Some Pics of Julie and Jocie

Jessamyn's Collage

For Jessamyn: JL made this wonderful collage for a photo project for Jess's school.

"Would you kill the big guy?" from the BBC

Just heard this on the BBC and loved the poem and the moral dilemma it poses. The poem was written by Ben Motley, a rather witty producer for the BBC World Service, and read by Nigel Carrington:

“Here comes a train and it’s out of control

Blasting its whistle and belching out coal

Up ahead there are five people tied to the track

It’s going too fast and there’s no turning back

A flick of a switch and the train will divert

to a line where the five people will not get hurt

But there’s one person already tied to that line

So do you flick the switch, or do you decline?

Now you are standing upon a footbridge,

As another train heads towards certain carnage

Five people tied up – but you have a plan

Beside you is standing a very large man.

If you push the man onto the track down below

His massive bulk will cause the engine to slow

You’ll save five lives but the large man will die

So the question is: would you kill the big guy?”

Taken from www.nigelcarrington.com in a reading for the BBC

WORLD SERVICE promoting 'Would You Kill The Big Guy.'

Working on Poses with Jocie

Joey plays archaeologist

While on vacation in Niagara Falls, we took a bus tour that stopped at a souvenir shop for a few minutes. Joey found an 'archaeologist set' that had a small chunk of hardened sand and the hope of finding precius gems inside (several smallish chunks of amethyst). About a week after we got home, as Jenny and I headed to bed, she noted that Joey's bedroom light was still on.... upon entering the room, we found our son busy digging through the sand to find the rocks inside it and making a huge mess on the floor and himself. There wasn't much to do but laugh....

The happy archaeologists face, now full of sand from his "big dig"

The floor in Joey's room during the excavation...

Here mom and dad ask Joey to read the important label on the back of the box.... something he forgot he should have done BEFORE opening it.

The all important label that Joey missed.

Singing with Jess and Climbing with Jocie

Chalk names from Megan