Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Yes it really is ITLAP day as it has been every September 19th since 1995!! In case you are not familiar with this day of recongition, check out the link at the top of the page. And for some interesting Pirate history, check out George Harrison's Pirate Song:



Here is another one from the guys who brought you ITLAP, Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur. This one is a song for kids:



Some quick updates:

• Sammy was in the hospital again for cellulitis last week. On I-V antibiotics for 3 days. He is OK and now on a 21 day course of oral antibiotics. This is the 3rd incident.
• The car is out of the shop. I picked it up last night after 7 weeks. It has spent more time in the shop than in our driveway.
• We had a great vacation in Maine 3 weeks ago, spending a week in Ogunquit and Wells. Stopped by Uncle Agnes and Auntie Johnny's candy shop in York on the way back and ended up spending almost the whole day there.
• I started physical therapy last week for lower back pain (no doubt from picking up those heavy kids).
• Henry started 2 full days of pre-school this month. Loves it. He is signed up to start T-ball on Saturday mornings next month.
• Sam has is 1-year check-up today. He is closing in on 30 lbs. We flipped his car seats around so both of the kids are now forward-facing.
  

Continue to geocache as often as I can. I went last Saturday morning to the Reading Town Forest with Karl, who despite losing his boot heel in the swampy area, trekked on to find 3 caches. I am psyched that David has now taken up the hobby/sport and has cached at home and on business trips.

I have 2 planned for today. Both are in Holliston: a multi-stage cache The Moon Tree and a puzzle cache Composite Real Estate. The moon tree is a sycamore tree planted from seeds carried by astronaut Stuart Roosa on Apollo 14 in 1971, (here is the NASA article and list of known trees - very interesting reading). The seed orbited the moon 34 times before returning to Earth. The NASA page on the Holliston moon tree history is also quite interesting. In other Holt-inhabited states, the moon trees are in Indianapolis, Asheville, and Pisgah NC. The NJ tree location are unkown.