We spent the weekend with my parents, had a great time. It rained a while and we watched these birds bring food to their babies. All day long, every five or ten minutes there they were, shoving bugs to the babies. My dad says those babies are ready to fly any day. the rain, the […]
Tonight we were down in the office working, and Lydia appeared with her empty retainer case. She had this retainer back when she was really small, like six. A molar had to come out early, so the retainer was mostly to hold that space open, blah, blah, blah. She wore it for years and it
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Below is something written ten years ago. This boat has been sold, along with the old motor that never ran right after 2002, not even with a thousand dollars in repairs. John helped me take it to the repair shop several times, early in the morning. It was at a marina, and that lake was
It’s been a good one. First we had my mom’s birthday party, warm spring evening, lovely party… This MAN present at the party is my nephew. He’s patiently helping my little kids and my grandson with their video game. Back when he was real small, he used to get so excited at video games he’d
Today was the baptism. It was 60 degrees out, unlike the day they were married in May, six years ago, when it was cloudy with a stiff wind. Today was balmy, the mud atrocious, and spring is so close it’s driving us CRAZY. We haven’t had any occasion to be in that church since they
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We’re still doing birthday. Here is James and his first cake, from his actual birthday-day. I tried to take a picture of him blowing out the candles, but he did it so dang fast, all I got was smoke and his hip. Durn kid. Look at Julia plugging her nose. This is the next day
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Okay, so up at Poor Richard’s Antiques was this nasty old taxidermy bobcat. Missing an ear, moth-eaten, sitting on a shelf out back year after year, and Lydia was fascinated by it, liked to look it, talk about it, wanted to buy it. It was $60 and NO we were not buying it! Not even
My parents and Tim at the wedding Out in Wisconsin, my dad has these big snap traps–for trapping chipmunks, I’m told. (He had some chipmunks in a live trap and let them go a few miles away, so what this big Tom and Jerry snap trap was all about, I’m not sure.) But Tim tripped
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My dad told this story from an afternoon with Tim: He and Tim were walking along and Tim asked him, “Could a bird rule the world?” My dad, being the amiable soul he is, walking along chatting with a child said, “Sure.” Tim, in all seriousness, asked, “How?” Love, Val
