20100420 Trip to ILL to see Katie's Choral concert

We drove, it was fun, we took Monica's friend so Monica would have someone to talk with for the 32 hrs in the car there and back

Them Presbyterians have a serious church in Bloomington


The choir was lovely. Esp Katie


The obligatory fam pho


Monica and Lauren found ways to amuse themselves

20100424 Tree Trimming

2 major walnuts, hanging over back porch and garage
2 minor (20') trees
1 Gigundus Black Cherry threatening neighbor's

Tree trimming today. 4 hrs. So very sore.



Top left, top middle; before/after of walnut over garage
Middle left, bottom left; before/after of 2 small trees and large black cherry
Middle, bottom middle; before/after of walnut over back porch
Right, the people who climbed and cut, knowing how to do the branch-ectomy without doing a Joseph-ectomy or a house-ectomy.

A few more pics at the web album, HERE.

20100404 Easter at the Ferguson's

Eastertime, this year in Syracuse

The gazebo at their church after the service

And a walk at the fishery

And dyeing eggs

And hunting eggs

And silliness

And art

20100313 Spring Break, the Fam shows Kristy Boston

It rained. A lot.


Old North was pretty awesome


There be lobsters


The obligatory panorama (must edit power line...)

20100309 Monica's Pops Band Concert

The band



The Clarinet Section


The Clarinet Section after their highlighted piece


And the ensuing discussion afterwards...

20100227 So little snow :(

Even though the new windows are in (only one to go and all to paint)




We only got a smidgen of snow..




But it was real purty

20100216 The casements are going in

(having issues moving images where I want them on the post so these are reverse ordered)

During:

Before:

20100213 Makin' Cookies

For Valentine's Day I made big and little sandwich cookies.

They are so cute.

...and bite sized...

20100202 New doors roughed in

To the back:


To the front



And the double cracking leaky windy doors have been finally replaced!

20091220 More Putting up the tree.

Yeah, so, they like the lighting of the candles thing...


Apparently, the antlers are considered "cute" this year. Had I known the kids expected something beefier, I would have lopped off a pine tree.

20091220 More putting up the tree...

20091220 Putting up the Christmas tree

Today was the first day our schedules allowed us to all be in the same place at the same time to get a tree and decorate it.