a Brooklyn Voice

From the Cabaret recently.  This is Nina and I taking in one of the many wonderful performances here at the 1st (hopefully annual!) CVC / Ten Stones cabaret.

Yes we can.

So 36 is here.  Magic number 36. 4 times 9, 4th of 9.

Divisable by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and itself.

This was taken from the woods near our place, by a motion-detector camera as part of a wildlife study.  Pretty intense.

Matt & Tanya have electrified the chicken fence…

This is from the fall, will post more soon, but it’s a nice shot of me and Nina on an Autumn day

Here’s our first attempt at performing the alphabet for the iSight…

Some of these pictures I have seen before.

Some of these I haven’t, but either way they are a pretty interesting case study in humanity.

Enjoy, or just look.

This past weekend, we had a bonfire here at the community.  There was a lot of scrap wood that was too small to do much with other than burn, so burn it we did.  We brought out the guitar and the conga drums and instruments for the kids, and stood, danced, and sang into the night.

It was a nice crisp evening, and if I can get some of the pictures that people took, I’ll post them here. Set list included gems like Country Roads, Anna Begins, Dock of the Bay, We Can Work It Out, and a number of childrens’ songs, including a rousing rendition of Old McDonald Had a Farm, with each of the CVC kids contributing a verse/animal.

It’s supposed to get down to 40 degrees tonight.  Woohoo!

So I’m spending the week on vacation in Vermont.  I always figured living in Vermont would have some serious perks - and living somewhere like Charlotte is definitely one of them.

Our friends Hector and Britt visited us this past weekend.  They’re on their way to Washington, D.C. to check out the sites before heading back to Hector’s homeland of South Africa.

This morning was a nice visit to Shelburne Museum, apparently the number 1 tourist attraction in Vermont.  We rode the carousel with Nina, she didn’t like the horses going up and down so much, but she liked sitting in the little carriage bench seats.

The biking around our place in unreal - I’ll take some pics and post them in a bit.  Now - back to the relaxing…

This is pretty neat - Saturn’s North Pole. In the middle of a long winter (like, uh years of it), we have no idea what this is. My completely uninformed guess? Some kind of giant lock/key structure, that if properly opened, will crack Saturn in half, and reveal it to be the giant egg of some galactic monster.

Yep - definitely.