Mmm, okay? Yum. Right? That was my cucumber salad just before I added my secret dressing recipe. Dill from yard. It just looked too pretty to eat without capturing somehow. This must be the height of documentation mania then, right? Is there a name for folks like us other than “bloggers”? I once read that [...]

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(Mail spinning the silk with the silk spinning guy who always goes on before the poi fire spinners come out.)
Sometimes I think I’m sick of living in such a big town. The traffic, taxes, stupid parking stickers and street cleaning signs and the potholes and the late buses and the sad park buildings and playgrounds [...]

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(Guitar, campfire, sunset, toasted marshmallows…sweet summer. We still have the burns to prove it.)
Today the real summer swelter kicked in. Huge storm clouds are building up high in the sky but the haze peeked through and made the air look wobbly. There are all sorts of tornado warnings and flood watches and all around our [...]

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Dental hygiene rocks. You know, when Grammy was here last week, I couldn’t help but notice that she and Mail had some unique things in common. The same slightly understated sarcastic responses to certain situations kept coming out of their mouths simultaneously. But there still is a tiny generation gap.
At one point at the dinner [...]

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15 pool noodles, 4 lengths of 1/2 inch pvc pipe, 200 yards of duct tape plus 7 boys times 10 foam swords, 10 juice boxes, assorted marshmallow sticks, 375 pounds per square inch of energy plus one cake= chaos
That is how the birthday party went down. Quite fun actually. The kids made their own foam [...]

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Spring is really here. I know this because I can’t be bothered to sit still for 5 minutes and blog. Also, because May and her special blend of social demands, tornado rain showers and blissful days of mild weather keeps us yoyoing from location to location, unable to even make the simplest decision without [...]

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(Some of the feet involved)
We did it, walked 5 miles and raised almost $500 for the cancer walk. Were joined by several friends. Spent most of the time happily gabbing and not noticing how far we were walking until our kneecaps suddenly seemed locked up. Well, the friends who joined us were more athletic so [...]

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(The first baby blanket ever in the works. I’m so proud! The baby is due in June to my cousin. That plant in a bag is a recycled material plant seedling, a green bean -I shared the how to link on earth day, the windowbox leaves are tiny little salads of our future, and the [...]

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On Monday we were conducting a simple experiment withtin cans which demonstrated Bernoulli’s law. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Basically, you blow air between the cans and the air pressure lowers and instead of the cans going apart as you’d figure, they come closer together. Anything hands-on and my kids are all for it, so I [...]

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You know what’s weird? When your family is seperated in to 3 different time zones for a few days. Then you decide, yeah, we humans obviously are weird. In addition to creating extra time zones, we also have such complex lives that we have to turn off the fight or flight type instinct [...]

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