday, John, Bobby, Joy, Calvin, and I saw: a snapping turtle laying eggs; several snapping turtles moving slowly in the water; a snapping turtle moving quite quickly in the water plus […]
There is a squished Northern Brownsnake on the street near us. My first worry was that it was Slither, our snake from the science fair. But John and I took a closer look and with some rough measurements concluded that this snake was at least a couple inches too short to be Slither. Plus Slither […]
John has plenty to say. The problem is the only conversations he wants to have are about the following: Pokemon, weapons, big butts, Captain Underpants, and potty humor. While I will answer questions about which is my favorite Pokemon (Ponyta!) I refuse to have a favorite weapon.
Another problem with this is that I don’t […]
This is the kind of article that strikes fear in my heart. It is about how what used to be second tier schools aren’t these days because the Ivies have gotten so selective that these “new Ivies” are getting much more competitive. With the Ivies turning away 9 out of 10 kids there are lots […]
Caroline has managed her chemistry class with little moaning and groaning and fairly good grades. One big project we did hear about, but not in a bad way, was her group project for a contest called Toshiba/ National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision that her teacher has the students enter every year. The entry her group […]
Caitlin’s softball team has a tradition of grilling between Sunday afternoon games. For Mother’s Day, the Dad’s went all out and put on an amazing spread. The moms dined on china with real silver and crystal glasses to drink our sparkling water and juice (no alcohol allowed on school property!) Following shrimp cocktail and smoked […]
Wow. Nineteen years. As I like to tell Scotty, “I married the right guy.”
The problem with Captain Underpants books is you just can’t stop reading them. Scotty had to make John stop about midnight last night as he was finishing up his second one of the evening. Of course, maybe I shouldn’t have said about 9:30 that he could stay up and read if he wanted to.
Ever since I read this article about tail wagging in dogs I can’t look at a wagging tail and not analyze it. To summarize:
When dogs feel fundamentally positive about something or someone, their tails wag more to the right side of their rumps. When they have negative feelings, their tail wagging is biased to the […]
We’ve been on the Billy Ray bandwagon since before Dancing with the Stars began. We heard the talk before the show that he was too much of a has-been to even qualify as a “B” level star. But, as Hannah Montana fans we knew that he was reemerging. (Did I just admit to being Hannah […]