Random Photo / Update 9-29-06

Well, it looks like updates might be pretty boring for a while. Here it goes: School is going fine, I'm having fun and making lots of music.

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Random Photo:

I'll be posting a few pictures with problems in them; some edited and some not. Here's the first.
Can you figure out what's wrong?

BTW: This is Aaron on the way back from Arizona earlier this year. Boy, it was HOT! It actually hit 118 degrees while we were there!

Camping and College

Things are continuing to go well with my classes at Rock Valley College. I may have said this already, but the music program at Rock Valley is very good, and I'm really enjoying it. Here's a picture of the "PAR" where the Choir and Chamber Singers meet for practice. This picture was taken just before Chamber Singers.



One thing that's kind of neat is that there are a lot of other homeschoolers in the classes I'm taking! It's funny to watch the reactions when we find out that each other was homeschooled. You'd think we all went to the same school!

Just last week I also ran into an old neighbor from back when we lived in the Chicago area who is also attending Rock Valley! I could hardly believe it.

Here are some pictures from the church campout that we had last weekend.

I'm not sure what's going on in this picture, but if you look at the difference between everyone's faces, it's very comical.



Here are some pictures of the guys getting some music ready for around the fire.

The fire got a little bit hot for a couple of the kids, so they took care of the problem with face shields.
:-)

New News + New Idea = New Update!

Boy, I hate filling my blog with "Updates", but when life is full I'm always looking for little ways to cut back. Consequently, I only spend just enough blog time to keep my friends and relatives happy with occasional "updates". Well, this one is long due.

So, let's see... here are some pictures of the visit that we had with Grandma Muligano, and Aunt Clorinda while they were in town before they headed out to California for my cousin's wedding the beginning of August.

Four generations!

An evening of relaxation on the back porch.

Aunt Clorinda helping Joanna with vibrato on the violin.

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Here are some pictures from a World War II re-enactment that was in Harvard. It was pretty neat, although very unrealistic.

This is the same tank that was in the movie "Saving Private Ryan".

Oops, the flash suppressor wasn't supposed to fly off. Fortunately it didn't hit anyone.

Don't you love how basic the old engines were?

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No pictures for this one, but in mid-August I started taking some classes at Rock Valley College. The music instructors there are EXCELLENT! I am really enjoying it a lot.

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Last weekend Justin Kelly was in town visiting from Texas. On Saturday we had a softball game, and an evening BBQ at Milky Way Park. It was a blast! The teams were made up of some of the older sons and fathers from our church. Most of the people had time prior to the day of the game to get together with friends and practice. This was especially good for me since I'm not used to playing with a 12" softball. The final score was 10 to 11 with the winning team scoring the last point in the bottom of the 9th. It was a close game the whole way through.

Justin, Joshua, Josiah, Joseph and I got there early to prepare the field. It was terrible when we showed up, but by the time we started the game it was really nice.

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On Monday (Labor Day) Justin, Joshua, Ethan Webb, Luke VonHolten, Aaron Englund and I rode the train down into Chicago for a Cubs game at Wrigley Field!

Unfortunately Carlos Zambrano (the opening pitcher for the Cubs) wasn't feeling right, and let in four runs in the first inning, and one more run in the 2nd inning before getting pulled out. The final score was Pirates 5, Cubs 4.