30 November 2014: Sunday ... wissen vs. kennen (both words meaning "to know" in German) ...

http://www.livinglanguage.com/blog/2012/07/02/wissen-vs-kennen-to-know-in-german/

The difference between Wissen (to know) and Kennen (to know) is one chapter in German grammar where a lot of students have a hard time grasping the use.

Both of the verbs mean “to know” but when do you use “wissen” and when do use “kennen”?

Wednesday, 26 November 2014: Lindsay ... visit ... Thanksgiving ... Feby's ... snow/sleet/rain ... tripping roof sounds ...

It seems as though it has passed too quickly, Lindsay's visit to her father and grandmother this pre-Thanksgiving, and as the rain, early snow/sleet falls outside on this chilly, miserable day, the busiest of the year for traffic and travel, we get ready to drive to Philly Airport, a good 3 hours before my daughter's departure time for her Delta flight to Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.  

7 November 2014: First Friday ... Oneisha & Hughroy, children of Skeesha ...

TONIGHT! SSQ concert University of Delaware's Gore Recital Hall at 8pm. Works by Mozart, Janacek and Schumann.


UD’s quartet-in-residence, the Serafin String Quartet, presents their fall concert, featuring works by Mozart,String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421; Leoš Janáček, String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”; and Robert Schumann, Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 44, with Faculty Artist Julie Nishimura, piano.

Tickets are $15 adults, $10 UD faculty/staff/alumni & seniors; $5 students, and are available at the door. Cash or check only.

4 November 2014: Election Day ...

4 October 2014: Saturday ... Inaugural International Gala at Church benefit ...

1 October 2014: Wednesday ... limb and branches chipped, carted away ...

Rich (on his shirt) or Richie, What Stew, his supervisor, called him runs branches into the chipper, a Vermeer, and has years of tree trimming experience. Suggested the maple could be saved. Need to take care of the carpenter ants with Sevin dust around the trunk and call Stump A Way and a Mr. Moore, I think. Both of the DelDOT employees suggested his work as excellent. 

30 September 2014: Tuesday ... maple limb down ... life support for two ...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/let-go-families-patients-life-support-face-painful-choice/

When to let go? Families of patients on life support face painful choice

One of the most moving pieces on the NewsHour focused on a man caring for his wife, on life support after a motorcycle injury when she was thrown from the bike he was operating. She has little hope of recovery but squeezes his hand on occasion. At the conclusion, he said, with so much feeling that he'd change places with her in a heartbeat and wishes that it had been him and not her, tears forming in his eyes.