SCHOOL STARTS

School starts in our district today. I am unsure why they are starting so early but I guess it's because they will get out earlier and with snow days to come that makes sense. The younger guy starts 8th grade at the public school and the older one will be taking two classes at the H.S. and the rest he will be homeschooling. He will be using Alpha Omega Switched on Schoolhouse for two subjects this year. This is our first time with a "real" curriculum on CD-rom. It will be nice for Matt to have concise lessons and nice for me to not have to write up lessons.

Love It! Listen!

We saw these guys live! They are awesome and so genuine. Very inspiring.

Check out this video: After The World

Blue Ribbon Winner County Fair

Blue Ribbon Winner County Fair
Originally uploaded by CurleyQ Books

I won a blue ribbon for hand quilted (and hand pieced) wall hanging quilt at our local county fair. What fun! I also won for 10 antique items I had entered in the antique portion of the fair. My son won the opportunity to go to state (as an alternate) for his visual arts paper project. We had a great fair this year!

Cornerstone 2008

Just a quick post to update on our summer. Cornerstone 2008 was a lot of fun! I even was able to do some knitting at a Demon Hunter concert no less.
The new Cornerstone Website is awesome and has pictures and videos. Very cool!

What I have been doing all week:

clipped from www.cdc.gov Local activity was reported by the District of Columbia and one state (Florida). Sporadic activity was reported by Puerto Rico. Widespread activity was reported by 44 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Regional activity was reported by 5 states (Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Utah). Geographic Spread of Influenza as Assessed by State and Territorial Epidemiologists

The Semicolon

After reading - "Eats,Shoot and Leaves" by Lynne Truss, I find it fun to run into articles like this.

clipped from www.nytimes.com It was nearly hidden on a New York City Transit public service placard exhorting subway riders not to leave their newspaper behind when they get off the train. “Please put it in a trash can,” riders are reminded. After which Neil Neches, an erudite writer in the transit agency’s marketing and service information department, inserted a semicolon. The rest of the sentence reads, “that’s good news for everyone.” Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious anachronism. Americans, in particular, prefer shorter sentences without, as style books advise, that distinct division between statements that are closely related but require a separation more prolonged than a conjunction and more emphatic than a comma.

California Here We Come!!!!

You're California!

In many ways, you are larger than life and almost defy description. You
certainly love to shake, rattle, and roll with the best of them. You have a generally
sunny disposition, but are capable of resorting to harsh extremes when pressed. You are
more likely than most to become rich, or famous, or perhaps both.



Take the State Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Naughty Mia

Mia
Originally uploaded by CurleyQ Books

Need I say more?