Green beans!

Our first handful of green beans, picked today!

Boys and Roosters

This rooster looks content in Josh's arms.

This rooster is crowing!

Socialism

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is  equal sharing of misery.  -- Winston Churchill

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Teenager!

Justin turned 13 yesterday!

He picked out his gift on Saturday.  He decided on a game for the XBOX.

Here he is enjoying some cake and ice cream.

I can't believe he is thirteen already.  I don't know where the years have gone.  We did see a few snowflakes in the evening, so it did seem like it was his birthday. (Every year, including the day he was born, we have had snow.  For some reason last year we didn't see any and it felt strange.)

Battle of Hancock Sesquicentennial

On January 5, 1862, the Battle of Hancock took place after Union commander Brigadier General Frederick Lander refused to surrender the town to Confederate Major General "Stonewall" Jackson's demand.  Jackson continued the bombardment from just across the Potomac River on Orrick's Hill for two days.  Finally, on January 7th, having failed to find a suitable crossing into Maryland, the Confederate forces retreated and advanced on Romney.  (Copied word for word from a flyer that was handed out at the event on Saturday, no source was cited.)

The picture directly above is of the reenactors preparing to fire the canon.  While they only fired "blank" charges it was still very loud.  Fire shot out of the barrel and the canon rolled back some. 

We also visited the C & O Canal's visitor center on Saturday.  We took a brief walk and looked at Lock 52.  For more information, check out the Town of Hancock's website www.hancockmd.com

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Today we are talking about Pearl Harbor in "school". The image above was one we came across on our Internet search of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.