Reading Night

Last night was "reading night" at Harmon Elem. Teachers dressed up as childrens book characters and read the kids a book. Then organized related activities for the kids. Ms. Nelson, from Dawn's second grade team, dressed up as Ms. Nelson from Miss Nelson is Missing! by James Marshall and Harry Allard.

Of course that would be her choice!

A swell time was had by all.

Makes You Think

Dawn took this intriguing picture at a cemetery just outside of a church on an Indian Reservation to our west.

I find it very thought-provoking, the juxtaposition of the flags and the twisted barbwire, all haunting the gravestone of a lost veteran.

Kudos, Dawn!

more nay-chur

moo

horseys!

I know, should be on the other blog, but this was the "most purtiest" stuff on my journeys this week. Coming back from the bank on Monday, I found myself near a field with a bunch of horses. So here are two of 'em.

Black Bart?

Good guy or an outlaw?

I didn't stick around to find out. He looked mighty eager to use them six-shooters.

I ducked into the saloon because everybody knows that trouble never breaks out in a saloon.

Stanley Out and About

Exploring Sunday

Hello~

Today we did a bit of exploring because this weekend the temperatures have been extremely bearable! Even a bit chilly at night. So... we went to the neighboring town of Coolidge. Pretty much their only claim to fame is the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Some rocks that constituted homes for the Hohokam Indians about 1,000 years ago. Not amazing, but we've passed it a few times and we had to check it out.

Then we meandered in Chandler. We've journeyed through parts of it before, but we stumbled upon their downtown area today. Kind of cute. Just window-shopped as most of the shops were closed. Here's Dawn enjoying some swell columns. Perhaps a bit too much.

Literal A-HA video

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This thing's getting a lot of play on the net. The video is just the old "Take On Me" thing from A-Ha in the 80's. But some clever folks changed the words to literally reflect what is going on, bit by bit.

We think it is mighty funny. Later!

A Very Skinny Visitor

Guess who just popped in for a visit?!?! Flat Stanley!

Evan Sketch shipped over Stanley from his third grade class Barnard Elementary in Troy, MI!

We have one week to have adventures! The timing is great. I have fall break next week (after conferences on Thursday and Friday this week). I don't know what type of adventures we'll go on, but we'll try to do some cool things together in sunny Arizona. It's 96 degrees right now.

Well, I will keep a journal of his adventures and perhaps a video as well!

Take care!
Aunt Dawn

Sick Little Monkey

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Dawn is home sick today (sore throat, little run down). So, in her honor, we post:

SICK

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

~Shel Silverstein~

Cool as a Cucumber

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Why is there a polar bear here? Basically I'm just testing out a new site/service/stock type joint called Photrade.com. Ya post your pictures, then other folks can grab 'em for their blogs and whatnot, but it goes with a little ad and the original photo dude gets some money every time it is viewed. We shall see, we shall see...

Mummenschanz

Dawn is a major fan of that old-school performance art, Mummenschanz, a sort of experimental Swiss mime troup. She says we have to go see them if they ever tour again. But, I fear (gasp!), that not only is mime dead, but so, probably, are these people. Not that any ol' mime inclined folks couldn't pull it off.

This here is a Mummenschanz bit from the Muppet Show from 1976. Ah, I remember the bicentennial fondly, but not in any way, shape, or form involving Mummenschanz!