January 11, 2006
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Tumbleweeds
The
Rice Krispie Remington sculptures are over. The kids were a mite
overwhelmed with trying to make a horse, so we had a tomahawk, a
tumbleweed, and a chair/tomahawk/boot thing in addition to one horse made by an extremely artistic child. But, they all
enjoyed eating their creations and seeing Remington’s statues and paintings. Strangely enough, it turns out that our pastor’s
great-great-great uncle (or one more great or two) was Frederic
Remington! How neat is that?Tonight the kids and I head to Lock Haven to watch Penn State wrestle.
I’m not a big wrestling fan, but my boys are. But, I get to go out to
dinner, which makes it worth the trip. Libby (11) is planning to
take along her crocheting. The boys are unaware of this pink,
puffy yarn coming along and will probably be mortified!I got a real chuckle today on the way home from Art and Music when
Rachel (6) was chatting about how her friend Abby was teaching her how
to cross her eyes. “You don’t know how to cross your eyes?” exclaimed
an incredulous Libby. “Michael, did you hear Rachel doesn’t know
how to cross her eyes?” “What? You can’t cross your eyes? Geesh!”
answered Michael. I guess somehow I left eye crossing out of the
daily curriculum.How many of you can’t cross your eyes? How about rolling your tongue?
Many thanks to everyone for your great comments! To answer a few
questions, I’m not using Great Artists, but I have it as a
reference. Thank you for the link, Mathmom! I didn’t know what
you meant by “translate” until I realized the site was all in
French! I loved Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
and have Truss’s new book on manners on request at the library.
We should just start an “I Love Dictionary.com” blogring. I didn’t
realize there were so many fans! And, I feel honored to have my
first comment from a cat.
Comments (5)
Mary,
Thanks for stopping by my site the other day. It is always nice hearing from new people. I hope your daughter got a lot of crocheting done tonight and your boys were still left clueless to its existance. LOL Have a great night.
~Danielle (sonofwillfamily)
I could probably join your dictionary,com blogring. I love the written word. I love words, and learning about them and using them. I love my large unabridged dictionary, and I confess that I do not generally look up words online, but my son loves to look up words via Dictionary.com. He also found a German dictionary online for us when we were studying German that would pronounce the word in question. Now that we are playing Scrabble, he will sit and read the dictionary, too. We have the game on the breakfast table sometimes and play a few turns every meal. He beat me by 100 points yesterday — an unprecedented event! Scrabble is my favorite game and I am honored to have such a worthy opponent. I am wondering how many of these people who love the dictionary also love Scrabble? I am betting there is a connection.
Good thoughts, Mary!… two other great sites – Thesaurus.com and Wikipedia.org !
Also, it would be interesting to find out what news sources everybody uses… internet? newspaper? TV? I’ve tried a bunch of internet ones, like CNN, FOX, BBC, MSNBC, NYTimes and Google, and my favorite is BBC… it gives a nice, balanced worldwide perspective. I go to CNN or Google if I’m in the mood for “more liberal” news or FOX if I want “more conservative” news. MSNBC and NYTimes are “off-the-deep-end”/too-liberal for me.
How about you?
I’m back!!! I am able to cross my eyes, but as for the tongue no such luck! Rice Krispie treats ymmm, think I’ll make some tonight.
“Truss’s new book on manners?” Oh, I hadn’t seen that one, thanx, I’ll check it out.