Bellaire Update

Well, the Fairmount Park men have been here. They are trying to fix the stairs (which, for those of you who don't know, were coming down).
We learned that the stairs were apparently built away from the sight of the real building. There must have been a misunderstanding because apparently the stairs were too small. So they (the original builders that is) decided to put in a second beam next to the main beam so that they didn't have to rebuild the stairs.
Well, that was all very well 300 years ago but now apparently some of the "summer beams" have slipped off of the second beam and are just floating. And, no, I have no more idea what a "summer beam" is than you do. If any of you have ever heard of them please, please comment and tell me what they are.
So, the huge piece of metal that they were supposed to be putting into the stairs on Thursday is not in and who knows when it will. Or the three of four that will be following it. Did I mention that the "steel rods" that they are using weigh twenty pounds per foot?
I will try and keep you updated on the house...

Winter

Apparently the long term forecast says that winter will really make and appearance this winter. (Wow! that WAS a confusing sentence if I ever heard one. Sorry.) But it says that this year will be as bad as some of the other winters that seemed like they would be mild.
Well, I certainly hope it happened...

Oh, on a completely different note the men from Fairmount(sp?) Park have been floating around and they are coming tomorrow to put a piece of metal in that is supposed to hold the stairs up. The metal weighs twenty pounds per foot, it must be about seven feet long, and these men are going to raise it above their heads and try and insert it into our stairs. Oh, Joy and delight! I am almost glad that I'm not going to be here.

Bellaire Manor

Down the stairs I run,
Past the two small white-walled rooms.
One, two, three,
Past the two high-ceilinged rooms.
Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty,
Past the two large state-rooms now,
Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three,
And into the warm inviting seventh room.
Forty seven, forty-eight, forty-nine.
And now as I sit,
I have to think,
“What do these seven rooms know?”
How long they’ve stood?
Two hundred and ninety two years it’s been
And known a many thing.
It’s last through three wars at home,
And many more abroad.
It’s older than the country in
Which it now does stand.
It has seen things as a colony,
As a nation torn apart, And now at last as a united land.

School

So, here I am... Working on finishing a short story for Writing class tomorrow. It doesn't need to be done by then but as I have something else that does I might as well write the short story in order to avoid writing the thing that needs to be written. Given that it is due tomorrow I suppose I really should get a move on. Perhaps I shall post the short story on one of my blogs. Then I could see what other people think of it.
I just finished reading Oedipus Rex on Monday. It was very odd because, in case you don't know, it is all about a man who have had a prophecy mad about him to his parents ends up killing his father and marrying his mother. He tries to escape the prophecy but of course it doesn't work. How odd.

Sheer Randomness

1. Tenth Church Choir is singing Brahms's Requiem in German
2. Today is Snape's (from Harry Potter) birthday.
3. I didn't have a History class on Thursday (therefore I don't have homework for it) and yet I still feel rather on the edge of panic about school... (I am SO behind on Math...)
4. Is it impossible to convince someone that Homeschooling has it's merits?
5. ..............................
6. How has all the water managed to seep out of Hannah's homemade snow globe?

And I'm back....

... to school that is.
And very happy I am to be so. I had my first day back to Westminster yesterday what is a nice way to get back into the swing of things. Because my History Class wasn't meeting I had an 8:30 Writing one-on-one class and then a 2:00 Literature class. After that Mom and I went to join Hannah, Neal, Jonathan, Breanne, Nathan, and Jesse(sp?) at Neal's house. We played Munchkin and Once Upon a Time until about 9:40 at which time Mom picked up up.
It was a really nice day and a good start to the 2007 school semester.

Ahoy! A New Year!

Jolly frightfully ho! (As Lord Peter Wimsey himself says...)
It's a new year and I didn't really make any resolutions, because they never work for me anyhow. I know that that isn't really any reason to break with tradition but I'm just like that. I do things because it is not the norm.
I am looking forward to going back to Westminster tomorrow, which some of you may see as soon severe type of damaging syndrome but I assure you that it is usual for me. It will be nice to get back into the swing of having a schedule and seeing people and have deadlines...