Here they are in Maria’s bed, holding guinea pigs and trying to learn how to snap their fingers. On the patio later in the afternoon: Maria and I took the kids to Sunnylane Park for lunch. It’s a great park: no busy road, no pond, quiet, port-a-potty, picnic tables. This reminds me of a line […]
Kids were here, Maria was here. We had fun. The sandbox plan was to build a moat. The dog was interested, but not all that helpful. Also, glad I had a can of sunscreen. They would have burned up like toast. Oh yes, Maria’s guinea pigs, Dash and Bolt. They are very popular. As Mondays
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We were not at the lake this weekend, had a fun graduation party yesterday. So we did a lot of work around home. The flower beds and foundation plantings were cleaned up and refreshed. The grill continues to go away. James hauled rubble for hours. I tossed it in the wheelbarrow along with him and
She does lack them. She’s very nice, quite a sweet dog, really. Just a bit dense. So the chair, that seemed polite. But then she got up onto the table and sat in the big bowl of pansies Jody gave me. Okay, that’s not right. Git yer butt out of my flowers. She did. We
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We called for a construction dumpster, and one arrived. This beast is going away. We tried to use it a few times back in 1988 or so, back when we bought the house, but it took a whole bag of charcoal on the grill and stayed hot for hours–not a good thing when there’s a
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We do. It’s not easy, but we do. Do you see that picture of her above–in the kitchen? She has pilfered a bit of over-ripe watermelon and is stabbing it with a big scissors. I could hear the tapping from the family room and after she didn’t answer, I had to go check it out.
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It’s always so interesting to see him among his peers. Same as when Julia was a little child–she was tiny in this house, but among kids her same age, she was long and tall. This guy in the plaid shirt–same. He’s little around the house here, but at school, no. But he’s so sweet. This
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Dogs and kids, rain clouds, and a warm breeze: Love, Val
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The boat was put into the water and rumbled off. This empty cabin on the island is always intriguing. Okay, this is a very gorgeous tiny bird that flew into John and Dannell’s windows and died as a result of that impact. Sad. Not sure the best way to prevent these accidents. And that’s the
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