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Digging Roots and the Six String Nation, Twisted Pines Music & Arts Festvial, Midland Ontario, May long-weekend 2007, North Simcoe Sports & Recreation Centre, annual festival, Raven Kanatakta, Shoshona Kish
Pendleton, Indiana (01-28-09) The snow storm that swept across Indiana and much of the Midwest Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning left Pendleton, as well as the rest of Indiana, digging out much of Wednesday.
Many businesses and all of the area schools were closed because of the road conditions. Devon Price and George Price, for the Pendleton-Gazette, were out Wednesday morning and captured what the snow storm left behind.
The lonely robot is making a break for it, digging a tunnel under the shop. I do sort of wonder why he doesn't just walk out the door.
Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.
First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]
.. both kids were very cooperative and tried several things and then proceeded to ate very decent portions! They had crispy noodles, rice, chicken satay and dumplings. They also behaved. We did not end up running away frustrated, but relaxed and happy!
This so improbably successful event set the tone for the rest of the vacation.
I think the first time I designed a coin was when I was 12 years old in 1992, when there was a contest to design a $1 coin for Canada's quasquicentennial. My submission, as I recall, was every provincial and territorial flag flowing over Niagara Falls. I never heard back from the mint.
I've doodled coin designs occasionally since then, but I had never taken a serious stab at it. That is until I took a look at Whitman Publishing's new book American Silver Eagles: A Guide to the US Bullion Coin Program by John Mercanti, 12th Chief Engraver for the US Mint, and Miles Standish, PCGS's own senior grader. In the book Mercanti reveals some fascinating tidbits about the whole process of creating coin designs, including photographs of coin models and, and Mercanti himself at work.
I thought to myself that rather than pencil out a design, I'd try my hand at making an actual clay model of a coin design like I saw in the book. How hard could it be? Very hard as it turns out.
My mom is never happier than when taking seventy thousand pictures of me. Inevitably, half of them have me with a "take the #$%^ picture already" expression on my face.
(I made the scarf. I'd take another picture of it, but I can't find the scarf. I fear it may be lost. Aargh. I made it while I was taking gross anatomy. The whole damn summer. Knit knit knit knit.)
Ewan Morgan CRJI NEwry Co-ordinator and Noeleen Haughey CRJI volunteer getting ready to distrubute the Digging Deeper Project leaflets
There are huge piles of snow in front of our house. We've been digging some snow tunnels to those with my sons.
I finished up the trench on day 2, after another half hour of digging. I was still sick, and fat, so I was soaked with sweat by the end, and felt like puking. I had to take a shower, and spend 40 minutes relaxing, so I could feel normal again. I think I need to figure out an exercise regimen, and also get better. This was my 20th day of being ill with the flu, though I was very nearly better by this point.