Today...

We went mushroom hunting, and Anna got a three-pointer! She found a deer skeleton, complete with skull. We didn't bring the rest home, but a skull...how cool is that!?! We also found mushrooms...forty, actually, these are just the biggest. Daddy found the two biggest ones that are as big as Anna's hand.

In other news...and with no pictures, the girls went to the last after-school program at the library. Next week they're having a pizza party, then it's all over for this year. After that, May is an open month....oh the possibilities!!

Prosopagnosia

Here's a thought....and I've been thinking it for a while, but haven't taken the time to look it up until now. I'm face-blind. While I've known it for years (when I was a kid I hated it when relatives would come to visit, because I never knew who they were...both my mom and dad had loads of siblings, and, while I eventually learned most of my mom's family, I still don't know my dad's) anyway, I've known I have a problem for years, but haven't bothered to look it up until now.

It's interesting...this is an article that is rather like what it's like...especially the part about watching movies...it may be one reason I don't like movies particularly well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031302273.html

oohh, and Harvard research...

http://www.faceblind.org/research/index.html

It's annoying to live with, but interesting to read about. lol

My SIL dyed her hair black and it took me three months to recognize her...and by that time, of course, she's going back to her normal color. lol

SO Funny

We were reading these this morning and laughing our heads off. Thought I'd share. ; )

http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/

http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

And this one, too, although it's not grammar related...

http://failblog.wordpress.com/

Make sure you go down to the Taxonomy Fail...it's hilarious.

I found this Amusing...

Thursday, Emma was wanting to call Bri, but Daddy had the cordless phone outside. She didn't want to go out and get it, so I said, "Oh, you can use the one in our bedroom."

It's a rotary phone Daddy dug out and put in there when the electricity was off last winter.

Emma went over, looked at it, and asked, "How do you make it work?" I had to LOL...she's never used a rotary phone! I showed her how, and she successfully called Bri. ; )

Scavenger Hunt

The library is celebrating a book that is set in the 1920's, and last evening they had a scavenger hunt with the option of dressing in costume, so Emma (of course) dressed up. I didn't have any 1920's style hats, so she just wore her hair up...it turned out SO pretty.

She and Anna won the scavenger hunt...$5 first prize and a stationary set.

I'm needing a nice big box now that we can store all our costume clothes in. Something that will hold a mink coat. lol

An Outing and Sick...

We went for a picnic today, but Daddy and I are both kind of sick. (Trust me, you don't want details...) We both ate manocotti yesterday and suspect that may be it.

Anyway, we went on a picnic today, and the darn camera went all funky...

It's kind of an Impressionistic look, isn't it? lol

Anyway, we had a good time, even though we felt a bit bad, and saw a pileated woodpecker (up close!) It was pecking on a rotten log next to the path and didn't move when we walked by...about twenty feet away!

We also saw a snake (blacksnake, about three feet long).

Then, we saw a tiny baby bunny! It was SO cute...and tiny. It would have fit in my hand...adorable...but it hopped down the bank toward where the snake was. We told it there was danger there, but it didn't listen very well.

We came home and I had laundry on the line and was really tired and went out to get it and two sweet little girls came out and helped. They're the best! ; )

Good News, and A Trial

The good news is that Anna's test results came back and the place was benign. Yay! They wanted her to go back in and have it operated on again...something about it *could* come back and if it did it would be malignant. I asked the dr. what were the chances of it coming back and she said "very, very rare", so we're NOT having anything more done to it.

Daddy was MOST adamant about not having her go through anything else. He's really sensitive about anyone hurting our babies. ; )

He drew a cartoon for the girls this morning...the early bird was being interviewed about Emma and Anna, and didn't even know who they were because they didn't get up early and he'd never met them. ; )

When Anna woke up and saw it, she drew a picture of herself beating the early bird to death. lol

So she went on trial for the murder of the early bird.

I was the defense, Daddy was the judge and Emma was the prosecution.

I used Anna's bird journal and bird food to prove that she cared for birds and wouldn't hurt them. Emma used the picture Anna drew to prove that she was acting in a malicious manner and injured or killed the early bird.

Daddy ruled that since there was no body there had been no crime and she was released.

LOL