Book Sale!

Man, its been a long time since we've gotten to a book sale... the Hollis Center Library had one on Saturday and we four have some good summer reads. I've never actually read "Fahrenheit 451" before and I was incredibly excited about finding "Blood Meridian."

The Knight and the Boy

Ha, I'm a knight,


and you're not...


So, Haha...


AND you can't touch me behind the helmet...


HEY!


You can't do that!


Now I'M the knight...


What a bummer...

Some Gardening

M and Walter have been working on re-planting the front garden beds. Walter, much to everyone's surprise has been very excited about planting.






Explaining what manure is...


Now you don't see it...


Now you do!

23 and 49 months!

So happy...


...such a great face... Yeah... I'm happy...


Me too!

Part Five, Syracuse

Day Two of our visit to Syracuse was spent with Melissa getting to see her friend, Tara and sons, Cyrus and Ethan. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the the four boys together. It was, naturally, a whirlwind of activity with four boys together. Ethan, however knew when the camera was aimed at him.




Some of the chaos...


...and there was a duck on tv.


Byron reflecting looking out the window.

Part Four, The Trip To Syracuse

And then it was time to leave New Paltz. We had a beautiful early spring day for it. Cool and windy, but not too cold. We chose to drive up Rte 28 through the mountains and into Oneonta the same way that I used to drive a bus over the river and through the woods. We found a picnic spot just outside of Big Indian after having stopped at our default stop at the Boiceville IGA for some picnic goods. The picnic spot was beneath a tree on a blanket at a pull off.

















This was at a pull off at the apex heading up the mountainside in between Maragaretville and the appropriately named town of Andes. Its a beautiful lookout after having driven up a curving road for miles. To think that I used to drive a bus up this in the winter as well!









I've always wondered about this road sign as well: FINLKLE, how do you pronounce that? Looks like it was a typo when the order for the sign was sent to the manufacturer.
Aha! Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=enU&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=Finkel%20road%2C%20NY&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
Yes, it IS FINKLE Road.

The De-Evolution of Four Boys' Portrait, Part 3

Thanks to Joe and Nicole for graciously letting us stay at their house even though the combination of adding two boys to two more was like adding gasoline to a fire. Thanks again, guys, hope that we can do it sometime soon again, maybe at our house.

Calm, bored, even...


Almost there...


Uh-oh, something is happening...


Waitaminute, have we got it?


Uh-oh...


All chaos breaks loose...

Dinner at Peter and Peg's Part 2

What visit to Ulster County would be complete without visiting Peter and Peg? They invited us over for dinner at their beautiful new house and soon, Peter and Walter got involved in a serious game of Duck Hunt on Peter's Wii. I'm not sure who won, but I am sure that Walter did better than I did against the master. Thanks again, Peter and Peg for Mexican fiesta night and to Cheryl and Tim for the ice cream! It was great to see you two as well!












Even Byron was mesmerized by big brother's skills!

A Visit to the Bakery, Our Vacation in Segments

While on vacation I was unable to upload my photos to the laptop and so bear with me. I have a huge amount of vacation photos to get through. The first photos are from our first NY tour destination, New Paltz. We went to the Bakery and had a good time catching up with a few people. In all we caught up with John Wolfe, David Santner, Eric Roth and Mona and Sharif and their adorable little girl, Violet. Walter and Byron, meanwhile were too caught up in trying in turn to woo either the little blonde girl in the play area or Violet.