Another Writer in the Family

The only woman I know who can multitask with media as well or better than me.

MONTICELLO — I now live with a published author (besides myself). Tanya once wrote her own blog before losing it to the Internet wasteland.

Now she writes for a publication she would have written for in the first place had she known about it beforehand. Check her  out; she’ll likely write more than me.

Ecovore Resolutions: New Food for a New Year

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A Waka, Toasts to Belated Happy Holidaze!

MONTICELLO – Yeah, I missed most of the holiday season as we entered the end of the Mayan calendar. Looking back at my last post, maybe that’s what they meant by the end of the world? Oh well, at least there’s some beauty as shown in the prettiest postcard from this past season, sent by my cousin Andy Andrews.

Kathy L. Schneider took this picture in 2006, according to the back of the Peter Pauper Press Christmas card. While you cannot really see it in he scanned photo, the glitter in the trees makes the card catch the light — and thus eyes while walking by it.  I enjoy receiving Christmas cards and should do a better job of sending them out.

Our holiday season seemed odd though spent among friends and framily. Leading up to Christmas day, I attended Fool Fest ’11 at Rising Oaks … but we didn’t get the snow pictured above. It still inspired the following:

Fool Fest Waka

Christmas time is here
Join in our holiday cheer
Feast of fools is nigh
See her twinkling in the eye
Grab her close, draw her near.

See the fools abound
Ring the cymbal, make a sound
Throw away the past
Red faces from crazy laughs
Make a noise to rock the town!

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All Gone … Most Definitely … Perhaps

MONTICELLO — I think I’ve lost everything on the terabyte that housed my digital life.

Sure, some of these things can be recovered like pictures posted to facebook, poetry and songs posted here on my blog, webpages loaded to different sites, stuff uploaded to MediaFire or put in Dropbox, stuff never removed from jump drives and even the old, old stuff on CDs, zip disks and floppies.

But then there’s the poetry, photos and other works I didn’t publish. And the webpages removed from the school server each semester they weren’t taught. Not to mention other documents that I won’t know I need until halfway into the semester.

I know better. I used to make CD backups after every semester. But then I got the terabyte and was able to get everything in one place. The only problem with having everything in one place is if that one place cannot be accessed.

I’m still hoping it can be accessed.

To help the cause, I’m completely updating/cleaning the PC that was working a little wonky prior to the problem. The problem primarily came from the terabyte falling off the coffee table on New Year’s. But it accessed it after that, so I’m not certain it’s the total problem; thus the PC cleaning. I’m also trying to get my computer-genius friends to take a look at it before I give up complete hope.

But until I can see them, I’m using printed syllabi from years’ past to help me recreate the webpages needed by next week.

<sarcasm>Joy!</sarcasm>

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Happy 2012!

MONTICELLO — We’ve made it back from taking Davey Mac to Florida! Hope you and yours have a GREAT New Year!

-Ron and Tanya

Ode to the Beaver Bar

Sunshine shinin’ down on me
Sunshine shinin’ down on me
Breakin’ up the haze
Messin’ up my daze
Sunshine shinin’ down on me
Green and yellow trees
Filter light for me
Sunshine shinin’ down on me.

Sometimes sittin’ in the swing
Sunshine shinin’ down on me
At the Beaver Bar
My love ain’t too far
Sunshine shinin’ down on me
Here comes a sweet breeze
Coolin’ off things for me
Sunshine shinin’ down on me.

(break)

Sometimes such a mystery
Summer stretched long as can be
Pressed up to the sky
Trees and clouds sway by
Sunshine shinin’ down on me
What a beautiful day
Things keep going my way
Sunshine shinin’ down on me

shinin’ down on me

shinin’ down on me.