A new school year means new clothes, right?  Ane is sure it does. With the weather almost giving summer a miss and heading straight into fall, Ane and I went back-to-school shopping and made sure she had some nice school clothes – long-sleeved tops mostly, along with new jeans and a pair of brown pants […]

With apologies to Monty Python. We went to Woodland Park Zoo again last Friday – because the keeper at the penguin chat the last time we visited told us that they do a live trout feed on Fridays at 11 am. Since it was the last Friday before the kids start school, I had the […]

This was a common feature of our yard every summer. Laundry on the clothesline, drying in the warm summer weather. No more. 🙁 Right after I took the above picture, I started hanging up some towels.  And then the top ring of the clothesline snapped, sending one pole off crazy and right down on my […]

Yesterday was among the muggier days around here – temperatures reached 80 degrees, but the cloud layer never really burned off.  The temps will be coming down as the week winds down, but there is a possibility of rain. And the kids get bored easily – even Rerun! – so we have been spending time […]