Sunday morning: Adding as we go along . . .

1. I apparently got all the sleep I needed in the last two nights, so I was wide awake at 6:15 a.m. I checked the Interwebz -- they are still there and some people are still wrong, then I started to make coffee, picked up a little around the house and finished making coffee.

2. I had cooked a chicken last week, and we had nommed about half of it. I tore the meat off the rest of it, browned up some sausages, added garlic and a couple of hot cherry peppers, salt, pepper, paprika and the always-useful bay leaf. There were also onions and garlic cloves that had been cooked in the chicken. I covered it with water, and I will cook it for a while, take the bones out and take any meat off the bones, then add carrots and squash. I am unsure on whether to add rice or pasta. We will see.

3. I have been poking around NPR to load up my player and listen to erudite observations while I clean.

I found these three stories, which bear passing on:

Phaldelphia Zoo offers wild sex tour.

Starbucks tries instant coffee.

Harpist brings comfort to emergency room. (This one's especially for rising_moon).

4. I got myself signed up on Facebook. I don't know why. After an hour or so, I realize just what a weenie plan this might have been.

5. I have been actively picking up in the kitchen and in the bedroom. I suppose I oughta attack the bathroom next.

6. Must be getting toward the end of winter, it's 23 degrees, and I am feeling pretty good about that. It's gone up seven degrees in the last couple of hours.

7. Oh,. yeah. The parents-providing-alcohol case did not turn out the way I had hoped.

From the Glens Falls Post-Star

FORT EDWARD -- A jury emerged after more than nine hours of deliberation to render a split verdict in the trail of Jimmy Joe St. Andrews and Kellie St. Andrews Friday night.

The jury found Jimmy Joe St. Andrews, 41, guilty of endangering the welfare of a child, but not guilty of two other endangering charges.
Kellie St. Andrews, 40, was found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child.

She was found not guilty of three other counts of endangering the welfare of a child and three additional dealing with a child charges.

The St. Andrewses were on trial in connection with several underage drinking parties at their Putnam home, the last of which came last April 20-21.

Two 16-year-old girls -- Shannon James of Ticonderoga and Michaella Lopes of Bakersfield, Vt. -- died in a car crash after that party, and the St. Andrewses' 17-year-old son, Dustin, is serving a prison sentence in that alcohol-related crash.

While all the charges are misdemeanors, the couple faces a maximum penalty of a year in Washington County Jail. Sentencing has been scheduled for the morning of March 20.

Numerous teens testified they drank alcohol at the St. Andrews home or at a backyard fire pit during those gatherings, and that both parents were present at the home.

Hours before the jury's verdict, McKeighan dismissed many of the criminal charges filed against the St. Andrewses for allegedly hosting underage drinking parties, finding the prosecution did not prove its case to support the charges.

The judge dismissed eight counts against Jimmy Joe St. Andrews, and five against 40-year-old Kellie St. Andrews, ruling the evidence was not sufficient to support them. All of the charges were misdemeanors.