Springtime antics

Baseball season is underway here in Beacon. Graham's team is the Red Sox and I am the coach, which he is pretty happy about. No one keeps score in in his league, the kids pitch for the first 2 innings then the parents pitch for the rest of the game. We have some really good kids and some who have never played before. All of the parents have been great and really helpful pitching in to help with the kids. 

School field trip to the Poughkeepsie Children's Museum

Working the booth at the museum radio station

Some recent work of mine that will be showing at a gallery here in Beacon in a few weeks. 

This piece is in a gallery in Saugerties right now

This one also in a gallery in Saugerties

Just another day

Here is Graham having just another dinner, post-daylight savings time, in our new and expanded kitchen. His hair has gotten quite long and looks even longer since he wears it under a baseball cap most days. We'll see how long we can go without cutting it. 

Baseball season is starting for him on the 26th and this year I am the coach of his team. All of the little kid teams are named after MLB teams so I requested that our team be the Red Sox since no one else in this Yankee loving neck of the woods would volunteer for that. Request was granted and G is overjoyed. He gets more Red Sox gear!

To start off Spring Break right, we went to a Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium last weekend. Sox lost but we all had a good time. 

 Easter is coming. We made some Easter art in advance of our annual Easter egg hunt and brunch

April 16 SNOW. When will this winter end? Ever?

Eagle Cam

I can't stop watching the Eagle Cam! Somewhere in Iowa there is an eagle's nest with a camera on it. The mama eagle is sitting on 3 eggs keeping them warm while the daddy eagle goes out and fetches food. Sometimes they switch positions. Sometimes they eat, other times they fluff the nest. I'm hooked.

I learned about the eagle cam in Graham's classroom. His teacher will put it on the big screen sometimes when the kids are having free time. Now that the eggs are getting closer to being hatched she keeps it on a little more frequently. I was in the classroom this week and it was on while the kids were doing their math. If something happens in the nest, like the daddy eagle flies in one of the kids will alert the class. His teacher said that if one of the eggs starts to hatch they will drop everything to watch the eaglette be born.

So now i keep the eagle cam on like a screensaver. Today one of the eggs hatched. Let me tell you, this was very exciting for the kids and for me. Watch it and you'll see.

Lovin' up an apple cider cake

We keep getting jugs of apple cider from our winter CSA farm share. Enthusiasm has waned in drinking fresh cider week after week so I made an apple cider cake. Graham approves.

Baby photos

I've been combing through my archives of old photos lately getting ready for a Pecha Kucha talk that I'll be giving next week about my art practice. I've come across tons and tons of baby Graham photos that I'd forgotten about. Here are a few.

Piano lessons

Graham has been taking piano lessons for almost 2 years now. This spring will be his first recital. Here he is at his piano lesson last week playing the song he will probably play for the recital. Notice his look of pride at the end of the song. This is a huge gesture since he often complains about having to take piano lessons.

 

Olympic inspiration

Graham has been following the Olympic closely. He is very inspired by the luge and skeleton racing. Here he is in this video demonstrating our own personal luge course carved out of the massive snow pileup after yesterday's storm. It snowed heavily all day and when it stopped in the afternoon Liam went out and shoveled for about 2 hours. Around bedtime it began to snow with freezing rain and thunder & lightning. Good times! The photos below with the house and car covered in feet of snow? Those were taken the morning AFTER the first 2 hour shoveling session.

The 2-hour shoveling look

apres-shoveling hat head

This is the snow level after Thursday's shoveling but before Friday's session. 

Notice the amount of snow on the car. Liam cleared off the car once already the day before,
what you're seeing is only the second half of the storm's accumulation.