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Halloween Preparations

This weekend the kids went on the Adirondack Railroad’s Halloween Train from Holland Patent to Remsen. Spiderman (Trevor), Shadow Ninja (Eric) and the Princess (Dakota) enjoying the ride.

This morning we carved pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.

WinterCampers.com YouTube Video

I was killing time on the computer and did a search from within YouTube for “Winter Camping” and this popped up – posted by Mohawk Valley Living. If you didn’t see the TV show then you can catch the show here. Most of the pictures were collected by Mohawk Valley Living, the only one [...]

Soaking Rain Fills the Ponds

Our sunny 80 degree Monday was followed by 24 hours of rain, beginning Monday night through Tuesday evening.  2.4″ of precipitation were recorded filling the new pond below our house.  This is the view from our deck.

Spraying the Boys

Trevor came over to play with Eric on Monday after pre-school. The temperature climbed to 81 – in late October! Eric and Trevor donned goggles and swimsuits and used their ‘cool moves’ to capture a treasure (beach ball) from the spray hose welding Queen. Scout, Eric and Trevor charge the Queen.

Eric’s Soccer Progress

Eric has progressed in AYSO soccer from not kicking the ball in week 1 to dribbling down field and taking a shot on goal in the next to last game of the season. He missed the goal, but has gotten the idea of getting the ball away from other players and trying to score. [...]

Bi-lateral Thorascopic Mini-Maze

Thursday morning I had surgery to cure my Atrial Fibulation at 7am. They laid me on my side and poked two holes in-between my ribs. They removed two ‘hot spots’ that were emitting electrical signals, surgically removed and tested my left atrial appendage, and cauterized the outside to eliminate other signal [...]

Lincoln’s Beard

On this date in 1860, 11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote Lincoln the fateful letter suggesting that he grow whiskers. Though Lincoln expressed doubts about it, within the month he had grown a beard and he became the first bearded US President. Except for William McKinley, every President through William Howard Taft (1908) sported a beard or [...]

Filling the ponds

We received .95″ of rain on Monday night in a thunderstorm followed by an long steady drizzle.  Tuesday night we received .8″ in a gully washer of a thunderstorm at 5pm.  We ate dinner and watched the rain.  We watched the new pond raise up 4.5 feet in a matter of a couple of hours.  [...]

Scout

We have had a female puppy in our house for almost a week now. She is pretty well behaved – for a puppy. The biggest issue is sleeping at night.  We are so concerned about in-house accidents and so are attuned to waking up to put the puppy outside multiple times during the night.  [...]

Stratford Festival

We had a three day weekend and went to Stratford Canada with our friends Jim & Pam for the Stratford Arts Festival. The festival runs for seven months and there are four permanent festival venues: the Festival Theatre, the Avon, the Tom Patterson Theatre, and the Studio Theatre. Although the festival was originally named [...]