(I think it is beebalm, known to attract hummingbirds as well as bees. I just think it looks like an alien’s idea of what a flower should be, electric purple and spikey. They shock me every spring.)
Today while I was hanging around with a few friends, a moment arose when I had to show my [...]

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(I have almost as much b*lls as this guy, because I asked him if he’d be playing the bagpipes somewhere, and he replied, very deadpan, “No, actually, I just wear this for pleasure.”)
We had a near scare the other day. It seems some friend of my daughter’s has discovered pop culture and actually TOLD HER [...]

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See these happy people, relying on government sources for protection and services? Well, I thought we’d have a chat about what the government does and this seemed like a gentle way to assess what my kids already knew. Fi circled the school because the government has made schooling mandatory and regulates schools. She circled police [...]

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(the contribution of a lifetime)
It is customary, when you are invited for a meal, to bring a little token contribution, right? Well, the other night, our good friends came over for an admittedly experimental meal (west African sweet potato supper) and brought this lovely bottle of Jamaican Country Style Jamaican Style Kola Champagne Reggae Style. [...]

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(Li said I look like Cyclops)
Okay, I realize yesterday’s post was just a bit too smarmy. I mean, it is hard for me to write positive, glowing things about my day and my relationships. Those kinds of things are so rarely funny. People can hardly ever identify with them on the same level as [...]

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(Doesn’t this picture look like one of the illustrations from a 1950’s children’s book? Maybe from the USSR? Hence the blockish hammer, and the green, green grass and the joy of industry ever so evident on the face of the happy child? Or not.)
The mother’s day project is complete at last! We have measured,cut, drilled [...]

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This is a photo of my mother’s day haul in all of its sepia-toned glory. I have much to be thankful for, and I serioulsy need to start praying for a green thumb. Meanwhile, perhaps of most importance in this picture is the fact that I was even able to take the picture in the [...]

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You won’t believe this, but like, there is so completely a podcast for 10-year-old girls now! It is called Best Friends. And it is done by none other than our in-house hip chick and her cool friend. So if you like, like crafts and like books and movies and like stuff like that and stuff, [...]

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(The type of kitchen faciliities we looked at for a year and a half while househunting)
Welcome to my new, not strictly homeschool themed series called House Hunt. Welcome to a world I have dwelled in for 2 to 5 years, while being habitually tortured by friends, relatives and real estate agents alike about my living [...]

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(Oops, I mistakenly called this a jack-in-the-pulpit, when it is a trillium. I kind of knew that, I mean, c’mon, 3 leaves, no weird one leaf flapover thing. But I spaced.)
How I came to Be A member of My Space-a cautionary tale
(Deep breath) I resisted. I resisted for so long, I did! Ask my brothers [...]

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