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Art comes in different forms. It’s heard in performances and scrutinized on stage. It’s expressed through costume design and dance. But most importantly, it engages all senses. All Together Now, a new three-part multimedia series, will do just that on April 23 at the Lilypad in Cambridge.

Anna Rae, the show’s curator and member of participating music act, Hemway, states: “I adore music, but there are so many exciting works being created across mediums, and I wanted to curate a variety show where those works could meet.” With All Together Now, Rae combines talent from Boston and New York City into one jam-packed show featuring music, experimental film, comedy, drag, and performance art. Boston’s own indie outfit, The Grownup Noise, will be on the bill as well as singer-songwriter Jenee Halstead. Rae invited several acts from diverse backgrounds, such as those who identify as LGBT, women, or POC.

For her, it’s a chance to enrich Boston’s social dialogue while celebrating artists. For the audience, it’s a rare opportunity to absorb multiple art styles through one fluid show.

All Together Now breaks the typical art show mold, and presents itself as a concert instead, with acts appearing one after the other for smooth transitions. Jeremy Stamas, who will contribute experimental film to the event says, “I’m showing something that wouldn’t be possible to screen at a film festival or an art gallery, but should perfectly as an interlude between musical acts and other performances.”

Fellow acts are excited to share their unique brands of creativity. Crichton Atkinson, NYC-based performance and video artist, thinks it will keep the audience refreshed. “Listening to music will be next to watching an experimental film, which will be next to a more physically engaged form of watching video art with live performance,” she says. “You are going to be tuning in with many of your senses, each one taking a dominant role at different points in the night.”

Tickets for All Together Now are available here or at the door for $10. If you’d like to know more about the event, visit the Facebook page or follow All Together Now on Twitter.

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Lockdown lifted at Southington schools

Plantsville Elementary School, 70 Church St., Plantsville, CT 06479

Plantsville Elementary Schoolis one of four public schools, along with the Municipal Center and Southington Catholic School that have been placed on secure status.

NOTE: Secure school status has been lifted at approximately 12:25 p.m.

As of 11:30 a.m., a number of Southington schools are still in secure school mode as a precaution on the recommendation of the Southington Police. The schools were put into secure status this morning when police announced that there was a person of interest in the Plantsville area.

Schools affected are Plantsville Elementary, Derynoski Elementary, Alta, Kennedy Middle School and the Municipal Center.

Classes will continue in the buildings on their normal schedules, but the buildings remain locked and no one will be admitted or allowed to leave until SPD lifts the secure school status.

Southington Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connellan is continuing to issue updates until the matter is resolve.

Southington Catholic School is also reported as secured status.

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

EP Grab Bag vol. 83

The EPs keep flowing in, hard to keep on top of them all. So perhaps not in the order they were submitted nor even the order I listened to them, here's what I have spent some time with and believe it is time to share.

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Simplicio Neto & Os Nefelibatas - Fuscas & Dirigíveis (2014)

Mighty fine Brazilian indie rock. It has a laid back  psychedelic and folk-like feeling that'll be familiar to those that've heard my favorite modern Brazilian band Supercordas, as a member of that group the great solo artist Bonifrate produced this EP. Simpilicio is a songwriter and documentarian that Bonifrate ranks among his favorites and I can understand why. They songs are full, a bit washed out and lazily relaxed in the same way a good tune by the Kinks is for a blissful 8 minutes plus. The title track "Fuscas & Dirigíveis" is tops, a very good album for us in the northern hemisphere remember is it summertime somewhere else and have a moment of respite.

Lull - Dead or Alive (2014)

Lull are from London, England but they could very easily be mistaken for an American band from the 90s from their sound. Doubtlessly they've got some transatlantic influences that're bearing fruits in the three songs of this EP. The other SRM guys just had me want a documentary on 90s music, and I can say after the sour feeling that left in my mouth, Lull comes out looking rather sweet. I genuinely liked the dazed indie rock sound they're making, with the title song again being the stand out example of the release.

UNQUALIFIED NURSE - The Weird (2014)

A second installment is what is shaping up to be a series of micro-EPs from Britain's UNQUALIFIED NURSE. The songs are incredibly short as was the case for Medicine Music, and likewise they are loud and hugely distorted. This band is onto a hardcore garage punk sound that could really yield a great album if they keep at it like this. It sound like it couldn't get rougher or more raw at this point in the infancy of playing, but there's absolutely no place better to start than that.

Sean Patton - Scatterbrain (2014)

Sean Patton is a folk singer-songwriter from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Scatterbrain is what he described as his first "real EP" but from it's polished and sophisticated sound it'd be easy to imagine him having been making folk albums for years. These folk songs are no small feats of composition that just a bit of country flare in them, with a skillful band behind him complete with back-up singers. Tender lyrics and sweet singing, I must be getting more mature or whatever because I found this EP charming in a way that a younger me would have been confused by.

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Plot 1: The above plot represents PyPy trunk (with JIT) benchmark times normalized to CPython. Smaller is better.

It depends greatly on the type of task being performed. The geometric average of all benchmarks is or times faster than CPython

How has PyPy performance evolved over time?

Plot 2: Speedup compared to CPython, using the inverse of the geometric average of normalized times, out of benchmarks (see paper on why the geometric mean is better for normalized results).


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How the Furry Community Embraced CollegeHumor’s Furry-Lampooning ‘Furry Force’

furryforceWhen CollegeHumor’s Brian Murphy and Adam Conover wrote Furry Force, they never dreamt that their hilarious and uncomfortably arousing animated series featuring hyper-sexualized cartoon animal superheroes would be embraced by the furry community. But dreams do come true. Popular furry blogger, Patch O’Furr, recently nominated the series for The Ursa Major Award for Best Dramatic Series or Short Work.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled,” said Conover. “What better honor is there for comedy writers than for the community that you are making fun of to give you an award for how much they love what you made?”

Furry Force is up against BoJack Horseman and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic for the award among other anthropomorphic contenders and the competition is fierce.

“Speaking as someone whose girlfriend and best friend created BoJack Horseman, I hope we fucking crush them,” said Conover.

“Yeah, they’re not even on the same level. They’re accidentally furry, we’re full on furry. They’re Cinemax and we’re weird Internet shit,” said Murphy.

Furry Force features Krunk, Hip-Hop, Leon, and Trang, four Captain Planet-like animal superheroes on a mission to defeat Victor Vivisector, an evil villain dead set on destroying the forest and building a parking lot. The Furry Force uses their overwhelming sexiness to make Vivisector and his cronies so uncomfortable that they leave the forest alone.

“I just don’t think Bojack has the same appeal to furry culture as say, Trang, the six breasted cow does,” said Conover.

Patch O’Furr agrees. He described Furry Force as a well-intentioned laugh riot that pokes equal fun at both the furries and the people who have an overblown, hateful reaction to them.

“They’re so disgusted and are like what the fuck? Why are you pretending to be an animal? Meanwhile it’s like here’s this good-natured, sweet person who is just having fun, and it’s like why are you judging us? We’re not hurting you,” said Patch.

Patch takes on the “Fursona” of a Husky dog. He says his favorite thing is performing in costume at street fairs and making people smile. Only his closest friends know about his furry hobby, as most people just don’t understand.

“I call it the furry Fight Club (laughs). The first rule is don’t talk about Fight Club. You know, it’s a wink and a handshake kind of thing,” said Patch.

Rich Duhaney, Director at Smiley Guy Studios, the company that animated Furry Force, knew Patch by his legal name only for over 10 years. Duhaney had no idea that his friend was a furry until Patch reached out to him over Facebook about his appreciation for the series and revealed his Fursona.

“I was happy for him,” said Duhaney. “I think furries really connect with the earnestness of the characters.” Smiley Guy Studios collaborated with CollegeHumor for about two months to make their furry vision a reality.

“We had this really weird process where we would receive prototypes from Smiley Guy Studios and we would have to send back notes saying, ‘uh, can you make his pecs more round and bigger and more voluptuous?’” said Murphy.

“Our timidness held us back for a while, but then we really got into it,” said Duhaney. Smiley Guy Studios referred to cartoons from the 80s and 90s such as Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic The Hedgehog and Rescue Rangers for inspiration in the making of Furry Force.

Murphy originally came up with the concept, but Conover eagerly jumped on board. Conover has a long history of teenage anime fandom and a deep appreciation for it’s close furry cousin. “I used to go to anime conventions and there would be furries there so it was just sort of in the air. It’s like well, I’m into weird Japanese girl cartoons and you’re into American cartoon wolves. It’s not that strange to me,” said Conover.

Patch calls it the multi-nerd connections. “If it was a venn-diagram, it would be plaid. Because everybody who’s a nerd has a bunch of nerdy interests (laughs),” said Patch. “I’ve always loved every kind of subculture. But I think furries are the truest nerds out there today. You know, nerds back in the day didn’t have billion dollar movies and Hollywood agents coming to their conventions. Furry conventions still don’t have those things. They’re organic and homegrown.”

Murphy and Conover were relieved that the furry community found the first episode funny and not offensive. They had peace of mind while making the sequel, knowing that the Furry community was on board and didn’t take themselves too seriously.

“I don’t have a mean-spirited sense of humor, so when everyone gets the joke and everyone is in on it together, that certainly makes me respect the community a lot more for just having fun with it,” said Murphy.

Patch says the discrimination directed at furries is confusing and unfair. At a recent Mardi Gras festival in Burlington, among hundreds of people dressed in funny costumes, several furries of the Vermont Furs Club were singled out by a festival representative and asked to leave.

“There’s kind of an other-ing impulse. People say oh, that’s gross, that’s crazy, I would never do that. You know, it feels like they are overcompensating in some way sometimes. It’s like, well, nobody is forcing you to look at that on the Internet… and some of that stuff is actually really popular. It’s like c’mon… some of these cartoons are, you know, you can’t say that those cartoons aren’t cute to the point that they’re kind of… sexy (laughs).”

Patch argues that what people do in their own bedroom isn’t for anyone else to judge and that role-playing as furries isn’t so different from other kinds of costume role-play.

“It’s kind of like owning a flashy car. You don’t need it, but it sure is fun to have,” said Patch. “You see cars and sex compared all the time in pop-culture. But nobody thinks that driving a car like that means you’re some kind of pervert. It’s like yeah, sure, that car probably adds a lot of sex appeal, but it doesn’t mean that it’s something distasteful.”

Sam Kirkpatrick, Production Manager at CollegeHumor (also, full disclosure, this writer’s husband) said Furry Force almost wasn’t released because many on staff thought it was too gross to appeal to a wide audience. Kirkpatrick was even more shocked that there was going to be a sequel.

“When I saw in the script that there was a pregnant squirrel that gives birth to a super jacked, super sexy Scrappydoo, I was pleasantly uncomfortable,” said Kirkpatrick. “But it’s nice to see that the feedback we’ve received has been so overwhelmingly positive.”

“Literally no one had any idea that this would be such a big hit. But I think this just goes to show that you should always follow your dreams and believe in yourself,” said Conover.

Voting ends tomorrow. Patch hopes that if Furry Force wins the award it will give CollegeHumor an even stronger incentive to continue creating new episodes.

“If anyone laughed as hard as I did, they should vote for it. I think we need more great comedy,” said Patch. “Don’t vote for it just because you’re a furry, vote for it because it’s funny.”

Sydney Parker is a writer living in Los Angeles. You can read more of her stories on humor, humanity and pigeons here or follow her on Twitter @carnivalosouls.

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THE PAGE OF WANDS -This is a kid that never stays still, runs all over the place, always wants to go outside and play, is always getting into strange places, climbing trees, wanting to go on trips. He’s never home for dinner on time. Personality wise, however, he is usually a delightful child, happy, fun-loving, charismatic. He loves being the center of attention and the leader; however, and you might have to watch that he doesn’t bully other kids.

This was an open prompt and when I read the description all I could think of was Dean the big kid who is still nonetheless a leader…

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Supernatural Episode Details!

Episode 3x15 (Unknown Title)

"We're gonna charge full-steam into Dean's deal with the devil, because his soul is coming up due," [reveals Eric Kripe.] Adds Padalecki: "Sam is trying new and different methods to try and save Dean. In the third episode I think we have a week left of Dean's life, and we're sprinting to the finish line to beat this deal that's closing in."

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My latest imaginary girlfriend of the week is the delightful and luscious (through some artificial means, not that it matters to us) British glamor model turned singer turned actress, Gemma Atkinson. She’s also an ex wag, having dated Cristiano Ronaldo and being engaged at one point to Marcus Bent. More


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India look to keep up their momentum at Trent Bridge

MS Dhoni and his boys are back at their favourite format and they are back to winning. Critics had always said that this team is more comfortable in the shorter format of the game. The fact that the players know a spell of good bowling or batting can change the outcome of the match clearly makes them play with a positive mindset. India will be hoping to perform equally well in the 3rd match of the series at Trent Bridge, Nottingham and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

Suresh Raina looked in sublime form in the second match. He survived the initial scares and did not rush. When he came to the crease, Tredwell was bowling with a good rhythm and looked confident having dismissed Rahane. But Raina kept playing each ball to its merit. He moved around the crease did not let Tredwell settle on his line and length. Rahane looked impressive too. He was in good form in Test series and was in fine touch in the second ODI. He and Rohit batted sensibly after India slumped to 19/2. This eased the pressure off Raina and Dhoni later, who took their time to settle in before going for the big shots. A major concern for Dhoni will still be Kohli. He was in bad form in the Test series, and now it seems he is out of luck too. India can only hope that he recovers from his bad form as soon as possible with not many matches left before the World Cup.

In the bowling department, it is good to see that Shami is back in form. He was in disarray in the Test series and the fans will be happy since he is going to be the premier weapon with the new ball in the World Cup. Jadeja was impressive as he picked up 4 wickets and was economical. Raina’s spell of a few overs always helps Dhoni if any of his frontline bowlers go for too many runs on any given day.

On the other hand, it looked like the English batting picked up from where the Indians left it in the Test series. They made no effort in building partnerships and threw away their wickets. Debutant Hales looked good for his 40, but this England team really depends a lot from their captain Cook and senior batsman Ian Bell. If England is supposed to post a good score or chase down a big target, these two has to score the bulk of the runs.

With the new ball, Anderson and Woakes started on a good note but the change bowlers Chris Jordan and Stokes gave away the momentum England had achieved in the initial overs. Woakes endured the extremes of 50-over cricket, taking two wickets in four balls in a new-ball spell of 5-1-8-2 yet eventually finishing with four for 52. Stokes and Jordan gave away 12 wides and had absolutely no control over their line and length. England needs to consider playing Steven Finn in the remaining matches if they want to restrict India to a relatively low total. Tredwell looked good but it will be difficult to stop the Indian batsmen with spinners on good batting wickets.

Cook will be hoping for a comeback and level the series at Trent Bridge but their tasks will be uphill given the Indian team is looking strong. Dhoni and his boys will also feel confident to be playing at the ground where they managed to draw the first test match last month.

England: Alastair Cook (c), Ian BellJoe Root, Steven FinnJos Buttler (wk), Chris WoakesBen StokesAlex Hales, Eoin Morgan, James TredwellJames Anderson.

India: Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya RahaneVirat Kohli, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Ambati Rayudu Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohit Sharma, Mohammad Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

C'est Moi

Last night I was talking on the phone to one of my best friends, Dr. Murphy. He is part father, part mentor and part friend to Andy and I. In college he taught us Intellectual Heritage, and we have been close ever since. He was there when Andy and I got married, and he was the first person I called when each of our girls were born. Through thick and thin, he has been there. I love him so much.

Andy and his sister got to see Dr. Murphy on their drive to Colorado two and a half years ago, but I haven't seen him in even longer. Last night he asked if I had any pictures of myself online, and I realized that I always post photos of the girls, not me. So today I asked Zoe to take a picture of me, and here it is :-)

In other news, I am busy working on my next cookbook, even on weekends. It seems when you love what you do, it's very hard to stop "working." ;-) This is a photo of a cake and glaze for the next Spunky cookbook. I took it to a baby blessing a week ago, and it got rave reviews, even from half of the crowd who are not on any type of restricted diet. Yay!

Now to have a glass of wine and watch some 30Rock with my love.
XOXO, Kelly

Thursday, March 18, 2010

snacks on the porch
& two new haircuts

I don't know what the weather was like while we were sick all last week, but the past few days since we've been better have been phenomenal. We have been eating lunch and dinner out on the porch.

Also, I gave the girls new haircuts, that I think look pretty good considering I'm not a professional =)
I know this last one isn't a great picture, I just included it so I could show you how I stacked Ashley's hair in the back. It gets really knotted back there, so this is perfect for her.
Well, it may snow tomorrow—that's Colorado for you—short sleeves & flip-flops one day, snowing the next. I absolutely love it =)

Saturday, March 13, 2010

40's records & 40's inspired dresses

Andy and I love going to thrift stores and looking for records.
This is our record player (that I bought Andy when we were engaged 8 years ago) from Restoration Hardware. Andy likes to say that the great thing about it is, "It's so low-tech, when the girls break it, I can just open it up and fix it with a pair of pliers." haha

Our 10 year old neighbor came over one day, and when he saw the record player he exclaimed, "What is this thing? You can see it

Check out the great box sets we got last weekend! Half off that day too!

The Swing Years, 1936 - 1946

and The Unforgettable Glenn Miller, 72 of his greatest
Original Recordings

Then I was fortunate enough to find these two 40's inspired dresses on Amazon, and use my Amazon credit to buy them for the girls.

How much do I wish they were my size?!

By the way, the pearls were all Zoe's doing. They look so cute with this dress too.

Here are a few close-ups because I am so crazy about them =)

Really, really wish they were my size... Kind of April Cornell,
but retro ;-)

Thursday, March 4, 2010

sand and a mask

It's been too cold yet for the water table, so...
I bought a bag of play sand (for less than $4!),
and tried on the mask my mom sent...
I love how wild and colorful it is =)


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Tough Stuff

I am in charge of the sixteen to eighteen year olds at an annual girls' camp for our church. I've had the honor of cooking with one of my YCL girls (YCL= youth camp leader), for eight weeks. It has been a blast. At first I was nervous because it was part of a disciplinary action taken from some events last year. She is not a bad kid at all, but just had the unfortunate situation of not living up to my expectations. I tend to be pretty tough on those poor girls.

Well, my nights cooking with this amazing girl were just fabulous. I had a great time doing what I love and getting to know her even better. I know this year will be a complete success! Honestly, last night being my final night cooking with her was sad for me. It was nice to spend some one on one time with one of the greats of the upcoming generation. It makes me sad to think of all the things teenagers are going through these days. Just going to high school is a war zone. I admire all those that get through it alive with their self confidence and values intact.

Now for a funny clip from my favorite high school movie:

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it is so awesome that you took a bad situation and helped turn it around for this girl. i am sure the lesson will go a lot further because of the L-O-V-E.


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Color color everywhere! It’s probably not a huge surprise that all of us at Square One Interiors love color. Bright, bold, intense color. But why? What makes some people prefer blue over purple, red over yellow? Why do we correlate certain colors with feelings, emotions and ideas? There is quite a bit of information on color theory, symbolism and psychology but did you know those three things are all very different and all equally important in design?

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Holiday Heaven Craft Show

St. Martha Parish Invites you  to:

Holiday Heaven

An Arts and Crafts Collection

Saturday, November 18th from 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

The event will have prize giveaways all day long, with food and unique items for purchase.

If you are interested in helping with the craft show, there are a number of ways for you to do so: preparing food prior to the event (11/16 and 11/17), and on the day of the event (11/18), working in the kitchen, as a greeter, as a raffle announcer, as a general floater for assignment where needed, and on set-up or clean-up duty. For more information, contact Annie Bennett at or at 517-648-5355.

St. Martha Faith Formation

We have somethiing for all children ages 2-18!!

In a loving, nurturing environment, St. Martha Religious Education Program guides each
student to develop his or her unique ability and potential through
prayer, study, and service.

 Contact Jackie at 517-349-1763 or for more information

All Saints Family Hayride

All Saints Family Hayride

Join us as we celebrate the Saints in Nature!!

Friday, October 27th, 6-8 PM

 at Tannenbaum Farms on Sandhill Rd. in Okemos

We will have a Hayride, hot dog and s'more roast and share Saint Stories around the campfire.

As Catholics it is very important to remember All Saints Day and that the Saints are in Heaven cheering us on!! They have left us their life as an example of living the faith, we just need to read their story to get inspired.

Just call or email Jackie Rosalez at 517-349-1763 or to

sign up.  Cost is $10 per family.

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Welcome to St. Martha Religious Education! We are here to support you in passing down your Catholic Faith to your children.  Parents are included in whole family classes and are very welcome to join in their child's class at any time.

The Religious Education Registration Packet includes an introductory letter, explanation of our "Whole Family Catechesis" Program, a calendar of classes and a registration form. Call or email Jackie at 349-1763 or for more information.

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Toddler- First Grade

Sunday at 10 a.m.

Grades 1-6  (choose 1)

    Sunday 9:00-9:50 a.m.

    Wednesday 4:30-5:30

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Rained off

This terribly wet spell which has been going on for three weeks now has claimed two more victims today, Goodwood and Newton Abbot.  Chester goes ahead but, as yesterday, with some races started by flag; while Yarmouth goes ahead too.  It'll be heavy there, but it passed its inspection this morning having had only another 6mm overnight, compared to the 19mm which had dumped itself down on the Sussex Downs, rendering Goodwood's track unusable.  We were looking at having two runners today, but Silken Thoughts has been spared the trip to Goodwood, leaving Batgirl to go to Yarmouth this evening.  She oughtn't to be unduly inconvenienced by the ground, and we know that she likes the track, but the favourite Jawhar might be a tough nut to crack, especially as he won on the soft last autumn.  We'll see - but, fingers crossed, she'll give it a good try.  She seems on very good terms with herself, as you can maybe see by how contentedly she is pictured here galloping up an overcast Railway Land with Hannah last Saturday.

I've got a bonus treat this evening as Dream Walker, whom I bred, is running at Yarmouth in the race before Batgirl.  I'll really enjoy seeing him for the first time since October 2010.  Whether he'll cut much ice today remains to be seen, but I'll be disappointed if he doesn't prove up to winning something at some point.  This will be his first race as a three-year-old, so it should be very informative.  This will be my fourth trip to the races of the week and we're only on its fifth day.  I went up to Newmarket on the first day of the week (Sunday, lest there by any misunderstanding - not everyone can grasp this fact) even if I was only on course for one race (the 1,000 Guineas).  Monday saw me at Kempton, where Hannah rode Kadouchski (pictured) in a two-mile handicap.  They didn't do too badly (he finished fifth of nine, albeit a distant fifth) but his stamina wasn't really brought sufficiently into play, so he can go to Towcester on Monday (assuming that the meeting takes place) where two miles on heavy ground up that hill might him in a better light.

We were then at Fakenham on Tuesday with Asterisk (pictured).  It's rare to go to Fakenham and not enjoy the outing, so this trip was duly enjoyable, even if the mare did run last.  She jumped very well and travelled easily for two thirds of the race, but when the pressure was applied she floundered on the very heavy ground.  Even when she was tired, though, she didn't make any jumping errors, but it was altogether too severe a test for her.  Unfortunately she seems not to progress as she goes through her preparation, but no harm done.

It was desperately wet underfoot at Fakenham and I was glad to be wearing my wellingtons, even if my footwear was ultimately accompanied by shirt-sleeve order: the heavy showers moved on in the afternoon and it was actually quite warm, with even the sun putting in an appearance as we were getting ready to go home.  As you can see, Asterisk looked very content by the end of proceedings, so, while it had been a totally fruitless outing, at least man and beast came home unharmed, so that was good.  And what was also nice come departure time was that I passed the time of day with the connections of the winner of our race, who had come down from Midlem in the Scottish borders, the next village along from the one from which I hail, Lilliesleaf.  I can truly say that, as we couldn't win the race, I am very, very pleased that they did.

The winner of the race before ours also gave me pleasure: Eleazar, trained by Lucy Wadham for her husband Justin.  This horse had kept good company through the spring, running in the Foxhunters at both Cheltenham and Aintree, so he was understandably favourite for this.  He had to work hard, though, and it was only in the closing stages that he looked like having any chance at all.  I imagine that he would have been a very long price in running, but by the time he passed us at the last fence (pictured, far side) he had just about worked his way to the front, and he stayed there until the post 80m or so farther along.  It was a thrilling race, and again one after which I was very happy to salute the winning connections.

AlanM said...

Thanks for taking the time to welcome us to the yard on Saturday. We both thoroughly enjoyed the visit and trip to the gallop. Your patience and insight were much appreciated. Best wishes. Alan

John Berry said...

You're welcome, Alan. It was a pleasure.


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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

It's Okay to Fail

The weather was great outside so I thought I'd go out to our backyard spa yesterday afternoon to sketch it, since one of the things going on these days is our search for a replacement spa cover.  I approached drawing this with a somewhat cavalier attitude...it's just a 4-sided spa, how difficult can it be?  And I held up my viewfinder and started drawing...in pen.

As you can see from the version on the left page, it didn't turn out so well!  Oops.  It's funny how the mind has trouble seeing what is actually there when it thinks it "knows" how it should be.  My mind tricked me!

So I realized that this attempt could not be salvaged, so I decided to leave it (as a cautionary tale) and start again.  Now that I realized that my brain can trick me, I took the drawing task more carefully, using pencil to mark cross-hair guidelines, dots of the corners of the spa, etc.  When I was sure I had the proportions relatively correct, I then drew in ink.  Much better.

It's okay to fail.  Sure, it's easy to regard it as a blemish in my book, but it teaches me something (that the mind can make assumptions about shapes and angles when I draw something, and I need to pay attention), and that is even more valuable than a perfect drawing!

Roz Stendhal recently had a blog post that is very relevant to my experience here:  Go Ahead and Fail Today.  In it she links to a wonderful video of Milton Glaser talking to us about the fear of failure.  If you are always successful, you do not develop in your endeavor, period!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Dealing with the challenges of Perspective

I want to share with you a drawing challenge I dealt with in today's journal entry--that of the challenges of perspective!

Yesterday I was at a lovely outdoor mall and photographed an arched corridor that really caught my eye, both because of the vanishing point perspective, and also the wonderful light and shadows I saw (see below for a B&W version of the photo I took).

I was really struggling with even being able to get my mind to SEE the key vanishing point lines, let alone draw them. I finally gave up, printed out my photo and put tracing paper over the photo and drew the key element lines, including some diagonal vanishing point lines (see below).

Okay, NOW I can see better what is going on. I was then able to pencil in the pots and archways into my sketchbook, looking at the *traced* drawing rather than the confusing photograph, and I was able to do a much better job. I also put the tracing paper over my journal drawing from time to time to check my work.

When satisfied, I inked in the drawing--what you see at the top. I will paint it tomorrow. I imagine many of you know how to deal with challenging perspective subjects, but this really taxed my brain!


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Eco-Action Day

Eco-Action Day is an annual event organised by us as part of the Stafford Borough Eco-Schools Network. Each year we receive super support from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.

The event aims to celebrate and thank the fantastic efforts of children, staff and helpers, who work hard to be eco-friendly throughout their schools all year.

It aims to be both educational - and lots of fun - and we always try to ensure there is a really super schedule lined up with some amazing workshops.

Eco-Action Day 4 July 2017

13 schools and around 135 children enjoyed Eco-Action Day this year. It’s one of the highlights of the year for the Stafford Borough Eco-Schools Network, supported by Stafford Borough Council.

This year we had a really super schedule lined up - including a production by the rip-roaringly funny ‘Momo Theatre’ looking at ‘Bikes, Buses and Going Green!’.  There was a workshop entitled ‘All About Birds and Mini-Beasts!’ where children had the chance to make a nest box, create their own Bird Identification Dials as well as construct a giant sized birds nest! Lastly, an aptly named session called ‘Wet and Willowy’ was our unique and inspirational third workshop, consisting of willow weaving, creating willow crafts and pond dipping.

There was also a litter free healthy lunch competition, an opportunity to contribute to our new felt-crafted ‘Eco-Schools Network Banner’ and fun to be had in the ‘Willow Hoopla Championships!’

We had a great team of leaders and organisers from Stafford Borough Council, Staffordshire Wildlife Trust plus help from Mark and his apprentices from Perkins Engines Ltd, Nigel our willow weaver and Philippa Wilson, retired teacher and eco-volunteer.

Eco Action Day 4 July 2017

Eco-Action Day Evaluation Report for 2017 (pdf 600kb)

Quotes from schools

  • ‘Brilliant! Super production by Momo Theatre, very enjoyable and professional’
  • ‘The human size nest building activity was probably one of highlights of the day for our group!'
  • ‘We love our willow-weaved fish! Pond dipping also popular’
  • 'Thank you for organising a super day. We really enjoyed it. Can’t wait for next years'
  • ‘We had lots of positive feedback from the parents as well, after the children had gone home talking about the event. Thank you’

More Eco-Action day photos (pdf 826kb)

Eco-Action Day 5 July 2016

This year's workshops included a fabulously funny theatre production ‘You’re Rubbish’ by Momo Theatre Company. There was also a workshop entitled ‘Mini-beasts and Meadows!’ which involved making cress caterpillars and exploring and investigating the meadows.  Our third workshop was based on the theme ‘Nature’s Art’, which included working with clay, creating natural art features and making hand-prints for the Giant Earth.  There was also a litter free healthy lunch competition and a super eco-goody bag to take home as a memento from the day - including two sets of litter pickers and gloves for every school.

Eco-Action Day Evaluation Report for 2016 (pdf 581kb)

Quotes from schools

  • ‘Super production this year- enjoyed by both adults and children’.
  • ‘I’ve learned so much about nature - the bug hunt was really good!’
  • ‘The children had a brilliant day! They loved being outside and exploring. They particularly enjoyed the theatre show!’.
  • 'The children all really enjoyed their day and have come back to school with many ideas that they want to put into action'.
  • ‘The whole event was very well organised. The weather was kind. I enjoyed all the activities, especially the theatre, which I thought was superbly well done as well as getting the message across. I laughed until I cried and I wasn’t the only adult to do so!’
  • ‘ …a well organised day with lots of engaging activities for the children to get involved in’.
  • 'A very enjoyable day - thank you’.

More Eco-Action day photos (pdf 3.6mb)


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Sunday, September 20, 2015

So Very Grateful

We have an Anything Goes for our Clean and Simple challenge this week over at The Outlawz. I used this opportunity to use some new stamps and dies I recently got. The stamp is from WPlus9 - Grateful Greetings. For the leaves, I sponged distress ink onto a piece of watercolor paper, applying water droplets for that fun spattered look. I then die cut the leaves (Leaf Silhouettes by Paper Trey Ink) from the watercolor paper as well as from gold foil paper. Really quite simple to make, too bad I couldn't get a better pic to show off the gold foil. Sure hope you can join us for an Anything Goes CAS challenge at The Outlawz.

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Lisa Lynn said...

Love those gold leaves - your card is stunning.
Checking if you would be interested in joining another DT? For Miss Rach, I am the only DT member at this time, and I know she would like a TEAM and I enjoy working with you at Imagine That. Let me know if you are interested.


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All Images © 1990-2007 Stampin’ Up!
It's been a while since I have posted i thought I would post the cards we will be making for my Stamp Club. Made the first card with some new stamps I got from my preview order and the new In Colors! The other card is a set that was in a Mini Catalog but made it to the 2007 Fall/Winter Catalog. Thanks for looking.

GinaP said...

hey, nice blog and great pictures!! From one Gina to another!

Flossie's Follies said...

Great cards, love the color combos you used.


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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Totally Techniques - Ombre Effect

Hello again blog hoppers! Welcome to another Totally Techniques hop- this month we are highlighting ombre technique and here is my card:
You have probably just hopped across from Marine's beautiful blog, she is such a talented stamper.

Its that time of year when we can't get enough Christmas cards and this is made for a friend of mine in the USA who won't be with family at this crazy time. My card is 6" square heavy Whisper White card stock mounted with a slightly smaller square of Night of Navy card stock. The stamped square is also heavy Whisper White as it is better to water colour directly onto than the lighter card.
I loved Merry Mice as soon as I saw it and was coming up with a heap of ideas to watercolour and emboss it. So here I have embossed in black emboss powder. The sentiment is from Greetings from Santa (also heat embossed in black).
My colouring was not as good as it could be and I was a little impatient which resulted income leeching of colours but you get the effect lol. The mouse is coloured with Smokey Slate and Blushing Bride and the turtle neck is in Real Red. The leaves are Garden Green. The Christmas bauble I have treated as a little light as such and colours in Real Red and I coloured some rhinestones with a red Sharpie pen to make it seem as if it is illuminated. I used an aqua painter.
The background is where my ombre technique comes in - I have tried to watercolour from dark at the top to lighter at the bottom. I used Night of Navy and an aqua painter. I then stencilled some stars from the Hearts & Stars Decorative Masks with Craft Whisper White ink and a dauber. I wanted the subtle reference to the red white and blue of the USA. And the stars marry in perfectly with the little star on the mouse's tail.
Hope you have taken some inspiration and enjoyed our hop this month!

Be sure to stop by our next blogger the inspiring and talented Nadine Weiner

Until next time,

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Shannean Moncrieff (that's me)

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Fancy Folds - Secret Message Card

Hope that you are enjoying the Fancy Folds blog hop this month. Secret message cards are all the rage at the moment.  You have probably just popped by from Martha's blog - I am loving all of the creations this month! Here is mine:

I am trying to get in early with the crazy busy card giving time of the year. . .so this is my square card. I followed Frenchie's great tutorial on how to make a secret message card. I simply adjusted the measurements to suit a 6" square card. It meant that the card was scored t 3", 6" and 9" and that the card was cut at 1.5", 3" and 4.5". The base card is real red and the inserts (which are 3' wide and 6" long) are in whisper white and crumb cake. I adhered the white and the crumb cake together so that the front would be crumb cake and the back white.

I also chose to line the inside with small rectangles of Candy Cane Lane designer series paper.
The pattern on the DSP is quite busy but I like how the papers contrast with the different colours in the background. I also mounted rectangles of early espresso and whisper white on the real red base card so that there is a spot too write the Christmas message. I decided to line the inside of the front mount of the card too for some additional space for writing.
When the magic opening is made the sentiments from Candy Cane Christmas appear. They are stamped in early espresso. The white contrasts smartly with real red and marries in nicely with the candy cane and Christmas candy theme of the card.
I wanted the front to look like a decorated Christmas tree. I mounted a square off early espresso with a square of crumb cake and then a square of whisper white.

I stamped the frond leaves from Christmas Pines in old olive and always artichoke and cut out more leaves with the Pretty Pines Thinlet Dies in old olive and always artichoke card stock. I punched out 3/4" circles of red foil and gold glimmer paper. You will see that I made little loops with the real red metallic thread for the Christmas baubles and attached them with dimensionals.

I heat embossed the candy cane from Banners for Christmas with the real red glitter stampin' emboss powder and fussy cut it out. Its adhered to look like an ornament with dimensionls. The mini pine cone accents are supposed to look like ornaments too. The sentiment "be joyful" is from Merriest Wishes, stamped in real red.
You can see that there is a lot of layers on the front of the card. I wanted the leaves to look thick lie a real tree. The weight of the layers also contributes to keeping the card closed and sitting flat (this overcomes the need for a belly band).
The rear of the card is bare. The colour scheme fresh. There is a fair bit of depth in the card though - here is a photo of the card lying on its front so that you can see the layers:
 One of the tricky things is how the card unfolds to show the secret messages.
I like how the card is less busy when the secret message is tucked away.
You can see that the double layering of the insert cards adds a lot of dimesion.
I hope that you find some inspiration in my project for this month's blog hop. It is a surprisingly easy fancy fold to make and comes together very fast. Check out Anne Granger's amazing creation next
Thanks for stopping by!
Shanni xx

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Mini Clipboard for a Friend

Mini SU clipboard, covered with Basic Grey DSP, Lots of different lace and trims, letter cut using my Cricut machine.
Love the MFT rolled flower die!
Letter is covered in Dazzling Diamonds glitter.
I used my sewing machine to stitch the Ric-Rac
to the DSP to make the pen holder.
I made this little clipboard for a friend.
This is another goodie from the SU clearance rack.
I have white post it notes on order
they will be in this after they
get here I'll add one to the clipboard.

Hope everyone is having a blessed Monday!

HUGS and Love

Dawnmarie said...

well you were certainly productive!. All I have managed so far is bagging the swap cards.

Mary G. said...

SO pretty!!! What a lucky friend!

Kathy said...

Adorable! I love that rose die too!


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Due to a lack of rainfall, the spillway at Lake Irena at Hazle Township Community Park has dried up.

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ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer The water level at Lake Irena in Hazle Township is down considerably due to a lack of rainfall. The U.S. Department of of Agriculture has designated Luzerne, Carbon, Schuylkill and Monroe counties as disaster areas.

Sixteen counties in Pennsylvania - including Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon and Monroe - have been designated federal natural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture because of losses caused by drought conditions since May 25.

In addition, 22 more counties are eligible for natural disaster assistance. Lackawanna, Columbia and Montour are among those whose farmers can ask for relief because they are contiguous to the counties named disaster areas.

Mike Schaffner, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, N.Y., said counties in the eastern half of the state have a deficit of between 2 and 6 inches of rain this year compared to the average amount.

"The real problem area is toward the middle to eastern part of the state," Schaffner said. "Luzerne County had a 6-inch deficit, and State College was down about 5 inches. Monroe County was down almost 5 inches, while Lackawanna County was down 4 inches."

Elizabeth Hinkel, manager of the Schuylkill County Conservation District, said the two farms her family owns are very dry.

"Everybody is in a little bit different situation, depending upon when they planted," Hinkel said. "The later-season soybeans on the small side, and corn yields are down. Everything is hurting. The (growing) season is over, for a lot of people. Harvest will be early this year."

Andy Beck, external educator for commercial horticulture with Penn State Cooperative Extension of Schuylkill and Berks counties, agreed this year's harvest will be an early one.

"Crops are being harvested ahead of last year, ahead of normal, across the board for all crops," Beck said. "Harvest will be two to four weeks ahead of normal."

Tanya Brown, a spokeswoman for the USDA, said declaring a drought disaster concludes a process that begins with a letter from the governor.

A letter from Gov. Ed Rendell requesting that a disaster designation be issued for the 16 Pennsylvania counties was dated Aug. 16.

When the USDA receives the letter, Brown said it begins an assessment process that includes information from the governor's office and from the USDA Farm Service Agency's state executive director.

After the review was completed, the secretary of agriculture issued a letter declaring a disaster designation on Sept. 3.

"An agricultural disaster designation of drought is based, in part, on the U.S. Drought Monitor, and there must be a 30 percent production loss in order for the counties to be named a primary natural disaster area," Brown said. "The counties in Pennsylvania named as primary natural disaster areas suffered a 30 percent or more loss to corn, forage crops, soybeans, oats and wheat due to the drought."

The designation means all qualified farm operators in the designated areas are eligible for low-interest, emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency, provided eligibility requirements are met.

Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. A variety of loan programs are available.

Beck said farmers get some relief through crop insurance. "But the insurance has stipulations that have to be met to be effective," Beck said.

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One of the most damaging calamities found upon the earth is ignorance.

Jesus himself, while a human being on earth, rather than begging for his life, uttering curses, or using his almighty power while hanging from the cross, instead asked his father for forgiveness for those ignorant.

These were the Pharisees, the two-faced, fake, evil, dishonest delinquents dressed up as religious people who shouted for his death. Those capable of destroying him mocked, defamed, lied about, and made fun of him.

Today, that same act is repeated on an everyday basis. It is experienced by individuals and organizations like us that work for the community, consisting of constant sacrifice in order to help others, not looking to put in our pockets the miserable 30 coins that Judas or Satan placed in theirs, while also selling the ideas of redemption of their own Christian community.

If we look closely at Jesus on the cross, the majority of those did not know about the positive work that Jesus did amongst them. Such individuals ignored those acts and even worse, condemned him for something they heard was wrong for them, stated by the Pharisees, who just wanted to confuse them in order to obtain support and manipulate the community.

Presently such acts are repeated, with the court failing once again in regard to the unconstitutional, anti-immigrant law in Hazleton.

Ominous voices go out trying to confuse our Hispanic community by stating that they have been the ones fighting for such cause, while ironically they were actually the ones who supported such law and did not show up in court as defenders of the cause.

Meanwhile, La Casa Dominicana de Hazleton Inc., The Dominican House of Hazleton, is the only Hispanic organization in Northeastern Pennsylvania that has been fighting and defending the Hispanic rights without obtaining nor wanting anything in return. It is the only Latin organization that exists that has gone out to confront those authorities that have been trying to step on Hispanics and manipulate our rights.

Particular individuals have a silenced complicity with our local authorities who have supported at some point the unconstitutional decisions against immigrants, adopted in 2006 in the city of Hazleton. They have not learned how to differentiate the lies from the truth, nor notice when we are being utilized with malignant purposes so that we could not become united, but rather defame our own values.

As Hispanics, Latins, the good ones, the bad ones, the mediocre, we must wake up and empower ourselves, as well as do something to stop this false integration that wants to be sold to us. We should let the truth set us free from this "kissing up" veiled as "community integration."

There are those who will like to continue with the burial of our Hispanic community, and so we will only ask the almighty Lord, forgive them, even though they do know what they are doing.

We are surrounded by a lot of religious individuals, but not that many Christians.

Victor Perez,

Dominican House of Hazleton


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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas to all this beautiful Christmas day in 2010. This was a very special Christmas in the Stansel household. This is the first Christmas for Haley and Rachel to celebrate at home with mom and dad and family.  We celebrated Christmas in Austin with both sides of our families.  We enjoyed spending time with family, eating good food and celebrating Christmas together as a family.  Although we know the girls are a little young to understand all that was going on, they seemed to enjoy this Christmas day. They loved opening their Christmas presents with help from Grandma Benedict and mommy. I still don't know what they liked more the presents or the wrapping paper and bows, either way they were going in the mouth. It was very special to Thomas and I to just have them with us at home this Christmas day. They bring much joy and happiness to our home. We love and cherish them so very much. We are so grateful this Christmas season to have the most beautiful little girls with us to celebrate this sacred season. Most importantly we are grateful to our Heavenly Father for his Holy Son Jesus Christ. Without Christ there would be no Christmas, and without Christ there can be no fullness of joy.That knowledge alone brings the greatest comfort to me and my family. We declare to the World that Jesus Christ is indeed the first born of our Heavenly Father in the Spirit, and that this Jesus, the Christmas child, condescended to come to earth from the realms of His Eternal Father, here to work among men as healer and teacher, our Great Exemplar. And further, and most important, He suffered on Calvary’s cross as an atoning sacrifice for all mankind. At this time of Christmas, this season when gifts are given, let us not forget that God gave His Son, and His Son gave His life, that each of us might have the gift of eternal life.  Merry Christmas!

In front of our Christmas tree before we went to Austin

Here are pictures of the girls opening up their gifts.  They loved the bows and paper!

They like the curly ribbon

Rachel eating the paper

Haley likes her toy and Rachel likes the bow

Playing with the paper

They got a telephone

Haley playing with the telephone

Daddy holding Rachel.  She's so happy!

My parents, Thomas, me, the girls and my brother and his wife and kids

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Christmas Pictures

We had Christmas pictures taken 2 weeks ago and we used some of those pictures to make our Christmas card this year.  We want to share our Christmas card and Christmas pictures with all our readers.  We wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Santa Babies

Haley and Rachel so cute together

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Visit with Santa

The girls got to sit on Santa's lap for the first time today.  We found Santa at REI (outdoor sports store) and had the opportunity to take a picture with Haley and Rachel on his lap.  I was so surprised that they didn't seem to mind Santa at all.  I thought that at least Rachel would get upset and cry, but she didn't.  When I was about their age many years ago, I got upset on Santa's lap.  I'm so proud of them.  They did so good.  It's so wonderful to have the girls home with us this Christmas.

Haley and Rachel with Santa

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Good Stuff

The girls were able to spend a little time with Grandma and Grandpa Stansel this evening as they have finished their year and a half church mission in New Orleans. Grandma and Grandpa were on there way home to Austin today and stopped in for a little while to see the girls. It was good to see Grandma and Grandpa Stansel. We love them and are so glad they are home.
Rachel and Haley also had their monthly Synagis Shots today to help protect them from RSV. They will get these shots each month until the RSV season ends.  Poor girls have to endure those shots for another 3-4 months, but they are worth it to protect them.
Both Rachel and Haley surprised us today.  Our new OT got Rachel to drink 1/2 an ounce of formula from the bottle.  This is a great accomplishment for her as she has not drank from a bottle since February 2010.  It doesn't seem like much, but its great for her.  Haley also surprised us when she drank 9oz of formula at her 7pm feeding.  She has not drank that much for us before.  Way to go Rachel and Haley!  They are really making good progress with the help from the OT.
I love the new Christmas tree ornament I received in the mail today.  I found this six peas in the pod ornament in a catalog and was excited to get it with all our sextuplets names on it.  Our Christmas tree has many ornaments on it remembering all our children.

Here are some random pictures of the girls we have taken the past couple of days.  We just can't take enough pictures.

Rachel in her cute polka dot outfit

Haley loves touching her feet
Sleepy Haley.  She loves her little blankets.

Sleepy Rachel

Saturday, December 4, 2010

16 months old!

Today the girls are 16 months old chronologically.  They have also made it to 1 year adjusted for their prematurity.  Again we express our gratitude for being able to love and raise Rachel and Haley.  They have come a long way seeing how early they were born and how little they were when they were born.  Being born at almost 23 weeks, the odds were against them, but they beat the odds and are here with us today.  What miracles and blessings they are!

At 16 months old, Rachel is 18 pounds and Haley is 15 1/2 pounds.  They are small for their age, but continue to grow and make progress.

At a church Christmas activity (12/4/2010)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

It's December...Christmas is coming

It's December and Christmas is almost here.  Our Christmas tree is up and all decorated.  It seems like yesterday we were celebrating the girls first Christmas.  We are happy to celebrate having Rachel and Haley home with us for their second Christmas, but their first one at home.  It will be so much fun to watch them Christmas morning tearing up the wrapping paper on their gifts.  Along with the Christmas excitement building we are also excited with the new occupational therapy Rachel and Haley are getting.  As mentioned before, Rachel is aversive to eating foods by mouth and therefore is fed through her g-tube.  We got an answer to our prayers when an occupational therapist was recommended to us that specializes in feeding issues like Rachel's.  The occupational therapist just started seeing the girls and they are already making some progress.  The OT comes to our house everyday and has both Rachel and Haley on an intensive sensory diet.  This sensory diet is all about sensory input and we have to give them specific sensory input every 2 hours.  The girls missed out on a lot of natural steps/sensory input while they were in the NICU and that is what has caused some of the feeding issues with Rachel.  Haley will also benefit from this sensory diet to help channel some of her feisty energy.  We are so thrilled to have this OT help us with getting Rachel to eat.  It will be great to see her eat and progress in that area. This Christmas Season we are so eternally grateful for our precious girls. They have filled our home with such tremendous joy and happiness. We are so thankful to all who have helped our girls progress and become much stronger.

Our Christmas Tree

Rachel in the jumper.  She used to not like being in it, but now she likes it.
Rachel playing amongst a lot of toys.  Our living room is filled with toys.
Haley playing
Haley playing with her lighted vibrating ball

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! This is the girls second Thanksgiving but it's the first one home. So much has happened since last year at this time. I have reflected back on last Thanksgiving and am so grateful for the progress and the milestones that Haley and Rachel have made since that time. Thomas and I are so grateful for our beautiful daughters. They have brought so much joy and happiness to us. We cherish them and love them more than anything.  We enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday with Grandma and Grandpa Benedict (my parents) in Austin. We had a nice Thanksgiving meal and enjoyed time together as a family.  The girls also enjoyed Grandma's backyard sitting in the leaves.  The weather was warm until a cold front came through mid-day.  We got some good pictures outside before it got cold.  It was a wonderful Thanksgiving all together as a family.  We are so blessed and grateful!

Family picture

The girls with Grandpa and Grandma
Rachel and Haley.  I love their cute Thanksgiving bibs.

Playing in the leaves.  Rachel was determined to get her hands in them.
Cute little Haley

Rachel playing with a leaf.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Sickness and g-button problem

Poor little Rachel and Haley are sick with colds.  Their colds started a week ago and I thought they were on the way to getting better when Rachel started running a low grade temp.  So to be safe we took her to the pediatrician.  Her lungs sounded good so the doctor suspected she has a sinus infection.  She is now on an antibiotic (amoxicillan).  We love those antibiotics.  Rachel always gets diarrhea and a bad rash when she is on an antibiotic.  To top it off, Rachel's g-button has been leaking a lot.  So we had to change it out and it seems to be better now.  Poor sweet baby has been through it the past couple of days, but she is getting better.  She didn't have a fever today so that's a good sign.  Haley is getting better as well.  Her cold hasn't slowed her down.  She is still feisty and active.  She has been sitting so well.  She is sitting longer before falling over.  Well the girls will get through these colds.  We are so grateful that these colds weren't any worse.
Rachel is happy despite her cold

Haley sitting so well

Haley so happy

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Good Reports

Last week the girls saw Dr. Rivera (Neurologist) and got a good report. He seemed extremely happy and somewhat surprised with how well the girls are progressing considering what they have been through and how early they were born. Rachel and Haley both had MRI'S at the end of October, so we went into this appointment with lots of questions regarding what the MRI's showed. Dr. Rivera explained the MRI results and said that Haley's grade 4 bleed had completely resolved. He said that the brains of babies who have had brain bleeds are able to make connections in other parts of the brain to compensate for the part of the brain with the bleed. We wanted to know how this would affect her in the future. He said that right now all they have to go by is how she is doing mobility wise. We won't know if there will be any effect with behavior or learning until she gets older. So far though we don't see any abnormal behavior. She acts like a normal baby. Rachel also got a fairly good report despite her diagnosis of PVL (periventricular leukomalacia). She is mildly hypotonic which means she is a little floppy (or has low muscle tone). Physical therapy will help her to get stronger. She has made progress with her mobility. She is doing so much better at rolling, lifting her head and getting up on her knees in preparation to crawl.
Today the girls saw Dr. Robertson (pulmonologist) who said the girls lungs sound good despite them being sick with colds right now. He doesn't want to see them again until May 2011. We hope for a healthy as possible fall/winter season.
We are so grateful for the good reports that the girls have gotten. It's so nice to get good reports. As a mom, I worry about Rachel and Haley a lot. I know that seeing how early they were born they are going to struggle with some challenges, but I hope the challenges will get easier and better with time. They have gotten better since being home from the NICU. I have faith that things will get better as they get older and stronger. The Lord has truly blessed them to this point in their lives. He will continue to bless them. I know that God will do what is best for our little girls, whether that they will be completely healed from all their difficulties or they will have challenges that we do not for see right now. The Lord knows the future, he knows what is best for the girls and he will do according to their individual needs and what he sees will be most beneficial to them eternally speaking.

Rachel being silly

 Haley having fun

Haley and Rachel playing together

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Ready for Flu and RSV season

Both Rachel and Haley got their first flu shot a month ago and will be getting their second flu shot next week. Yesterday the girls got their Synagis shot. Synagis helps to protect them from RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus). They will both have to get this shot once a month through out the RSV season. Typically RSV is most common in children under 1 year. Since the girls were born extremely premature their doctors thought it would be best the girls get the Synagis shots through this RSV season. We have been blessed that the girls have not gotten terribly sick to land them back in the hospital. I'm glad they will be better protected this flu and RSV season.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

15 months old

The girls are 15 months old! I can't believe how time flies! My little babies are growing up fast. Rachel is working so hard at trying to crawl. She is getting closer to it everyday. Though she may not crawl perfectly yet, she is good at rolling from one side of the living room to the other side. She is moving all around. Rachel has also been so vocal lately. I really think that the ear tubes she had placed over a month ago has really helped her. Rachel is such a happy, smiley little girl. We are still struggling to get Rachel to eat baby food. Its going to take more patience, work, time and therapy to get her to eat. I hope it will happen sooner than later.

Rachel getting a break from the helmet and glasses. She is a happy girl! She has such beautiful blue eyes. I love them.

Rachel playing

Haley is doing so good at sitting with less assistance. She can sit without assistance for a short time, but she still topples over. She is getting better at it everyday. Haley is also doing so much better at lifting her head when she is on her tummy. She is starting to use her hands and arms to lift her self up while on her tummy. She wasn't doing this a couple of weeks ago. Haley is also eating so well. She loves her baby food. She is doing better at eating vegetables. I found a way to get her to eat the vegetables. I give her bites of fruit while I'm feeding her the vegetables and it works. She is so spunky and so cute. She keeps us laughing.

Haley sitting by herself

I took this picture while getting Haley ready for bed. She is sitting so well.

Helmet update: Both girls had a follow up appointment with the helmets. Rachel has been in her helmet for 3 months now and Haley for 2 months. They both are making progress at a rounder head. Rachel has 1-2 more months in her helmet and Haley has 2-3 more months. They have been troopers at wearing their helmets. They have done well with little problems. I do look forward to the day they can get them off and to the day they have round heads.


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Monday, November 05, 2007

Bonfires and Fireworks

Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night: The persistent smell of burning wood in the autumn air. Clear, cold, sunny days and foggy nights. Fireworks going off intermittently in people's backyards, a flash of sparkling blue and green in the dark sky. Dogs that have become so blase at three days of fireworks they can't be bothered barking at them any more.

I love Bonfire Night. Following close on the heels of Halloween, it heralds the middle of Autumn, reminding one that the winter is all too close. People huddle around bonfires in public parks and friends' yards, breathing mistily into the cold, damp air as they shuffle through piles of autumn leaves, their kids gleefully lighting sparklers up and down the street. A rare sense of community is fostered by the local gathering around bonfires. It feels pagan, almost ritualistic, a reminder of our earlier more primeval selves.

The greatest thing about this holiday is that there's nothing to sell on it. I don't think you're allowed to advertise fireworks - only fireworks safety ads clog the radio waves. Other than that, it's an advert free holiday. Utter bliss.

Lynda K. Scott said...

A holiday with no pressure to buy, buy, buy? LOL, that MUST be nice!

Do you have big fireworks displays like we do on the Fourth of July? Or parties leading up to Bonfire night? I do like the feeling of community you describe (and I love to stand near a nice large fire on a chilly night :D)

Cassandra Kane said...

Yes, huge fireworks displays organised by the town councils, though I've never heard of anyone having a party for it. It's a good idea though!

Lynda K. Scott said...

Heheheh, parties are always a good idea :D


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Space for the Earthbound - A Journey Through the Universe

Explore the endlessly fascinating world of outer space from the comfort of your home

The Horsehead Nebula (Equine Elegance)

The Horsehead Nebula, located in the constellation Orion, is one of the most easily recognizable and most photographed nebulae in the sky. Found just below Alnitak, the left star of the three stars that define Orion's belt, the Horsehead is a dark nebula. A dark nebula is an extremely dense interstellar cloud, so dense that light from surrounding stars will not pass through the cloud. It is within the inner regions of dark nebulae that stars are born.

Photo Credit and Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT

The Horsehead, or as it is also called Barnard 33, is visible to us due the bright nebula IC 434 behind it. The pinkish/red glow typically associated with the Horsehead is caused by hydrogen gas ionized by Sigma Orionis, a bright star that is close by. The bright spots seen in the base of this magnificent nebula are stars preparing to emerge.

Approximately 1500 light years away, the Horsehead Nebula was first identified in 1888 on photographic plate B2312 by Williamina Fleming, who was working at the Harvard College Observatory as an assistant to Edward Charles Pickering.

The Hubble Space Telescope Institute, in 2001, conducted a  public survey on which formation in the heavens people would most like the Telescope to observe for its eleventh Birthday - the Horsehead Nebula was the runaway winner. Over 5,000 registered their votes online, including astronomers, both amateur and professional, teachers and students.

Many amateur astronomers and astrophotographers use the Horsehead Nebula as a test for their detection skills and equipment quality. This nebula can be difficult to find and will require at the least a high-end amateur telescope. Fortunately for those of us who do not possess professional equipment, others do and are willing to share the beauties of our night sky!

Author Resource: Written by Starr Hendon

The Perseids (August's Annual Meteor Shower)

August is upon us and that means it's time once again for the Perseid meteor shower.

Animation Credit: NASA MSFC

The Perseids are without a doubt one of the most popular meteor showers of the year for stargazers, largely due to the fact that the shower occurs in August. The peak date for the Perseids is Thursday, August 12, 2010. As the new moon for August is on the 10th this year, it should prove to be a very exciting shower. This is one of the longest meteor showers of the year, beginning July 17 and lasting until August 24. Even if your weather is unfavorable for meteor viewing on the peak date, there are plenty of chances to catch these "shooting stars" before the shower ends.

The full moon this year falls on the last day of the shower, August 24. Although a full moon will diminish meteor viewing to a slight degree, the full moon of August will be the most distant moon of the year. This distance makes the August moon the smallest of the year. Very definitely a plus for night sky watchers!

The best viewing for the Perseid meteor shower is as far from city light pollution as possible. Look to the northeast after midnight in the Northern Hemisphere. The best viewing will come in the hours closest to the dawn. The Perseids are named as such because they appear to come from the constellation Perseus, which at this time of year is just a bit to the east of the constellation Cassiopeia.

The meteors seen during the Perseid shower are actually debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle as it continues on its 130-year orbital path around the Sun. Although the meteors appear to be fairly large to the naked eye, the debris causing them is generally about the same size as a grain of sand; however, a few may be similar in size to a marble or a pea. This stream of debris is known as the Perseid cloud and the majority of the dust within this cloud is approximately one thousand years old. There is also within this cloud a fairly new filament of dust left by Swift-Tuttle in 1862. Meteors originate from this filament at a much higher rate than from the rest of the debris stream.

Activity from the Perseid meteor shower was first recorded in the Chinese annals, which state that in the year 36 AD "more than 100 meteors flew thither in the morning". This August shower is also known as the "tears of St. Lawrence", since there is an abundance of meteors at the time of the festival in Italy for St. Lawrence on August 10.

The peak of the shower on August 12 should show, under optimal conditions, somewhere around 60 meteors per hour. The first hourly count, also called the ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate), was provided in 1839 by E. Heis from Münster, Germany. Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet of Brussels, Belgium, is credited with the actual discovery of the shower. In 1835, Quételet reported the activity that appeared to be emanating outward from the constellation Perseus.

So, grab a lawn chair or a blanket, find a nice, dark location and relax and enjoy the show! Binoculars can be helpful in locating faint meteors and tails but the best viewing is done with just your eyes. These meteors move extremely fast, traveling at speeds of up to 133,200 mph (60 kps) and many could be missed while using any visual aids.

Photo Credit: Nick Ares

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The Trifid Nebula (Greenhouse in the Sky)

Within the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius lies the Trifid Nebula (M20 or NGC 6514). The word trifid means 'divided in three'. This stellar nursery has been a favorite of amateur astronomers for years, as it is a bright, colorful object when viewed through a small telescope.

Photo Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, J. Rho (SSC/Caltech)

The nebula was first observed by Charles Messier in June 1764; the hazy, glowing object was listed as simply M20 in the Messier Catalogue. The English astronomer John Herschel, while observing the nebula some 60 years later, noticed the dust lanes that seem to separate the cloud into three separate lobes. Herschel then named the nebula Trifid.

Trifid, unlike most nebulae, is actually a rare combination of three different types of nebulae, in addition to open star clusters.

In the upper left corner of Trifid is a reflection nebula. Reflection nebulae, as the name implies, are dust clouds that merely reflect the light that is emitted by nearby stars. These nebulae tend to be light and wispy, somewhat similar to the airiness of a mare's tail cloud. As these reflection nebulae are not dense, stars can be seen through the cloud's dust. Star formations have been known to develop within reflection nebulae.

The area that appears orange in the picture above and pink in the pictures below, is an emission nebula. Emission nebulae are clouds made up of ionized gas. A hot star emitting high-energy photons close to a nebula is one of the most common sources of ionization. The emission nebula within Trifid is an H II region, an area that has shown recent star formation.

The bands seen within Trifid are dark nebulae. Dark nebulae are so dense that light from surrounding stars and other nebulae cannot be seen through the cloud that makes up the nebula. These clouds which make up dark nebulae are the breeding ground of new stars and planets.

This combination of three different star-breeding nebulae within Trifid is akin to a greenhouse. Over time, many new stars will undoubtedly emerge from this hotbed of stellar activity.

Photo Credit: ESO

To the left of the "heart" of Trifid is a finger-like cloud formation (seen clearly in the two lower pictures) which points to the star that powers the nebula. This gas protrusion from the cloud is a well-defined example of an "EGG", or evaporating gaseous globule. The white spot at the tip of the "finger", resembling a star, is actually an extremely dense knot of gas; so dense that it is able to avoid being obliterated by the massive radiation put out by Trifid's central star.

Photo Credit: Hunter Wilson

Just half a degree south of Trifid is the Lagoon Nebula, another favorite of astrophotographers, also located in the constellation Sagittarius.

*** Note: Although the colors are markedly different between the top and two bottom pictures, these are all pictures of the Trifid Nebula. The color variances are due to a number of factors, including the equipment used for taking the photographs and filters that may have been applied during the taking of the pictures.

For Help Locating This Object in the Sky: Use the Interactive Messier Map in the upper right hand corner. Objects are listed numerically. Click on the object you wish to view (ex. The Crab Nebula is M1) and a map will be displayed showing that object's location.

Author Resource: Written by Starr Hendon

The Dumbbell Nebula (Expanding Planetary Nebula)

In 1764, Charles Messier discovered the first planetary nebula - the Dumbbell Nebula (M27 or NGC 6853). Located in the constellation Vulpecula, the Dumbbell, being a very bright planetary nebula, is easily visible when viewed through binoculars or amateur telescopes. This is the type of nebula that will be produced by our Sun when it runs out of the nuclear fuel that makes up its core, estimated to occur in 5-8 billion years.

Photo Credit: Joe & Gail Metcalf, Adam Block, NOAO, AURA, NSF

Planetary nebulae, unrelated to our solar system's planets, were designated as such due to the similarities they appear to share with the giant planets when seen through smaller telescopes. These nebulae have a relatively short life span; only in the tens of thousands of years as compared to the typical lifetime of a star, generally several billions of years. The estimated age of the Dumbbell Nebula is somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 years, just a baby in space time.

The Dumbbell was formed when its central star, similar to our own Sun, began running low on the hydrogen that is necessary to fuel its life. As the hydrogen is depleted, the star begins burning other gases within its nuclei, including oxygen, helium and carbon. The stellar core is compacted and the outer layers begin to expand. During unstable periods, the star may eject these layers completely. What is left in place of the original core is a white dwarf star. The white dwarf in the Dumbbell is the largest known white dwarf in the solar system.

The newly-formed white dwarf star is small but extremely hot due to nuclear burning. The energy from this nuclear burning radiates away from the star, causing the ejected layers, or shells, to fluoresce. The Dumbbell's shell is expanding outward at roughly 17 miles per second, as found by Bohuski, Smith and Weedman in 1970. This expansion will continue for billions of years until all of the energy has been depleted, leaving a black dwarf in place of the star.

For Help Locating This Object in the Sky: Use the Interactive Messier Map in the upper right hand corner. Objects are listed numerically. Click on the object you wish to locate (ex. The Crab Nebula is M1) and a map will be displayed showing that object's location.

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First Senator was a proposed position in the Galactic Senate of the New Republic. Intended as an influential and charismatic figure, the First Senator would have replaced the position of Chancellor and would have been tasked with bringing order to the divided government. The role of First Senator was proposed by Lady Carise Sindian, a Centrist, who wished to have a unifying figure who could break the impasse in the Galactic Senate between the Populists and Centrists. Populist Senator Leia Organa was considered a prime candidate by many for this position, until the true nature of her parentage was exposed by Centrist Senator Ransolm Casterfo. After her withdrawal from the role, Senator Tai-Lin Garr ran as the new Populist candidate, but he was assassinated. Following his assassination, both parties agreed that the election for First Senator should be postponed indefinitely.[1]

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