• http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/file...

• GI JOE: COBRA
• MOUSE GUARD FALL and WINTER

• Arts & Crafts movement, Wm Morris
• Oscar Wilde court cases
• Victoria & Albert Museum
• fashion/Rational Dress movement/Liberty robes
• Gloucester Candlestick
• Palissy
• Prometheus Vase (Minton)
• Sevres
• Martin Brothers pottery
• Hoffmann / Der Sandmann

• The Boneshaker (Kate Milford)
• The Magician (Lev Grossman)
• The Passage (Justin Cronin)

hmm, title trend?

• One Crazy Summer

Mostly I want to finish these books I've already started, some as long as a year ago. (Eek.)

• The Whisper of Glocken
• River in the Desert (my current nonfiction)
• Crow Planet (my other current nonfiction!)
• Black Horses for the King (a Jane request)
• Graceling
• The Thirteenth Tale
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• Great Books (Denby) (I was halfway through and just plain forgot to finish, but it was great)
• Caw of the...

• Sweet Betsy from Pike
• Lyke Wake Dirge
• Lewis Bridal Song
• That Night in Bethlehem
• The Quaker's Wife
• The Bonny Bonny Broom

and for warming up, Johnny Get Your Hair Cut and Drunken Sailor

6/6 added two new tunes

• Star of the County Down lyrics music
• The Dawning of the Day lyrics music

6/7

• Tim Finnegan's Wake
• On the Road to Boston

• NOT Scott's knee, swollen the size of a grapefruit!
• but he went to the doctor, so that's good
• Jane happy about finishing her game
• making very good progress on several songs
• learning how to make a satisfying checkmark here
• finished The Whisper of Glocken, which was SO GOOD
• watching Scott & Rilla play
• Huck dancing
• discovering Scrivener
• the sound of The Bonny Bonny Broom
• rolling out pizza dough with Rilla and ...

Library holds

• Keeper, Kathi Appelt (Fuse #8 review)
• The Underneath, ditto
• Cosmic, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Semicolon)
• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Chasing Ray)
• Magic Under Glass, Jaclyn Dolamore
• The Children's Book, Byatt

• pennywhistle practice, and progress!
• park day with all the homeschoolers
• powdered donuts
• good photos
• talked to mom & dad
• read quite a bit
• sam s's french toast recipe

• met a deadline a whole day early (gotta be a first)
• fun training session at the Y
• the way the baby dove out of my arms to run into the Y playroom, and the way he dove back into my arms an hour later
• watching West Wing with Scott & Jane at night
• the nice surprise from Ellen
• Brigid on FB at last

• Rose's haircut and her impish eyes all lit up
• Lyke Wake Dirge on pennywhistle (just about have it down)
• Huck asleep in the stroller clutching a car in each chubby fist
• dirty rice for Scott's dinner
• quick phone chat with Eileen S.
• wild Google spree hunting up Magic Wavers history for Rachel's Emma
• a 92-point word in Lexulous

Inspired by Mouse's lists of things she liked today. I'd been keeping something similar in my paper notebook, but this might be a better place (baby keeps running off with my pen).

• Huck so cute with his boyish haircut
• Rose's company in the car during Bean's piano lesson
• The Broom of Cowdenknowes--listening to it, singing it, hearing Beanie sing it, working it out on the pennywhistle
• "I don't like a pl...

• The Broom of Cowdenknowes lyrics
• Broom of Cowdenknowes youtube
• Lewis Bridal Song (Mairi's Wedding) lyrics
• Lewis Bridal Song youtube, Corries
• Lyke Wake Dirge lyrics
• Lyke Wake Dirge youtube
• Horo, My Nut Brown Maiden
• Tam Lin
• Another version of Tam Lin (Jolly Beggars)
• Skye Boat Song lyrics
• Skye Boat Song performed by The Corries ...
• Loch Tay Boat Song lyrics
• Loch Tay Boat Song performed by The Corr...

Chorus ...

• Roger the Herald's Notes on Blazonry
• design your own coat of arms
• SCA heraldry primer

• Gutenberg School for Scribes
• Wynn the Wayward (breathtaking work!)
• SCA Illumination pool at Flickr

HISTORICAL FICTION AND FANTASY

• Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard (middle grade novel; historical fiction)
• Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey (YA novel; Arthurian legend--how "Lord Artos" got horses strong enough to carry knights in full regalia)
• Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
• What Happened in Hamelin by Gloria Skurzynski (middle-grade novel; Pied Piper)
• The Minstrel in the Tower by...