my journey, destination unknown
In my huge “notes” document, I keep a list of things I want to see, organized by city. Whenever I come across something interesting, I jot it down. NYC’s High Line had been added to the list about 4 times in the past couple of years, so I knew it had to be the top…
Today the scaffolding crawled up our side of the building and went right up past our windows. Now the construction workers can stand right outside my windows — and Gazoo can’t go out at all, poor kitty.
More stickeriti found in Decatur.
Despite my resolution to write whatever is on my mind, I can’t seem to get past my “perfection” issues. I know, what I have written in this blog isn’t perfect and, truly, not even great. But every post takes a whole lot of my energy from the conception to the writing to the decision to…
After a busy day at work, taking care of an on-again, off-again sick girl (more to come on that), I just had no dinner plans. Camille had a friend over and was more into catching up with her than cooking (that’s good). So we headed out across the street to TacoMac…
Our seventeenth wedding anniversary was yesterday…
My thoughts after reading Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? from the New Yorker: I harbor few illusions. My kids are spoiled. By some miscommunication, Chloe opened her “family” birthday gifts in front of her friends and a couple of the moms. While we are by no means “well-off” compared to the families of her…
Having brought the pots in from outside, I could see how terrible they looked. Only the rosemary survived the winter; the other plants were “volunteers” from bird seed and had mostly already wilted away from the heat. Chloe and I stopped by Ace and picked up a number of nice looking herbs. The bench now…
I’ve never used the video feature on my Digital Rebel, despite having owned it for 20 months now. It has some shortcomings, but maybe with practice, I can learn to take a reasonable video with it …
Chloe was a very, very tired birthday girl on her big day. But that didn’t stop her from getting out and using her gift card!
My memory is as poor as ever, but I believe that this was the first ever *birthday party* that we’ve ever hosted. We’ve had Harry Potter parties, Ralph’s World parties, Easter parties, ice cream parties, swim parties, winter solstice parties, and so on and so forth. But up until now, I’ve managed to avoid having…
Chloe decided that she wanted a real birthday party — something I don’t think we’ve ever done before for either girl. She invited a bunch of friends from school and from homeschool. I worried that only a few would be able to make it, but we ended up with a house filled with giggling girls….
A couple *months* ago, while Camille and I were in NYC for Kindiefest, we were honored to be invited up to the Sirius Fishbowl for a Kids Place Live Special Live Concert. A number of our favorite artists came together in one place to collaborate on each other’s songs. It was a wonderful time for…
OUr sad, sad plants. With the construction in the courtyard, we’ve pretty much ignored our balconies this summer. Now that we’ve had to bring the plants inside for a couple months, it is time to get some new plants from Ace…
Gazoo came to us out of the blue. Since we didn’t know her actual birthday, we declared it to be July 4th, 2007. And, so, today is Gazoo’s fifth birthday. She misses being “jungle kitty” but has adapted to her “balcony-only” life as a condo-kitty….
Today was the Ribbon Cutting at Fire Station No. 1. The mayor used these giant scissors to cut the red ribbon hung across the front. I spent 4 hours helping setup and giving tours to all the visitors.
After a long day of working, cleaning, packing, exploring Track Rock, buying peaches and driving, we made it back home.
At last, we made it to Fort Mountain! Knowing that the day was going to get hot, I insisted on an early start. What a nice view of the area around Chatsworth!
Thwarted from our planned adventure by a dead battery, we decided to ut our stranded time to good use and gave the cabin a good scrubbing and organizing.
We spent the day at the cabin working, reading, studying and trying to stay as cool as possible.