Hi everyone!
We sure are enjoying our kitty, Yonce. He's so good! We've never seen him scratch anthing, he always goes in the litter box, he doesn't spray, or destroy things, and he even likes his food. He likes it so much he eats it pretty quickly and last night at some point his dish ran out, and he came in the bedroom and woke us up. He was meowing a lot and being pesky, and we coudn't figure out what was up...until this morning when we got up and saw that his food was empty. From now on I guess we'll have to make sure it's full before bed. But he's a great cat and me makes us really happy.
I might be a crazy person, but the schools is putting on a mini triathlon and I decided to sign up for it. On April 19th I will be swimming 650m then biking 13.1mi followed by a 3.1mi run. Today I started my swim training, and boy are my arms sore! I haven't used those muscles for a while! I really needed something to motivate me to get me to the gym, and working out tends to make me a bit more stress free, so I'm feeling pretty good about things.
This weekend my aunt Christy from the D.C area is coming to visit and we're totally excited!! Our second guest! And our first overnight guest! Yay!
We'll, it's only the middle of the day, and I've got some bird skinning to do... Have a great day everybody!!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
A rescue
Meet the newest member of our family: Yonce Marley Kennedy Woodward!
Yonce, (we pronounce it Yon-cee) comes to us from the Lycoming County SPCA in Williamsport. He showed up there in December covered with scabs from all his fleas, and as you can see from his mug shot, he was also missing part of his ear. Well they fixed him up, started him on flea medication, and today he has a nice smooth coat, and his ear is healed. He developed a pretty bad case of upper respiratory infection because of all the stress though, but he's mostly over that too. So Yonce comes to us updated on all his shots, with a micro chip, and a really great name. He's really mellow, loves to be petted, and chirps at you when you talk to him. He's pretty great. We'll post more pictures soon!
Yonce, (we pronounce it Yon-cee) comes to us from the Lycoming County SPCA in Williamsport. He showed up there in December covered with scabs from all his fleas, and as you can see from his mug shot, he was also missing part of his ear. Well they fixed him up, started him on flea medication, and today he has a nice smooth coat, and his ear is healed. He developed a pretty bad case of upper respiratory infection because of all the stress though, but he's mostly over that too. So Yonce comes to us updated on all his shots, with a micro chip, and a really great name. He's really mellow, loves to be petted, and chirps at you when you talk to him. He's pretty great. We'll post more pictures soon!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Hey Y'all!
Today I completed my 24th trip around the sun! Woo! It was a pretty good trip, but let's hope the 25th is even better. I went to school like normal today, but then right before my ornithology class, I looked out the window and saw 3 White-winged Crossbill right outside in the cedar tree! I had never seen a crossbill before, so I popped into class, got a couple of my classmates to come look (one of which had his binoculars with him. PERFECT!) and we had a look. I asked Don my teacher about it and he said they are pretty rare here, but can visit in the winter. It was a wonderful birthday treat from the birdies!
Then Georgie came to pick me up and he had a birthday card and in it, it said IOU one kitty cat. So pretty soon here we're going to go the shelter and get us a kitty. So today we went to the new Petsmart in Selinsgrove and picked up some toys, litter and supplies. It's very exciting! We're going to have a new member of the family!
Tonight George is taking me to the chinese buffet because I told him if he took me anywhere too expensive that I'd just feel guilty the whole night about how much it cost and I wouldn't be able to enjoy it. So this way, I can indulge in some deliciously terrible food, and not feel too much guilt.
In other news, that George never got around to posting, he officially got his accompanying job at Bucknell! He'll be working 5+ hours per week at $25 bucks an hour with the opera students now through sometime in March. It's temporary, but now that he's got his foot in the door, maybe they'll think of him next time they need somebody. Way to go George!
My research proposal is coming along. I turned in a crappy draft to Don last night and he said it was actually pretty good, but obviously I still have some work to do. But that's a major step out of the way. I think I can pull it off now. I still have a test on Friday to study for and Stats homework to keep up on, but a bit of the pressure has been lifted.
Tomorrow for my Ornithology lab, we're going on our first field trip and I'm pretty excited to get out there and figure out where all the birds are. It will be focused on water birds, so ducks and geese mostly.
That's all the updates for now! Thanks to everybody who sent things, or wrote notes! It's always wonderful to hear from you!
Today I completed my 24th trip around the sun! Woo! It was a pretty good trip, but let's hope the 25th is even better. I went to school like normal today, but then right before my ornithology class, I looked out the window and saw 3 White-winged Crossbill right outside in the cedar tree! I had never seen a crossbill before, so I popped into class, got a couple of my classmates to come look (one of which had his binoculars with him. PERFECT!) and we had a look. I asked Don my teacher about it and he said they are pretty rare here, but can visit in the winter. It was a wonderful birthday treat from the birdies!
Then Georgie came to pick me up and he had a birthday card and in it, it said IOU one kitty cat. So pretty soon here we're going to go the shelter and get us a kitty. So today we went to the new Petsmart in Selinsgrove and picked up some toys, litter and supplies. It's very exciting! We're going to have a new member of the family!
Tonight George is taking me to the chinese buffet because I told him if he took me anywhere too expensive that I'd just feel guilty the whole night about how much it cost and I wouldn't be able to enjoy it. So this way, I can indulge in some deliciously terrible food, and not feel too much guilt.
In other news, that George never got around to posting, he officially got his accompanying job at Bucknell! He'll be working 5+ hours per week at $25 bucks an hour with the opera students now through sometime in March. It's temporary, but now that he's got his foot in the door, maybe they'll think of him next time they need somebody. Way to go George!
My research proposal is coming along. I turned in a crappy draft to Don last night and he said it was actually pretty good, but obviously I still have some work to do. But that's a major step out of the way. I think I can pull it off now. I still have a test on Friday to study for and Stats homework to keep up on, but a bit of the pressure has been lifted.
Tomorrow for my Ornithology lab, we're going on our first field trip and I'm pretty excited to get out there and figure out where all the birds are. It will be focused on water birds, so ducks and geese mostly.
That's all the updates for now! Thanks to everybody who sent things, or wrote notes! It's always wonderful to hear from you!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Big news in Bloomsburg
As promised, we nabbed a clipping of the article from last week's Press Enterprise newspaper, which is a weekly publication that covers the obvious dearth of news in Bloomsburg, Danville, and the surrounding area.
Take a gander and you'll see what I mean.
I think I came across rather pretentious with that pained half smile, and Bill just looks far too happy to be leaving. Truth is, they picked the shot where I was between smiles and/or about to sneeze, and Bill was in hysterics because he was so excited to be retiring.
Bill was, in fact, extremely happy to be leaving, so there might be a tad too much truth to this photo. I just hope I'm not actually a pretentious snob.
To give you a reference point on the scope and sophistication of the Press Enterprise, I've included a scan of the back of the above clipping... which appears to be a classifieds of a revealing sort. Note the first and second full items. I kid you not.
Stress
So I'm through 4 weeks of school, and so far things have been very manageable. No major tests, papers, projects of any sort to really worry about yet. Until yesterday. Yesterday I met with Don, and he informed me that if I would like a paycheck this summer (in the form of a stipend for my research) that applications and proposals are due the 16th. That's a week from Monday. Since I definitely would like to get paid this summer (my stipend for doing museum work does not pay in the summer) I need to work like mad this week to really solidify my project, what exactly I'm going to be doing this summer, and pitch it (in the form of a written proposal) to a panel of faculty who hopefully will find it decent enough to fund. It's very much like the proposals I wrote at UPS, except when I wrote those, I had months to do my research, write, and edit. This time I have a week.
So this coming week I need to write that proposal, I also have my first ornithology exam on Friday, I'm also presenting my lizard research to my lab group on Friday (so I need to prepare a little bit there), and my first sewing class is Thursday night. OH, I didn't tell you: I signed up for a sewing class!
So I feel a little bit like I'm complaining too much, but all these stressful things just landed on me yesterday and now I'm freaking out just a little. I should probably bake some cookies or something to get me through this.
And I feel like I need to make a picture post....I'll work on it in all my spare time...Ha!
So this coming week I need to write that proposal, I also have my first ornithology exam on Friday, I'm also presenting my lizard research to my lab group on Friday (so I need to prepare a little bit there), and my first sewing class is Thursday night. OH, I didn't tell you: I signed up for a sewing class!
So I feel a little bit like I'm complaining too much, but all these stressful things just landed on me yesterday and now I'm freaking out just a little. I should probably bake some cookies or something to get me through this.
And I feel like I need to make a picture post....I'll work on it in all my spare time...Ha!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tidbits
Hello Friends!
Been a little while, so I thought I'd update things here. We managed to avoid a parking ticket this week, thanks to our google calendar which now sends me an e-mail every Sunday afternoon to remind me to move the car. Very handy.
I have my first test of sorts tomorrow in my ornithology lab. I haven't had an exam in almost two years, so I hope I know what I'm doing, but I've been very busy studying all of the bird orders, internal and external anatomy, feathers, and bones. George has been helping me study the orders with my flashcards, and he's even picked up on some of them. Now when we see ducks at the creek he makes sure to point out that they are in fact Anseriformes. I have also been studying with a girl I met in class, Sara. She sat by me the first day of class, and now I'd even say we're beginning to be friends. She came over on Sunday night to study, and she was our very first house guest. It's great to finally know a few faces around here.
On Monday, while we were cooking dinner, George decided to fiddle some with the timer knobs on the oven, because if they exist, he must fiddle with them. He managed to do two things during his fiddling. First he somehow set the timer, and it went off at a later point in the evening. Not really what we were expecting. Second he some how managed to turn off the oven part. What I mean by this is, when we went to try to turn on the oven, simply nothing happened. Neither the broiler or the lower element would function. We thought he broke the oven, until today, he decided to fiddle again, and got it all to function again. I'm not really sure what the point of that certain knob is, but at least our oven is functional still. I was worried there that I wasn't going to be able to bake my birthday cake.
In other news, my wonderful mother took on the task of sewing curtains for our windows. They arrived a couple of days ago and they look really great. It is a huge improvement over sheets on the windows, and now they neighbors can't stare at us while we eat dinner. (We also don't have to see our neighbor while changing her shirt...this we did see by accident) Okay I just took pictures, but George's camera won't load onto my computer, so I'm going to have to make him add them later. Be sure to check back for an update!
This coming Sunday, George is playing solo for the first time at church. Everyone there is so excited about him, they even put a story in the news paper. He's at choir practice right now, and one of the members was going to bring him a clipping of it, so you'll also have to check back to see that. We'll scan it and post it up here.
We absolutely cannot wait for things to thaw out around here. We've had maybe one or two days above freezing since we've been here, and it's starting to get a little old. It would be really nice to walk outside with out being bundled, and to not have to risk my neck on the walk to school because of the ice all over the sidewalk. Apparently Phil saw his shadow on Monday though, so it looks like we'll have 6 more weeks of winter.
Anywho, much love to you all!!
Been a little while, so I thought I'd update things here. We managed to avoid a parking ticket this week, thanks to our google calendar which now sends me an e-mail every Sunday afternoon to remind me to move the car. Very handy.
I have my first test of sorts tomorrow in my ornithology lab. I haven't had an exam in almost two years, so I hope I know what I'm doing, but I've been very busy studying all of the bird orders, internal and external anatomy, feathers, and bones. George has been helping me study the orders with my flashcards, and he's even picked up on some of them. Now when we see ducks at the creek he makes sure to point out that they are in fact Anseriformes. I have also been studying with a girl I met in class, Sara. She sat by me the first day of class, and now I'd even say we're beginning to be friends. She came over on Sunday night to study, and she was our very first house guest. It's great to finally know a few faces around here.
On Monday, while we were cooking dinner, George decided to fiddle some with the timer knobs on the oven, because if they exist, he must fiddle with them. He managed to do two things during his fiddling. First he somehow set the timer, and it went off at a later point in the evening. Not really what we were expecting. Second he some how managed to turn off the oven part. What I mean by this is, when we went to try to turn on the oven, simply nothing happened. Neither the broiler or the lower element would function. We thought he broke the oven, until today, he decided to fiddle again, and got it all to function again. I'm not really sure what the point of that certain knob is, but at least our oven is functional still. I was worried there that I wasn't going to be able to bake my birthday cake.
In other news, my wonderful mother took on the task of sewing curtains for our windows. They arrived a couple of days ago and they look really great. It is a huge improvement over sheets on the windows, and now they neighbors can't stare at us while we eat dinner. (We also don't have to see our neighbor while changing her shirt...this we did see by accident) Okay I just took pictures, but George's camera won't load onto my computer, so I'm going to have to make him add them later. Be sure to check back for an update!
This coming Sunday, George is playing solo for the first time at church. Everyone there is so excited about him, they even put a story in the news paper. He's at choir practice right now, and one of the members was going to bring him a clipping of it, so you'll also have to check back to see that. We'll scan it and post it up here.
We absolutely cannot wait for things to thaw out around here. We've had maybe one or two days above freezing since we've been here, and it's starting to get a little old. It would be really nice to walk outside with out being bundled, and to not have to risk my neck on the walk to school because of the ice all over the sidewalk. Apparently Phil saw his shadow on Monday though, so it looks like we'll have 6 more weeks of winter.
Anywho, much love to you all!!
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