October travel and a lil' girl's birthday
First, a little pretty before the blog storm...The beautiful fruits on the shrub above are those of the aptly named American beautyberry, a native plant very common in our area. It has been a while since my last blog post...I blame my busy travel schedule! This is largely true--I will be "in the office" less that a week total this month (October), but more on that later. Before September ended, we enjoyed watching the UAM forestry club at a demonstration of some competitive "forestry" events, such as two-man log bucking: And the every popular burling: While this event was going on, Hope and Beth spent some time watching the infant daughter of some friends of ours: October 1 I started on one of my epic business trips, this time to Ohio and Pennsylvania. On the way to my first meeting in Columbus, Ohio, I stopped in Cincinnati to visit our friend, Father Chet. Some of you have met Father Chet--he was the priest in Monticello when we first ...