Places I've been

Some with the fam, some alone, some related to school. Got plenty of gaps. And no money. Bleh.

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Art Show

The art center where Eli has been taking drawing lessons will be having an exhibit soon. Eli probably will have a picture of a Great Dane dog (white with black spots) on display. But the teacher has had some award winning students in the past. The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is located on State Street in the heart of Black Mountain. Drop by next month and see what some of Bob Travers' students have been up to. Thanks again to Lucy D. who is subsidizing Eli's classes!

Manna Food Bank on "The Biggest Loser"

Manna Foodbank was selected to be featured on an upcoming episode of The Biggest Loser. The partnerships are numerous but involve Manna, General Foods, Mission Hospital plus the programs, Pound for Pound Challenge and Lighten Up 4 Life. Proceeds go to Feeding America which filters money down to local food banks based on the locations of the participants. Manna was filmed Tuesday as part of the project. The mayor of Asheville was present (that's Terry Bellamy in the photo above) and they shot segments throughout the day. Libby was on the ground for the whole thing, but they didn't get her in front of the camera. The Hendersonville paper (among others) picked up the story.

Recently seen on the web

Because I maintain a couple of blogs, I tend to surf around and look at other peoples' blogs. It's mostly boring, but every now and again I see something interesting or entertaining. And once in a while I see something really dumb. Spelling-wise.

pollups= polyps

knaw= gnaw

snoops= Snopes (the urban legend, fact-checking site)

I don't even bother with the common mis-uses of they're, their and there. And the whole hear/here thing. But funny mistakes are out there. From people who ought to know better! I know I've made my share of mistakes (my mom points them out to me). But these are the most recent crop that had me chuckling.

100 Days - 100 Fire Trucks

A couple of weeks ago when we were really bored, on a whim I asked Briggs to gather up all the fire trucks he could find around the house. I was remembering when Eli had been in kindergarten 100 days and we had to send to school 100 of something. With Eli we sent 100 toy cars, Matchbox car-sized. He had by age 5 more than enough. Remembering that school project, and knowing we had accumulated a lot of fire trucks over the years, I wondered if we had anywhere near 100. With no trouble at all we came up with 68. Not counting books with fire trucks on the cover, video with engines on the case, stamps in our collection, and the really huge trucks in the basement.

Then this evening Libby mentioned that Briggs had a 100 day-100 objects project coming up. So the spontaneous thing of a couple of weeks ago took on a whole new legitimacy! Tonight while I was at rehearsal they gathered up the 68 we had separated into their own box, and went around the rest of the house to come up with 100 fire trucks. Libby said they had more than enough, what with Brio fire trucks, Lego fire trucks, magnets and pictures on the walls in the boys' room. They cleverly arranged all the trucks on the steps from the basement to the first floor. The smallest is about 1.5 inches. The largest (a present from the Steeles a couple of years ago) is about 4 feet long! Here's the photographic proof. Happy 100 days of school!