More from the life of Jane

It's me again. Big announcement: Daddy has finally applied to Grad School! At least, I can tell that he is excited about it. All I know is that his reading abilities are OK. I know, because Grandpa and Grandma Stewart gave me a set of children's encyclopaedias. They sit on a shelf in my room and every night before I go to bed, Mommy or Daddy will read to me from them. After that, its prayer, song time, and I go to sleep. You know, early to bed, early to sneak off to the computer in the middle of the night, and then late to rise. It's a good life...

As for my life, here are a few candid photos of my daily, or almost daily, activities. First of all: Oatmeal! What can I say? I'm a good Stewart.








After breakfast, any day with my best friend Sadie is a good day. Packing peanuts are never a bad thing either.

Grandpa and Grandma Stewart also gave me some really cool cooking things for Christmas. These are best spread out across the floor of the living room. However, if I want to work on something in particular, I can take to my very own work table. Fried corn is yummy!
Of course, cleanliness is next to godliness. Besides, Mommy and Daddy think that its cute when I scrub my table down. Rule number one of Jane's business success secrets: Cuteness = leverage. Archimedes said "Give me a leaver long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall more the world." Jane says that Mommy's heart is a wonderful fulcrum, and with just enought "leverage" anything is possible. Just think, lots of raisins today, a kittycat at Christmas, and on my sixteenth birthday, a pink ferrari!

And finally, for those fuzzy friends who leverage their cuteness with me... well, they are so cuddly! I guess what goes around comes around.




This is a picture of Mommy's favorite piece of furniture. Even my cuteness hasn't gotten eating privileges on it yet... Notice the coat. Daddy claims he is trying to find a wood stove insert to make the fireplace more fuel efficient. I think he turns down the central heating just for fun to see if he can bring out the eskimo in mommy and me.


Signing out,


J.G.Stewart

Update Number 2

As you may have guessed from the paucity of postings, my Daddy leaves something in the way of effort to be desired as my official online press agent. Therefore, I have decided to take things into my own hands. Like all little aspiring computer gurus, I do my best to get good practice in at the keyboard whenever I can. For some reason, Daddy (and Mommy), are less than thrilled when they catch me at it. -- Therefore, notice my pajamas, I must do these posts at the dead of night.

Personal updates:
I have finally caught George, the most well traveled monkey in the monkey council. We are developing great plans as partners in crime. He's already put me in contact with several New York "plumbers" who I trust will be useful in my future schemes. Did you know that Luigi is locally known as "The Man in the Yellow Hat"?

..uh oh... technical problems, and Daddy is coming... I will keep you posted. Happy new year from the J.G. Stewart & Associates
*Ahem, from David and Samantha and Jane*

*(Text, as added by said Daddy)

Just thought that I'd give a brief posting on our gardens. Gardens, by the way, are great! They are full of dirt! Which, while not actually tasting great, is fun to play with and perfectly eatable (though, according to Mommy and Daddy, not edible -- I think differently).

Dad just got a bunch of concrete blocks/bricks with which to create garden boxes.


Also, we have daisies growing by the mailbox, lots of tomatoes (for which Mom and Dad are especially excited -- Daddy also says that they are a good lure for getting grandparents to visit8), a few raspberries everyday, some strawberry plants, and giant pumpkin plants, which are just starting to flower (if they really are giant, I won't even need a fairy godmother to make a pumpkin coach big enough for me to sit in, but just Daddy with a knife!)


Oh, and while Mommy is not letting them bloom, because their roots and leaves need to grow, we have roses, and got quite a number a little while back.

But there are currently some daisies coming up by the mailbox.




Oh, and finally, we have the most beautiful tree: it is a fern tree! It has ferns instead of leaks, and has puffy pink blossoms.



That's all for this special gardening report. Signing out,
J.G. Stewart from the Palmetto State

Well, things are clipping along here in South Carolina. I am now crawling and farther developing my mobile skills. I only wish that my editor in chief was developing as rapidly in his blog posting skills. There is so much to tell! However, today's issue, from here in the Palmetto State, will concentrate on an event hosted by SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Every year that college has a sidewalk chalk contest, and Saddie's family invited our family to go. How the contest works is that in a public park in Savannah the contestants come with a standard set of sidewalk chalks (at least we assume they were standard, everyone seemed to by using the same set), and then every contestant takes a section of sidewalk in the larger sections of SCAD alumni, current students, and future students. It was really cool. There were all sorts of pictures -- a lot of mermaids, a scene from the Sistine Chapel (as seen above), anime, ninja turtles, and other art.














There were a lot of technics used -- a common one was to crush up the chalk and then mix in in cups with water to make a sort of paint.


Unfortunately, just like in Mary Poppin's, it rained! Silly clouds! Anyway, some of the artists were dedicated in trying to perserve their work, maybe because the competition hadn't been judged yet.














The next guy in green looks like he knows that he is about to melt away, and really doesn't look forward to it!















Savannah was beautiful. There is a look to see, and a lot of leafs to chew on too (though generally speaking mommy wouldn't let me...)














We saw the church were the composer of Jingle Bells worked.














The Oglethorpe mentioned in the above sign is James Edward Oglethorp, the founder of Georgia. He looks a little but like a pirate from Prates of the Caribbean.



















Speaking of pirates.....












And speaking of churches... we saw of gorgeous Catholic Church. And guess what! They had a wedding in it! Somebody out there may be planning to populate the world with more little people like me!














Mommy went to catholic school and knows all about the stations on the cross. These were carbed out of wood in this church. They also had some beautiful stain glass windows.







































We also saw some iron flower gates! They are a little bit like mommy at bath time: beautiful, no matter the time, season, or weather, but inflexible. (You try telling her you don't need a bath!).



















There was, or course, a lot of revolutionary and civil war monuments. I'll have to write again about them. Before I leave, here are a few more chalk pictures. Between you and me, I don't think the artist who drew the last picture has ever actually seen the Mona Lisa.











































That's all for today,

Reporting from Goose Creek, S.C.,
J. G. Stewart