My goodness. How did we get to June 22nd, the second official day of summer. It seems like not that long ago we were in the depths of winter and waiting for warmer weather. Well, the warmer weather is here and I know some of us are looking forward to cooler weather.
Stephen is working many hours this week. He is teaching two swim classes at the pool and worked at city beach Monday - Wednesday afternoon/evenings and then early today. He is becoming quite the social butterfly and attending a party this evening with a number of friends.
Rachel just got home from camp and is speaking very highly of the speaker and the food. She is tired and may take a day or two to recover and respond to emails.
Jeff is working hard for church this weekend. The church has two funerals (he did one this morning and one tomorrow afternoon), sound booth training tomorrow morning and we have a pastor candidating at church this weekend and the Swedish singers performing Monday night.
Diane is very involved in summer reading. Lots of kids have come in and begun keeping track of how much time they spend reading and listening to others read to them. The library also began a teen summer reading program this year and has had a good response. She is also spending time in the garden and hoping that the warm weather will stay until she can get some tomatoes and beans ripe. Things seem to be growing slowly at the moment.
Next week will be an interesting week here in town. The 3rd All-Class Reunion for Falls High School will be held on Thursday - Sunday with many activities and events all over town. The latest is to expect about 5,000 additional people in town next weekend. It should be interesting.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the summer weather wherever you are!
Diane
Friday, June 22, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
Weather Fun?!
Well, the Adams family experienced a first yesterday. Koochiching county was under a tornado watch from 10 am - 6 pm on Wednesday and from 4 - 4:30 pm we were under a tornado warning and had all the emergency sirens of town doing their warning sound. No tornado though! For which we are very grateful. I guess in the history of the town only one tornado has ever touched down. Littlefork, a town about 20 miles southwest and Ray, a town about 25 miles south east have both seen tornadoes, in fact we heard about a house being destroyed the first summer we were here in Littlefork.
Wednesday night was a wild weather night. We received almost 2 inches of rain and had two lightning storms, one from 12 - 2 am and the other from 5 - 5:30 am. Needless to say, I was very glad that Thursday I was scheduled to work until 8 pm and didn't have to get up at 6.
Today is beautiful and my garden is beginning to sprout. I will be glad of a few more plants. The new hanging basket I received for Mother's Day from my family became too waterlogged and pulled the hook out of the wall, fell and broke. I am trying to save as many of the plants as I can, but they took quite a beating between the rain, the wind, and being dropped.
Enjoy your summer and let us know how you're doing.
Diane
Wednesday night was a wild weather night. We received almost 2 inches of rain and had two lightning storms, one from 12 - 2 am and the other from 5 - 5:30 am. Needless to say, I was very glad that Thursday I was scheduled to work until 8 pm and didn't have to get up at 6.
Today is beautiful and my garden is beginning to sprout. I will be glad of a few more plants. The new hanging basket I received for Mother's Day from my family became too waterlogged and pulled the hook out of the wall, fell and broke. I am trying to save as many of the plants as I can, but they took quite a beating between the rain, the wind, and being dropped.
Enjoy your summer and let us know how you're doing.
Diane
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Public Radio Talent Quest
Well, that looks like about it.
For those of you that hadn’t heard, I recently entered a contest created by an NPR distributor called ‘the Public Radio Talent Quest’. It will be an American Idol-style competition with a prize of $10,000 toward becoming the next Car Talk or Garrison Keilor. Along the way, I began to get some very kind comments from folks in the contest about my entry. You can listen to the entry and read those comments here: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/413
Well the deadline for the end of Round 1 has come and gone, and I still haven’t heard anything. They asked that everyone stay close to the phone yesterday (June 4) so they could call the semi finalists. There were over 1,400 entries, and the first cut trimmed that down to 10. I have not heard yet, either via email or phone, and the contest has not posted an official list of the semi-finalists, but I have to assume at this point that I didn’t make the cut.
On the positive side, they did post two lists yesterday to try and appease the anxious entrants who were nearly-crashing their website. One list was of the 100 entrants with the most popular votes (votes from listeners was part of the judging criteria) and I was on that list. They also listed the entrants who received one or more nominations by one of the official judges, and I was on that list as well. So it’s fair to say I’m in the top 100, just not (apparently) the top ten. I think this is analogous to being a pro ball player, just not a major league one.
There is still hope, of course. Until they post the final list, there is a chance that I could squeak in there, but I figure that logically, I didn’t make it.
Thanks to everyone who listened and voted over the past month. It was a very positive experience, and I have contacted everyone who posted on my page with a thank you note. Plus, I think I got a potential professional contact out of that bunch. So over all, very positive.
For those of you that hadn’t heard, I recently entered a contest created by an NPR distributor called ‘the Public Radio Talent Quest’. It will be an American Idol-style competition with a prize of $10,000 toward becoming the next Car Talk or Garrison Keilor. Along the way, I began to get some very kind comments from folks in the contest about my entry. You can listen to the entry and read those comments here: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/413
Well the deadline for the end of Round 1 has come and gone, and I still haven’t heard anything. They asked that everyone stay close to the phone yesterday (June 4) so they could call the semi finalists. There were over 1,400 entries, and the first cut trimmed that down to 10. I have not heard yet, either via email or phone, and the contest has not posted an official list of the semi-finalists, but I have to assume at this point that I didn’t make the cut.
On the positive side, they did post two lists yesterday to try and appease the anxious entrants who were nearly-crashing their website. One list was of the 100 entrants with the most popular votes (votes from listeners was part of the judging criteria) and I was on that list. They also listed the entrants who received one or more nominations by one of the official judges, and I was on that list as well. So it’s fair to say I’m in the top 100, just not (apparently) the top ten. I think this is analogous to being a pro ball player, just not a major league one.
There is still hope, of course. Until they post the final list, there is a chance that I could squeak in there, but I figure that logically, I didn’t make it.
Thanks to everyone who listened and voted over the past month. It was a very positive experience, and I have contacted everyone who posted on my page with a thank you note. Plus, I think I got a potential professional contact out of that bunch. So over all, very positive.
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