Archive for October, 2009

A few of the emails sent to Charles today:
From:     Emily Reed
Date:     29 October 2009 10:12:32 AM
To:     Charles Young
Subject: Off to storytime
As you can see we got the tarp on just in time. Also, Gus is holding one of the 10 books I fixed last night before we ran… »

Took Gus out to Rasmussen’s Farms today. I used to work there in college and it’s a real destination around this time of year.
The pumpkin patch…

The corn maze…

And, of course, Pumpkin Funland.

A huge building filled with scenes made of pumpkin characters. When Chris and I were in charge of it, we took it… »

Gus had four spills today -two of them real doozies and not more than 5 minutes apart from each other. Poor guy.

(Ok, so the last one isn’t a spill but when he cries he keeps pointing to the thing he fell onto, as if taking notes for future reference, but with the cat there… »

…to have a great visit with cousins Eli, Dawn, Gianna & Kaia. Along with Grantie Nett and Gruncle Steave. Lots more photos to come (when I can down load them) but this one pretty much summarizes the relationship between cousin Gianna and Gus. She’s a bit wary but periodically nice to him and he’s oblivious… »

The theme at story time today was leaves. We had three books about them and it struck me that it’s a tough topic to introduce much tension or suspense into.

(Gus felt the same)

(Actually several of the parents had to keep jumping up to drag their kids back from a premature bolt towards door or… »