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Spring Break Means Rain and Colds

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Yesterday the sky cleared just enough to allow for a few hours’ worth of drying out.  The Webmaster took carpe diem as his motto for the day and as soon as we got home from church and ate lunch, he mowed the front yard and backyard, and got moss killer down on both lawns before […]



Hello, March

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

I can hardly believe it.  Here we are, and March is coming in like a lion for Nana and Papa and all the family in Lewis County.  I hope that you can dig yourselves out of the snow soon! In the meantime, here is something that you might choose to do on a snowy day: […]



Cold Snap at the Zoo

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Right after the New Year, we had a pretty bitter cold snap around here, which is why the snow stayed on the ground for so long.  There wasn’t as much snow in Seattle proper, though.  So right before school started back up, I decided to take the kids to the zoo.  It happened to be […]



Bad Snow Day

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

So yesterday, the phone rang at 5:20… AM.  I was not awake at that hour.  I have a ten-month-old who sleeps through the night, thank you very much. It was the school district, announcing via robo-call that schools were going to be closed due to snow on Wednesday.  Fair enough, I thought, once I saw […]