Wordless Wednesday - School Spirit

Wacky-Tacky day.

Wordless Wednesday - Scouting

Last event as a Webelos before becoming a Boy Scout.

Deprivation

I bought this at a Bob Evans while we were on vacation. When I saw it I thought of Margaret. I had to share it today because of her post.

Some favorite photographs

I'm not sure why I'm still awake at 2:31 a.m., but I thought since I was awake, I would share two more images from the Library of Congress collection on Flickr.

Unidentified shelf of kitchen utensils and jars of spices



Unidentified stacks of home-canned food

How I have been spending my winter, part 1

Midsummer Day, Bronx Park

I have really enjoyed looking through the Library of Congress photosets on Flickr.

From The Commons description:

The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.

There are two sets of photographs: News in the 1910s and 1930s-40s in Color.

Over the course of two or three weeks, I managed to see all 1500 photos in the News in the 1910s photoset. If you are a baseball fan, you will find photos of Cy Young, Germany Schaefer, Russ Ford, James Mullen, John Titus, and many, many more. If boxing is your sport, there are pictures of Jack Johnson, Kid Sullivan, and Mrs. Edwards and Fraulein Kussin to name a few. Interested in politics? How about some pictures from the 1912 Democratic and Republican National Conventions? There are even pictures of the Titanic survivors reaching New York.

There are 1,615 pictures in the 1930s-40s in Color set. I have barely made my way into those, but I am looking forward to finding a lot of great treasures there, too.

By the way, the Library of Congress also has a blog.

The view over the fence this morning

If you were an IRL neighbor chatting over the back fence this morning, this is some of what you would have seen:


















And it would be unthinkable for me to be outside by myself.



And after such a cold, wet morning, there is nothing like a nice hot cup of tea.



Thanks for dropping in!

Saint Michael the Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.





The history of the prayer to St Michael the Archangel, as well as the long and short forms of the prayer, can be found here.

Seen today

Isn't he cute? He was caught in a humane trap which was left outside a friend's house by accident. They were a little shocked to see him this morning.

Now I just have to make William understand it is not meant to be a pet.

I'm feelin' hot, Hot, HOT

That was the temperature display in my van this afternoon when we went to the library and the grocery store.

And for Angela in Canada, here it is in degrees Celsius:

The kids and I were very.very.glad to get home!

More views from our neck of the woods

These are some of the views -- beautiful and not so beautiful -- found on a nature hike the kids and I took recently. I hope you enjoy seeing them.

How I spent my Saturday

This is where the back window of my van should be.


This is why it isn't there anymore. (Apparently the 3 year old and 5 year old thought the window was a horcrux in need of destruction.)

While my husband and I were cleaning broken glass out of the van and the driveway, the older two children went up to the mailbox and brought this back:

Around 8 Saturday night, I finally started to read Without.Interruption with limited interruption. I finished it around 2:15 a.m. Since there may be people still reading it, I will say it was worth the wait. And according to it, my van window was not one of the horcruxes!