It’s actually quite mild sitting in the sun here eating my lunch, but within a scant 6-8 weeks the road I drove to get here will be impassible. Even in August a dusting of snow is not unheard of at Crater Lake’s Rim Village, and this is in fact one of the snowiest places in [...]
I’ve got my alarm clock set for 5:45. Tina’s is set even earlier because she’s on the hook for another batch of Monkey Muffins. Tomorrow’s the first day of that-which-must-not-be-named, and the that-which-must-not-be-named bus comes pretty early this year. Gabe and I spent tonight, the last of the summer, finishing up our bedtime reading of [...]
Haikus are easy.
But sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator.
It was hot again today, but there are faint signs that things are beginning to happen with the seasons. Back in June it was still light at 8:30 around here. Now it’s nearly dark at 8:30, demonstrating that we are once again beginning that big [...]
The kids and Tina are back home from another big trip, the Texas-South Carolina-Illinois triangle odyssey:
All this summer travel is pinching the old pocketbook and making the adult half of the family look more and more forward to school starting. Only one more trip to Oregon and another to Paris in the next six weeks, [...]
Notes might be short this week because my favorite subjects are in Illinois visiting Grandpa Hart. In an email from Arenzville, Tina reports finding a decapitated baby bunny at the foot of the staircase. Whether this is some kind of sinister Godfather-esque message from Grandpa or just something the cat dragged in is unclear.
With Tina [...]