Oddsome Day

Owen made up the word "oddsome" like "awesome" and Erica decided that is what today was.
Can you tell what this is an advertisement for...the kids are pointing to a clue. Odd ad.

We got a flat and Erik had to come change it. So glad I have a husband that's home and has a job where he can come to the rescue right away...my knight in shinning armor! While we were sitting there Owen says, "this birthday really stinks." It was so funny and unexpected.

For those of you who don't know, it's Thomas Jefferson's birthday...a very brilliant, tall, redhead, and strong in faith. Here's something he had to say about the judiciary system and central banking-genius.

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet, and they are too well versed in English law to forget the maxim, boni judicis est ampliare juris-dictionem. (good justice is broad jurisdiction)

That we are overdone with banking institutions which have banished the precious metals and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium, that these have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness, that the wars of the world have swollen our commerce beyond the wholesome limits of exchanging our own productions for our own wants, and that, for the emolument of a small proportion of our society who prefer these demoralizing pursuits to labors useful to the whole, the peace of the whole is endangered and all our present difficulties produced, are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Oops, sorry, back to our oddsome day...so after the flat tire we had to go all the way over to the other side of the island to turn around. We saw all these beautiful waterfalls! It was spectacular.

Then we got to watch this funny little yellow bird while we were waiting for the piano teacher to come-another reason why Owen decided this birthday stinks-piano.