It's SSSSNNNNNNNNNOOOOOWWING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those were the sounds heard (along with a few warhoops) on Tuesday. For the snowstorm that lasted 10 minutes. But it wreaked a good deal of havoc on I-81 for a few hours, and Brian spent a little time going down the road sideways himself.
But here, it was glorious. While it lasted. Then I had a moment to scan the newspaper, The Family Circus caught my attention. In comes the little boy from outside with this one-liner...see if you recognize it. "Have I been outside long enough to get hot chocolate yet?" Mmmmhmmm.. I heard it too. I have been searching cyberspace to find the cartoon, but apparently,since it's copyrighted, it cannot be found. So I don't have a picture to go with this post. And it took two days to do it. But with snow and ice in the forecast for tomorrow I am pretty certain that I will hear that question at least once tomorrow!

There is nothing new under the sun (son?)

There is a verse in Ecclesiastes.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New International Version)

Those words came to me yesterday when my 13 year old son asked me to assist him in downloading some songs from iTunes for his iPod. (help=$$=credit card) Good, I thought, I have an opportunity to see what songs/artists he is listening to and willing to pay cold cash for.

So we search for "Champions"... I'm thinking...it cannot be the one by Queen. Of course there's some artist with a similar song title. Several come up, and he's a bit uncertain, so I ask... "does it go like this?" and I sing it. Verbatim. (amazing how much I CAN remember some days- now why can't I remember to take out the laundry when it's done?)

YEAH, that's the one says he. No way. We look for others. Juke box hero. You're kidding. Another one bites the dust. I am so incredulous I am speechless. (which, you know is rare). Actually I am more than that. I'm giddy. "Are you sure? All these are songs from the 80's!"
Yeah, mom, that's what I like.

So I'm thinking, at least with these songs/artists I know without any doubt which ones I will not approve. (and most of them were his Dad's favorites-shhh)

Have I gotten old enough that my era has come full circle?? Or is this a brief anomaly???
If it is an anomaly, don't tell me. I want to soak in the ignorance for awhile. Because, really, there is nothing new under the sun.

Except this:

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19.(niv)

Go Lord, because there is nothing we can do ourselves without you. Without you we are doomed to repeat ourselves over and over. Getting nowhere.

What treasures.

So as I was downloading the photos from one of the cameras. (the one Daddy uses for work).

I realized that when I grabbed it to take the outdoor photos, I had left the card in the computer. Fortunately the camera has some internal memory. And this is what I found.

Five photos, of that darn cat, in all.

Now in the digital age this isn't as big a deal as when we used film, but I assumed that they were taken the same day. But when Picasa rearranged them to June of 2007, I HAD to look. Yes, thanks to digital photos, I know EXACTLY when it was taken. And it was June of 2007!
I'm thinking I know who did it. First, by the subject chosen. Then this.

(smile)

O the joys of Home Education

When the weather is nice,
You can go outside and enjoy it!






Whoops!





There they are!



Guess H.E. isn't perfect either? Or we are not the poster family!

Christmas is here!