Announcing Gabriel Liam!

According to his Grandma Mishy (who was there!) "Little Gabriel Liam entered the world St. Patrick's Day, fairly even-tempered, very handsome, and ready to nurse. He is a big baby and healthy with all his parts."

Congratulations to Melanie, Sam, and big sisters Bailey and Blaire!

Happy Birthday, Betty and Leanne!!

Happy Birthday, Tish!!

Beam me up, Barry!

The Beam came:


And the Beam went up:

More Building

Building has commenced on all fronts. Young and Matthew suited up and went below decks to clean out old rotting insulation so the workmen could get down there:


Here's Barry in the hole. Evidently its a fairly rare event.



And finally - getting ready for the new beam...

Building

Building has commenced on all levels.

Dorothy and Katy spent the weekend with us, and Blue and Young introduced them to the Art and Science of blowing up block buildings with mouse traps.

You construct the building so it depends on a single block near the base, and carefully insinuate an activated mousetrap beneath. The you build a sort of mechanical fuse of dominos, such that the final one to fall sets off the mouse trap.

They got one building to fly straight up in the air before separating into individual blocks and crashing down.

Uncle Tom

This is my mother's younger brother, Tom, probably circa 1925. I thought it was a swell photo.