Dinner with Lisa

Lasagna (beef and ricotta)
side salad (make balsalmic, get italian)
loaf of bread
make cheesecake
drinks? lemonade, beer, ?

Sunday, 4:30pm...

Halloween Decos

Cover Front porch light
cover driveway lights
graveyard scene with wheel barrow, bones & tombstones
carved pumpkins
orange lights in screened porch and patio
fake candles
spider webs over closed doors
Jack over staircase
hang spiders
GET traveling ghost on wire
JACK-O’-LANTERN LANTERNS Item Number: IN-25/3294
GHOST GARLAND Item Number: IN-3/328
SPIDER AND COBWEB LIGHT-UP LANTERNS Item Number: IN-70/4190
ZULTAN ANIMATED CRYSTAL BALL Item Number: IN-25/5588
PUMPKIN LIGHT SET Item Number: IN-42/117

Halloween Treat Bags

Hieroglyphics Card
Glow Stick/necklace
Egyptian Sudoku
Halloween Jelly Pops - Oriental Trading Item Number: IN-25/2837
HALLOWEEN ACTIVITY SETS Item Number: IN-25/2167
HALLOWEEN COLORING BOOKS Item Number: IN-25/1728
MINI HALLOWEEN YO-YOS Item Number: IN-25/223
6 JACK O LANTERN TOY BAGS Item Number: IN-46/345
6 CANDY CORN TREATS BOXES Item Number: IN-46/343
SUDOKU BOOKS Item Number: IN-43/39018

Halloween Menu

Menu

Hot Dog Mummies
Jack O Lantern Pizza Buns - Gummy Faces - OrientalTrading Item Number: IN-25/3921
Harvest Vegatables

Witch's Brew Punch

Gorp
Candied Apples
Popcorn Balls

Boorthday Cake

Halloween Hunt

Provide Tools (either in individual bags, or en masse):
tiny flashlight
3D glasses
magnifying glass
kaleidoscope

Clue Stations:

1. Rice Bin - dry, colored rice; dig for clue(s)
2. Telescope - light, spot clue(s)
3. Bob for apples - clue(s) inside apples - OrientalTrading Item Number: IN-16/849
4. 3D glasses - clue in either red or blue
5. Kaleidoscope - clue in pattern
6. Mirror - reversed clue in bathroom mirror
7. Message Tape - different diameter cylinders, find correct one
8. Microscopic Type - use magnifying glass to read clue
9. Tape Measure - how tall was King Tut? pull out tape to find clue
10. Charcoal Rubbing - rub charcoal to reveal clue
11. Pumpkin Memory - hide color-coded clues on a few - OriTrad ItemNum: IN-60/7040



Write found clues in glow-in-the-dark crayon to solve puzzle.

Warning!

On the Fourth of July, Daddy was away in CA. I had Missy and Man home and we were expecting to go out to see fireworks after dark.

All day long the threat of thunderstorms was present and we were under a tornado watch. By late afternoon, we were intently watching the radar. Sometime after 4pm, the storms were bad enough that the National Weather Service announced a Tornado Warning in our county. This means that a tornado has been spotted and residents should take cover immediately.

We were already prepared for this possibility and I had told the kids that if a warning was announced, we would go sit under the stairs. So, this is exactly what we did. We took flashlights (kid comfort), a book to read to them, chairs (for some amount of comfort under there), and the weather radio. After about 20 minutes under the stairs, the radio announced that the storm had significantly weakened (fell apart) and that the tornado warning was cancelled.

We came out from under the stairs with our things and Man said, "I'm sure glad that nortado is over!"

NORTADO! That's a keeper!

Invitees

ins_da
ins_nicmos
frattare
noll
Alex F.
Russ Makidon
Matt Lallo
Mark Kochte
Christine Ritchie
Ernie Morse
Lauretta Nagel
Chris Hanley
Melissa Russ
Mark Abernathy
Peter Stockman

surroundart

MacGills
Mike & Shirley Lord
Nancy & Paul McAllister
Hector & Cynthia Mendez
John & Joy neighbors
Loeb Family
Lindsay Balcar
Kim & Scott Taylor
Evelyn
Johanna
Danny
Julie Young

Moon

Man and I had just dropped Missy off this morning, when I looked out my window and saw the moon. Immediately, I recited,

"I see the moon,
The moon sees me,
God bless the moon,
God bless me."

This is pretty normal for the kids and I when we are driving around and we see the moon during the day.

Then Man says,

'Mommy, the sky is the moon's home."




Yep, babe, you're right.

I wouldn't have thought of it quite like that, but I can't find fault with it.

I love it!

Steinbeck Quote of the Day

"You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast."

John Steinbeck - East of Eden, Chapter 2

Committments

• Family
  
  
  
  • Dentist appts.
  
  
  
  


• PTA: Website
  
  
  
  • Add Other Info
  
  
  • Online Survey?
  
  
  
  


• 40th Party (28/29 Jan)
  
  
  
  • Scrapbook of Memories
  
  
  • Make list of card senders for Mom
  
  
  
  

Christmas Gift List 2005

Dad - Everlast (?) no battery flashlight/book/CD, squirrel-proof birdfeeder
Mom - Family Calendar, Portraits, Photo Notebook, Tony Bennett CD

Quote of the Day

"...sound and fury, signifying nothing."

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"

Java

Starting Java soon. Need to know what book to buy. The summer class used

Java How to Program

Brian says it is bad.

Amazon recommendations:

Head First Java
Just Java

Wife

I'm a firm believer that EVERYONE should be entitled to having a wife.

Including me.

Husbands are only good for one thing. For everything else, GET A WIFE!

Gone

Indy did get laid off.

Bummer.

He and Tine had a lunch date today, but he didn't show. Apparently, he had an interview across the street with the fuse group, eventhough the job wasn't a great match. Noone knows the result of that.

Bummer.

I'm afraid that there will be many more bummers soon.

Glum

It is pretty glum around here. Layoffs have been announced, but they are withholding the notifications for some unknown reason(s). Tine is pretty worried. A couple others aren't. Most of the old-timers are worried about each other.

I don't take any comfort in anything that anyone tells me.

I don't want to be blindsided.

We may know by the end of the week. Others are expecting to know tomorrow.

No fun.

I'm already feeling the pain, no matter what happens to me.

Birthday Blues???

I am having birthday blues? I didn't that was possible with me.

We are going to Vaccaro's for dessert "lunch" tomorrow.

No, what I'm really bummed about is that we only have 3 or 4 offers of help for our move this weekend. Bummed. Double bummed.

It would be so much easier if we had 20 people show up. But it certainly doesn't look like that is going to happen.

=(

Takes Two to Tango

...and I don't want to, in this case.

I'm being countered on every point I give for justification of going to NVO.

I'm done tangoing.

Let it be as it will be.

I am weak when on the spot justifying a position. I think better later.

No more tango on this.

Done.

Chesapeake Shakespeare

Chesapeake Shakespeare is doing weekend performances of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a park in historic Ellicott City during the month of June. Every Sunday performance is a "family performance." They have face painting and a "show before the show." You can bring your own chairs or blanket or use their chairs.

On Father's Day, they are admitting all fathers for free with a child of any age. I would love to do this, and I have emailed Tracy to see if they are interested. If I actually get tickets for us, then I will get the book and Cliff Notes from the library. They also have a version for kids. I will get that too.

Snubbed Again

The owners of the new house next door subbed us again yesterday.

Missy was playing in the backyard with the mini-football. It happened to roll across their new driveway into their front yard.

She ran over to get it.

They came driving (slowly) up the driveway. She waved to them, they drove slowly past, and then she ran back over to our yard.

When the lady got out of their vehicle, I called out, "Sorry about that!"

I don't recall if she even looked up, but she did respond, "That's okay."

I continued to stand there, hoping for a bit more discussion or something. Nope. She got her dog and walked straight into their house.

Oh well. I guess Blucky is right: It's easier this way. We don't have to try to be nice to them.

But it's my nature to be nice.

The other neighbor lady was out with the dog for a few minutes. We waved to each other and said hi. She appears to be pregnant. Probably their first.