Life On The Planet

Weather Whine

(Yellowstone National Park, September 2010.)

Why is it that 50 degrees is so pleasant in the Fall and so annoying in the Spring?

I want sunshine!!!!

Please. Please. Please!

Gotcha!

There are prairie dogs all over the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, SD. There are also Garter snakes all over the Ingalls Homestead, but we'll save those for another time.

Butterfly tried and tried (a la Mary and Laura) to sneak up on one.

She cornered this fellow behind the school house.

She gloated all the way home!

Wordless Wednesday

(Tiger and Butterfly walking on a rocky shore in the Grand Tetons.)

Then and Now

(In a one room school house on the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, SD.)

Then: Children sat silently row by row, and did their work.

Now: Tiger reclines on the sofa to do his math.

Then: Teachers taught using their brains and a text book.

Now: "Does this come with a CD-ROM?" I ask.

Then: The young 'uns milked 3 cows and plowed the back forty before school every morning.

Now: Ba ha ha ha ha...!!! I'd pay good money to see that!

Then: Boys ran outside hootin' and hollerin' like wild animals when school was over.

Now: Some things never change.

My Moses

(Stained glass at U. S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel.)

Today was 6th Sunday at our church. What is 6th Sunday, you ask? It is the day when the children run the service.

(Scary, no?)

Here is the low down.

Tiger was the Crucifer. He carried the Cross. No one was injured or impaled. Good news!

Butterfly read the First Reading. When she came to the word Rephibim she substituted, "Uh, I don't know," then continued on.

Our priest turned purple. A delightful color.

Sal played Bach's Cello Suite #1 on accoustic guitar. It was beautiful. When he got up to return to the pew, I realized he was IN HIS SOCKS. He had kicked off his shoes and F.O.R.G.O.T.T.E.N.

 

Cringing in the front pew,

The mother.