Archive for January, 2008

More Goats

 This is one of the funniest papers that has come home from kindergarten.  Edison had to choose an animal to draw out of a huge magazine filled with animals and he picked a “got”  (for all of you phonetically challenged folks, that would be a goat).  Notice that the goat is eating all of the [...]

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All things cold – snowmen, refrigerators & all of upstate New York

Sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve posted.  Everyone here has been sick.  Again.  What a winter for us (thanks kindergarten!)  Tonight Edison and I are throwing an “It’s not your birthday.  It’s not my birthday.  Party anyway. PARTY“  This pretty much just includes brownies and homemade cards to dad.    We’ll probably throw in [...]

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Cakes

  On Sunday night we had a “first birthday” party for Claudia – who turned one on January 2nd.  The house was packed with 22 guests (plus the four of us) and somehow we all managed to fit into the kitchen and living room – with one couch, er, futon and 5 dining room chairs [...]

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the car that could be worse than the goat

I’ve resisted writing about this, but the time has come to share the news in blogland about my “new” car.  In our quest for using more eco-friendly fuel sources we decided to go to all diesel vehicles.  [we're starting to experiment with making our own bio-diesel] Garrison bought his 1982 diesel Mercedes in October of [...]

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Happy New Year

It’s only January and I’m already craving color – that is not a good thing in upstate new york where we still have at least 3 more months of the color combo of white and slushy gray.  So green background for awhile.  Hope it doesn’t hurt your eyes.
Christmas was great – lots of traveling but it [...]

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