October 29, 2006 at 3:32 pm
· Filed under Family Matters
Okay, this is mostly just a mother’s brag blog… so on Thursday there was a concert at school. Here is our participant:
Then on Friday we went to the Seattle Symphony to hear David Daniels (contratenor) and Nicholas McGegan (conductor) in the first of the “Basically Baroque” series. VERY nice! If you have a chance to see either of them in concert, do. Daniels has a lovely voice, McGegan has a very beautiful manner of conducting. Here are my fellas, after the concert:
Saturday was the Fall Festival at the childrens’ school. Their costumes turned out well. Here are a whole bunch of pics, including one of the “princess” our younger one met at the festival. I made her cape, too.
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October 27, 2006 at 11:46 am
· Filed under Gardens and Life, Peace Making
My earlier post on the whole state of the world and “why bother” has kept me thinking. Today I received an email from the National Wildlife Federation encouraging me to join an organization that offsets carbon use and emissions. I have done a cursory checking out, and it looks very good. http://carbonfund.org/ is an organization that purchases the emissions permissions (love rhymes like that) and keeps them, preventing some of the pollution problems. They also help fund alternative energy sources. There is an emissions calculator that lets people see how much they contribute to the whole global-warming thing.
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October 23, 2006 at 4:52 pm
· Filed under Family Matters, Gardens and Life
Yesterday’s apple festival at the local grange hall was great fun. I think everyone who came had a good time, and I hope that it helped our friends who provide the lovely heirloom apples! All of us were able to help with set-up, serving and clean-up. The weather was lovely and the people who came were just as nice as the weather!
Here are a few pics. If you let your mouse hover over the picture, you’ll get a caption.
I did not bake anything for this… just served it up. That’s me, in the apron.
For those who may not be familiar, a “grange hall” is a meeting place, originally established in farming and rural communities. The grange membership is composed of community members who work to make life better for the community, and they make their buildings available to people for events.
As a side note, this is the hall where my beloved and I had our first year’s anniversary party… since we hadn’t done the whole “wedding thing” it was our chance to share our happiness with friends and family. More on that (and a few pics) another time…
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