We’ve been waking up in the morning to find the trash from the trashcans all over the yard. Benjamin setup a trap outside near the trash cans to catch the culprit which was most likely a masked bandit. This morning we (or actually Lydia) found this raccoon in the trap:
6/30/11
Benjamin’s been working outside in triple digit temperatures and swelteringly (wasn’t sure if it was a word either, but spell check accepted it) high humidity.
Thanks again to the Fords for letting us use their Mantis tiller-it’s working fantastically well.
Last night we very spontaneously were able to get a couple of free tickets for the theatre so we watched Cars 2. It’s a pretty action packed movie…they have cars in spy movies so why not put spy into Cars?
However, we were disappointed for the very obvious and overbearing environmentalism of the film. Yes, the bad guys of the film were the head of an oil company and all of his henchmen. It was also interesting to see how in the film the World came together to show what alternative fuel could do.
I guess the moral of the story was typical…be who you are no matter what and if other people have a problem with that they need to change.
Will be adding videos from the ball here as they are uploaded. I am saving all of these videos in 1080p so uploading them to YouTube is a long process.
I wasn’t able to get as good of a view of the dancing as I had at the dance lessons, and there are times when all you’ll see are the backs of spectators.
Spanish Circle
Grand March-Fast
The grand march that opened the ball in quick-time (though in reality it is in .wmv) [laughter from geeks]. If you’re real patient take a look at the grand march video below that is in real-time.
Grand March-Realtime
Duke of Kent’s Waltz
Virginia Reel
Will be adding videos from the ball here as they are uploaded. I am saving all of these videos in 1080p so uploading them to YouTube is a long process.
Spanish Circle
Grand March-Fast
The grand march that opened the ball in quick-time (though in reality it is in .wmv) [laughter from geeks]. If you’re real patient take a look at the grand march video below that is in real-time.
This video of the opening grand march of the ball is sped up very, very quickly to just show what kind of patterns we did in the march.
If someone leaves a comment on this post asking for a video in real time or for a different section of the ball I’ll be happy to oblige.
Filmed on June 22, 2011. Dances were called by John M Ramsay.
I have just changed the appearance of this blog to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and this year’s CHEF Conference.
The header picture was taken in our Civil War outfits before a Civil War Ball that we attended in June.
The former design was from our trip to Florida last November:
