A Message From Your Kid's Teacher

My dad, my brother, and most everyone on my dad's side of the family are in teaching. So I can see why he found this amusing and sent it out in an email blast.

A double-header win day!

I won two things today!

I received a $10 Amazon gift card from Bonnie Blythe's blog in the recently-ended I Love Indie Books blog hop. I also got an email I won a free Foster Farms Oven Ready Entree coupon from the 3 Sons Have I blog. Do I need to say that I'm a happy camper, or is it completely obvious? :)

What a museum did to attract visitors

Wow, I haven't posted anything in almost 4 years! It doesn't mean my parents have stopped sharing their wisdom with me. In fact, it actually means I now have a 4-year backlog of wisdom that has gone unshared up until now! Here's what my dad sent me tonight:

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Flash Mob meets Pageant of the Masters -- WONDERFUL!!!

What a museum did to attract visitors

The Rijksmuseum (National Museum) in Holland had an idea: Let's bring the art to the people and then, hopefully, then will come to see more - at the museum. 

They took one painting of Rembrandt’s from 1642, “Guards of the Night” and brought to life the characters in it, placed them in a busy mall and the rest you can see for yourself!

Prize win from Deal Sharing Aunt

This is the prize I received in the mail today from Deal Sharing Aunt. It was part of a "green" blog hop and the prize box consists of:

-- A sewing kit
-- Gardening Gloves
-- Flower Pots
-- A pair of solar lights
-- A hose nozzle
-- Popsicle molds & a sack of 100 popsicle sticks (to be used as plant sticks)
-- A shovel
-- Pruning Shears
-- A green-themed tote bag
-- The book "How To Clean Practically Anything"

My husband had an accident with his hose a few weeks back and the nozzle had completely broken off of it. We spent about a half-hour at Lowe's yesterday, most of which was spent by him agonizing over which nozzle would be the best for him to get. And what do you know -- turns out one was coming to him for free the next day in the mail!

The best prize in the box is the book, since I know how to clean practically nothing.

Thank you, Aunt!

Why Children Need Pets

My dad just sent me this video montage showing me why children need pets. I don't have children, but if I ever do, I promise I will get them a pet. Either a dog, or a cat. But not a fawn. That just doesn't look sanitary.

A New Car For Your Wife?

Wow, this is risky. I will now post a video from my dad that I haven't even viewed yet. Then again, what are the odds my dad would send me porn? (Really, really low, I would hope!)

He sent it to me without any explanation or commentary, so I sure hope the video is self-explanatory.

Life of two, BEAUTIFUL

So far everything I've put online has been from my dad. Here's something from my mother. My dad goes online far more often than my mother, so for that reason alone this blog will feature more of his wisdom than hers.

The powerpoint presentation she sent me came with the one sentence you see below. I believe she's referring to a picture she took on a trip to Europe that featured two swans.

It looks like Google Docs will allow you to both link to documents, and to embed them. Tonight I will try the embedding method. We'll see how this works...

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Really beautiful pictures. Wish I had gotten my swans together like these shown here.