Okay, a long time ago when I was very young I babysat for some people who did not keep house well at all. It was disgusting. The bedrooms looked like clothes bombs had exploded. Dirty dishes were all over the kitchen. Everything felt sticky, even the living room couch. But the thing that totally freaked […]
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luring sunfish with their toes. we have not bought a fishing license and have no way of actually catching them. a pretty tiny sandbox This weekend was …gosh, I don’t know… there are adjectives. Superb? That one seems to work. Oh yeah, it was so laid back, happy, and good-natured, it was hard to return
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
Today at lunch we were talking about Heidi when she was little. She couldn’t say lunch, called it, “Hunch.” Dan was five, and he and I thought it was funny. We tried to help her practice: “Heidi say la-la-la-lunch.” She’d lift her chin up and down, carefully pronouncing, “La-la-la-Hunch.” Over and over we did this,
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
a superb weekend. Yesterday morning I took Tim over to my parents to see the digger dig up their back yard. They’ve got a project going on and Tim looooves equipment. (He has even referred to my Kitchen Aid mixer as, “the equipment.” Power tools, yah, yah.) The guy dug, the bucket scraping against the
I was home from work today by lunchtime, and it was looking like another long, boring afternoon for the kids, stuck in the hoooouse…we’re cracking uuuup. (I am, anyway. They seem a little batty too.) The gloom, ugh. So I persuaded James that we should go to the university, to the museum of natural history–you
My mom signed Tim up to receive a kit every month, a little building project kit. Finally, the first kit arrived over the weekend, and today when Jay stopped by at lunch time, Tim talked him into working on it. The directions had pictures, so Tim could see what to do. This is what was
The handle on the back door is broken again. We have to replace it about once a year because that door takes a terrible beating. It’s inherent in life with a newfoundland in the house. She barges her big self into the door went she’s trying to get out, and even worse is when she’s
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Heidi and Joe showed up last night with this fine lab puppy. She was adopted from a rescue place. Her name is Morgan and she’s as sweet as she looks, velvety fur and long legs. They have two guinea pigs already, Rufus and Rory, so hopefully the puppy will like them too. The old puppy
