Sunday, November 08, 2009

Really? In NOVEMBER?


If the forecasts are correct, New Orleans will only get a grazing, but my mother in Pensacola looks to get a full-on hit. Someone needs to tell this hurricane that it is November, and while still in hurricane season, it shouldn't be doing this. OKAY? Futz out now. Fizzle. Vamooose, please.

I have another reason to ask this. I deal with a daily hurricane Ida, also known as my newest dog (Whose name really is Ida). She's learned how to open the dog food container. She seeks out lost socks so she can eat them. She routinely wakens us at 5:15am. OMG, the barks. And, let's not forget that she gets into trash cans. The picture below is how she greeted us a few days ago, with the top stuck on her neck.


Tuesday, November 03, 2009

3 November 2009

A visit to Red Bluff Farm on the north shore with the Kindergarten class.


This is my middle daughter saying, "I got to feed the calf milk six times."

These piglets goosed me as I was watching a Brown Swiss get milked.


Some of the teachers kissed the piglets. This was her reaction.


The kids got to pick radishes, too. I put them in a salad this evening.
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Sunday, November 01, 2009

31 October 2009

A western diva, a hippie, and Venom (but he says he is the good black Spiderman).

Monday, October 19, 2009

19 October 2009


This is the people dog according to the people at Camp BowWow, where the dogs will be when we go to France in November.
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

18 October 2009

One day he is going to give his sister hell over how she dressed him.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

17 October 2009


Apparently, the Teletubbie Dipsy likes football.
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Friday, October 16, 2009

16 October 2009


The completed duck costume on the day of the performance of NUTS. What do you think? Two feather dusters, one plain white T, one long sleeved T, one hat, and one flexible folder.

Wait! The tail!

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

15 October 2009


On Thursdays, my eldest has art class. This means that the middle girl and the boy get me all to themselves. They decided to race cars and test gravity by putting the track in different configurations. I caught four photos in a row and attempted to make a movie with them.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

14 October 2009


Bleak with a drop of sadness.
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13 October 2009

A jack o'lantern seems appropriate foe the 13th day of October.
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Monday, October 12, 2009

12 October 2009


A really great investment in toys for us has been Lego blocks. We still have the large, Duplo kind we bought for our first child. After seven years and three children later, they are still in use. Our plan is to pack them off to friends who have children younger than us.

In the past year, we've bought a few sets of the regular Legos and others have given us the kits for Star Wars and Indiana Jones. We dutifully constructed all of the kits. These models lasted an approximate 36 hours before becoming victim to my children's imaginations. My eldest built a rover that roams the red planet, Mars. My son has built so many different cars, ambulances, airplanes, and rockets that I have lost track. My middle girl prefers to make houses.
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