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I know, a week late with the post. I meant to put this up last week but, you know, Mother’s Day and all.

As I was mowing the lawn and trimming the day before Mother’s Day, I came across a couple of little baby animals all around our deck. The first was a tiny burrow with 4 baby rabbits in it. I was lucky none of them got caught in the mower. I only saw 3 at first, they all took off running in opposite directions. I finally rounded 2 of them up and got them back. One escaped to the forest behind our house. Then, when I started up the mower again a fourth one I never even saw went bounding away. So I rounded that one up and put it with it’s siblings.

Later, I think it was Becky that spotted the bird’s nest in our deck, only a few feet from the rabbits. If you look closely in the last picture you can see 2 little picks sticking out the side. We think there were 4 baby birds total.

And as evening set in, the rabbit parents returned, and the baby that escaped into the woods was with them.

So everybody dust off your band skills. (Except Ti, who for some reason was exempt from the band mandate. What’s up with that Ti? So what if you sang. So did Melissa. And piano? Please! Exactly how many piano concerts/recitals did you have? FAVORITE BABY! FAVORITE BABY!) Anyway, I digress.

Some time ago I sent Laurie this link, thinking how fun it would be to do something like this in FHE someday. With our fourth on the way, we have just the right number. Then I saw this and set my sights higher. But with that number of people, it’ll never happen until our kids have kids and we did it at a family reunion.

Then I thought, hey I come from a family that could play circles around those VonTrapp amateurs! (And Ti, you could play piano, since Melissa has other options and Mom has an accordian.) Does this NOT look like a ton of fun to anyone out there?

We’d probably have to get kids and spouses involved too, if they’re up for it. Nick could wail on that violin solo, eh? We could do classics, spirituals, or whatever. (I’m telling you, if you don’t click on each link and watch the whole thing you’re missing out!) Billy’s got dibs on the ‘bone, but due to other needs elsewhere, there can only be one trumpeteer (kind of like Highlander), so you guys will have to figure it out.

So who wants what?

So when they released the 1940 census recently, I was interested in finding Dad’s parent’s info and Mom’s grandparent’s as well, and comparing it to the 1930 census. I had a harder time finding Mom’s side of things, since the Indian census and the National census didn’t always coincide as well as one would think. Anyways, comparing the two, it really is see how blessed the Freemans were in terms of getting through the depression. Each census page with the info is shown below, you’ll probably have to enlarge them to clearly see the questions that head each column.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know we’ve updated our blog with all the news that is news about Oliver being born. Complete with pictures! Check it out!

“In June, Disney XD rolls out — Light-Cycle style —TRON: Uprising, a new animated series that plugs fans back into the computer world first dreamed up in the 1980s.

The voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Nate Corddry, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman), Reginald VelJohnson and the dude who originated the role of Tron way back when, Bruce Boxleitner.

Uprising takes place between the original 1982 TRON movie — which featured a computer hacker Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) getting taken to a living arcade game of high-tech gladiatorial combat — and the recent 2010 sequel TRON: Legacy that focused on his son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) fighting an evil cloned version of his dad named Clu.

The new series stars Beck (Wood), a young program who leads his family and world in revolution against the tyrannical Clu and his No. 2, General Tesler (Henriksen). Fortunately, Beck has been trained to fight by the top warrior in all of this digitized world, Tron (Boxleitner).

Fans first had a glimpse at TRON: Uprising with a special feature on the TRON: Legacy DVD and Blu-ray, and the series will use a combination of 2-D and computer-generated animation.” USA Today 4/16/12

I’ll have to get Joe to pull out the Blu-Ray and take a look at that special feature.

See the video:http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-04-15/First-look-TRON-Uprising-animated-series/54292982/1?csp=34life&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-LifeTopStories+%28Life+-+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

So, we’ve been meaning to scan this picture from the Uncle Kennys for years now, and Steve finally did it. Thanks Steve!

If you’re going to download it, be sure to click on it, then zoom in to get the full-size resolution.

OK, so I saw this the other day and thought I’d bring it to everyone’s attention. I haven’t had a chance to read the actual bill text yet, but from the summary provided, it doesn’t look like this as much of a win for the Hopi and Navajo as it is for the government. The Senate is on vacation until 4/16, but you should let your Senator know how you feel about this bill.

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s2109

Cheers!
Melissa

Check out what dropped in while we were eating dinner this evening.

OK, so I was killing time at the end of the work week and thought I’d check out the CV Bugle. I searched Freeman hoping to see some comments from Mom about the school board, when lo and behold the first listing was the following:

3/6/2012 1:03:00 PM
Business Files 3/7/12

Who knew Elsie knew computers well enough to teach Microsoft!
;-p

This article caught my eye and as I started to read it, it reminded me of Kingdom of the Spiders. I was delighted when the article actually mentions that movie. The last picture is not for the little arachnaphobe that may lurk inside some of us ladies, so brace yourself or look away! I know that picture will show up in my dreams tonight!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/thousands-spiders-blanket-australian-farm-escaping-flood-165958059.html