This article appeared last Monday. We found it very interesting because it is on one end of Aunt Annie’s neighborhood. The neighborhood was built in several sections and the particular one where the buying up of lots is occurring is full of very nice smaller but not too small houses which I’ve thought would be […]
At least once each summer we like to go to the beach for the day. Our favorite, or I should say my favorite, and no one bothers to argue, is Assateague. I love when you come over the top of the bridge and get your first look at the blue, blue ocean across the narrow […]
A week or so ago John said “no” to the diving board because as he put it, he would drown. Last weekend he had tried the diving board at Granny and Granddad’s pool, but had been pretty careful to always have a flotation device to grab onto. Despite his success there, he was still reluctant […]
Caroline and I took our first college tour today. We visited the University of Maryland not because it is on our potential list, (it is too close and for $32,000+ I would want something more than UM), but because we want to get a baseline of a large school. We saw all the basics: dining […]
Caitlin’s softball summer travel season ended yesterday with a loss in the semifinals. For the previous two tournaments the girls had lost in the finals so this was a disappointment. But not so much of one that the girls were really upset. They would have liked to go on, but in reality it had been […]
When I filled out the calendar last spring with Caitlin’s softball schedule it seemed to last forever. But now that we are down to the final weekend we are very sad to see it end. Caitlin started the season really only knowing one girl on the team, but now has lots of firm friends. She […]
The girls and I saw the musical Chicago at Wolf Trap last night. They’d watched it many times on video and Caitlin will occasionally sing snatches of some of the songs. The play was much more fun than the movie because it was basically song after song with only short breaks for dialog. Now I […]
We are so happy to have him back! But while we missed him I don’t think he missed us at all except perhaps for a small bit on the last afternoon. He says we should stop asking if he wants to go back to Camp Cassidy next year because he’s already answered “yes” so many […]
There have been several disturbing environmental articles lately. This one describes how the oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. In this article, Angus Phillips describes the mud flow into the Chesapeake Bay and the long term impact. The Potomac still looks muddy in parts and the continuing […]
Amazingly for me, I saw two and a half movies in two days. Monday night Scotty and I saw The Da Vinci Code which was much better then the reviews indicated – I was pretty entranced the whole time, but I’ll leave the official reviews to Scotty. Tuesday night we saw The Devil Wears Prada […]