Christmas in the Chicken Garden

I buried 2 chickens in 2 days, because of a Hawk.  So, the best  online  suggestion was, CD's.   Kalyani  climbed onto the roof, and put some disks to look like eyes.  We hung many from trees.

weekend in the country

Otis

Went up to Saugerties this week end. The leaves have started to change, it was very pretty and the weather was spectacular. On Saturday we went to the Garlic Festival, it is quite an event, who knew.

Garlic Festival

Hannah's flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63694783@N06/

Yesterday, Brockport, today, York

Ashwani and Hannah leaving for England,  just a few of us at home now.

Hannah's New Number

It's +44 079 460 570 35.

Moon over Reed Road

About 6:30 a.m. last week

I found a small collection of movies

College Update: Brief Post

  I'm not feeling too great right now and I don't really feel like writing too much so I'll give you a cliff notes version of my week. I had class, and labs and yoga. I was bitten on the foot by a pig and I touched the brain of a cow. With gloves. I also started fecal scoring the pigs, just means going and staring at their poo. Here's a picture of my pigs. There are 5.

Cute, right?

Happy Birthday!

HBSKC

News from NYC

Laura started her Soccer season on Sunday. Chandran is assistant coach this year. She plays in Central Park. Nicky is taking a basketball class at the 92 St Y. He picket the sport, why I do not know, I don't think he has aver seen a game. We went to the first class last week, he likes it. Chiara has also started her soccer season, we hope to make it to some of her games this year. Last night Junu and Francesco came for dinner.  Junu is surfing these days, so our usual weekend lunches are out. He really enjoys it and thinks the kids should learn. Maybe when they become better swimmers.

College Update: First Full Week

  As first weeks go, it was kind of awesome. Well, not awesome, but definitely fine. The most classes in one day is 4 and that is only on Wednesdays. It has been kinda busy. From Monday to Wednesday was the poster sale. I purchased 1 Doctor Who poster and that's it. I managed to control myself and not buy every poster that struck my fancy. On Thursday and Friday the club fair happened. I went Friday. I joined two clubs. Now don't get too excited, one was an animal science club and the other is a geeky club for people who like geeky things. I joined them with a friend of mine. They are pretty minimal when it comes to participation. The animal science club has meetings once in awhile to discuss field trips and such. They always do a behind the scenes tour of the Toronto zoo, which sounds awesome. I'm really looking forward to it. My labs for Animal Nutrition started this week. We were assigned to groups of 5 or 6. Everyone in my group is animal bio except for the boy who is an aggie. I have forgiven him for that because he got pooped on by a pig for us. There are 2 hands on projects and 2 computer projects. Each project takes a few weeks to complete. I am starting on project 2, which is a pig lab. Each group was assigned a pen with 5 pigs. With real live pigs about 8 weeks old. The first day we just had to weigh the feed and each of the pigs. Those piggies are not easy to catch, which is why we left that to the aggie in our group because he actually has experience with animals. Not pigs, but other animals. He had to pick them up and put them in a large garbage bin and put that on a scale. Every time a pig was picked up or chased it would scream bloody murder. I swear by the moon that my ears were ringing and I was couldn't hear a thing people said when it was happening. Not to mention every other group was doing at the same time. It was loud. That was all for the first lab, but we each had to check on them at least once in the week to make sure they had food and to move the poop away from the food. Next week we start fecal scoring, which involves scrapping up some poop every day and drying it out and doing other stuff to it. Sounds fun right. I checked on them on Friday morning. I've known them for only a short while, but pig #39 is definitely my favorite. Shh don't tell the others. He's just so fat. Project 1 involves cows. My other classes are good, but lets be honest they're not even in the same league as live animals.
  We have been having some weird weather here. First it's extremely hot and then next minute it is insanely cold. Now it's hot again. I keep dressing wrong. Oh well. What can you do, you know?

Here it is!

Nick & Laura PS 6

Chiara starting 11th grade

The first day of school is finally here.

College Update: Third Year

  So I just got back from the mall to find one of my housemates dancing in the kitchen by himself with the lights off except for a small blinking colored light. Surprisingly, I was not surprised. And yes I did say HIMself. He is male. We get along just fine. Only problem is I can't seem to look away from the gap where one of his teeth should be. It's a big gap. There is also 2 other girls. Heather and a girl from Toronto. We have managed to get along thus far.
  So school started on Thursday. I only have one class and a lab on Thursday. Nutrition and an animal science lab. I think it is animal physiology. We get to touch organs and stuff, I'm looking forward to that one. Labs don't start for a few weeks so I only had nutrition on thursday. My other classes are animal nutrition, cell bio, and animal physiology. I like them all so far. The animal nutrition lab is going to be hands on farm animals. I'm really excited about that one. Oh yeah also a pathology class, but its DE. My room is pretty much the same is last year, but the house is a little farther from the campus.
  I can't think of anything else so, yeah.

Check this out.

If you ever want to know what is going on in Brockport, here is a link (don't give up too soon)

http://skoogfarm.blogspot.com/

School started here Wed., thought all of NY did.

Where is the red door?