Drawing time is becoming much more interesting. I successfully identified a pig Sam had drawn this weekend. It even had ears and two little nostrils inside a circle nose! And with a little encouragement Hazel is finally moving away from drawing just the people she knows. This morning as I …
Spent the August long weekend at the Fournier cabin in the woods. Originally our intent had been to canoe out to an island and camp out there with the kids like lat year but in the end we decided to camp out in the backyard and canoed out twice around …
Just put in my summer vacation request to the President (who I nominally report to) and got a response back from Corporate Services to send it their way instead. Great. Now I’ll need to send polite reminders for the next two weeks to get this approved.
Old Man Fookwire is a grump who only likes to paint pictures of birds that visit his backyard. The problem is, they fly south every winter, leaving him sad and lonely. So he decides to get them to stay by putting up beautiful birdfeeders filled with seeds and berries. Unfortunately, the squirrels like the treats, too, and make a daring raid on the feeders. The conflict escalates-until the birds depart (as usual), and the squirrels come up with a plan that charms the old grump.
My take: How can you not like a book where you get to say Googlie Mooglie, raise your fist and yell “Those darned squirrels”?
