This last weekend was the annual Loggers’ Jubilee weekend in the Webmaster’s hometown.  We drove down Friday afternoon so that the Webmaster could take Ane to see the lawnmower races – yes, you read that right – that evening.  I stayed with the boys at Nana and Papa’s house and let them stretch their legs […]

Because there’s more too it than just the sharks. There are tigers… … and elephants… … and clouded leopards that were sleeping up in their trees, so it was impossible to get a good picture.  So we posed with the donation box – after putting a few coins in.

I can hear it now – most people are reading the title of this post and scratching their heads.  “WHAT is a helicoprion?” Helicoprion is the official name of what is also called the “buzz saw shark” – a prehistoric extinct species of shark that now only exists in fossils and imagination.  And, until December, […]

I kept a very big secret from Ane for a whole month. Her dear friend Lisa, who moved to Maui two years ago, was going to be back in town.  And since Lisa had surprised Ane so well the last time she visited, she wanted to do it again.  Lisa’s mother Beth and I kept […]