When you're sick of fish,
You can always make a dish,
Made out of seaweed,
We're eating seaweed.
Monday, April 16, 2018
We're Eating Seaweed
Posted by Allen A. Fawcett on Monday, April 16, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
String Queen
For the Spring Open House, DC Youth Orchestra had regular ensemble practice, plus yoga, face painting, a performances of Peter and the Wolf as well as the String Queens, a trio helmed by Nora's (and Owen's former) conductor, cellist Elsie Cuffy.
After playing Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, Earth, Wind & Fire's September, Stevie Wonder's Isn't She Lovely, and a few others, the Queens invited all the students on stage to play Pachelbel's Canon. While Owen had left his cello at home, Nora had just finished practice and had her viola conveniently with her, so she happily ran on stage and joined the crowd. It was pretty epic.
Posted by Elaine M. Zimmerman on Sunday, April 15, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Melody in Spring
Posted by Elaine M. Zimmerman on Thursday, April 12, 2018
Sunday, April 01, 2018
Easter 2018
We went up at Katherine & Lee's house for a Final 4 party on Saturday with Mom & Don, Nancy & Danny, and Makayla. We spent the night, and Katherine even set up the new 'Tool Suite' for dad as a fourth guest room. On Sunday we went over to Mom & Don's for Easter dinner, and the kids all had another fun Easter Egg hunt, and Makayla found the Golden Egg, with the big prize, a Star Wars puzzle that I think all the kids will get to help put together over in Katherine & Lee's puzzle room :-)
Easter also happened to be on April 1st this year, so the kids planned a big April Fool's Day prank for Aunt Katherine. Originally they were scheming to pour out all of her hot sauces and replace them with fish sauce, but after a little discussion about nice pranks and mean pranks, they modified the plan to make new 'fishy labels' for her hot sauce collection. They barricaded the door to the tool room, and created a number of diversion art works to account for their time and cover their tracks, then snuck up to steal the hot sauces, affix the new labels, and replace them all before bedtime. In the morning, Katherine made some avocado toast that really needed hot sauce, and she was surprised to find instead, "BBQ with a hot new twist, Anchovies!", "Ala Angelfish," "Salmon Malaganese," "A 'Fishy' Substance, Extra Meaty," "Ariel's Conquest," "A new world's fish with bright garlic undertones," and "Salsa Verde Para Pesces."
(click here for all the pictures)
Posted by Allen A. Fawcett on Sunday, April 01, 2018