TOOOOO LONG since I have posted!!

Man has it been a very long time since I have posted anything here. I have decided that I am going to come back and try and do a better job. What has been happening since the last post? Well the school year is progressing. (Really can't say much more about it than that.) We aren't setting the world on fire with how fast we are moving through the curriculum but we will get to where we need to be when we need to be there.

Personally well things are going very well. The family is having lots of fun, even though we now have a middle schooler living in the house. We just got back from a great trip to the Great Wolf Lodge to celebrate our oldest son's birthday. Next week we are heading to New York City to celebrate our youngest son's birthday, since he was sick the original weekend we were supposed to go. I have been trying my hand at the "Project 365." It is a photo project where you take a photo each day. The thought is that at the end of the year you can look back and see what all you did, kind of like a photo diary. I haven't missed a day yet and I kind of like what I have done so far. If you are interested you can see the photos at Redlights's Project 365.

Now today is also kind of a special day. Maybe not to the rest of the world, but at least to me. Today, February 6th, in my 5th Anniversary of when I signed up for my account on geocaching.com. Five years and somewhere around 3,170 caches later I am still really enjoying it. Hopefully that will continue. I thought that I would take some time today and visit "THE" cache that started it all. Located at the Polling House in St. Leonard, MD, I went on back to that magnetic key holder under the sun dial, and took a look inside. My signature was long gone, since the log has been replaced several times, but I just wanted to see it again. I don't know - kind of reminiscing. The photo attached to this entry is off that cache. Who knows what will happen next?

T.W.I.C. (This Week In Chemistry) 9/27-10/08

I thought I would let people know about the schedule for the next week and a little more. Here it is!!

T.W.I.C. (This Week In Chemistry) 9/7-9/10

Hope everyone had a nice Labor Day weekend! I guess that kind of signals the true end of summer. The image below is for this week's schedule. You will also find a link to my "Class jump" page. There you will be able to find some of the handouts that we will use as well as copies of class lecture notes in case you missed something. See you tomorrow!!



Mr Redden's Class Jump site

New school year

It's a new school year and I thought I would try this idea again. Check back here on Mondays, or the beginning of the week, to see what is happening in our class.

Winter is Here a little early!

What more can I say? Isn't winter supposed to start on December 20th or 21st? I always getting some snow. But boy did we get hit for today. I'll have more photos later but I think that this one is my favorite so far. It is my oldest son just relaxing.

Highest Points Visited

Here is a list of the Highest Points I have visited. It will be nice and easy to keep track of them here! I'll add a few pictures as well. Here they are in order by date:


04/09/2009 - Maryland - Hoyes Crest - 3,360 ft above sea level

07/22/2009 - North Carolina - Mount Mitchell (also the highest point east of the Mississippi River.) - 6,684 ft above sea level

08/13/2009 - District of Columbia - Point Reno - 409 ft above sea level.

12/05/2009 - Delaware - Ebright Azimuth - 448 ft above sea level

"HighPointing"

Okay I think I have been officially been bitten by the "highpointers" bug. While geocaching back in early April of this year, my friends, Mrs SeeKPeeKRs, VinceHayter, and I got a chance to climb to the highest point in the state of Maryland - Hoye Crest - to find a cache. Since then I have been looking at the Highpointers website to find out where some of the other "highest" points in various states are located. Well with my trip to western North Carolina this past week I was able to check off another state. Not only that but Mount Mitchell is also the highest point east of the Mississippi River. We didn't have much of a view, due to clouds, but it was still a lot of fun. Where next?