Playing catch-up

So it's been over a month since my last post, and as you can guess- school started! No wonder I've been absent from the blogosphere. But that doesn't mean nothing has happened. It's been a month of happiness (cousin David's wedding) and a month of sadness (the death of Grandma Sprague), so that means there has also been a lot of traveling. Finally, I am sitting down to get caught up.

Last night, a package arrived from Aunt Tish for Cate. It was this beautiful ballerina costume. It was an instant hit.

Mid-twirl

Today is AutumnFest in Bath, and there was scarecrow-making in the yard of the Customs House. We feel that we really outdid ourselves this year. :) Rick did the mounting on the post and the stuffing, I tied the head, and Cate drew the face (ok, I added the hair, but she really did the face!)


Then this afternoon was the shallop launching on the waterfront. Fourteen Morse High students spent their summer working with one of my science colleagues and a boatwright building this shallop, a replica of the one used by the 1607 Popham colonists to get back and forth between the shore and their ship the Virginia. The Virginia was the first English-built ship in America, and there is a group called Maine's First Ship that is raising funds to build a replica of the Virginia. To start the project, this group of students built the accompanying shallop, and so today was the launching.

Then a group of the students actually got in it and rowed away!

I guess they have been getting rowing lessons so that they didn't drift away when they got out there!

Success!