Favorite Type of Weather

First Mouthful Of Snow

  I bet it tastes even better down the driveway.

SAT Subject Tests

He just missed it by this much, Grandma. How about that Camaro?

SUNY Geneseo

Most of the campus looks like this

I think this is the hall for English , Philosophy, and Languages

Science Hall

Sorting Hat/ Seuss Hat tree

This is proof some say the campus is too "rural and isolated"

Periodic Table in his favorite building

Foucault Pendulum (they also have a particle accelerator!)

 

    We spent Friday at SUNY Geneseo.  This looks promising. The campus felt comfortable, the cafeterias smelled very good, the student union was crowded and full of happy, noisy kids.  The dorms seemed like any other dorm. There were only 2 other kids there for the Physics tour, so we got to have a good talk with the department head. Nine professors in the dept, only 200 physics majors.  We saw their labs, the particle accelerator, and got to listen in on a class.
   Last week we spent a day at RIT.  More money, fancier surroundings, much emphasis on finding a career. We really liked the professors there, too. The students seemed a bit more "out of the box" here.
I was happily surprised at the student diversity of both. I think the physics dept is about the same size as Geneseo's.

Loud and Frosty Mornings

This is how I start every morning. Open the door, step out onto the freezing deck  and "cheer" Rusty onto the grass, then shut the door and put my shoes on so I can walk with him. This method will end soon.

    

This is where he spent Saturday, the first day of regular deer season.

Doodle Jumping Into The 21st Century

After a  long search that spanned many miles and much aggravation, the ipad mini was finally found in Painted Post!  Just don't ask me to tell you all the differences between it , a smart phone, or an ipod touch, etc. I'm not that evolved yet...

Happy Birthday, Mother!

We hope you have a great day, down there where it's so nice and warm! At least now I can finally stop saying my nearly eighty year old mom. Wish we could be there to bake you a cake!

Sunset

A beautiful way to end the day

Don't You Love Me Anymore?

 This is how Mr. Sad Face stood for over 5 minutes tonight, waiting for me to join him.  It's 33 degrees, windy, and snowy-drizzley, but he loves it. Snow would be better, but cold mud will do.

Rainy day dog fun--let's drink all the water off this leaf.

Hey, here's some more water!

Thanks, Daddy, for sweeping the leaves off the deck.  Look how much water there is!

Yes, he does have water in the house.

The Bibble According to Petey

 Vary intreeging, Petey. I'd never heard of Mittens bein a hand puppit( hey-catch my play on wurds?). But I suppose you know obama can not become the Anti- crist until he's elected president of that evil organization called the UN. I'm sorry about my spellin, since yours seems to have greatly improved. keep it comin, tho, your letters make that saturday walk to the mailbocks worthwhile!

Macho Macho Man

 Can you imagine what the typical hunter smells like? I wonder what the nose jammer shampoo scent is.

 Do they really need fake deer poop? Do they spray themselves, or just the nearest tree, with the female deer in estrus product?  What's in a buck licker?  I know there are a dozen other things they can buy to smear on themselves and their surroundings.  Did Dad gussy himself up with all this junk, or did he just go to the camp, eat some oysters, sleep late, then walk around and look for deer?