College Visits

We began spring break with a visit to Bowling Green University, Ohio on March 31. We just toured the art department and we were very impressed with the art work we saw. The work space for the students was large and the type of classes you could take ranged from glass blowing to creating virtual reality programs. Jenny would like to return and tour the entire campus.

On April Fools Day we went down to Bloomington and had supper with John and walked part of the campus. We saw a beautiful sky, rainbow, and sunset.

This is John's dorm; Read Hall.

And this is Bob, John & Jenny crossing the mighty Jordan River that flows through the IU campus.

IU - Bloomington is a very pretty campus and the weather was nice and warm. They are about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks ahead of Fort Wayne in their progress of Spring. The red buds are blooming and the tulips are blooming.

When I first saw this tree I thought there were vampire bats hanging from it.

Jenny & Bob walking through a forest on campus.

Jenny liked her tour of the art college at IU and would like to see the senior exhibits. She absolutely loves the campus and all the opportunities that exist, but she liked the art and studio space she saw better at Bowling Green. More college visits are in our future.

Joey's A Therapy Dog!

Joey and I have passed the tests to be a Therapy Dog Team. We will be registered and insured by Therapy Dog Inc. In addition to a test, we had three observations - two at long term care facilities and one at a Cub Scout pack meeting. They watch to see how Joey interacts with kids, medical equipment, visiting people in bed, in wheel chairs, standing with walkers, etc and walking on different kinds of surfaces, riding in elevators, having doors automatically open before them and hearing different sounds you hear in such places. We are also going to join a local organization, PAWS, Inc. (Pets Assisting Well-Being and Success) who provides placement services for dogs with different organizations in town.

Christmas at Grandpa Bud's

Cousins having fun.

Jenny & Hand Horn

Jenny's french horn teacher allowed her to use his hand horn to play a piece for ISSMA this year. There are no valves so she makes all the sound changes with her mouth and the hand in the bell. These pictures are when she finished playing at ISSMA State - she got a gold medal and the judge was impressed.

Boomer Creature of Comfort

Scenes from past trips to Colorado Springs

Here are some of the sites Bob saw the last few months in Colorado Springs.

John Likes IU

When John came home at Thanksgiving we found he had set up a little shrine in honor of IU on the christmas tree.

Christmas Formal

Jenny went to the BD Christmas formal with Tony & Bree.

Enough of the Egg Already

The L'ski Chronicles biggest fan, Bud, requested a new picture on the blog. So here is a picture Jenny drew of our dental hygenist's daughter. She got an honorable mention in the Scholastic Art Contest and it hung in the art muesum downtown for a month.

The Big Bang

Jenny's latest art project in class was to draw something hatching from an egg. She drew the hand of god,(Nancy's hand holding an egg). The egg is just starting to crack and beams of light are coming out (the start of creation, i.e., the Big Bang). A pretty cool concept. So now you know - the egg did come first - not the chicken.





For some reason I can't get the picture to load in the right orientation, so you'll have to turn your head to a hard right.

Modern Day Turkeys

You saw Thanksgiving from the past, in a previous post. Here are some modern day "turkeys" gather in Fort Wayne, this past Thanksgiving.