Month: July 2006

  • Children!

    So cute in pictures, such a pain to live with! Dad is holding up the peppers he grew in his window at work – please note the bag they are in!

  • Spiders

    The girls came running in a minute ago to let me know they had found a garden spider – bring the camera and come see! So I went out into the glorious morning with them and we looked at the little spider (where else? in the garden! Glady said when I asked her where it…

  • Walking in the morning

    For the last four mornings I have been getting up at 5:30 and walking until 6, which is the best time for me to do it – no one else is awake, and I can relax and stretch out for my day. This morning was lovely, clear sky after all the rain we got over…

  • What a Week!

    It has been a week since I sat down to write in this, and we have been busy busy busy. Phil had Market Days in Concord all week. The city shuts down a big chunk of Main St. and has a street festival. For the last five or six years we have been sponsored by…

  • So excited!

    I got my facepainting kit last night. Saturday is the dress rehearsal, then Sunday my first paid gig. I spent a little time last night painting the girls. Here is Juliet as a tiger. The paints are much better than the first little one we picked up, and I am feeling much more confident about…

  • Thanks, Sharon!

    I did it! a whole new vista of blogging awaits me!

  • 1/2 Whipped Cream3 Oreos1 tbsp Ice Cream Cake Stir well… makes great finger, er, body paint!

  • A Whole Year

    It seems both like so long and so little time has passed since Johann was born. For that matter, since Glady was born. I can still feel her tiny little body in my arms for the first time, and now here she is, almost shoulder height to me. We had a fun celebration for the…

  • Fourth of July

    We had a lovely time this year over the long weekend for Fourth of July. On the 3rd we went up as a family to Steele Hill, to their fireworks. Phil and Glady went first, as he was twisting, and he started about 5:30 pm, then the rest of us joined them and I started…

  • The Fourth

    We had a lovely time this year over the long weekend for Fourth of July. On the 3rd we went up as a family to Steele Hill, to their fireworks. Phil and Glady went first, as he was twisting, and he started about 5:30 pm, then the rest of us joined them and I started…