I’m more of a gentleman than a scholar….

“A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.” -Brander Matthews

New Home

Dad’s word of wisdom: “Never take something apart that you don’t remember how to put back together.”

Brumby the not-so-wild horse

Mom likes the neighbors’ chickens.

Goodbye Bonfire

Baseball

Snacks

Hacky Sack

Sword-play

Cristina advertizes Dr. Pepper

Football

Fire-building

Hot dog roasting

LOTS of hot dog roasting

Mysteries of hot dog roasting

Shutterbug

The Push-Cart Wars

The 9th Annual J. Gresham Machen Bloodletting

The Underclassmen

The Upperclassmen

Trotter was chosen by the pink.. and he did not tolerate any nonsense.

Praise God for the beautiful weather, brave men, and loyal spectators who made this day so joyous.

Going to Carolina in my Mind

Sonnet to My Father

Hands Speaking Love

My father’s strong brown hands, nails chewed too short
The crooked finger slammed off in a door,
Lone trees and ocean shells with ink support
Beneath his pen held capably and sure;

The hands that soothed a fevered brow long nights,
That wrote his daughter love poems warm days,
Once held me steady wobbling on my bike,
And guided hands just learning how to bake.

My father’s words are few and rarely aired
Like choice gems, not set forth without much thought,
And yet he’s never silent, love declared
Each day by every loving act that’s wrought.

Each time Mom says “you’re just like him” I know
I only hope each day like him to grow.

America Needs The Money Hole!

Wow.

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Of Interest

• Book: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
• Music: “Fireworks” – The Whitest Boy Alive
• Movie: Planet Earth (one day I’ll branch out, I promise).
• Curious About: Birds of Paradise. Those things are wacky.
• Check It Out: This is so cheating… whoa. ;)
• Delight: Driving out of the fog onto the sunny reaches of Schweitzer mountain to go skiing. ;)

Carpe Diem

I really need to practice my Latin.

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Of Interest

• Book: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
• Music: Disco tunes on Pandora (while having nertz marathons).
• Movie: Still Planet Earth. It’s that amazing.
• Curious About: Iceland.
• Check It Out: Ah, hippies. ;)
• Delight: Making concertina books. Anything involving glue and the paper-cutter has to be pretty fun.

Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany! (a tad belated)

First off, an announcement. I have decided these posts need a new sort of format. Since they have no format at present, that shouldn’t be too hard. ;) Actually, I really wanted to toss this entire blog and start a new one, but whatever good intentions I started with, it would probably disintegrate into randomness like this one anyway, and I don’t really want a ton of blogs floating around cyberspace in a sporadic trail of chaos behind me. So, from now on, perhaps this blog will behave itself a little better. We’ll see.

Well since this is a belated New Years Post, I suppose a list of New Years Resolutions would be appropriate. Or perhaps, entertaining, in any case.

• Devotions every morning. No excuses.
• Go to sleep between 10 & 11pm on school nights. Tartar sauce.
• Try all the cheeses at the co-op (as budget allows).
• Cook dinner at least once a week.
• Turn 20. :D
• Finish sewing my quilt.
• Sketch more often.
• Birdwatching! Yes, I’m that dorky.
• Start writing my declamations before Thursday morning. Not that I would ever do that.. *cough cough* ..
• Recapture the piano from storage.
• Take more walks.. and play more ultimate. :)
• Learn how to serve a volleyball (and not by luck on the 23rd attempt).
• Spend less time on the internet. The real world is more exciting.
• Read at least two books every week.
• Learn how to swing dance properly.
• Go cherry picking! :D
• Get Dad to teach me how to work on my car.. and drive stick shift. *horror music*
• Learn how to knit a hat.
• Not get sick every week of next term.
• Pull out my fencing gear and finally remember all 8 of those parry positions again.
• Babysit as often as I can.
• Make more waffles! Because the world always needs more waffles. Or is it lerts?
• Watch more nature documentaries and PBS/BBC shows. Just because.
• Buy a plant and attempt to keep it alive in the basement.

Haggis. Isn’t that a neat word? I think I’d like to try it but I won’t put it on my list of resolutions. I’m not that sure.

Resolution lists are fun to write, I think, because they’re so hopeful. Not that I will actually succeed at many of them.. but you never know.

Because we all need some inspiration for the new year.. or in any case a laugh:The only reason I can console myself to the fact that Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley made it into an “inspirational” video is its utter ridiculousness.

And now that I have rambled far too long.. the format part of our program. I always enjoy when people list their “picks,” so I thought I’d try my hand at it. Here goes…

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Of Interest

• Book: The Importance of Being Earnest
• Music: “New Hampshire” – Matt Pond PA
• Movie: Planet Earth
• Curious About: Snow leopards
• Check it Out: The Flying Irish Running Club. Is that fun or what?
• Delight: Mom reading The Hobbit aloud in the morning during break. Just like those old beloved homeschool days.