The Girl Speaks

     So I tried to post a video of some of Esme's speaking, but had trouble connecting my new phone/device to the computer.  Nor could I figure out any way to upload it to any place but YouTube, so it's on YouTube now (with some trepidation on my part -- though I guess posting anything here gives Google and the NSA access to it anyway, so I don't think I'm really doing anything too dangerous.)

and please forgive the brief nose picking.

Here's the link:

http://youtu.be/VPi0u_TFYNo

Thanks for your patience!

Orwell 250th Birthday Weekend

We went down to Orwell today for the town's birthday party. I met a few of my students and got a library card for the Orwell Free Library (and are there other kinds? ), and hung out with Tina & Esme.

Peter Rabbit belongs to the library, but the swing is private property. Be forewarned.

Kingsland Bay

Eli shows the kids a red striped salamander he found under a stone

Yesterday we went to a state park with friends, hung out on Lake Champlain, and took a nature walk... I only took pictures of the nature walk.