Added just to see if I can. MS Word doc, created on a Mac, just a bunch of images and text that will be posted to a tri-fold board for use in Bailey's presentation to his 5th grade class.
YURI GAGARIN
SPACE PIONEER
MARCH 4 1934-MARCH 27 1968
YURI GAGARIN WAS BORN ON MARCH 9 1934.THIS IS A PICTURE OF HIM IN HIS EARLY YEARS.
YURI’S FAMILY AS A BOY. HIS PARENTS ARE ALEX IVANOVICH GAGARIN AND ANNA TIMOFEYEVNA GAGARINA, SEATED IN THE FRONT. IN THE BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: BORRIS, VALENTINE, ZOYA AND YURI.
HERE IS A PICTURE OF YURI IN HIS ADULTHOOD YEARS AT ORENBURG FLIGHT SCHOOL.
THIS IS KLUSHINO (NOW KNOW AS GAGARIN) ON A MAP.
THIS IS YURI BEING STRAPPED INTO VOSTOK 1.
YURI AFTER THE FLIGHT WITH HIS MEDALS.
The end.
Posted by John Needham on behalf of Bailey Needham.
April 23, 2012
Aurora, L
We've had a very unusually warm spring this year. Our pear trees have bloomed out already and are currently in full leaf mode. This is about a month earlier than usual.
Our crabapple trees are in full bloom now. Since today is Easter, and since the kids were already dressed up for Easter service, we decided to grab some pictures of them in front of one of the crabapple trees in the backyard.
Some pictures are good, some are silly, and a couple are of our only remaining hound, Jill.
Enjoy, and Happy Easter!
And here is Jill The Hound:
John Needham
April 8, 2012
(Masters Sunday)
3PM Central Time
Aurora, IL
Behold our own award-winning home-cook Cody, who brought home an Honorable Mention for Hottest Chili in the first ever Faith Lutheran Church Chili Cookoff last night.
He's very happy and we're all quite proud of him.
She is the newest member of our little family. Her name is Jillian and she's a hound, through and through. We love hounds, and with pack dogs, it is often better to have more than one. When our South The Dog passed away, we knew eventually we'd get a new one. Now we have Jillian.
Cody adores her, wants her to be "his dog." I explained that Jillian will decide whose dog she will be. He'll have to work hard to make her his own. He promised to do that.
We played golf as a foursome yesterday, the first time we've all played together and Cody's first time on a real course for nine holes. This was the first of what we hope will become many rounds together, reminiscent of Carolyn's family's Hardy Open.
His first time. Scary how much he liked it.
So, how did it go?
Our nearly-14-year-old beagle, South, was a fine, fine dog. Last night we had to say goodbye to her.
A family pet, like South and like her brother North, counts on its human companions for many things: food and water, exercise, medicine and medical treatment when necessary, love and affection at all times, kind treatment. At the end of their days, family pets rely on their human companions to do what is right and best for the dog. Though it broke our heart, last night we did what we had to for our South.
Before we took her, we all had a chance to say goodbye, though, and we took a few final pictures.
Behold the Swim Team from last weekend....
This was Cody's 3rd Grade Musical, performed last month and only now getting added to the website.
Cody tripped and and fell and sprained his left wrist and elbow yesterday evening. After a trip to the emergency room for X-Rays (negative, thankfully), he's got the arm wrapped in an ace bandage and a sling.
This did not stop him from going to his first day at Brookfield Zoo Summer Camp, though. He's a trooper, and his brother promised to help him out at camp.
John Needham
June 6, 2011
