As the cat is truly out of the bag now...meet spawn

Imagine appropriate amounts of fanfare. It is admittedly, not the most flattering of pictures and now somewhat out of date. Really to understand how talented s/he is, you have to see the video, since s/he is clearly a kicking champion already. This is just his/her head in profile. See the bump right in the middle? That's his/her nose. For a while we could see his/her hand up around his/her forhead. I think perhaps s/he is trying to learn to suck his/her thumb. Brian thinks s/he was giving us all the loser sign. And yes, I will be doing grammatical gender gymnastics for another 5 1/2 months, because we aren't planning to find out.

So aside from taking videos of Moose and making birdie putts that is what we've been up to.

BRAKE FOR MOOSE

"It could save your life. HUNDREDS OF COLLISIONS." That's what the signs say on the side of many roads in New Hampshire. Until this past Sunday, I was not convinced that there were any actual moose in NH (having never seen one myself), and wondered if the signs were just more roadside clutter as part of a government conspiracy to get people to slow down. However, as this video shows, they do exist, and it's not the moose you have to watch out for on the road, per se. This was on US 302 just east of Twin Mountain, NH.



I recently got a new Canon PowerShot SD960 camera, which can shoot 720p HD videos as well as still photos. I'm generally not a fan of video blog postings, but I'm experimenting with the process in this post. One problem is that my old and feeble laptop can't display the video without transcoding it to something smaller or lower bitrate. We'll see how bad this looks after Google re-encodes it yet again. Also, please excuse my very amateur cinematography, including excessive digital zoom. At least I was holding the camera in the right orientation (maybe a story for another time.)

Not exactly championship material... yet

Not much is going on right now that we want to write about, so we haven't posted much. Edith and I have been playing more golf lately, sometimes on the weekends, and sometimes 9 holes after work on the weekdays. Edith has been getting better with more practice, and recently seriously outplayed me on one hole.

The third hole on the South Course at Stow Acres CC is a downhill par 3, 101 yards from the forward tee and 159 from the back. I air-mailed the green, since I have also been playing somewhat better with practice, and don't always trust my iron shots to fly as far as they have been lately, on average. Here I am looking for my ball (sorry for the bad cell phone photos):



Meanwhile, Edith had this for birdie:




The gallery fell silent with anticipation as she took her practice stroke (the mark next to her foot is me, lying 3 already):




Needless to say, she sank it and won the hole with a net 0 after handicap (I usually give her two strokes, although we don't really play for any prize). Her first birdie!!! Well done!

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth.

Well now, it has occurred to me that this quilt has now reached it's recipient, so I no longer have to be coy about it. This was for Brian's cousin's baby boy, Casey Sean. Actually, when I started I didn't know he was Casey Sean, but now I do. So congratulations Jenni and Sean. Welcome Casey, hope you enjoy your quilt. If you become an astronaut, I'm totally taking credit.

Deck Project, day 2????

Well, I've been a little slow in processing these pictures, but here it is, Day 2 of the deck project otherwise known as Edith posts bad pictures of herself. The basic frame was done by the end of the day.

Well, it looks funny on him

But really it's sooooo cute! All it needs is a fit model so that I can determine where the buttons go.

The Margot Bag

What's in the bag?

And Margot pontificating. "No, no, no, you don't understand. The MUSKRAT is SLEEPING in his HOUSE."
Where are you going Margot?