Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Self sufficient
Please help my son
Tommy is doing a project in his Ecology class and needs to collect different opinions on a variety of topics. The first is regarding the water dispute between Tennessee and Georgia. Could you head over to Tommy’s blog and give him your thoughts in the comments of his post Water Dispute? Thank you!
Amy says
Evan says
Obed Waterfall
TN burning oil.
One of Jed’s oil wells in Oliver Springs is burning.
Mobile post sent by djuggler using Utterz.
From the mouths of babes
Evan, 2.5 years: "Dada. My Amy. My Mamum. My Sarah. All gone."
Dad: "They’ve gone to a movie. We are having boys only at the house."
Evan: "I go find my mamum. My Amy. My Sarah."
I cry
I hold you my son
And I cry
For I cannot give you all the world.
I watch you my daughter
And I cry
For I cannot give you all my time.
I teach you my son
And I cry
For I cannot give you all knowledge.
I guide you my daughter
And I cry
For I cannot prevent all your mistakes.
I set you free my son
And I cry
For I cannot protect you all the time.
I love you my wife
And I cry
For I cannot give you a better life.
And I cry
Tears of joy
For all of you give me such happiness!
I slept with alligators.
I have made a commitment to my children, the Boy Scouts of America, and myself to get out in the wilderness periodically. Often these are weekend trips. Occasionally these are longer. Noah, Tommy, and myself, along with fifteen other people, just spent 5 days in the Okefenokee Swamp. We camped on Mixons Hammock. We canoed upstream into strong head winds for 3 miles to Billys Island to see the ghost town (complete with a school, church, theater and more) where 600-800 people lived while the swamp was logged from 1909 to 1927. Billy’s Island showed the most evidence of the fire that began on May 5, 2007. We also canoed The Narrows to see the head waters of the Suwannee River. (see the canoe map of Okefenokee Swamp).
The mosquitoes were horrible. Noah came within 2 feet of absentmindedly stepping on an alligator as he ran toward his friends yelling, "whatcha lookin’ at?" The raccoons were bold coming within 10 feet of people. A snake visited the camp and decided to nap under Tommy’s tent. We saw alligators, vultures, woodpeckers, red tailed hawks, frogs, frogs, and more frogs, lizards, snake, raccoons, turtles, fire ants, red ants, a mouse (canoed down the Narrows with us), and plenty of mosquitoes. Meals were delicious. The company was excellent with stories and guffaws. Burn cream was administered for bare feet near the fire and sunburn on the skin. Cuts were mended and headaches treated. Overall, no one sustained any substantial injury. I think everyone had a great time. This was my second year in the Okefenokee. I look forward to more!
Now I have to compress 3 work days worth of work as well as administrative duties into a single afternoon. It was worth it!
iPod Generation
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Should I bark at the children or use Socratic methods?
Master: Do you want immediate or long lasting results?
Today’s challenges
Today I must get two children to the doctor’s office, get a complicated API to actually deliver data from a service provider rather than delivering an error message, finish half an inch of change requests to a website, and do a horde of paperwork including my 2007 taxes all due tomorrow. Somewhere in there I need to work in a nervous breakdown and winning the lottery.
When will this day light savings madness end?!
Went to bed at 1am (that used to be midnight) with the intention of napping a couple of hours, rose at 7:08am and by some miracle got three children to their bus stops in time and one kindergartner (may have a tardy) driven to school right at the bell.
