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Muppets and SciFi

Friday, June 5th, 2009

So, we’re trying to save money. Aren’t we all? Yesterday evening, the Webmaster, Ane, Tad and I met up with Friend, Doc, the Brain, Head and baby Rupert and took advantage of Seattle’s First Free Thursday program at the Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum (they share the same weirdly ugly building) to […]



A Sandlot moment

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

If you have never seen the movie The Sandlot, you should. We have it on DVD – you can borrow it from us. Ane had her own Sandlot moment yesterday after dinner. We had had a lovely day outdoors – Tad fell asleep in the car on the way to pick up Ane from school […]



Eating our way through the weekend

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Well, not the entire weekend. Just most of it. And the weather was perfect for it all. Sunday evening, we hosted most of the Group o’ Friends at our house for a barbeque for those who didn’t go out of town this year. The only family missing were the CW clan – and we missed […]



Sweet Smells

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

My kitchen table has a vase full of lilacs on it right now. The scent is spreading throughout our small house. It smells absolutely divine. Sadly, they are going to be given away today. Here’s the story… This week is apparently “Educational Bosses’ Week” – whoever came up with that name? Anyway, it’s Principals’/School Administrators […]