Bits 'n Pieces

Saturday night from 8:30 to 9:30 pm was Earth Hour organized by the World Wildlife Fund. In honor of Earth Hour our family joined the folks over at Creative Minority Report and turned on every stinking light in our house (not much of a stretch, as our kids leave every light on in the house 24/7 as it is). The kids thought it was hysterical. Stat Boy even proudly stated he'd turned his bedroom fan on too.

Now before any of you get all up in arms and start griping at me about "good stewardship" etc., stop right there. We are well aware of climate change. We home school the kids and yet they know all about the effort to go green, without our having to indoctrinate them. In fact, we have "green fatigue"! Which is what I believe the rest of the world must be suffering from. Enough already. We are aware! You'd have to be living under a rock to miss the ongoing effort to "save the environment". Our mirthful protest was an expression of our weariness of the whole commie campaign.

I'm doing great in our family NCAA basketball pool. In fact, Stat Boy has figured I've already won as I've had the most correct picks so far, and we all have the same picks left in the Final Four through the championship game. This is the most fun I've ever had filling out a bracket. Now if Carolina wins the title we will be one big, happy family.

In case you missed my younger brother eating his words in the comments section on Saturday morning, I thought I'd re-post them here for all to read. It's not often we older siblings get to bask in the glory of being right :-)

"I, Mau's Bro, have been talking smack about the sweet 16 game between North Carolina and Gonzaga. Being a Gonzaga fan, I felt it necessary to call names and belittle my sister and my nephew, Stat Nut. Based upon the outcome of the game last night, their wisdom of college basketball, especially Stat Nut (who called a 20 point throttling in favor of the Heels), is far superior to mine. Even though I remain a Gonzaga fan, I felt it necessary and appropriate to express my humbled position in the same venue I laid down my smack. Congrats to the Heels...by far the superior team last night."

I could read those words all day long!

Here is one more photo of Wingnut hob-nobbing with Dr. Alan Keyes. Isn't he a handsome devil?(Wingnut that is).