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I had Friday off from work. While Eric was at pre-school in the morning Kathryn and I took the dogs on a long walk to the old homestead on the top of Pen Bonc Hill. We found the house and barn foundations and the old well. Everything is pretty overgrown as you [...] This weekend I celebrated my 55th birthday. It began by taking some time off work early; going to my friends Jim & Pam to get a load of aged horse manure for the garden. While Kathryn and Eric visited with Pam it took me about 1 hour to fork a heaping load on [...] Lately I have been focusing on my WinterCampers.com poem “I’m Not Going To Lie To You” – but this was a good poem that I wrote for Robert. In 1996 my beloved brother Robert was leaving DMC and his friends were having a going away party for him. Like most activities associated with my brother [...] In the duration of 4 days we have gone from snow and ice on the pond. to no snow and ice and blooming crocus. Each day at pre-school the kids learn and practice letters of the alphabet. Wednesday night at dinner I asked Eric how school was. Eric said “Not good – we did the letter Y. It’s not for me”. Apparently he had problems drawing his Y’s. Friday when queried about school he said “Yahoo! Dad – guess what? [...] Playing Power Rangers is one of Erics favorite games. He has male, female, all sorts of colors and special powers. Here are some of them on display. A few weeks ago, on a Friday, Kathryn picked up Eric and Trevor from preschool. Driving home, Eric says, very calm and serious, “I’m not going to school on Monday, Momma.. I am going to stay home and take care of you, because you are not over your cold yet.” Kathryn thanked him for his [...] During the winter we brain stormed ideas on potential canoe trips to include: May 1-4 Delaware River 4 days / 3 nights Port Jarvis (Mile 255) to Portland (Mile 207) or Phillipsburg (Mile 184) Demographic data for living here. Statistic Holland Patent Oneida County NY State High School 22% 21% 19% Some College 14% 12% 10% Bachelors Degree 9% 8% 11% Graduate Degree 6% 5% 8% No. of Households 1,389 91,787 7,156,765 % of Households with Children 38% 32% 34% % of Households with No Children
It has been a family tradition to celebrate April Fool’s Day with the kids by having a “crazy dinner”. We dress up weird, eat our meal in reverse order (dessert 1st), and use kitchen utensils instead of normal silverware. For a 5 year old boy this is one notch below Christmas as a [...] |
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