Firefighter for the Morning

Blaring horns, flashing lights and beating the summer heat

Vulture Awareness Day- 1st Saturday in Sept. and "I can do it!"

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "  I. Asimov



My waterfall.  The end product of flushed toilets (Athens Clarke County Water Reclamation).



Her waterfall (at a SC state park).

Day 12 of my summer started off by learning:

how cow carcasses can be utilized in compost,

 the history of public trash collection that started with the Mafia's need to hide dead bodies,

and that Athens GA holds a "Vulture Awareness Day" at its dump.

 

The class is now done with and I have a plethora of new environmental science material to share with the students in August.

Athens Solid Waste Landfill (with vultures)

While I was "away at school" for a week LDC vacationed at Granise and Grandpa's.

In other news...

The Chesson kiddos are getting ready to expand their basketball team come this winter.  Baby #6. Aunt Lisa thinks it will be a: Boy

Uncle Andy thinks it will be a: Girl

LDC: Girl

We have a three year old going on thirteen...

Where plans were made based on the tides

Staycation June 2014

http://lefunny.net/get-a-beach-body/

May Rewind




#1 JEC  First Communion

 

 So my computer got hacked and for the last few weeks I have been itching to download pictures from our adventures this month but "it is what it is" and I have been patiently waiting while the computer tech folks do their (expensive) thing.

Our house has been a disaster, I mean d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r...The kind where you send your kid off to school with socks that don't match (you know the small pile of socks that just sit there waiting for a partner sock to show up but it never happens- that's where I have been pulling from in the mornings)

BUT lots of fun memories this month have been made...May Rewind





"Aunt Lisa, make sure you get a picture of my shoes"



#2 Mother's Day



 

 

 

 

 

And then off to Texas for a BFF get away.  One word- hysterical. (Second word- Margaritas)
#3

#4 Mommy Daughter Photo Session.  Aiken/Augusta Families check her out

http://www.szsphotos.com/





#5 Banjo and BQue Festival Day One 

 

Day Two of the Festival

Two days left of school and then SWEET SUMMER!
Off to do laundry.

Indian Blanket, Coreopsis and Bluebonnets

 Mom-Daughter Spring Get Away

Armadillo or Elephant? Austin, Texas April 2014

We played with Aunt Joy and made new friends....

second cousins.  (LDC's new BFF is the man in the yellow.)

We celebrated Cousin Caleb and his beautiful new wife.  Good gracious.  Kleenex.

Mizpah

We missed Aunt Peggy but Willie said it perfectly, "Mom would have been proud".

Cousins.  All smiles.

I think of the garden after the rain

I am sure the post office got a kick out of sending this gigantic gem from Uncle Drew and Aunt Shelby.  LDC loved it.

Our super quick tripod on-the-way-out-the-door-to-mass picture

"I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs. ~Caroline Rhea"

2014