Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music.
Happy Friday and crank the AC/DC!
Happy Friday and crank the AC/DC!
I am not a big fan of change. Looking at my life thus far, you might not guess that.
However, I have switched up the template for the blog, and in the process lost my blog roll (whoops!). Not sure if I will bother with it again, since there are not too many regular bloggers around these days...we'll see.
I am kind of interested in finding out what my readership looks like lately...so, if you don't mind...if you are reading this, leave a comment so I know who's out there!! Thanks!
However, I have switched up the template for the blog, and in the process lost my blog roll (whoops!). Not sure if I will bother with it again, since there are not too many regular bloggers around these days...we'll see.
I am kind of interested in finding out what my readership looks like lately...so, if you don't mind...if you are reading this, leave a comment so I know who's out there!! Thanks!
Just a little video of our boy, getting bigger and more "grown-up" every day. What happened to my teeny baby?!?
He does some pretty cute things, and some things that would be cuter if they weren't actually not very good, like putting remote controls and cordless phones in the toilet. You just have to laugh...
As I mentioned in my last post, I really miss the "traditional" Fall season as I knew it. While looking for a quote about Fall to update my Quotables box here, I found this poem by John Updike. It not only reminded me of why I love Fall, but also of how much I love and miss a good English Lit class. Enough to make me want to go back to school. Almost.
September
John Updike
The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze.
Another quote that drifts to mind this time of year, from perhaps a slightly less prestigious source, is this:
September
John Updike
The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze.
Another quote that drifts to mind this time of year, from perhaps a slightly less prestigious source, is this:
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.
-Joe Fox in You've Got Mail
Well, I guess I was not as inspired as I thought I would be. A couple of months have rolled by, and I guess I was "too busy" to blog. Priorities, I guess.
Lincoln is napping for the moment, and I am hoping the kettle boils and I get a cup of tea before he wakes up. The weather here in FN has gotten much cooler, it's around 8 degrees this morning, and raining. The rain has been pretty steady over the last few days. I like it. It started off with a thunderstorm so intense, it really felt like the ground was shaking. It must have, actually, because it made our car alarm chirp.
Fall is such an itty-bitty season here, just a slight pause on the way to winter, really. A far cry from the gloriously coloured and moderately tempered autumns of the Maritimes that I grew up with. Fall remains my favourite season, but had I grown up here, I doubt it ever would have been. Spring is certainly the darling around these parts! Understandable after 8 months of darkness and -40.
With winter pending, I've been contemplating how I will fill my days, well, I know my little Lincoln will be keeping me on my toes, but in my "spare" time I am hoping to work on a few hobbies. Some that I've been mulling over:
Quilting: I even have a scrap pile started thanks to Tyler's Aunt Ruth, and a book of patterns, and inspiration and motivation from Kelly, my newly quilting friend.
Card Making and Scrapbooking: this is an ongoing interest, I have been going to a Stampin'Up club and accumulating some stamps and papers, punches, etc. The scrapbooking project I want to finish is Lincoln's 1st year baby book. I have just four pages done...
Bread-making and Baking: again, an ongoing interest, one I hope will not contribute too much to my waistline.
Reading: I really didn't read a lot last winter, and I already have a stack of fiction and non-fiction accumulating that I would like to get through.
Knitting: a love-hate relationship for me. I have very few finished projects to my name, although I love the idea of being "a knitter," and it's such a cozy activity, but I sometimes lack the persevering spirit required for larger pieces. I currently have a cable-knit coffee sleeve on my needles, but I am not sure where I left off back in MAY. Ugh.
I suppose that is a bit of a laundry list of ideas, however, it will be interesting to look back and see what's happened come the mid-winter blahs.
Lincoln is napping for the moment, and I am hoping the kettle boils and I get a cup of tea before he wakes up. The weather here in FN has gotten much cooler, it's around 8 degrees this morning, and raining. The rain has been pretty steady over the last few days. I like it. It started off with a thunderstorm so intense, it really felt like the ground was shaking. It must have, actually, because it made our car alarm chirp.
Fall is such an itty-bitty season here, just a slight pause on the way to winter, really. A far cry from the gloriously coloured and moderately tempered autumns of the Maritimes that I grew up with. Fall remains my favourite season, but had I grown up here, I doubt it ever would have been. Spring is certainly the darling around these parts! Understandable after 8 months of darkness and -40.
With winter pending, I've been contemplating how I will fill my days, well, I know my little Lincoln will be keeping me on my toes, but in my "spare" time I am hoping to work on a few hobbies. Some that I've been mulling over:
Quilting: I even have a scrap pile started thanks to Tyler's Aunt Ruth, and a book of patterns, and inspiration and motivation from Kelly, my newly quilting friend.
Card Making and Scrapbooking: this is an ongoing interest, I have been going to a Stampin'Up club and accumulating some stamps and papers, punches, etc. The scrapbooking project I want to finish is Lincoln's 1st year baby book. I have just four pages done...
Bread-making and Baking: again, an ongoing interest, one I hope will not contribute too much to my waistline.
Reading: I really didn't read a lot last winter, and I already have a stack of fiction and non-fiction accumulating that I would like to get through.
Knitting: a love-hate relationship for me. I have very few finished projects to my name, although I love the idea of being "a knitter," and it's such a cozy activity, but I sometimes lack the persevering spirit required for larger pieces. I currently have a cable-knit coffee sleeve on my needles, but I am not sure where I left off back in MAY. Ugh.
I suppose that is a bit of a laundry list of ideas, however, it will be interesting to look back and see what's happened come the mid-winter blahs.
