Respect, Responsibility and Commitment

Spartans 2012 promo  click to see video

I wanted to share with you the YouTube promo for the Spartans 2012 season. The scenes are of rehearsals from this past summer. It takes about 5.5 minutes. About 3 minutes in is a good shot of Derek pounding the gong. I really enjoyed it. I hope you will too.

I forgot to show the picture of the necklace all the kids were given when they were dropped off for the start of tour. I hope I get the meaning of the beads correct. The red show the start and finish of the season, black start and completion of tour participation and the white show that Derek has aged out of future participation. He never takes it off.

Fall is in the Air

Last Saturday was the annual Apple Festival in town. This has been happening on the 3rd Saturday in September for as long as we can remember and happily I didn’t have to work. Basically main street is closed to vehicles and craft booths, games, etc. line both sides of the street. The temperatures this past week have become very fall-like. We are currently playing our ‘how long can we go before we put the heat on game’, but I digress. We thought we saw signs of the economy this year because there seemed to be less booths as years gone by. I imagine being a crafter is a tough way to make a living these days.

I’ve always had a secret fantasy of creating a photo book of barns across America. The one on the right is still under construction. These barns are neighbors to one another so it made it easy. It’s a start…

 

 

When we saw this pretty little lady we couldn’t help but think of Jenny. I thought she might enjoy seeing perhaps a Massachusetts cousin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greg is showing off a birthday present he got the day before Hurricane Irene struck. One can never be too prepared. I think he and Mark were a little disappointed that they never got to use her. I’m sure there will be another time.