Dad says he didn't know Carrie Fisher was in to glitter... |
Of course I really went to school like this... what would be the point of just doing it at home? |
I can't believe Dad actually put this one on the web site! |
I know... I know... this is just begging for some kind of comment about a horse's... |
See - Dad wasn't kidding about the teaser weather - can you believe what a crappy day this was? |
And what about this one? But Mom does love the clover fields... |
Of course, Spring also brings out the blooms on Harry's tree. |
Dad had to try something in Photoshop... |
And that led to this... |
Which led to this... |
Mom and I planted around the front like usual. |
And I tried to hide in the tree... well really I just sat in one place and Dad refused to move over... |
We also created some pots for the front walk... |
Then Dad went back to Photoshop... |
I really don't know what to say about this one... |
I don't think Morgan was too impressed with me... |
I also had a May concert... This is my choir... |
And this is the TMUES choir, all three NAMS choirs, and all the FGHS choirs too... don't worry - you don't have to play "Where's Lucie?" - you can't see me :-) |
These are Zach and Amelie (actually Zach, me, and Amelie to be precise) - Amelie was in the concert, Zach just came to see us... |
Ask me about the saga of the Towel Day shirt... I dare you... ask me... |
May... You probably don't want another treatise on the month's etymology...
I do actually have news from this month. After almost 22 years in my current job, this month I decided to take a big step and move to another organization. Now, it is a big step, but it isn't that big... I'm not leaving Intel and I'm actually physically moving from my current campus back to the campus I started at all those years ago and I'm moving from my current boss back to my boss two bosses ago... Still, for me it was a very difficult decision to step away from my employees and my responsibilities and move to something all new. Of course, you won't get to read anything about it for awhile since I will be on sabbatical before I really start the new job...
Otherwise, May was the usual month here in Oregon. We had some teaser weather to get our hopes up and now we're back to cold and wet (just the way Lucie likes it.) As you can see in the pictures Lucie observed Star Wars Day (you know... May the 4th be with you...) and Towel Day (May 25th - “A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”) and we all observed Harry Heaven Day.
HHDVI was probably our most and least successful attempt to celebrate Harry's life through planting new growing, living things. We didn't have as much stress this year but that meant there was less frustration and grousing on my part and thus less for Harry to laugh at. I guess I could have faked it, but I think he could tell when I was really upset at something inanimate and that is what really caused him to laugh... I mean it really is pretty silly to be mad at something that can't actually do anything...
Anyway, look at the pictures and share a smile with Harry.