And More of the Same

Yes, one more day of pretty pictures while I rush around picking up supplies for feeding the 30 or so family members who will hang out at my place this week. Six of my siblings…

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Heat and Life and Death and Love — the whole damn thing, indeed!

When daughter #2 was about 9 or 10, I was French-braiding her hair one morning before school. She was kneeling on the carpet so that I could reach the top of her head easily, and…

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Lucky me — Happy Birthday, Pater

This good-looking guy has a birthday today, so I’m leaving our island home where there’s a breeze off the water and I can swim to cool off (I went in twice yesterday — it was…

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So much depends upon — the orange wheelbarrow!

One last splash of orange, if you don’t mind (and yes, the pun was deliberate — sorry!). Here’s our improvisational response to the lack of a baby pool here — we simply cleaned out the…

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Le Grand Weekend

Such a good weekend! My son-in-law came over on Saturday to pick up wife and daughter and do the birthday thing for her here, and daughter Megan came over with her guy, Rob to make…

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