Happy Thanksgiving!

New England Temperature Conversion Chart

60° F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe.

50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens.

40° F: Italian & English cars won't start. People in New England drive with the windows down.

32° F: Distilled water freezes. Maine's Moosehead Lake's water gets thicker.

20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in New England throw on a flannel shirt.

15° F: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in New England have the last cookout before it gets cold.

0° F: All the people in Miami die. New Englanders close the windows.

10° below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico. The Girl Scouts in New England are selling cookies door to door.

25° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. People in New England get out their winter coats.

40° below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in New England let the dogs sleep indoors.

100° below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. New Englanders get frustrated because they can't start their "kahs."

460° below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale) People in New England start saying, "cold 'nuff for ya?"

500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Red Sox win the World Series.

Volunteering

I am behind yet again on my updates! These pictures were from the weekend of Nov 6. We volunteered with MIT's community outreach program. This program was for K through 5th graders who had to work to achieve a goal with robotics. In this case it had to do with biomedical engineering. The children had to program robots to do useful things such as repair a broken bone and then put on a cast as an example.

Carson helped keep time for each round and also ran scores from the referees to the score keepers.

Aaron was a referee and I helped out with a little bit of everything.

Happy Veteran's Day

Thinking of our own veteran in Iraq right now. Our cousin Jordain with Carson and Aaron (this was taken at Ft Benning in Georgia a couple years ago. He spends his days getting to know the locals in northern Iraq and patrolling the streets to make sure everyone stays safe. We thank him and all other military personnel both current and retired for their service to our country!

A hike through history

This last Saturday we went out for a hike on Battle Road Trail where the British troops in 1775 traveled from Boston to Concord to seize supplies colonists had stored. I remember reading about the Revolutionary War in history books but it does NOT seem as if this time in history had really happened when just reading it from a book. To stand in a place where Paul Revere was captured (doesn't this sound like a fictional character? He is very real!) to where one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War happened is very surreal. Not to mention the landscape is just beautiful.

British troops advancing across this field were caught in a vicious cross-fire during their retreat to Boston from Americans concealed in the woods.

Inscription. Some of the most intense fighting on April 19, 1775 occurred in this area, which later became known as “Bloody Angle.” Unlike most of the 18th-century Battle Road landscape, which was open farmland, this site had woods and bends in the road which allowed the Colonists to set up an ambush.

Soldiers were often buried where they fell on the battlefield. This gravestone, located just in front of the marker, indicates that British soldiers were buried near this spot on April 19, 1775. There are markers just like these in many different places around Concord, MA.

Halloween Event Pictures

Halloween 2010

We hope everyone had a wonderful Happy Halloween!

In front of our house handing out candy to the trick-Arr-treaters

We spent Halloween day in Salem, Mass.

Such a fitting city for the occasion!