Finally got my PC working. It has been really acting strangely the last couple of days. I’m pretty computer literate and have been struggling through fixing the problems. I wonder what people do when they don’t have computer skills. Perhaps they call helpdesks, or ask friends and relatives for help.
Brian is going to camp at the museum again this week. Here’s the description of the camp for this week:
Amusement Park Science Camp
We all love amusement parks, with exciting roller coasters, bumper cars, and giant swings. Come to this exciting camp and learn the physics behind the fun. We will spend the week experimenting with gravity, Newton’s Laws of Motion, pendulums and more. Discover the forces that cause things to go up, down and around as you play with different objects and power sources. Oh, did we mention the best part? We will be testing this science at Seabreeze!!! Please note: The children will be going to Seabreeze on Wednesday, July 30. Pick up on that day will be at 5:30 pm at the Eisenhart Auditorium.
The lilac tree I’ve replanted has not been doing well. I hope it lives. We’ve been enjoying Brian’s beans all week, so have the next door neighbors.
We're trying to find an orange dishpan for Brian. He has to bring one to school in September as a place to keep supplies in a cubby. It doesn't have to be orange, but it sure would be nice to find one in his favorite color. I've foungd a new spray paint, Krylon Fusion, that paints holds on plastic. They have 8 colors, orange is not one of them. I've looked all over the internet, can't find any orange ones for sale. If you have one, I'll buy it from you. There must be a 30 year old one from the 1970's still around somewhere.
I went to the family dinner at Camp Cutler yesterday. Brian was very tired. He woke up both mornings at 6:00 to do the polar bear swim. He went to sleep at 11:00 every night. He also enjoyed the archery. Bob says he took a liking to Lisa, a counselor there. One of the counselors dressed up as “Poncho Man” and Brian thought that was the coolest thing. He was singing “Poncho Poncho Man” to the tune of Macho Man all weekend. On the last night Brian led the charge to have a skit that involved Poncho Man.
Today we did some chores around the house. There is a leak in a pipe from the upstairs guest bathroom. It flooded the space between the floor of the bathroom and the ceiling of the dining room. The ceiling has water stains now. Worse than that, Bob drilled 5 holes in the ceiling and placed buckets beneath the holes. Water has been dripping out of them all day. This is a big problem. Bob is going to consult his father, who does plumbing and electrical work, on what our options are.
Some friends invited us over for dinner, so we got a chance to relax a little. Bob and Brian rode their bikes to and from their house. They live a couple miles away and most of the route is along the bike path.
Brian picked his beans today. He planted his first vegetable garden this year. He was so excited about it he watered his pumpkins for the first time in weeks.
I took Brian and the boy next door to get ice cream today. We were going to stop at the playground too, but it started to rain.
Fred has taken up permanent residency in Brian's room. Fred's cage was moved all over the house today so Brian could have him near by. I think he is afraid to pick him up now because he didn't get Fred out of his cage all day.
I go back to work tomorrow, the guys are going to Cub Scout camp. They are packed already, and prepared! Brian says he wants to do the polar bear swim at camp, which is done around 6:00 AM. He woke up at 9:45 this morning; he has some adjusting to do.
Brian had a girl from his class come over for a play date. I bought some extra baking soda and vinegar so they could erupt some volcanoes with a kit he got for his birthday. They erupted one volcano then poured all the baking soda and vinegar together in a bowl and let it bubble over down the driveway. I asked them to hose down the driveway while I brought the volcano inside. When I came back out 30 seconds later they were both all wet. I should have known better. After they changed into dry clothes they decided to see the movie Finding Nemo. It was pretty scary for them.
Later, after Brian’s friend went home we went shopping. I bought a book . Brian decided to buy some new tubes for Fred’s cage. Fred is one of his hamsters. Since Fred behaved very well when Brian brought him to school in June, Brian wanted to buy him something special. Brian got it all put together and we tried to coax Fred up into his new lookout tower. We couldn’t get him to go up, so Brian decided to place him in it. Somehow Fred fell to the ground (3 feet) instead of going in his new tower. Fred hid out in his cage and wouldn’t eat cheese, his favorite. We got very worried about him. Brian was wracked with guilt over dropping him. I explained to him that accidents happen, even to responsible pet owners, and the good pet owners will see to it that they take good care of the pet to help it recover after an accident. We put Fred’s cage in a quiet place and covered it with a blanket. Brian made signs that warned his father to be extra quiet when he came home from playing golf. We waited a couple hours then we checked on Fred. He was fine, thank goodness. Brian decided that Fred should spend the night in his room so he could watch over him.
Brian didn’t wake up today until 9:20! He woke me up! We’re both staying up late because we’re on vacation. I’ve taken three days vacation to stay home with Brian. On Thursday he and his Dad go to Camp Cutler with their Cub Scout pack. They did some packing today. Bob gave Brian a clipboard and pencil with the camping list. He took the job of overseeing the packing very seriously. “Dad, did you pack shorts? Okay, I’ll check that off, toothpaste?” It was so cute.
Well, Brian is growing up. I am officially uninvited to be around while he is changing his clothes. I actually thought modesty would kick in sooner than this.
We went to the public library today, Brian took out 4 non-fiction books. He said he likes non-fiction better than fiction. That’s just how his father is.
It rained today and I gardened anyway. I got some patio stones on sale at Chase Pitkin. I walked around the yard and figured out where they might be useful. I am going to use a few where we wheel the pool’s sun cover off the cement around the pool. I might use a couple under the slide of Brian’s play gym, it will make it easier to mow around there. I also used this opportunity to check the drainage around the yard. I drilled a few holes in the plastic landscape divider near the shed where some water was pooling right near a hosta.
No work tomorrow!
Today was another beautiful day. Brian and I started the day by watching the TV programs I taped from The Learning Channel last night. I convinced him he could go without Scooby-Doo just one morning. So we started the day watching Trading Spaces, then Pros and Cons. The designers on Trading Spaces were Kia and Hildi. Hildi painted a room pink! Kia’s room actually came out quite well. Brian and I like to watch Trading Spaces together. His favorite designers are Doug and Hildi, the gruesome twosome. My favorites are Vern, Edward and Laurie.
Bob played golf with a couple of the neighbors this morning, a pleasant way to spend a Sunday morning. Brian and I socialized with the neighbors. I read some of Ralph S. Mouse to the little neighbor boy and Brian. Brian wrote some more thank you notes for birthday presents and we called his aunt (my sister) to thank her. I also got in a pleasant chat with her. Later Brian had the neighbor boy on the other side of our house over to play NASCAR on his PS2. They really seemed to be enjoying themselves. Bob and I busied ourselves with chores. I did a little gardening, just watering and cutting some dead branches off some pine trees. Bob helped me fix a drainage problem near a plum tree. I helped him jump start his truck, it had been sitting idle a bit too long.
In the evening we helped Brian with his homework. Brian and I watched Trading Spaces Family, a show on TLC. Then we painted the volcanoes in a kit he got for his birthday. We finished off the evening by finishing off the book Ralph S. Mouse.
Brian went up the stairs to bed telling his father “I didn’t watch Scooby-Doo at all today!”
This morning Brian got a phone call from a boy that he went to nature camp with this past week. He wanted Brian to come over to his house and play. We didn’t have any plans for the day except to catch up on chores around the house, so Bob and I agreed he could go. I spoke to the boy’s mother and agreed on 1:00. This was the first time that we agreed to let Brian go on a play date where we did not know the family. The boy and his family seemed very nice for the few moments I spent with them, but it seemed odd leaving him somewhere like that. I picked him up at 3:00; he was happily playing with his new friend when I got there. I’m glad he made a new friend, and that the friend lives 12 minutes away by car.
My day was spent outside happily gardening. There is a lilac tree in our yard that is dying. This is the second lilac tree we placed in that particular spot in the yard. The first one died last year, the three other lilacs we bought at the same time are thriving and they are all planted in a row very near to each other. I did some reading on the Internet and I found out that lilacs do not like “wet feet”. I removed the stone mulch and garden fabric from around the tree and found the poor lilac was sitting in a puddle. The soil around the roots was thick mud. The ground it was planted in was lower than the surrounding area, so the water always drains right to the lilacs “feet”, getting them all wet. I was able to pull the tree out of the soil, roots and all because the soil was so wet. I put some new soil in the spot and built it up and made a little hill for it. I replanted it and put some extra garden fabric over the roots. I put the stone mulch back and lightly watered it. I hope it makes it. I got a new pot that you put around the post of a patio umbrella, right on the table. There is a hole right through the middle of the pot, so you can’t move the pot unless you take the umbrella out. Here’s a picture of it . I planted some salmon colored impatiens in it. I spent some time training the English ivy to grow on the fence and planted some more ivy on the other side of a garden arbor. I planted a Hosta 'Elisabeth' in a little shade garden off the patio. I hope mine looks like this picture someday. I read in the paper that there is a hosta show at the Dome Center next Thursday and Friday. It sounds interesting.
When I wake up in the morning I’m hungry for two things: breakfast and information. It would be lovely to leisurely eat my breakfast while “Good Morning America” lets me know what happened since the previous evening. Does that ever happen? No! What usually happens is that I eat a quick bowl of cereal while reading the only section of the newspaper Bob’s left behind, the “Living” section. There’s no real news in that, I wouldn’t be surprised if they recycle the articles from time to time. It happened once, I thought to myself, “I read this yesterday”, but the date on the paper was correct. I pulled out the paper from the day before and there it was, the same exact column! But I digress, there’s no “Good Morning America” for me. I’d settle for the “Today” show, or even whatever it is they put on CBS in the morning. What do I get to do every single morning? I’ll tell you, its watch Scooby-Doo, every single morning. Bob’s taped scores of episodes for Brian and he watches them every single morning. It’s really rubbing off on me, every time something minor goes wrong I say “Rut Row”, even at work! The episodes are all the same as when I was a kid. Some shows have guest appearances from “stars” like Dick VanDyke, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, the Harlem Globe Trotters, Jeannie from “I Dream of Jeannie”, Josie and the Pussycats, and the Addams Family. Brian thinks all these people are just cartoons. He’s never seen the real people, except of course Josie and the Pussycats are cartoons. I remember I used to love “I Dream of Jeannie.” What was I thinking? A grown woman running around calling some man Master, I’m embarrassed for myself.
Today was a real humdinger, instead of a quick bowl of cereal and the “Living” section I went out back to water the flowers, and the beans, and the pumpkins, and the hosta. Then I went out front to water the coleus, and the marigolds and the hosta. In between flowers I’m back in the house fixing Brian’s breakfast, getting out his clothes, reminding him to eat his breakfast, pretending that the hundredth time I’ve seen the best part of a Scooby-Doo episode that it is hilarious. We’re finally getting ready to leave when I remember he needs to bring a lunch for camp. So I quickly throw his lunch together and run out the door. When I get in the car I heard my cell phone going off in my purse, the bottom of my purse. I quickly dumped everything out of my purse onto the passenger seat of the car. A co-worker tells me that the systems are having trouble and I need to put out a communication about it. I’m already running late at this point. When I get Brian to camp I ask him if he has his lunch, he says no. Rut Row. I ask the camp counselors what time lunch is, then I call Bob and have him check my calendar at work to see if I have time to go home and get his lunch and bring it back to him. I have time between my 9:30 conference call and 12:00 meeting to run back home, drive to the camp and then back to work. Brian’s camp isn’t right next-door either, it’s a good 20 – 25 minutes away. Bob also informs me that he watered all the flowers and plants the night before, that would have been nice to know about one hour earlier. I start driving to work when I look over into the passenger seat and there, under the contents of all the items spilled from my purse is his lunch. I turned around and dropped off the lunch and finally got to work at 9:28 am (2 and ¼ hours later than I get there during the school year when Brian takes the bus). But before I can run into work I have to get everything on the passenger seat back into my purse. I am just in time for my 9:30 conference call, that I am now unprepared for because I got to work so late. I put the conference call on mute and made calls on my cell phone about the problems with the system, then I type out a communication message about it, all the while trying to listen to the conference call. If that’s not bad enough, I’m starving because I still haven’t had breakfast. When I get off the conference call my message light is blinking, 4 messages, 2 from my boss! I take care of the messages then I finally get to eat and read a little email. Then it’s time for my 12:00 meeting, a 3 hour meeting on a Friday afternoon. A three-hour meeting with auditors on a Friday afternoon, can it get any worse? I spend the time with the auditors thinking about how I’m going to go to Happy Hour with some co-workers at 4:00. The last time I went to Happy Hour was June 5th, 2002. I get back to my desk and leave my boss a voicemail about some work matter. I go to someone’s office and get back to my office at 3:30; only ½ hour until Happy Hour and boy do I need it. The message light on my phone was blinking; my boss had called me back. She says she really wants to talk about that work matter, please see her after she gets out of her 3:30 meeting at about 4:30. That’s just great, I really want to compare results from two systems rather than go to Happy Hour for the first time in over a year. I finally got to Happy Hour, had a great time, 2 diet cokes, some laughs and left. When I got home the house was all unlocked, windows open, Bob’s car in the driveway, no one home. I looked all over and finally discovered Bob and Brian next door. Brian was wearing his Hulk mask and gloves trying to scare the 3-year-old kid next door. What a day! I’ll try to catch up tomorrow.
So I'm driving Brian to camp this morning. I was telling him about how President Bush is in a little bit of trouble because weapons of mass destruction have not been found in Iraq. He interrupts me to say "Mom, I know what happened! They are moving them to a place where we already looked." Hmmmm.
A classmate of Brian's couldn't make it to his birthday party on Saturday, but managed to get her gift to Brian today. He was scaring me with it. He got an electronic Hulk hands and Hulk voice changing mask. Take a look at them here: scary toy
Brian and I saw a terrible accident on Sunday, moments after it happened. I've never seen a car so wrecked. There were more emergency vehicles than I could count. A woman turned her car around on the Irondequoit Bay Bridge, and started heading the wrong way! She collided with another car in a head on collision. I was telling my co-workers she was probably in town visiting her internet lover. They all laughed at me. What do you think? Wrong Way
I finally made it home from work at 2:00 AM last night. I'm getting tired now.
I went to work as usual. Maddening things kept happening to me, like all my credit cards and money fell out of my wallet and on to the parking lot at work. Shortly after that I got a call on my cell phone and dumped Diet Coke on my dress trying to answer it.
My husband went to golf. My son wrote some thank you cards for birthday gifts. I read a couple chapters of "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary to him.
Learned Today: A polar bear can go a whole lifetime without ever seeing a different species of bear, just polar bears, every time.
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July 1 link I've posted a new video from Thursday night when a storm passed through during a falcon watch.
June Links June 27 Video - 9 minutes of video including Sabrina landing on the railing, I was able to get a sharper image than on the video below. You'll see the juveniles scramble after their parents when Kaver brings in food, plus much more.
Video - Sabrina and Jeanne.
June 27 Fledgewatch by Lotto.
June 27 - I went out to Kodak this morning and took some more video. If all goes well tonight after work I'll transfer the tape to DVD, copy the DVD to the hard drive, change the .vod files to .avi files, match the video and audio together and then upload it to the web. Simple. I have footage of Sabrina flying and landing on the railing of the pedestrian bridge, footage of all five falcons in the air, footage of a juvenile enjoying a meal, and footage of Sabrina and Rhea Mae preening each other. Look for the video later tonight.
June 25 Fledge Watch Report Video link - Aura flying. Video taken on June 23.
Video link - Sabrina flying. Video taken on June 23.
June 24 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Rhea Mae emerged from the center stack at about 10:30 AM today. She seems to be fine
Rhea fell down smoke stack, still there as night fell.
June 23 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The girls started the day in the nest box again. Sabrina took off early, Aura jumped down to the playpen.
June 22 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The girls started the day in the nest box again. Reports from the fledgewatchers indicate that Sabrina flew to the communications tower, she was spotted there with Kaver. Sabrina also spent some time on the very top of the Koak tower, on the ornametal flowers. Aura did not leave the tower, neither did Rhea Mae. They spent the majority of the day in the playen.
June 22 News Link - Scroll to last story.
June 21 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The juveniles all started the day in the nest box again. Sabrina made several flights today, she even visited the Beebee Station smokestack. Aura flew today too. Exciting day for the fledge watchers. We have two fledglings.
June 20 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The juveniles all started the day in the nest box. Sabrina left the nest box at 5:25 am. Aura left about 6:40 AM. Later in the day Sabrina flew away from the tower and right back again, twice. We have one fledgling.
June 19 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. All three juveniles are out of the nest. Rhea Mae moved to the rail. Aura was in the playpen early in the morning, probably spent the night there. Sabrina seems to move at will from the nest, rail, roof and playpen. She was flying back and forth from the roof to the playpen this morning, at least I think it was the playpen, she was only in camera range when she was on the roof. Rhea Mae's head was moving back and forth from the playpen to the roof as if she was watching a tennis match.
Lord Garavin's Bird Blog
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Robert Redford and Peregrine Falcons! Great Combination! June 18 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Sabrina spent the night in the nest box. This morning she moved out to the rail, then she moved to the top of the nestbox. At about 9:00 AM she moved back to the playpen.
9:10 AM - Aura moved out to the rail
Mariah's leg - April 10 - today - Photos of Mariah's leg while she heals. Pictures updated daily.
June 17 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Sabrina spent the day in the playpen. Aura stepped out briefly to the rail. At about 9:45 PM Sabrina appeared back on the rail of the nest box.
June 16 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Sabrina expanded her horizon a little more this morning.
Lord Garavin's noon time report June 15 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Sabrina likes sitting on the rail
June 14 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Sabrina has stepped out of the box onto the ledge outside the box.
June 13 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. I read on K Falcon Cam that if Sabrina was a boy, her name would be Valiant. Just sayin'
June 12 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. I think Sabrina is going to take off soon!
Story about Rhea Mae Lord Garavin's noon time report June 11 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
Look how big they are getting! Lord Garavin's Fledge Watch report June 10 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses are getting closer to the edge!
June 9 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. See some great "headless" pictures!
June 8 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Kodak birdcam fans are meeting at the pedestrian bridge at High Falls this Saturday at 8 am to organize a fledge watch.
Lord Garavin: Mariah and Kaver in Fine Form June 7 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
June 6 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Lots of wing flapping and Mariah dropped off prey for the eyasses to eat on their own. It took them a couple hours to figure out that Mariah wasn't going to feed it to them.
June 5 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
June 4 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
Movie Poster Kodak Birdcam Trading Cards June 3 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
June 2 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
ljcblog: Forget about Brangelina's baby.
June 2 news link - Democrat and Chronicle.
June 1 news link - Democrat and Chronicle.
Lord Garavin's Narrative and Pictures - See Mariah defending her young, pictures of the eyasses as they were banded, follow along with this blow by blow account.
Rhea Mae, Aura and Sabrina. One of them will be fitted with a transmitter next week, they are too small today. A transmitter will enable tracking her movements when she leaves the nest for good. Mariah is on the roof.
June 1 Banding News - There are three female eyasses. Rhea Mae (gray band), Sabrina (red band) and Aura (blue band.)
Food Exchange Pictures - You have got to go see these pictures of a food exchange between Kaver and Mariah. They are too beautiful to ignore. Play it slideshow format, it's just astounding. Many thanks to Marcia who agreed to let me post this link.
June 1 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Today is banding day!
May Links May 31 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. It's been really hot in Rochester, the eyasses are feeling the heat.
May 31 Movie from Shaky's site.
Age Guide to Young Peregrine Falcons - Chrissy posted this out on the Official Kodak Birdcam Discussion Board yesterday (post 51069). It is originally attributed to Aafke, one of the board's moderators.
May 30 - Awesome pictures at Lord Garavin's Bird Blog.
May 30 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses are flexing their wings.
May 30 movie - from Shaky's site.
May 29 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses are venturing closer to the edge of the nest.
May 29 - Watch a movie of Mariah and the eyasses May 28 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The babies are nearly as big as the parents!
May 27 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The underside of the eyasses' wings are covered with blue feathers, take a look!
May 26 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses are standing up and practicing flapping their wings!
May 25 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. Super dad Kaver fed the eyasses 4 times between 5:30 AM and 7:30 AM!
May 24 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses have begun exercising their wings by doing a little wing flapping.
May 23 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses are now 17 days old. They have big yellow feet now, and you can see the beginnings of feathers forming if you look closely. Lots of pictures of the eyasses in yesterday's and today's pictures.
May 22 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
May 21 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
May 20 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam.
Great news! Banding day is June 1 at 9:45 AM. Mariah is still on the mend from injuries sustained on May 6, and she's making progress. No one knows for sure how she was injured, my guess is a territory fight with another female falcon. Territory fights can go on until one or both falcons die. If Mariah was in a territory fight it's a good thing she made it back to the nest. The falcon experts say that they have known falcons who have lost a leg who successfully raise their broods and carry on with their lives.
May 19 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam
...Just Rambling...: Bird's Eye View Fish-outta-water: Friends in High Places: Take Two May 18 link - Pictures from the Kodak Birdcam. The eyasses are growing fast.
May 17 link - Kodak Birdcam pictures
May 17 news link - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - 4th story down.
LIFE IN BANGKOK: Kodak Falcons May 16 links - Kodak Birdcam pictures from the eyrie.
Ang's Meanderings - Mama and Fuzzy Ugly May 16 news link - Scroll down to 4th story
May 15 news link - WHAM 13 news, information is old, reports the one eyas dying and the 5th hatching. Does not report that the fifth eyas has also died.
May 15 link - Pictures from the eyrie.
May 14 link Pictures from the eyrie.
May 13link - Kodak Birdcam pictures from the nest. Hatchling #5 dies.
May 12 link - Kodak Birdcam pictures from the nest. Please leave a comment on your favorite one!
May 11 link - See May 11 pictures from the nest, a new eyas is born.
May 10 link - An eyas dies.
May 10 link Trouble? Comments on the pictures are welcome. See my post for full story 1:20 PM Three of the eyasses are very active, one of them does not seem to move. Pictures updated.
May 9 link - See pictures from May 9, still 4 eyas.
May 9 news link WHAM13 News
May 9 news link from the Democrat and Chronicle
A Beautiful Picture of Mariah was photo of the week in Birder's World. My friend Tom submitted this picture.
May 8 news link - Kodak Falcon Eggs Hatch from WHAM13 News.
May 8 link - See the third day of hatching. There are 4 eyas now! 38 photos!
May 7 link - See the second day of hatching. There are 3 eyas (babies) now! 22 photos!
May 6 link - First day of hatching! 24 photos!
May 5 link - 1 photo
May 3 link - 7 photos
May 1 & 2 link - 6 photos
May 1 Falcon news and pictures from Lord Garavins Bird Blog.
April Links April 25 - 27 link - 18 photos
April 22 - 24 link - 11 photos
April 19 link - 16 photos
April 18 pictures and more at Lord Garavin's Bird Blog. See Kaver chase away some turkey vultures.
April 10 news and pictures from Lord Garavin's Bird Blog.
April 9 - 17 link - 6 photos
April 7, 2006 news link - RochesterAtHome
Older Links
When I walked into the room with all the chairs arranged for band practice, the music stands poised in front of the chairs, a rush of nostalgia swept over me. It was such a long time since my days of playing flute in the band at school.
Excerpted from: The Flute
He was happy that I could share in this part of his life, but he always seemed skeptical, looking for a sign that I was really, truly a Yankees fan.
Excerpted from: Thurman Munson Gives a Sign
No mode of transportation has caught his attention like trains. A local garden center has a huge Christmas display of model railroad trains every year. My son spends hours just watching them.
Excerpted from: Trains and Blogging
Then the doctor did something my mother could never master, she wiped that smirk right off my face. She said “I don’t know whether to send him to an ophthalmologist, or to his pediatrician to get an MRI.”
Excerpted from: Eye-Scapades
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