The Sun and the Moon

She's just shy of nine months old, and she's sort of crawling!

The question was whether she would choose golf or astronomy as her hobby...

It's What's For Dinner

I took a vacation day this week so I could spend a little time with my brother back at the farm. We pulled the truck into the barn to unload some feed, and there were his cows. Last year, I took some pictures of the cows, but this year I was able to take a little movie from my iPhone.


The cows apparently have never heard the Moon River joke.

The barn is next to the house in which we grew up, and Thom lives a quarter mile down the road in the house in which our mother grew up. We took the lane back to his house. I'm including this clip of our trip down the lane because you need to experience driving between walls of field corn at least once in your life. You can see part of the Golden Hill Cemetery on the left where we make the right turn at the end.



We reached our destination and sat for hours on Thom's back porch drinking beer and shooting the breeze. The air was very comfortable, and there are few things as beautiful as a full, brilliant orange moon rising over a field of corn. It was a good day.

Home Alone

As I remember the story, a guy had a pool in his backyard, and on most days he would return home from work to find that the water level in his pool was significantly lower than when he had left in the morning. After eliminating the possibility that his pool had a leak, he decided there could only have been one cause.

Convinced that someone was using his pool during the day, he set up a video camera to catch the culprits. This is what he saw.