Photo is from last night's scout activity: Wall Climbing. Mark is always in charge of this each year. The whole pack of cubbies and boy scouts go together and climb, eat pizza, etc., and "do the manly bonding thing." (Quote from The Wedding Planner movie.) These five boys have been together since the first grade cub scout den and they have stayed together through thick and thin over the years, all good friends and buddies. Starting with Jacob in the yellow shirt and going clockwise...Jacob, Adam, Matt, Colin S., and Alex. A great time was had by all.
Good golly, a lot of rain is falling. Bloomington has had like eight inches...trying to prevent those Hoo basketball players from leaving town to play in the tournament, I guess. Big threat that we are this year and all.
Bits and pieces of information today...catching up with requests. First, this is NOT a food blog...so, no, I won't be honoring the requests to post a "recipe a day." I am thinking, however, of posting ONE simple/easy recipe a week, on Wednesday when I am home cooking for various families and the priests, etc, so if you aren't interested in recipes, you can skip Wednesdays from here on out. Will that satisfy?
Tosca was the last opera performance for the season, and yes, I do know next season's schedule, so here it is: Oct. 3-5 Il Trovatore (in Italian); Nov. 21-23 Hansel and Gretel (in German); March 13-15 The Pirates of Penzance (in English); and May 15-17 Das Rheingold (in German). See you there.
Guerin Catholic put the 2007 Open House video on their site at http://www.guerincatholic.org/ down in the bottom left corner. Matt is in there 8 or 9 times, a little like looking for Where's Waldo...but the easiest ones to see (they have a little counter on the film) are at 6:15 where he is the tall guy in the center back of the choir; 3:07 where he is walking in the hallway toward the camera in a long sleeve white shirt; 2:13 in the choir room, he is the tallest one; and 1:05 he is standing to the left in the hallway facing the camera leaning against the door, same long sleeve white shirt as it was filmed the same day as the other bit. Aimee, there is a really good shot of Colin with the Chalice at Communion at 9:49. And, for those of you who remember Gregory G. from homeschooling days, there is a great shot of him receiving Communion on the tongue a little bit after Colin's Communion shot. The whole video is maybe 12 minutes long. It is nice, focuses a lot on sports, in my humble opinion, but one needs to keep in mind that Indiana kids PLAY SPORTS. Guerin is only a couple of miles from Carmel High School, which is 5,000 students strong mainly because they refuse to divide the school and water down the SPORTS, so therefore, people looking at the video are discerning oftentimes about the chances of their child being able to play quality sports at Guerin. Like us...we made swimming happen for Matt this year and Guerin did everything possible to make that dream come true for him (to swim for his high school). Also, I think one gets a more emotional response from people interested when one has a lot of action sports shots rather than a lot of action sitting-around-studying-being-a-brain shots. Oh my, what does that say???!! Anyway, if you are interested, check out the video.
And, lastly, my little friend, Miss Regina, who I featured on November 13th for her birthday, and who I mentioned was a "champion speller," has now backed that up with cold, hard evidence. Regina has qualified for the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. this year at age 10! She will represent Indiana and we could not be happier or more proud of her accomplishment! As well as being "Queen of Goodness, Beauty, Humility, and Hugs" , we can also add: Queen of Spelling! Congratulations, Regina!
Now, I must finish the cooking. Have a wonderful evening...and guess what? I found a show to watch on Wednesday nights for a few weeks: Top Chef. Can you believe it? I have a show to watch! And tomorrow: The NCAA Tournament begins...since Iowa isn't going this year, maybe you Hawk fans can cheer a little for the Hoos!