September 2009


We are all doing quite well these days.  I realize there hasn’t been a new post the ENTIRE summer and for that, I’m sorry.  It really wasn’t all that busy (aside from the usual teaching, two kids, house chores, etc.).  To be quite honest, it wasn’t terribly exciting with blog worthy events.  We didn’t go on any great vacations I could blog about.  We stayed around home.  My mom and Bruce came into town late in the summer. 

However, thinking back, we did rearrange our living room, rip up the carpet, paint some rooms, Maddy attended two week long camps involving horses and science.  Lizzy learned how to talk and won’t stop.  She has also become super independent and will often refuse help doing things she is incapable of till she can actually do it (like climbing into her high chair for dinner).  She has learned that she can a.) push kitchen chairs places, b.) climb into the kitchen chair and then into her high chair, c.) without the kitchen chair, pulling the high chair down on top of her hurts.  This was all on her own and Maddy wasn’t a part of it.  Lizzy learned how to brush her own teeth.  Maddy had her first lemonade stand, and got stung by her first bee.  Lizzy learned how to swim with floaties, something it took her sister 4 years to accomplish. 

We are gearing up for Madison’s 7th birthday party this coming weekend and ACL festival next weekend.  October brings Macklin’s wedding, Alisha and my 9 year anniversary, and Wurstfest.

Enjoy some pictures from the summer.

First Google had the following doodle and was “unexplained” meaning no mouse over description and clicking led to a search for unexplained phenomena:

Many people thought it may be a tribute to Zero Wing 20th anniversary, the 1980s Japanese video game that coined the “All your base are belong to us” catch phrase.  I did not agree, because they would have had a mouse over describing this.  Then last Tuesday, the following doodle appeared, again without explanation and led to a search about crop circles.

Crop Circles
Google’s Twitter page provided coordinates for Horsell a town in Surrey, England.  This town so happens to be where aliens started attacking earth in H.G. Well’s radio broadcast, “War of the Worlds.”  It hinted at Google’s actual idea.  Today Google finally releases an answer to the strange appearance of UFOs in their logos.

The mouseover for this one is for the birthday of H.G. Wells.  He would have been 143 today.  Makes sense now and was very well done, considering Google created search hysteria with their unexplained logos over the last week.  For each day the logo was released, the search term was the largest on the internet.  Well played Google and certainly a new twist to your doodle art collections.