October 2013

Double, Double,Toil and Trouble

Happy Birthday Mom

It could be worse...my brother got turned into pie filling! October is Mom’s favorite month.  She really likes this time of year and always decorates the house and yard with stuff that has an "Autumnal" theme, which of course includes lots of Halloween decorations.

  • Some Halloween Music

  • More Halloween Music

Bubble, Bubble!

Round about the caldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone, Days and nights has thirty-one; Swelter’d venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot! — First Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. — Witches, “Macbeth,” IV:1

Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake: eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, lizard’s leg and howler’s wing, for a charm of pow’rful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble. — Second Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. — Witches, “Macbeth,” IV:1

Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark; Root of emlock digg’d i’ the dark; Liver of blaspheming Jew; Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse; Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver’d by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, For the ingrediants of our caldron. — Third Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. — Witches, “Macbeth,” IV:1

Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good. — Second Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1


See you next month...

Ross & Owen

Never Forget!

September 2013

Happy Birthday to Brian J., Brian M. and Dawg Pound Dave

Another summer’s in the books, the leaves are beginning to fall and we are once again small cogs in the inner workings of the Loudoun County School District.

We welcomed a new member into our extended family this month.  Pop-Pop’s niece Bethany and her husband Dave had their first child this month.  His name is Ethan John.  Pop-Pop’s genealogy stuff says he is our “2 x, or Second, Cousin” since we share the same great-grandparents on Mom’s side.

Other happenings this month:

  • Baby Julia, who is also our second cousin, took her first steps
  • We went to the Airshow at Leesburg Executive Airport
  • And last, but certainly not least, the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to the MLB Playoffs for the first time in 20 years and the Rubber Duck made its first appearance here in the United States at The Point.


See you next month...

Ross & Owen

Never Forget!

August 2013

Nothing much new here this month.  Ross made the Tuscarora High Cross Country Team.  Owen continued to hone his gaming skills.

School starts after labor Day this year.  Ross will be a junior (eleventh grade) at Tuscarora High School and Owen will be in his third year (eighth grade) at Smart’s Mill Middle School.


See you next month...

Ross & Owen

Never Forget!