Friday, October 7, 2011
A walk in the woods with Erin
These pictures are from a week or so back at the end of September (the 25th I believe), it was a fun day walking through her woods and the creek. I'm just posting some of the pictures we took that day, I don't think they really need much in the way of captions so I'll just leave them to tell the story.
Monday, October 3, 2011
100 things about Erin - pt. 1
*This is a part in a multi-part blog set for the month of October*
So last November, I wrote a blog series "100 things about me" I also included runs of a couple friends. This month I've decided to do a 5 part (20 things per post) set on Erin :) This will be the first post.
1. She is beautiful
2. She has one full brother, Josh, and several half-siblings
3. I know she won't be mad at me for calling them "half-siblings", as she isn't that close to them.
4. Her Mom is the most important person in the world to her
5. She calls her Mom, "Mum" which is kind of cute
6. She has wonderful Green Eyes
7. She has two cats Chole Anne and Sophie Marie
8. Chloe Ann means a lot to her as she helped her through a bad part of her childhood
9. She even got Chole Anne featured in a column of a Chicago Newspaper
10. Speaking of Newspapers... she was also featured in an article a few years ago do to her Pacer's fandom
11. Reggie Miller is the player who made her a huge Pacer's fan and her favorite NBA Player
12. She isn't a big Pacer's fan now... because they aren't very good currently.
13. She dislikes teams that aren't "winners"
14. She has two dogs.... Jude and Juno
15. She prefers to call Juno "Shitty"
16. Both dogs are Westies.... and if she because rich she wants to start a Westie or "White Dog" farm
17. She likes to take Jude and Juno on rides so that they can stick their heads out of the car to feel the wind in their beards.
18. She drives a black, Toyota Corolla
19. Her favorite car though was the Scion that she had before this one
20. Unfortunalty the Scion was totalled in a car wreck she had a couple years ago.
*edit* corrected the spelling of "Ann"
So last November, I wrote a blog series "100 things about me" I also included runs of a couple friends. This month I've decided to do a 5 part (20 things per post) set on Erin :) This will be the first post.
1. She is beautiful
2. She has one full brother, Josh, and several half-siblings
3. I know she won't be mad at me for calling them "half-siblings", as she isn't that close to them.
4. Her Mom is the most important person in the world to her
5. She calls her Mom, "Mum" which is kind of cute
6. She has wonderful Green Eyes
7. She has two cats Chole Anne and Sophie Marie
8. Chloe Ann means a lot to her as she helped her through a bad part of her childhood
9. She even got Chole Anne featured in a column of a Chicago Newspaper
10. Speaking of Newspapers... she was also featured in an article a few years ago do to her Pacer's fandom
11. Reggie Miller is the player who made her a huge Pacer's fan and her favorite NBA Player
12. She isn't a big Pacer's fan now... because they aren't very good currently.
13. She dislikes teams that aren't "winners"
14. She has two dogs.... Jude and Juno
15. She prefers to call Juno "Shitty"
16. Both dogs are Westies.... and if she because rich she wants to start a Westie or "White Dog" farm
17. She likes to take Jude and Juno on rides so that they can stick their heads out of the car to feel the wind in their beards.
18. She drives a black, Toyota Corolla
19. Her favorite car though was the Scion that she had before this one
20. Unfortunalty the Scion was totalled in a car wreck she had a couple years ago.
*edit* corrected the spelling of "Ann"
Friday, September 30, 2011
If 4th Graders ruled the town
So I was subbing a class of 4th graders today and they had a writing lesson to work on for next week... the prompt was "If Kids Rules The Town" they are instructed to list one reason/thing that adults are doing wrong, why kids would rule it better, and what changes they would make. We started the work time by having a brainstorming session... which yielded some intersting results/ideas...
Real Ideas from the Class:
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I hope these kids don't rule the town/world anytime soon...
Real Ideas from the Class:
There will be no school.... except for GUN SCHOOL!
Everything will be free for kids
Kids will teach the teachers
Pizza will be free
There will be better food choices...other than subway
There will be kid marines
There will be a kid SWAT team
Kids will get Slaves!
Kids will get submarines (so they can look for suken treasure)
They will design a flag
One girl wanted to "fill the town with cats" and then "get some frogs and sing with them"
There will be indoor hot tubs
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I hope these kids don't rule the town/world anytime soon...
Monday, September 26, 2011
Life Before Electricity
Last Saturday as a kickoff to the Museum's new display "Life Before Electricity", we held an event in conjunction with the Greensburg Fall Festival to hi-light what life was like before electricity entered homes in Decatur County. In each of the rooms we had live interpreters dressed in costume to explain how each room in the house would have been used, and what types of household chores they would be doing. Each interpreter had a part to plan in an overall script for the day which revolved around the preparations for a wedding. This was an ambitious project for us and I'm glad it went well. As always attendance could have been a little better, the rain combined with the fact that the fall festival blocked off our view of the square with trailers and port-o-pots didn't help. But the day was successful and I think everyone had a good time.
I played the part of Reverand Lathrop in the prduction, though I didn't have a script so it was a small part. This was good because I spent much of the day running around capturing the show with pictures. My family brought in two pieces for the display, an old ice box and a rug loom.
As well as having our narritive script, we also had quiltiers and a woodcarver set-up in and outside the Museum preforming their trades.
Pictures!
Museum:
Craftsmen/women:
Also the Friends of the Library Group got together with us to host a Pie Sale as a fund raiser in our front lawn. So here our some pictures of that. I will say the Pumpkin pie I purchased was good.
I played the part of Reverand Lathrop in the prduction, though I didn't have a script so it was a small part. This was good because I spent much of the day running around capturing the show with pictures. My family brought in two pieces for the display, an old ice box and a rug loom.
As well as having our narritive script, we also had quiltiers and a woodcarver set-up in and outside the Museum preforming their trades.
Pictures!
Museum:
Craftsmen/women:
Also the Friends of the Library Group got together with us to host a Pie Sale as a fund raiser in our front lawn. So here our some pictures of that. I will say the Pumpkin pie I purchased was good.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wierd Dream File #5
So another installment of my weird dreams! It's been 10 hours or so since I woke up and even though I tried my best to commit it to memory its getting a little hazy so I'll post what I can remember from last nights adventurous dream.
The dream started with me hanging out at Kris and Katy Jones house with them and Scott... (should note I haven't talked to any of them in 6 weeks or so... thus it was strange they would be in the dream) There house was interesting to say the least... the downstairs was one big living room, and the bedroom was just a bed hanging about 10 feet above the leaving room like a swinging bridge... pretty cool.
Anyway we were going to go to Walmart together because they were starting some huge Christmas Sale and we wanted to be there when it started... Now the Walmart we had to go to was in Indianapolis... and they were living in Shelbyville in the dream, so we had to drive there.
Now that doesn't seem that eventful of a drive, straight up I-74... but in my dream Shelbyville had turned into some black-light carnival/fair town with a strange voodoo/skull theme... there were rollercoasters and fortune tellers all around. It was strange... in some parts of town your car got picked up by a roller coaster and spun around to another part of a road. Also their was purple fog machine smoke everywhere. None of this was scary... just sort of confusing to navigate, but everyone seemed to just accept the fact that Shelbyville had turned itself into this funland/carnival tourist attraction.
We get to the Walmart and its like 8 in the morning and we rush into the store with everyone else who has been waiting for this mega sale. I guess we split up right away because I'm by myself looking at these boxes of movie candy that are for sale for 28 cents! Boom I know that's a deal so I grab 4 boxes and then decide I need a cart, that way I can hit up big deals in electronics and other parts of the store. So I hurry back to the front of the store. I notice that their are huge lines at the checkout... even larger than what you would expect at a walmart... like 30 people at each checkout... they got their for the big sale at 8... but Wal-mart I find out, for whatever crazy reason isn't operating the checkouts till noon... so really their is no reason to be in a rush.
I have to fight my way up to where the carts are when this walmart employ who looks like she is a meth addict sees me going for a cart and knocks the boxes of candy out of my hand with a cane. (sidenote: the cane was an old dirty one like I used to use for showing pigs in 4-H) She is being nasty so I get upset and go to complain to a manager... but when I find one she goes over to the lady, takes her cane and starts poking me with it and calling me names, as does everyone around. So I get upset throw my stuff down on the ground and walkout of the store deciding that the place sucks and I don't need their deals.
I get in a car (I guess we drove separate to Walmart) and somehow am able to easily navigate my way back to Shelbyville and its giant amusement park atmosphere and end up back at Kris and Katy's waiting for them to get back. I remember walking around their house and checking out the cool bedroom setup they had. Only problem with the swinging suspension bed was that you only had a 12 inch walkway around the outside of the upstairs room to squeaze around. Eventually they showed back up and started to show me the good deals they had found.
And around that time I woke up... so I'm not sure where the dream was heading too next.
(Hit the Tag - "Dream" to view previous entries)
The dream started with me hanging out at Kris and Katy Jones house with them and Scott... (should note I haven't talked to any of them in 6 weeks or so... thus it was strange they would be in the dream) There house was interesting to say the least... the downstairs was one big living room, and the bedroom was just a bed hanging about 10 feet above the leaving room like a swinging bridge... pretty cool.
Anyway we were going to go to Walmart together because they were starting some huge Christmas Sale and we wanted to be there when it started... Now the Walmart we had to go to was in Indianapolis... and they were living in Shelbyville in the dream, so we had to drive there.
Now that doesn't seem that eventful of a drive, straight up I-74... but in my dream Shelbyville had turned into some black-light carnival/fair town with a strange voodoo/skull theme... there were rollercoasters and fortune tellers all around. It was strange... in some parts of town your car got picked up by a roller coaster and spun around to another part of a road. Also their was purple fog machine smoke everywhere. None of this was scary... just sort of confusing to navigate, but everyone seemed to just accept the fact that Shelbyville had turned itself into this funland/carnival tourist attraction.
We get to the Walmart and its like 8 in the morning and we rush into the store with everyone else who has been waiting for this mega sale. I guess we split up right away because I'm by myself looking at these boxes of movie candy that are for sale for 28 cents! Boom I know that's a deal so I grab 4 boxes and then decide I need a cart, that way I can hit up big deals in electronics and other parts of the store. So I hurry back to the front of the store. I notice that their are huge lines at the checkout... even larger than what you would expect at a walmart... like 30 people at each checkout... they got their for the big sale at 8... but Wal-mart I find out, for whatever crazy reason isn't operating the checkouts till noon... so really their is no reason to be in a rush.
I have to fight my way up to where the carts are when this walmart employ who looks like she is a meth addict sees me going for a cart and knocks the boxes of candy out of my hand with a cane. (sidenote: the cane was an old dirty one like I used to use for showing pigs in 4-H) She is being nasty so I get upset and go to complain to a manager... but when I find one she goes over to the lady, takes her cane and starts poking me with it and calling me names, as does everyone around. So I get upset throw my stuff down on the ground and walkout of the store deciding that the place sucks and I don't need their deals.
I get in a car (I guess we drove separate to Walmart) and somehow am able to easily navigate my way back to Shelbyville and its giant amusement park atmosphere and end up back at Kris and Katy's waiting for them to get back. I remember walking around their house and checking out the cool bedroom setup they had. Only problem with the swinging suspension bed was that you only had a 12 inch walkway around the outside of the upstairs room to squeaze around. Eventually they showed back up and started to show me the good deals they had found.
And around that time I woke up... so I'm not sure where the dream was heading too next.
(Hit the Tag - "Dream" to view previous entries)
Monday, September 19, 2011
AAGPBL Panel
So last Sunday was the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Panel! I've discussed the League on this blog already so I won't go into a whole bunch of detail about that, this will just cover the event itself.
At first I was really worried we were going to have a horrible turnout and the whole thing would be an embarrassment to the historical society, library and myself. As up until five minutes before the program began the speakers and their guest outnumbered the visitors we had attending! Luckily more people showed up at the last minute and we ended up with 42 people having signed in. I will say it didn't seem like that many, and the event was overall saved by a couple families bringing the majority of the crowd.
I was a little disappointed by the lack of support I had from my own board on this event as only two of them showed up, and this was something that they genuinely expressed interest in. I wish I could have had a bigger crowded but I don't know how I could have better promoted it. I had it announced on the radio and the newspaper ran a front page story on it a couple weeks earlier. I also had fliers out and around places, for the resources I have available I covered as much as I could. I'm not going to lie it would have sucked if a handful less people had shown up after I put so much work into this project.
Luckily those people did show up and the panel was great! They were a fun group and I feel that everyone who came left with a great experience and feeling good about the event. The Newspaper did a great two part write-up on the day so I'll leave you with that and a few pictures to finish the recap.
http://greensburgdailynews.com/local/x94879815/All-American-Girls-reminisce-in-Greensburg
Our Panel!
The Crowd
Next-Up.... Life Before Electricity this Saturday
At first I was really worried we were going to have a horrible turnout and the whole thing would be an embarrassment to the historical society, library and myself. As up until five minutes before the program began the speakers and their guest outnumbered the visitors we had attending! Luckily more people showed up at the last minute and we ended up with 42 people having signed in. I will say it didn't seem like that many, and the event was overall saved by a couple families bringing the majority of the crowd.
I was a little disappointed by the lack of support I had from my own board on this event as only two of them showed up, and this was something that they genuinely expressed interest in. I wish I could have had a bigger crowded but I don't know how I could have better promoted it. I had it announced on the radio and the newspaper ran a front page story on it a couple weeks earlier. I also had fliers out and around places, for the resources I have available I covered as much as I could. I'm not going to lie it would have sucked if a handful less people had shown up after I put so much work into this project.
Luckily those people did show up and the panel was great! They were a fun group and I feel that everyone who came left with a great experience and feeling good about the event. The Newspaper did a great two part write-up on the day so I'll leave you with that and a few pictures to finish the recap.
http://greensburgdailynews.com/local/x94879815/All-American-Girls-reminisce-in-Greensburg
Our Panel!
The Crowd
Next-Up.... Life Before Electricity this Saturday
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