Whose Child?

Just yesterday I found out that Tracy Lucas has a blog. Now Tracy is one of whom we affectionately call "our renter guys," the guys who rent our old house on our property. So as I was perusing Tracy's blog, I was surprised to read "My Child is Gone" and find that the picture he has of "his" child was actually a photo of MY child who just spent his first Thanksgiving "gone" from home because of attending Gutenberg College in distant Oregon. After reading I found out that Tracy's "child" is the one behind my child in the cowboy hat. To see more photos of Sam, visit the blog of Chase Maclennan who is a fellow student at Gutenberg. You have to scroll way down the page to get to the November 6 photos. Sam's the one with the cello.:-)

One reason I wanted to start this blog was to be able to share various things that I'm reading or I'm pondering or are happening in my life (for those who are interested--this usually involves my children!). Recently I finished reading Thomas Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" in which he tells of some really great high schools that were preparing black kids well for college in the early part of the 20th century. In giving examples of how some kids have been handicapped by circumstances in life and yet risen above them, he tells of the great number of Asian kids who have done very well largely because of their incredible work ethic. In light of that, I thought this news item on a high school near where I grew up was interesting: http://www.joannejacobs.com/mtarchives/015746.html

Jed's First Deer

Jed's First Deer!

Jed is what I call an efficient hunter. One of my biggest complaints about hunting is the amount of time spent with nothing to show for it. Jed was only out for about half an hour when he got one. Now he'll have plenty of time for the rest of the day to work on his Great Books paper and study for his US History test :-).