Cow's are featured frequently on Mac5. Here is one in a tub. Kathy's latest painting found in the Stonegate gallery and hanging in the kid's bathroom (which is used, Ted.)
[Found this in an experimental domino blog on Yoda. Not sure if the date was when this happened or just when I was experimenting.]
Monday 10th, March 2003
Riding home from the Girl Scout father / daughter dance where Kelly, Mary Claire, and I all danced to oldies dressed in Hawaiian outfits, Mary Claire asked... "Dad, when you were born, did girls wear Poodle skirts." Kelly jumped in, "That was in the 50's." I added, "And I was born in the sixties."
Thinking about that, she then asked, "When you were born, were you free?" I asked her, "What do you mean by that?" She said, "You know how Martin Luther King helped make people free."
I was surprised by her question. "Mary Claire, when I was little, I wasn't black." Kelly started laughing. I went on to explain how when I was born, there was segregation, but that I was little when Martin Luther King helped get rid of separate seating on buses and in restaurants, so I didn't really remember things being segregated.
"She thought about that.... "Well did you have big hair?" I asked, "Do you mean an afro?" She said, "Yes."
I had to explain to her again, that I wasn't black when I was little. Kelly kept cracking up.
Posted by Jeb 02:14 PM
Kelly and I went white water rafting on the Ocoee River with the SJN Life Teen Saturday. It started off very cloudy and cool on the drive up to Tennessee, but by the time we arrived the sun was out. We had a fun, warm trip. The water was high and the waves full. Kelly was the first to "ride the bull", which means sitting on the front holding onto a rope. She had the wildest ride as we ended up spinning through some rapids, and she got knocked back into the boat by a huge wave of water. "For a second I as drowning," she said. But she thought it was fun.
This photo sequenece shows Jacqueline riding the bull (and falling off, too.)
Shipped off Arlington Journey 2008 DVDs #6 an #7 to Carol & Bob and Joe & Sandy today. Still need to make one for the Stonegaters. I am going to publish the videos on youtube.com/fishbackfilms. Have this first one up. (See sound volume button.)
#1 Mom
#2 Nicole
#3 Grant & Jami
#4 Ted
#5 Margie & Jack
#6 Carol & Bob
#7 Joe & Sandy
JC:
Itchy jellyfish bites
Flounder in net at night
Kitchen with a couch
Toe comets (glowing sand)
Parking scooters behind Chu's (store) and sneaking through
Putting dead crab in crab hole
Visit to Jack and Margie
Super cold candy store
New parking meters
Girlscout geocache scare
MCC:
Thunder and Lightning...no rain
Watching TV while eating dinner
Staying up with Kelly watching TV
Kitty Cats outside he balcony
Traveling to Bird Island in water
Dolphin shows outside the condo
Meeting Justin (14 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy)
Scooters
Tiny Condo
Big boats crossing the bay
Only one that didn't get stung/bit
Passing the condo we stayed on spring vacation (good times. good times)
KEC:
i got sick one day
floating around bend and walking back.
and that's all
you guys basically covered everything else
KMC:
swimming at night and seeing the stars
looking for Sandra Bullock
finding John Cougar
sleepy racoons in a dumpster
I noticed that the humming birds were enjoying the purple hasta flowers, but did not seem to be enjoying the glass hummingbird feeder. I told Kathy that maybe the nector (sugar water) has to stay filled to the top for them to get anything.
She refilled it, and I just counted one of the humming birds dip into the red, glass flower 23 times in a row before belching and flying off.
hummmm.... (burp)
My camera has a panorama mode which I used to create this 180 degree view from our balcony on Bay Street. Photoshop has a feature that stitched these all together. I'm not sure if Ted's shots were 180 degrees, but with this one, you can scroll to the right and it mimics looking all the way from left to right from our balcony. More story to come...
You've heard of handwriting... One morning at track practice, Kelly noticed the field was covered with dew. She walked out and scooted her feet in the grass to write. She then went up in the stands and snapped a photo with her cell phone. Since Verizon wants to charge you 50 cents to e-mail pictures, they do not make it easy to get your photo out of the phone for free. (I dislike Verizon as much as Comcast because of these kinds of fees.) So I took a picture of Kelly's phone. Her coach saw her do all of this. He thinks she is a nut, but in a good way of course.
(Take that Verizon!)
I had to stay late at work Thursday night and missed Mary Claire's swim meet. But I got a very excited phone call from her to report she had gotten five blue ribbons. Like her brother, she loves to win, but this was a bigger win than the colors of the ribbons.
Asthma brought a pretty quick end to Claire's soccer career this spring. It had been coming on for a year, but with the move to larger 13/14 fields, too many games were being interrupted by Claire collapsing on the field after a series of runs. It was a sad thing, because she loved playing soccer and really played well with her teammates.
She resumed athletics with summer swim league. We were hoping asthma could be managed better in a humid environment with rests between races. All of our kids have been strong swimmers, and Claire is no exception. Swimming 50 free and 50 back would have been the best (easiest) thing for her... shorter swims with her strongest strokes. But no, the coach needed her for the less popular events including 100 free and individual medley (fly, back, breast, free.) And he needed her for 50 fly, too.
Unfortunately, the asthma kicked in on some of these events each meet, usually with back-to-back 4-lappers. Claire would have to stop on the third or fourth lap, shaking, get to the side, and I would help her get out and get recovered. In a couple of cases she was able to rest and help her team out with the end-of-the-meet free relay.
She has been working on pushing herself at practice, figuring out the best timing to use her inhaler, and last Thursday she must have figured out the magic formula. She had a tough assignment including 50 fly and I.M. (only one 4-lapper, though). She also swam anchor on the free relay, and brought the team from behind to win. (Danny says that was always the funnest thing to do at the end of a meet.)
We're all proud of Claire, yes for getting the five blues, but also figuring out how to compete, help her team win another meet, and, at least this past week, telling asthma to "eat my bubbles."
