Laugh all you want, but this is the 3rd night that I have tried to finish and post this baby, but run into a variety of problems each time. I started this post on Sunday around 1:30 and well, it's Tuesday night. So, forgive the disarray and enjoy.
First, we have, out of order, some BEASTLY turkeys from Pennsylvania! This has become one of my new favorite webcam sites. Although, now that I am much busier due to the start of softball season, and me being the assistant sb coach, I really don't have much time to check in with my critters.
This is "The North Troll" site in Kalkaska, MI. At least 20 turkeys gather here from time to time, but they are not as gargantuan as the PA turkeys.
In preparation for the almighty ISAT testing that Baleigh has at Giant City School this week, her teacher had the whole class meet on Sunday at 5 pm at Italian Village to eat supper. She gave out prizes for various awards that each child won throughout the evening. Baleigh won the biggest comedian award. She told jokes through supper because, of course, she wasn't eating any of the pizza. She won some silly string in a can and was quite happy with that. Her teacher finished the evening with a pep talk for the tests and then read a poem that she wrote about the ISATs. I will post the poem next week when I get a copy.
Baleigh took this picture of her class eating at IV's (Carbondale lingo for Italian Village). Most of the parents ate there for supper as well. It was pretty fun.
In preparation for the almighty ISAT testing that Baleigh has at Giant City School this week, her teacher had the whole class meet on Sunday at 5 pm at Italian Village to eat supper. She gave out prizes for various awards that each child won throughout the evening. Baleigh won the biggest comedian award. She told jokes through supper because, of course, she wasn't eating any of the pizza. She won some silly string in a can and was quite happy with that. Her teacher finished the evening with a pep talk for the tests and then read a poem that she wrote about the ISATs. I will post the poem next week when I get a copy.
Baleigh took this picture of her class eating at IV's (Carbondale lingo for Italian Village). Most of the parents ate there for supper as well. It was pretty fun.
After Tuesday, we are steadily in the 50's and 60's for the next 10 days, which includes our spring break! We can't wait to get to our landscaping projects and to Daylight Saving Time! (There is officially no "s" in Saving(s) ya know - Wikopedia told me so). We had a taste of the warmth on Thursday when it reached 70 degrees! Of course, then it sleeted Saturday morning.
Softball officially begins tomorrow (Mon) and I am bracing myself for the busy-ness of it. Baleigh has 2 more basketball games left, but soccer begins on the same day of her last basketball game. Then, her softball practices begin on April 15th, games begin May 1st. Dan is supervising the weight room for the football players on Mon, Wed, and Fri after school (since November), and he started having "open field" on Saturday mornings. I really don't mind the hustle and bustle when it is all outside. Obviously, I am hoping for a mild spring though! I'm sure Chad is hoping for the same with his girls' soccer team getting in gear as well:)
Our spring break officially begins this Friday at 3:06. Things we are hoping to accomplish include:
1) Begin landscaping project if the dirt dries enough. (See the "before" picture below)
2) Uh...finally replace the temporary (PAPER) blinds with REAL shades in our bedroom! How embarrassing! Obviously, I don't let anyone too close to our bedroom - haha
3) Visit with family and friends.
4) Camp out or at least sit by a fire.
5) Starve myself -oops! I mean work out daily :)
6) Clean out our vehicles.
7) Look into setting up our own critter cam.
8) Probably some other things that I haven't thought of yet.
9) See. I already thought of something. Find and give stuff to Goodwill.
Speaking of critter cams... I found 3 other webcam sites that I added to my favorites and check on regularly. Bruce's Critter Cam is in Indiana County, PA. He has 6 different cams that you can get VERY close-up views of deer, raccoons, possums, squirrels, chipmunks, birds (so far). His site is at http://bruce1956.proboards86.com/index.cgi Then, there is Mark's Wildlife Cam, also called The North Troll in Kalkaska, MI where they have had 312 inches of snow since Oct 26th! There are several turkeys there plus a troll and a windmill. Mark reports their daily snowfall/weather too. Pretty cool stuff! His link is http://www.northtroll.com/ The other one is in the woods of western Pennsylvania and it looks very inviting for critters, but so far I've seen...well, the woods. Surprisingly, there isn't any snow there. I am hoping that dawn and dusk produce some action. http://www.pixcontroller.com/WebCam/WebCam.htm
LouAnne, how about this little guy? Great pose! I bet you could draw him up real good. Yessiree
Prayers for sweet Aunt Marion.
