Turkey calls

As promised, here's the clip of the big turkey during mating season last spring. It was almost like watching animal planet. The call you hear in the background is from the hens(they were at our neighbors house).

Growing Germs

Couldn't resist taking some shots of Jacob and Corrie observing their home grown bacteria. They grew some cultures using local pond water and stuff around the house(egg yolks, dirt, etc). We're loving the new curriculum...lots of hands on sciency stuff. Later this year they get to dissect a fish, a worm, a crayfish and a frog...FUN!!!

Sailing w/ IBM

Had a GREAT afternoon in Portland, ME last week. Met a few local IBMers and enjoyed the perfect weather.

Gabrielle's 1st

I can't believe it's been a year. Here's our angel absorbing the cake through her face:

Backyard Guests

Woke up this morning to these guys passing through. It was great to finally see some life out there after an intense winter. The bird singing in the background made it a perfect morning.

We survived!!

That's right, we made it through our 1st snow storm. It wasn't so bad really. The kids had a snow day and since I work from home we just watched from our cozy little homestead. Of course, the next day I managed to nearly maroon our new 4x4 trying to get out of our driveway. I didn't think even I could do that, but I somehow managed to leave the driveway and enter the yard. Don't laugh...out where we live a driveway and a yard are almost the same thing, especially when both are covered in a foot of snow. The kids and I had fun though sliding around the yard trying out our 4wd for the 1st time. I'm not sure if the neighbors saw the show, but I bet they told all their friends about the offlander and his attempts to leave his own driveway. Apparently, someone felt sorry for us, because I returned home today to find our entire driveway nicely plowed. We don't know who did it, but it sure was nice. I had tried shoveling, but had no idea how much work that is, especially with 75ish foot driveway.

So cute it's sinful!