Happy Birthday Gillan

Gillan, our handsome, oldest grandson will be "15" tomorrow,

October 1, 2012

I say this about all of the grand kids, but they really do

grow up way too fast.

Happy Birthday Gillan!!!

We love you!

Happy Birthday Nathan

Nathan, our youngest grandson celebrated his

4th Birthday yesterday, September 25, 2012.

He is a deep dimpled dandy!

Happy Birthday Nathan!

We Love YOU!

Happy Birthday Gracie

OUR GIRL GRACIE

 

I am behind with the grand-children's birthday post.

Gracie is a teen now.  I can't believe how fast time goes.

She turned "13", September 23, 2012. 

We Love YOU, Gracie!!

Blue Moon

The Moon

by Emily Dickinson

The moon was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below. Her forehead is of amplest blond; Her cheek like beryl stone; Her eye unto the summer dew The likest I have known. Her lips of amber never part; But what must be the smile Upon her friend she could bestow Were such her silver will! And what a privilege to be But the remotest star! For certainly her way might pass Beside your twinkling door. Her bonnet is the firmament, The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt, Her dimities of blue.

I am proud of my two moon shots.  I have tried many times to get a good picture of the moon, to no avail.  The full moons have been fascinating recently.  I made several attempts last week to get a good picture and I was able to get these two.  No editing! Straight out of the camera. It was a very dark night, but the moon was shining bright.  In the top photo I purposely took the shot through the trees in my front yard, the moon was low.  The second one was taken out in the wide open spaces on the farm.

Maybe you are like me and didn't know or remember all of the facts about the moon, blue moon, full moon, and such.  I have added some interesting facts below from the internet.

FYI - Blue moons aren't actually blue, unless clouds of smoke or volcanic ash in Earth's atmosphere lend them that particular hue. Rather, they usually look like any other full moon in the sky.

Read more: http://www.space.com/17420-blue-moon-skywatcher-photos.html#ixzz25u93VfIe

Friday's full moon was the second one to rise during the month of August, following the full moon of Aug. 1. This qualifies it as a blue moon, according to the popularly accepted (but incorrect) definition of the term.
"Blue moon" originally referred to the third full moon in a season that has four full moons instead of the usual three. But in 1946, a writer for "Sky and Telescope" magazine erroneously reported the second-full-moon-in-month meaning, and the definition stuck.
Friday's blue moon rose on the same day that late astronaut Neil Armstrong was memorialized in Cincinnati. Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, died Aug. 25 following complications from a recent heart surgery.

Read more: http://www.space.com/17420-blue-moon-skywatcher-photos.html#ixzz25u9xFKFm

Children Are Priceless

I found this on facebook on a friend's page.

I hope she doesn't mind that I am sharing it here.

I just thought it was so cute and so true.

I know all parents hope they helped fill their

children's buckets with self-esteem.

Family Resemblance

Katie and I have been fascinated with the family resemblances for a long time.  I have posted some of the these pictures, if not all, but not at the same time.  See if you see the "look a likes".

Below is Jody, David's brother on the left and our son

Rudy on the right.  

Below is Angie, who is Jody's (above) daughter with

our daughter Katie on the right.

True, Angie looks a little like her daddy and a lot like her mother

and Katie looks a little like her brother, and a little like her mother.

Are you still with me?

Below (on the left) is my great niece Lexie, of course she

is my sister Carole's granddaughter.  Gracie, on the right

is my granddaughter, and Rudy is her daddy.

You might be totally lost with it all, or could care less,

but genetics totally fascinates me.

How about your family resemblances?