tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68554146867339469802024-02-21T23:26:10.425-08:00It Happens Every SpringLorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-36069834780840328352011-03-05T06:23:00.000-08:002011-03-05T06:24:28.344-08:00Spring TrainingIt is that time of year again...time to start playing baseball. Finally.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-20350708233309691562010-05-28T10:05:00.000-07:002010-05-28T10:08:30.142-07:00What can I make for dinnerI hate this question - <a href="http://www.recipekey.com/my_pantry.php">Recipe Key</a> has the answer...Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-75015730673476934112010-05-27T05:56:00.000-07:002010-05-27T05:57:11.989-07:00<!--copy and paste--><object width="334" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JohannaBlakley_2009X-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JohannaBlakely-2009X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=320&vh=240&ap=0&ti=866&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture;year=2010;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=art_unusual;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TEDxUSC;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="334" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JohannaBlakley_2009X-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JohannaBlakely-2009X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=320&vh=240&ap=0&ti=866&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture;year=2010;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=art_unusual;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TEDxUSC;"></embed></object>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-60409034405392624732009-12-31T19:25:00.000-08:002009-12-31T19:26:32.675-08:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qVs6X9yIM_k&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qVs6X9yIM_k&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-70669912013889530272009-10-15T07:58:00.000-07:002009-10-15T08:11:31.119-07:00<a href="http://eurekaradar.glogster.com/Parrish/">http://eurekaradar.glogster.com/Parrish/</a>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-91305705419656116692009-02-18T18:34:00.000-08:002009-02-18T18:50:36.077-08:00Finally - It has happenedI don't know that spring has sprung - I am still wearing a coat to work and scraping the windshield in the am - but the boys of summer are back on the field in Florida. <br /><br />So- A.Rod used steroids and he sucks but sadly this news does not surprise me.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-12949737766187326192009-02-17T15:59:00.000-08:002009-02-17T16:01:14.178-08:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fZZ3DD_tV9k&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fZZ3DD_tV9k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-13947726063955403682009-01-21T14:27:00.000-08:002009-01-21T14:32:16.274-08:00SNOW DAYS! In Raleigh 3 inches of snow = 2 days off school and potentially a late start on a third day. I am down with that...my 3 day weekend because of MLK has become a 5 day vacation. I worked on photo albums, read graphic novels, opened the door to look at the snow, and came inside because it is too cold. I am a weather wuss. My neighbor built a snowman but other than him I didn't see many kids out playing in the only snow we will probably get this year. By the way my neighbor is an adult, and he built his snowman and put a beer in his hand. cool... I would have helped but I am a weather wuss...Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-5061297060072872382009-01-01T15:01:00.000-08:002009-01-01T15:58:43.471-08:00A fun, old fashioned, family Christmas<p>Day one: Steam clean the carpets, wait for them to dry, put up the aluminum Christmas tree, decorate it, carefully pick up the aluminum needles that have fallen off the branches and try to stick them back on.</p><p>Day two: Spend all day cleaning the guest bedroom and the office so that someone can actually sleep in the office, wrap all presents for guests, begin the endless laundry of sheets, blankets, and towels for guests to use, make-up the bed in the guest room, put holiday decorations in guest room, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">vacume</span> the carpet in the guest room, take out the trash in the guest room, close guest room door and call it good enough, string lights on outside bushes, hang wreath on door, set up the nativity set in foyer, (does it count as a foyer if it is less than the size of the walk-in closet). </p><p>Day three: Power clean the guest bathroom, kitchen, basement, liter pan, other liter pan, other liter pan, 4<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> liter pan, 5<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">th</span> liter pan, throw away the liter pan that broke when it was tossed outside, go to the dollar store and buy another liter pan, fill that liter pan, day two of the endless laundry, go to Southern States and buy another poinsettia because the last one only has three red petals left, guests arrive at 5:00pm just as the dust pan is put away. Get the furniture mover out and help the guests unload the car. Make fried chicken, eat fried chicken, watch Monday night football, learn that the company loves only NFL football and Penn State not ALL football games so we wont have to watch football all vacation long. </p><p>Day four: Leave house at the crack of dawn to do final shopping, meet at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">BJ's</span> for Christmas dinner shopping, avert disaster of a second trip to Sam's, (more than one big box shopping trip two days before Christmas could kill you), escape to the gym to work-out, escape to the dump to take some of the endless garbage and recycling, escape to the basement to entertain the cats while company entertains themselves, go to Bob's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">barbeque</span> for take-put because company has never had it before, eat <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">barbeque</span>, further regale the company with stories of previous fun old fashioned family Christmases, watch <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Borat</span>, spend the next 10 days watching others talk like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Borat</span>.</p><p>Day five: Leave house at crack of dawn to do final shopping for Christmas eve dinner and Christmas day dinner, avert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">disasterous</span> fight over cookie baking, complete "Christmas baking" by baking brownies, take a long walk around the neighborhood, find the foreclosure notice on the door of the unoccupied house down the block and take unseasonable joy in the problems of the local builder/incompetent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">buisness</span> man who can't make the only bar in town successful, talk to family on the phone, make shrimp and grits for Christmas eve dinner, eat shrimp and grits, watch It's a Wonderful Life, fall asleep before it is over, wake up at midnight and remember I have to do more wrapping, wrap while watching A Christmas Story and talking to my sister who also has wrapping to do, get to bed by 2:30am. </p><p>Day six: It is finally Christmas day! Start the day with breakfast with the family, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">fascilitate</span> the move of the guests from the guest bedroom to the computer room so the new guests can have the guest bedroom, (family politics and the squeaky wheel syndrome demand this move), wash the sheets and towels for the next guests, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">vacume</span> upstairs, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">vacume</span> downstairs, wait for guests, new company arrives, unload new company, make mimosas, drink mimosas, open presents, ooh and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">ahh</span> over presents, set out snacks, take a walk with old company while new company takes a nap, put the ham in the oven, work with the guests to prepare the rest of the dinner, eat the dinner, wash all the dinner dishes, put away dinner left-overs, </p><p>Day seven: Make breakfast for the whole family, take showers, go to the movies, watch Marley and Me with the new company while the old company watches a different movie, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">of course</span> Marley dies at the end of the movie, chit chat about movies, go to Hooters for a wing dinner, (it is the first time at Hooters for old company), eat wings, drink beer, drive home, watch Batman Returns, fall in to bed. </p><p>Day eight: Old company gets up before the crack of dawn and leaves without a dramatic goodbye, new company gets up slowly, drinks coffee and eats cookies for breakfast, goes to Raleigh for lunch at Char-Grill, buy materials for dinner, buy materials for project, (now we have a peep hole in the front door), grill steaks, eat steaks, watch The Dark Knight, off to bed.</p><p>Day nine: New company likes to sleep in, wakes up slowly over coffee and cookies, reads the paper, has real breakfast, loafs, watches football game on the computer because the game they care about (Ravens) isn't on television, make pot roast for dinner, (the real reason the new guests have stayed an additional night I suspect), eat pot roast, play my new game they gave me (Scene It), play three games everyone wins but me, go to bed. </p><p>Day ten: New company must go home today but we all decide to have breakfast at Cracker Barrel in Henderson, say good bye after breakfast, go to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Wal</span>-Mart for after Christmas decoration sales, go to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Lowes</span> for same reason, go home to loaf and revel in success of good old fashioned family Christmas. </p>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-4929060218642046772008-12-19T14:37:00.000-08:002008-12-19T14:52:37.404-08:00I won a grant!I won the first grant I ever applied for, which is pretty cool. The local newspaper, <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/nrn/story/1327998.html">The News and Observer </a>, ran a very short article which includes my name if you want to take a look at it. I won the money for a Flip Video camera for students to use when they are working on their graduation projects. I used it to film the Christmas lights in my neighborhood. The resolution is pretty good considering how inexpensive the camera is.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-46464863139954546152008-12-19T11:04:00.000-08:002008-12-19T11:06:14.014-08:00Christmas at Golden Pond<object classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112" ID="MyWMP239427" width="320" height="312"><param name="ShowControls" value="1"><param name="AutoStart" value="0"><param name="AnimationatStart" value="0"><param name="EnablePositionControls" value="0"><param name="EnableTracker" value="0"><param name="Rate" value="1"><param name="ShowPositionControls" value="0"><param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1"><param name="StretchToFit" value="1"><param name="uiMode" value="mini"><param name="SRC" value="http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=5273&CID=239427"><param name="URL" value="http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=5273&CID=239427"><embed type="application/x-mplayer2" Name="MyWMP239427" Width="320" Height="312" ShowControls="1" AutoStart="0" AnimationatStart="0" EnablePositionControls="0" EnableTracker="0" Rate="1" ShowPositionControls="0" ShowStatusBar="1" ShowTracker="0" uiMode="mini" stretchToFit="1" Pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/" Src="http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=5273&CID=239427" Url="http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=5273&CID=239427"></embed></object>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-41397801774267338322008-12-17T08:48:00.001-08:002008-12-19T16:28:05.840-08:00Books and more for kids grades K-2This is a <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfvqqj2z_112gb8ckgv">list</a> I had to create for my children's literature class this fall. There really is a big difference between award winning books for children, and all the rest of the mass produced garbage out on the market. This list only covers materials from 2000 forward. If you want to go look at the rest of the lists and other award winners for kids of all ages check out <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/notablechibooks/index.cfm">ALA</a>.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-9431317677561323222008-11-08T06:16:00.001-08:002008-11-08T06:21:18.707-08:00Baseball tripI was trying to use the slideshow feature, but for what ever reason I could not figure it out. I'll keep working on that, in the meantime this a just a couple of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32220238@N06/show/">parks</a> I've been to in the last few summers.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-6236181630930648022008-11-07T18:12:00.000-08:002008-11-07T19:35:29.945-08:00I'm back...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8wuXdqzW0aMNMsYS-Jt4VTMKbR5_hsRh21R677QJ9WEuY4L-rt0HFTXvmXR3T-Wu5VltVDYFENpsx8A4mjujuc-2x5GKBvXTQ2eyJGxnx08aHgDRwEuzrE5Jf0szt6cjNumUkrN47Bp0/s1600-h/IMG_3800.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266120412812271330" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8wuXdqzW0aMNMsYS-Jt4VTMKbR5_hsRh21R677QJ9WEuY4L-rt0HFTXvmXR3T-Wu5VltVDYFENpsx8A4mjujuc-2x5GKBvXTQ2eyJGxnx08aHgDRwEuzrE5Jf0szt6cjNumUkrN47Bp0/s320/IMG_3800.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Okay, so I guess I will get this blog going again, for anyone who has interest in what I am doing now. These are the pumpkins Jeff and I carved this halloween. We also did a couple of extreme type pumpkins which were fun and got some attention from the kids. I'll be putting up pics and videos from the ballparks I've been to with my dad and friends, and I'll write about books I love and some I don't, and whatever else occurs to me.</div>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855414686733946980.post-46570119172178219102007-03-23T10:16:00.000-07:002007-03-23T11:27:09.059-07:00The Best Job in the WorldCan there be a better job than being a professional baseball player? They get paid (a lot) to play the game that they have always loved. It is an outdoor job, it lasts 8 to 10 months (depending on how good you are), you get to travel the country, children adore you, and when you are all done you are in relatively good health. Perhaps this is why I get so irritated when I hear players complain about money. I pay (a lot) for the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">privilege</span> of seeing these talented boys play the game they love. But it's really about more than just the game. I love to people watch at baseball games. I watched this little boy run up and down the concrete steps during a minor league game in Savannah, Georgia. The parents of this little guy were pretty intense on the game and were only about half watching their boy. He was just running up and down, up and down, and I knew he was going to wipe out - and he did. I was at another minor league game and I was sitting behind "Wanda Whitecap", the biggest fan of the local team. She had a jersey with her name on the back and people came up to her all game long to talk to her about her team.<br /><br />The best baseball I ever saw was in the Cape League. I saw the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Chatham</span> A's play in the last, greatest, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">amateur</span> ball in the country. They play on what amounts to a good <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">high school</span> quality field. There is no admission, one set of bleachers on the first base side, and they play <a href="http://www.chathamas.com/">http://www.chathamas.com/</a>under the lights for donations. Public donations keep the league going. These are kids uncorrupted by money or fame. These are kids just playing the game they love, in hopes a scout will see them and draft them into the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">bigs</span>. That is pure baseball.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902688598587984200noreply@blogger.com0