New Reno Weather Station

Grandpa Ron (with a little bit of my help) finished installing his Davis weather station last night. It was fun to get readings on the wind gusts! Now we won’t be guessing when those cold winter winds blow down the Eastern side of the SIerras any more – we’ll have an accurate reading of just how fast they are going! We discovered we need another data-logging piece in order to become part of the on-line WeatherLink, Weather World ‘Round net, or the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather net. We do want to be a part of it though, so looks like Santa knows what to bring this year! This will be fun! It will be fun to see if the grandchildren will catch the weather-fever! It could be a fun family activity.

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What A Great Day!

Today is a very special day for me! I received a gracious thank you note from Maria Shriver for giving her a copy of Grandpa, Do It! I Do It, Too! at the 2009 Women’s Conference! If you follow my blog, you will see here that I think she is a very special person. I am so honored! She liked it!

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Happy Birthday, Big Bird!

Jim Henson’s world famous Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Grover, and Oscar with all their friends will be partying big time! Today Sesame Street is celebrating Big Bird’s birthday. Then on November 10th children’s television longest running program Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a brand new program format and two new books. Over 30 stars will be in the shows this coming year including Cameron Diaz, Michelle Obama, Adam Sandler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kobe Bryant, Eva Longoria, Christina Applegate, Ricky Gervais, and Greg Kinnear.

The 122 Emmy Award winning program is changing smartly with the times. “While maintaining an emphasis on the importance of literacy and numeracy, the new season kicks-off “My World is Green & Growing,” a two-year science initiative designed to increase positive attitudes towards nature, deepen children’s knowledge about the natural world and encourage behavior that shows respect and care for the environment.” (From Link here.)

Have you noticed Big Bird On Google? It’s really cute! Check it out here! (I don’t know how long it will be there.)

Happy Birthday, Big Bird!

Dancing With The Stars

I’m brain dead tonight. I’m going to go watch the rest of dancing with the stars to see who is not voted off. I want to do dance lessons with Grandpa Ron. I wonder where the best place to learn is located….

Take A Break – And Have A Laugh!

Today has been a very busy, trying day. – I needed a break and popped onto the computer to see what I could find to make me laugh. I found it on grandparents.com – It’s the on-going thread of funny things kids say! Enjoy! It had me going!

Martha Beck’s Steering By Starlight

This weekend I read Martha Beck’s Steering By Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Own Destiny twice! I really enjoyed her breakout session at the Monday presentations of The Women’s Conference this last week. I enjoyed this book just as much! I wrote a review on Amazon for it. I am going to journal my dreams for a month and try her tools for finding my destiny. We’ll see how it progresses and who knows what I’ll do next!

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Interesting Visit To Share

Last Friday and part of Saturday Grandpa Ron and I were on the campus of Central College in Pella, Iowa. I am on the National Advisory Committee, which meets once a year on campus to advise the college president. We also had a tour of the new Education and Psychology Building which is one of the highlights of sustainability initiatives on the campus. It is a very beautiful building – and very GREEN! Go environment! Central is hoping to attain a LEED Platinum rating for the newest green building on campus.

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Have A Great Day, Everyone!

Stay warm! We arrived in Pella, IA, today for a multi-day meeting. It is cold and rainy! Brrrrr!

Back to Work!

It was hard getting back to work today after such a great conference!

Kudos to womensconference.org

The 2009 Women’s Conference is (for yet another year) a totally awesome experience – even as a webcast!

Yesterday was fantastic -we were there in person. Today is/was as well! We are watching the webcast from a conference room at work. The conference attendees are moving to their breakout sessions right now, so the webcast is on hold. This is after the very moving story by Maria Shriver about her mother’s last days and the panel of Maria, Elizabeth Edwards, Susan Saint James and Lisa Niemi (Patrick Swayze’s wife) about grief, healing and resilience. Wow!

Check out the website because there are lots of clips, photos and streaming available!

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