This past weekend was lovely. Actually, the weather has been pretty amazing for as long as I can remember, now. We took advantage of the sunshine and brisk air to go for some walks. Zhora came over, too and did some crafts and helped out around the house with whatever was going on. She's a good egg. She and I walked the dogs, as well, but I didn't get any pictures because she really keeps me moving. We had to tag all the mailboxes, throw the biggest rocks and try to outrun Eva.
Jonas was happy to take a snow bath on Monday while I studied for my test. He'll go all out to brighten my day.
We went to see Supaman at the Greater Ithaca Activity Center. It was crazy. It was a small space with only about 50-100 people. He told a lot of really corny jokes, which was unexpected and funny. He was all about audience participation. Here he is having audience members make sounds while he samples and loops them. He also had us pull stuff out of our pockets and he walked around and free styled and riffed off of whatever he saw. It was silly and really impressive. We were totally excited to here him perform Prayer Loop, and he sang Why, too. His cousin and DJ sang a little also. It was really a great time. If you need a reminder of how awesome he is, here are a few links:
He didn't say much about Thanksgiving, but reminded us that there is a real story of thanksgiving and admonished the audience to treat the land as sacred since it belongs to another group of people. Mostly, we were reminded to take care of one another, that we are all one people, and to be thankful. It was one of the more uplifting hip hop events I've been to.
The swamp is low on water, but high on beauty. Eva was excited to have some weeds to push through.
I still love taking these washed out, over exposed photos.
We went out to Pat's Sunday morning to cut some trees, visit with Pat, and see the boys. I set my axe down in the woods again and couldn't find it again... for the last time! We stopped at Agway on the way home and I picked up some spray paint.
No more searching for axes. We had a nice time in spite of it being opening weekend for deer.
We've also been having a little snow. Nothing major, but we've run the stove 24 hrs for the last few days. I just got my boots back from the cobbler and am looking forward to getting the skis down.
Jonas was happy to take a snow bath on Monday while I studied for my test. He'll go all out to brighten my day.
So I took a break after 4 hours of studying school law and we went for a little hike. Here are a couple more over exposed pictures of the back yard.
We went to see Supaman at the Greater Ithaca Activity Center. It was crazy. It was a small space with only about 50-100 people. He told a lot of really corny jokes, which was unexpected and funny. He was all about audience participation. Here he is having audience members make sounds while he samples and loops them. He also had us pull stuff out of our pockets and he walked around and free styled and riffed off of whatever he saw. It was silly and really impressive. We were totally excited to here him perform Prayer Loop, and he sang Why, too. His cousin and DJ sang a little also. It was really a great time. If you need a reminder of how awesome he is, here are a few links:
He didn't say much about Thanksgiving, but reminded us that there is a real story of thanksgiving and admonished the audience to treat the land as sacred since it belongs to another group of people. Mostly, we were reminded to take care of one another, that we are all one people, and to be thankful. It was one of the more uplifting hip hop events I've been to.
This is Eva's little toy nest. She was trying to lay on all of them at the same time, even though nobody else in the house shows any interest in them. So cute.
