Cache of the Day - A White Thanksgiving

Check out these photos of Thanksgiving in Wisconsin. I especially love the way the snow stays on the branches.








We even got out to do a geocache, which isn't the easiest thing to find in the snow.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cache of the Day - Meet The Instruments

Face the music at WonderLab this weekend
Meet the Instruments a two-day affair this year

By Andy Graham 331-4346 | agraham@heraldt.com
November 16, 2007
Watch a kid pick up a musical instrument for the first time and make a sound with it, then watch their eyes grow wide.
Everybody can see a whole lot of that this weekend as Bloomington’s WonderLab museum hosts the annual Meet the Instruments event.
For the first time, it’s a two-day affair. Saturday’s programming will focus on symphonic and jazz music, while Sunday will feature world and old-time music.
“This is our third year we’ve been privileged to host the event, and each year we’ve expanded the program,” WonderLab marketing director Louise Schlesinger said. “It started out with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, then we added other groups and, now, it’s a two-day festival. We have so much musical talent in so many genres in this town, and it’s wonderful to be able to draw on that.”

Bloomington Symphony personnel will have their instruments on hand as Saturday’s schedule kicks off with a 10 a.m.-till-noon session. Josh Grekin’s Little Bands School program will showcase young jazz musicians in the afternoon.
Traditional American tunes will hold sway Sunday as the Hoosier Hotcakes play from 1 to 2 p.m. Dmitri Vietze of Bloomington’s Rock Paper Scissors world music agency will follow by showcasing world music forms and their wide array of instruments.
Both days, attendees will be able to take advantage of interactive music/science activity stations, create their own instruments, try out some unusual soundmakers and explore WonderLab’s “Science of Sound” exhibits.

Regular museum admission serves as admission to all this weekend’s events. WonderLab’s general admission is $5.50 for children, $6.50 for adults and $6 for seniors. Museum members and children younger than 1 are free. WonderLab is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
WHAT: Meet the Instruments, the annual event helping young people experience a wide variety of musical instruments, up close and personal, including the classical instruments of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.

WHERE: WonderLab, 308 W. Fourth St., Bloomington.

Cache of the Day - Fall Activities

Never really knew what Fall was before I moved to Indiana....but it's not so bad. Here are some shots of some of the activities we've had going on.






Tailgating at an Indiana University football game and playing the Midwest favorite game called (don't laugh) "Cornhole".







Here we are at the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Halloween.












My condo is a great place to be surrounded by fall, from the fireplace, to the patio with a carved pumpkin, to the table decorations.






My friend Kevin came to visit in Indianapolis, just so we could go on the Ghost Walk through downtown.















And here is the crew at Employment Plus in our Halloween costumes.