It’s the first time we’ve been since last year, and it was fun to see old friends and be in the sun on a perfect 85 degree day. This is b.g. with his other grandma. We didn’t know they were going to be there too, but that was a definite bonus, chatting with my son’s […]
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We made it through the weekend. It was fun, noisy, stressful, intense–special and weird and wonderful. I fried shrimp and we played cards, and it was hot and it stormed. Now we’re home again. Here are a few pictures. These are pics of the soccer game. They don’t include the swearing that occurred. Though there
Okay, yesterday in traffic Maria and I were on a hill, and the city skyline was perfectly framed with all these wild storm clouds. Well, the stop light changed as she fiddled with the camera, and I had to drive down the hill, and this is all we got. I don’t blame her. It was
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a random kid…they’re not sure who he is The kids are playing softball, and last night was picture night. We took them all over there, in their softball shirts, and photos were taken. Seemed fine. Well, this morning I had an email from Tim’s coach, saying pictures were tonight at 7:15. Weird. I emailed him
three sisters These are some of Kirsten’s pics from Memorial Day: a big girl a big girl fishing–this keeps her absorbed for hours a tired boat ride beautiful lydia james and bella bella is as fascinated by frisbee as sam is with fishing swimming Oh, how I love summer. love, Val
the one who is the dad around here, head neatly chopped off. he puts up with this. It was a pretty nice weekend. We went to a family party Saturday, had a very good time. We got to see all the babies of our nieces, and I cannot even describe how lovely that was. Some
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The scary looking caterpillars began hatching today. They were the spiky hair type Tim caught on the patio a few weeks ago. He had five and kept them in two big glass tumblers on the buffet. We let them go in the garden. Kari took pictures. They’re called Mourning Cloak butterflies–something new to us. There
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I haven’t seen this particular cloud type in a long time. I took pictures of them after a storm in 1987. There’s a special name for them. They appear after severe weather. The dangerous weather went around us. We weren’t hit. But at 9 pm, when we came up from the office to put kids
The craft today at bible school was packing bag lunches to be delivered to members of the church who are sick or elderly–unable to get out. The kids colored pictures on the bags and enclosed decorated cards. Others made sandwiches and packed cookies and grapes in plastic baggies, and the lunches were put together in
a little confused… Read More »
We’re doing vacation bible school this week. It’s been two days, with three more to go. It’s fun. I’m exhausted, but that’s okay. The exhaustion is something else–something is wrong lately where I lack energy, and it’s more noticeable at bible school. I suppose it’s because I have to get up early and can’t go
