The weather has been terribly unpredictable lately, but our schedule allowed for a zoo day on Tuesday.  So, who cares about the weather?  We are all hardy waterproof Northwesterners! And then the sun came out, and the day was quite nice.  The zoo was a little more crowded than usual.  Even the animals enjoyed the […]

I can hardly believe it, but Tad went off to 5th grade camp yesterday!  And he took his father with him. (Picture taken just before Tad hopped on the school bus.  The Webmaster drove up to camp separately.) The Webmaster went along because we figured everyone would be happier if Tad actually slept through the […]

I’m not quite sure how to explain this weather, except to say that the groundhog was not kidding when he said “more winter.” (And apologies for no pictures today – the Webmaster is using the desktop for actual work for his job, so I am blogging off my iPad.) Monday morning, we woke up to […]

Convincing the boys to go to the zoo on a rainy day is never a problem.  Convincing Ane, on the other hand… well, I just keep reminding her that this is normal weather.  If we stayed inside on rainy days, we’d never go anywhere!  Plus, it’s a day off school when so many others are […]