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"I think I have s plan for this alpaca (finally!), the cool hemp ponchette on Ravelry. #knitting "

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"Here is chrysalis number 2, formed in the last couple of hours! Now we have to wait and I can't remember how long. "

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"Progress! Wish I had something other than plastic for the top here. "

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"Look what we found in the back yard! There was one more we let stay free. Hope he/she survived the storm. "

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"So glad to have all my kids home! So sad Will heads off for cross country camp tomorrow morn :("

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"Cutting corn off the cob for salad and cant stop thinking about snake skins and rattlesnake tails! I broke up the long strips because I was getting the heebie jeebies. Must suspend these thoughts til after dinner"

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"A family tradition! Cherie, Frank and I have a photo like this of us when we were little. "

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"Cherie and I are holed up in a hotel room in Williamsburg with FOUR kids. I know that you're thinking (and yes, wine is chilling!) but this has been a fun trip!"

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"Of course I do not have the right needles for my new project but Kitschy Stitch to the rescue! Really beautiful selection of yarn in here too. "

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"BBQ pit stop en route to Rehoboth!"

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Finally finished my cami!

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Lyra's Spring Piano Recital

Bill missed the first song but here is Lyra's second song, "Money Can't Buy Everything" AKA "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay." She did a great job!

Will (and Lyra) Made a Great Chalk Dragon

I tried posting this earlier and it failed. It may be time to give up on Posterous. Hope those guys made some money, but too bad the concept fizzled out. I am envious how quickly Will can throw down some art.

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Will & Lyra Made This Cool Sidewalk Chalk Dragon Today

Amazing how quickly Will outlined this dragon on his grandparent's driveway.

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Will's Drummer - part of today's MAESA Fair art competition

I'm not sure that Will won anything but I loved his sculpture.  He created this in art class as part of a group assignment to create a band.  Will's drummer doesn't represent anyone in particular but some of the boys in class made sculpture that represented a real person or had some other creative idea behind it (e.g., one group created a band called JB 3 - Justin Bieber, a Jonas Brother and John Brown (whose "body lies a-moulding in the grave")….that guy rattled his chains).  I had meant to photograph some of the other art on display and never got to it. I LOVE children's' art and there were some beautiful pieces that were part of this exhibit.  

I hope all these kids appreciate how lucky they are to have actual studio art classes and to have them all the way through middle school. I would have *loved* that opportunity but it was not available.  At my school elective classes ran a whole year so you had to choose between art, music, drama, etc. I remember a lot of agony over that choice.

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Will and Lyra do the Macarena!

Lyra picked this up pretty quick!

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Cutest cotillion ever!

Lyras's been dying to dance all of cotillion season and she is finally getting a chance! Will has really looked after her all evening. He took her under his wing during the class dinner and shared his very enormous dessert with her. I think the girls in his grade might be impressed.

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Will's Homework: Draw a cartoon illustrating your knowledge of the cold war.

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Easter Egg Hunt 2012: Lyra's attempts at reconnaissance are FOILED.

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Pond Cleaning: AKA Monsters of the Deep

One of my least favorite spring activities is cleaning our small ornamental pond. It takes at least half a day, always requires a trip to the hardware store, and usually involves some injury, or at least getting wet. However, there is usually some unexpected entertainment. This year was better than most.

We always try to keep frogs(s) in our pond for their singing, and also to eat mosquito larvae. However we have been having trouble keeping the tadpoles alive, and suspect the culprit is the catfish. (See below.) Last year a friend gave us a tadpole that was a refugee from a science project. It went in the pond, and was never seen again. Low and behold, today when I pulled some of the plant containers out of the pond I saw a frog shaped blob underneath. My first thought was that it was a clay frog that had fallen in the pond, but no, it was an actual frog, and of respectable bullfrog size. Our assumption is that this is Konrad, the long lost tadpole. Of even greater interest was the capture of our catfish. Quite a number of years ago, I bought a small (like four inch long) catfish in the hope that it would eat some algae and help keep the pond clean. The catfish went in the pond, and we did not see it for several years. When we did see the catfish, it had grown considerably and was more like ten inches long. That was a couple of years ago. Now the catfish is a monster (relative to the size of the pond) over a foot long. During the summer when we feed the fish it hoovers up most of the fish food, and we suspect, any small fish we introduce to the pond. At least I know we loose a lot of fish and never see their cadavers. In catching the catfish, I relearned an important catfish anatomy lesson. They have a very sharp spike under their back fin. I was able to catch the fish and put it in bucket, but at the cost of a deep puncture would in the base of my right index finger. I am hoping catfish don't carry tetanus.

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