The Geerdts Family Blog
Today was the annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival on the other side of the lake. Jen and Dan snowshoed across the frozen lake to the Icehenge. The Icehenge is a “monument” built from ice blocks cut out of the lake. It looks really cool in the sunlight, but today was foggy because the temps were close …
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This afternoon was the Fall Concert for the Lakeside Band. Trevor plays percussion (tenor drums) and Calvin plays trumpet. You can watch the performance in the videos that follow the pictures below. And last but not least, here is the final performance of Estancia. This was played by the band for the all their summer …
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Now that Calvin is a freshman in high school, he plays as starting goal keeper on the JV soccer team. They have played three games so far, and are still looking for their first win. The games have been close, and the last two were only lost by one goal. Here are some pictures of …
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Today our high school marching band performed in Darlington, WI. The video below is spliced together from two different cameras. Enjoy..! The percussion section had a bonus opportunity to T-pose Bucky Badger as he walked by during warm up..!
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Trevor and Calvin’s high school marching band performed at the 2018 Appleton Flag Day Parade. The weather was in the low 70’s which is very good for a parade. Check out the video of the cadence and the drill below.
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The lake has about 12 inches of ice on it right now, but today was very warm at 50 degrees. We walked across the lake and enjoyed the beautiful sky as the sun was going down.
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Calvin and Dan wanted to run their Traxxas RC cars in the winter conditions. We looked at buying special tires, skis, and some other things, but we ended up building our own tire chains. The tire chains work really good in the snow, and much better than Calvin and Dan thought they would. Here are …
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Trevor’s high school band and choirs performed a really nice Christmas Concert this evening. Videos of two band performances are below. Carol of the Bells, by the Percussion Ensemble Trevor is playing the tambourine on the left side of the video. African Holy Night, by the entire band Trevor is playing the egg shaker on …
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Trevor had the opportunity to build a model representing the Death of Caesar for his English class. “Can I build an edible model?” is always a good question to ask. So Trevor (with some help from his Dad) constructed the model below. Ingredients included: 2 boxes of pound cake mix 3 bags of mini powered …
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Calvin’s assignment for his Geography class was to research the country of Hungary. One part was to find some interesting places in that country, and show them on a map. There was also a way to get extra credit for this class by bringing in food from the country. Put these requirements together and you …
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