What to do?

So we got up this morning and tried to figure out what to do. We needed to stop by Walmart for some supplies, however with the weather looking nice we decided to head west across the lake. After a beautiful walk into Marcy Dam, we headed back out and into Lake Placid for dinner. All in all a pretty nice day. I guess Walmart will have to wait for tomorrow.

Welker, Oh Welker Wherefore art thou? Hopefully Kicking Galloway's but in practice this week.

We had a great weekend with Beth's folks this weekend. There is a fairly new nature trail called the Lamoiolle River walk that is right down the hill from our house. It's about 2 miles long. It was our first time on it. We started at one end which is down RT 7 from us, but the path comes up near the water plant by our house and it appears there is a trail we can connect with.

Well the Bruins did it. They traded away Spencer Pratt aka Phil Kessel. He will be missed. After surviving a bout with Cancer and stepping up for some timely goals the Bruins are a temporarily weaker team. However getting two 1st round and a 2nd round pick for him should insure the B's stay strong well into the future. I'm looking forward to seeing them play preseason today against the Rangers on the NHL network.

Comical Video

Thought You'd get a kick out of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNAwUdHUQ

If it doesn't work try searching for "the front fell off"

Okay, First things first, the match up showed they should win, but boy did they do it in classic Patriots style. Look like your out of it then come back for the nail bite win. I have to say I'm pretty concerned about their D this year.

Finished with Weekend 1 of my Leadership Class. Now maybe I'll get a bit of time to practice on the strings. Speaking of which here's some picks. I have the Indiana Mandolin, my Pick 'n ' stick, My Blue Indian Scout BLS (my camping guitar), My Ibanez AES 10 EAM 1202 (my baby), and Beth's Yamaha FG-180 that she got for Christmas a couple years ago from Aunt Judy that she got a few years ago (I'm sure there's a story with it). The Yamaha from Aunt Judy has a rich, very deep tone, but I have had trouble with holding the strings down. You have to really crank down on them and I never play consitantly enough to get the hard calluses needed. Oh well, practice practice practice. At some point in the future I'll try to record a lil something and get it up. I do have initial plans to try and play with a coworker or two for the Dec. Coffeehouse.

Space shuttle and space station

Last night Beth and I got out around 8:07 PM and watched the space shuttle followed closely by the international space station pass overhead. It was pretty cool. Both were extremely bright. We didn't take binocs or a telescope so we didn't see details, but it was nice anyways. Tonight the space station should be passing overhead around 8:30. Not sure of the exact time and I'll be in class so I'd miss it anyways.
On that note I am starting my Leadership and Organization Class tonight. Yeah!!!

Labor Day was great. We had fantastic weather and enjoyed the camping. No bears, but we had fun swimming, hiking Panther mt. and visiting with Beth's family. Here's a pic from the top o the mt.

We're back

School has begun. So far so good. I have some really good classes. It looks like the students are focused and ready to go. I'm looking forward to some new thing to try in the AP Chem class. Almost all the students were in my experimental chem last year.
On a different note here is a video of Denali playing a little soccer. I'm beginning to rethink taking her to the high school games. I'm afraid she would go after the ball.
Beth and I will be going camping at Piseco soon and hope to have some pics up from the lake.