I had a chance to visit the Big Castle over the weekend. I think it’s time this place had an official name. It’s big enough to warrant its own address. The neighbor, up the hill, upon spying its construction on my parents’ lakefront property, had contacted a building inspector. The inspector ambled over one day […]
This is what my youngest son is singing these days as he wanders around the house, doing chores, craft projects or playing with mini monster trucks:
deck the halls with bells are holly
fa la la la la…
’tis the seasons to be jolly
fa la la la la…
gone we now our decka carol
fa la la la la…
strike the […]
This Chinese beach sign merits close study.
Link via Ariped.
At this time last year, we’d just moved to our new home and had celebrated Thanksgiving with family, hosting a meal for about a dozen people.
The next morning, which was dark and rainy, I happened to look outside and noticed that our car’s window appeared to be down. I went out to roll it back […]
Halloween brings out the best in us. Here, a friend who lives nearby gives a little love-kiss to his/her dog.
Nice. These two make a good pair. You should see their baby, who was dressed up like a pumpkin. She slept through most of the trick-or-treating. Our friends here were relieved to be out and about […]
One of my favorite newly-discovered authors, Robin McKinley, produced a book in 2003 called Sunshine. I had savored her earlier young-reader novel The Hero and the Crown last winter and have since been searching for the sequel, The Blue Sword, at libraries. When I ran across Sunshine at my local library a couple of weeks […]
Yesterday afternoon a group of us pulled off the first Unity Café at the Bahá’í Unity Center in Forest Park. This was not an easy feat, considering that the center consists of a rather small, square-like room, a teeny bathroom, and a storage closet. There is no kitchen, no counter space, not even a shelf […]
While I am off visiting a college class at UMass today, my mother will be with my children, presumably making “creepcakes” such as the mummies seen here.
Too bad I can’t show you all of the decorating ideas, as they are published in the paper version of Martha Stewart Kids magazine, but not online. The recipes […]
I was over at Barbie’s the other day. She was catching up on some emails after a weekend in Hawaii, only home for a few days in preparation for a cruise embarking from Anchorage, Alaska. She has been on a kick to visit every state of the country before the year 2010. I can barely […]
After the zoo this summer trying to figure out how to get my kids back to their original public school, and struggling with whether I would spend my year home-schooling or trying to earn a little money from home, I landed in September with a thud, a sore back, and a fair degree of total […]