Monthly Archive: January 2010

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Retro

Retro is fun. I like looking back to easier times; good times spent with family and remembering songs and the way things looked back then…. What a pleasant experience it has been to work for a new client, Paul & Kathy Hittle of Severn Gas Pumps. Going to their house...

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Snow Day

Today a few inches of promised snow will have turned into 8 by tonight. So today turned into an “update the look of my blog day.”  While I passed the time doing that, (and in between falling and driving in the snow), I took photos of a few of the...

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Silas, Cardinal, and the Puzzle

Almost everyday, I lift Silas  up to my window and we watch the cardinal as he perches on the fence by the house. He gets very excited and shouts, “Red bird, red bird!” So, he was very delighted to see for my mom’s winter project, a jigsaw puzzle of a...

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Boys and Chairs

I love it when children take everyday objects and let their imaginations transform them into something else. In the boys case today chairs were a train or a bus or something fun. They sure made it fun.

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Security for Silas

Security Blankie by Tammy Anderson This has been my favorite blankie, Since the day that I was born. Even though it’s dirty, thin and frayed, And just a little torn. Mommy tries to coax me, To let her wash out all the grime, But I sneak it out from the...

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Embers 4 Ashes at Rams Head

It doesn’t seem that long ago we went to Rams Head to see Todd Rundgren. Imagine how it felt to see my own son and his band Embers 4 Ashes playing there! Last night was such a time. The band right before they were about to play. It was nice...

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Homemade Playdough

Miranda made some play-dough for Silas and he enjoyed it so much! Want the recipe? Add coloring to the following: Cooked Playdough (flour and salt) 3 cups flour 1.5 cups salt 6 tsp cream of tarter 3 tbsp oil 3 cups water Dissolve salt in the water. Pour all ingredients...

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Faith is Required

Faith is Required Christmas is a wonderful time of year, but I find myself each year, getting off course from all my normal duties. I spend the day after New Years in a heap of fatigue and collapse. I have hardly rested at  all when I start to do things...

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Digital Art with Apophysis

Over the Christmas break I got some time to play with the digital art program Apophysis. Apophysis is an open source fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windowsand Macintosh. Apophysis has many features for creating and editing fractal flames, including an editor which allows one to directly edit the transforms by manipulating triangles, a mutations window,...

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Freckles

So sweet a story… An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. Lots of children were waiting in line to get their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger paws. “You’ve got so...