24 August 2010
Time for a Change?
I'm fundamentally just too lazy to change my regular email account to another service. But this could convince me, since I've been locked out of my Inbox for three full days now.
21 August 2010
About a piano...
When a piano takes a bath
The waters swirl with wrath.
When you press a piano's keys
If it's old you just hope it won't wheeze.
Music is sweet
Playing piano is a treat.
The keys are white
Even in the night.
When a piano writes notes
It plays them on boats.
When a piano says hello
It sounds very mellow.
When you press a piano's pedal
It sounds very high, low, or middle.
There's a piano named Lina
When played sounds like a hyena
About the author
Julie is nine years old. She loves to read and play on the piano. She is going to take swimteam for the fourth time. She is in fourth grade, loves to write, and is good at rhyming. She loves school, and likes horses.
This is from a little homemade book I made when I was nine. I found it as I was sorting through boxes of old papers. I hope it made you laugh.
The waters swirl with wrath.
When you press a piano's keys
If it's old you just hope it won't wheeze.
Music is sweet
Playing piano is a treat.
The keys are white
Even in the night.
When a piano writes notes
It plays them on boats.
When a piano says hello
It sounds very mellow.
When you press a piano's pedal
It sounds very high, low, or middle.
There's a piano named Lina
When played sounds like a hyena
About the author
Julie is nine years old. She loves to read and play on the piano. She is going to take swimteam for the fourth time. She is in fourth grade, loves to write, and is good at rhyming. She loves school, and likes horses.
This is from a little homemade book I made when I was nine. I found it as I was sorting through boxes of old papers. I hope it made you laugh.
12 August 2010
Hooray for Old Friends!
Not that I'm calling anyone old, in particular; except we did all own up to feeling much older than when we were at BYU together.
After a day of work we got together for a walk in the Grass Lawn Park in Redmond. The park was really cool - a nice variety of paths in the main park and through the woods, plus fields for baseball and soccer, plus tennis courts, and then bunches of play areas for kids with these really cool rope structures to climb on.
11 August 2010
I love trees
Which is why I was pretty nervous to have our backyard trees cleaned up. But it had to be done - the big oak was just about touching the roof!
The other problems included a couple of evergreens with a lot of dead branches at their base, an old, tired apple tree which never even flowered anymore, and a pine tree that was leaning over so much that the roots were starting to come up out of the ground.
So I called AG Tree Service. They came to my house to give me an estimate the same day that I called. We went over the various "problem areas" in my yard. We worked out a plan and the crew showed up the next day to make my yard beautiful!
Here's what they did:
They removed my apple tree and pine tree, even grinding up the stumps so that we can use the space to plant something new.
They cleaned out the dead branches and raised the bottom level of the evergreens to about the height of the fence behind them so that we could keep the privacy they provide.
I admit that I miss the whole "Christmas-tree" look of a tree that reaches down to the ground, but about 75% of those lower branches were just dead sticks.
My favorite was the oak tree. It went from a wild and shaggy monster tree that was reaching out to touch the house and had branches dangling so far down into the yard that we could walk right into them ... it went from that to a beautiful tree that raises high up overhead, opening up space in the yard while still towering over the house and providing some summer shade.
The other problems included a couple of evergreens with a lot of dead branches at their base, an old, tired apple tree which never even flowered anymore, and a pine tree that was leaning over so much that the roots were starting to come up out of the ground.
So I called AG Tree Service. They came to my house to give me an estimate the same day that I called. We went over the various "problem areas" in my yard. We worked out a plan and the crew showed up the next day to make my yard beautiful!
Here's what they did:
They removed my apple tree and pine tree, even grinding up the stumps so that we can use the space to plant something new.
They cleaned out the dead branches and raised the bottom level of the evergreens to about the height of the fence behind them so that we could keep the privacy they provide.
I admit that I miss the whole "Christmas-tree" look of a tree that reaches down to the ground, but about 75% of those lower branches were just dead sticks.
My favorite was the oak tree. It went from a wild and shaggy monster tree that was reaching out to touch the house and had branches dangling so far down into the yard that we could walk right into them ... it went from that to a beautiful tree that raises high up overhead, opening up space in the yard while still towering over the house and providing some summer shade.
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