Our first fair week up here has come to an end. The good: it’s a real county fair, with lots of livestock, 4-H kids showing their animals, big pumpkins, and the opportunity to play the ponies. The rides were fun for Lindsay, especially on the first trip. We went back twice, and neither of those [...]
I’m free-associating tonight, and here’s what I’ve got: How about the toy factories that make all our Barbie accessories and Bob the Builders stop coating them with bright, durable, poisonous lead paint. For God’s sake, what is it with China trying to poison the people and dogs that buy stuff from them? In a country [...]
On August 4, we moved. It required a Herculean effort, but we managed to collect all of our stuff into one medium-sized truck and drive it up the road a piece. Fortunately, by ‘we’ I mean a team of very energetic professional movers. Much of our stuff remains packed neatly away in boxes, and it [...]
It’s been a wild month, that’s for sure. We listed the house and within five days, we had a contract on it. Then we didn’t (we thought). Then we did again. But it looks like all is well, and we’re all set to close on it this Friday.
Of course, that meant we had to [...]
Here’s something just for the grandparents — Jack taking his first bath. The real video camera is in the shop getting repaired, so this one was taken with the video mode of a digital point-and-shoot. I think it turned out really good, actually. Not sure I’ll mess with replacing the real one when it finally [...]