Latkes With Grandma

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Dec 022010
 

It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post.  Part of the lapse is because I had family visiting from out of town for up to ten days.  As usual my whole family traveled to Charlotte for Thanksgiving.  This year Amy brought her boyfriend Steve too.  After the Thanksgiving weekend my mom stayed a [...]

Twenty Creepy Legs

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Nov 082010
 

Ed returned from Afghanistan and then took some short R & R on the Georgia coast.  He returned from Georgia with a present for Maegan and Darah… twenty creepy legs!  Maegan and Darah now each have their own hermit crabs.  Looks like I’ll need to be learning how to take care of hermit crabs.

Pep Band

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Oct 222010
 

Maegan is part of her middle school’s pep band.  From the song selections and venues, it seems to be similar to a marching band but without the mobility. Maegan played clarinet last year but moved up to bass clarinet this year, earning first chair. On Friday the pep band performed on the sidelines of a [...]

Name That Tune

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Oct 052010
 

I was passing by the computer as Maegan was practicing her Bass Clarinet (yes, nowadays kids practice music with the aid of computer software).  Suddenly I stopped.  It was a much slower tempo than I was used to but I recognized the tune she was playing. Instantly recognizable to any hockey fan, it was Rock [...]

Spotting Space Ships

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Sep 152010
 

Maegan and I saw a flying space ship tonight! The International Space Station (ISS) is wider than the length of a football field.  It is the largest artificial satellite currently orbiting the Earth and can easily be seen from Earth with the naked eye.  Thanks to a friend’s Facebook post a few days ago, we [...]

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