At least this campaign isn’t boring. Today’s happening involved three Allen staffers shoving a heckler to the floor. He had asked whether Allen had spit on his first wife. (“He’s divorced?” asked Scotty.) While the video is pretty sensational it does seem to me the guy really had crossed a line. Apparently he is a […]
I keep trying to write, but all these darn trick-or-treaters keep appearing at my door. At least I’ve stopped taking some candy for me after each group leaves. Actually I really like being the hand out candy person. I like chatting up all the kids who are usually pretty responsive. The best costume so far […]
One year when the girls were small I remember paying almost $20 per pumpkin. That was back in the days before the farmers started viewing these as a cash crop and producing them in much larger numbers. In recent years I’ve been able to pull my three pumpkins from the over flowing bin at the […]
Caroline and I continued our college tour yesterday with a stop at the University of Richmond. We had picked it not because she was interested in it, but because it is a small, liberal arts school which we could easily visit in a day. Richmond has a beautiful campus – rolling hills with mature trees […]
Some days substituting includes sitting through an assembly which almost always tend to be interesting. Yesterday I got to see two choral groups from West Potomac High School. As Sandburg is the only feeder school to West Potomac the high quality music program just continues on up. The assembly started with the West Po director […]
Tuesday night was the Fall Concert at Carl Sandburg – a presentation by the top band, orchestra, and singing groups. Sandburg’s band consistently rakes in top awards so we knew it would be a high quality night. Despite Caitlin’s insistence that no one come Granny and Granddad joined us although John did not because it […]
We are paying a lot of attention to college costs these days so I should have been happy at the news that college costs didn’t rise quite so much this year. But with the average yearly price of a private college is $22,218 and a state school average of $5,836 we are still worried. Plus […]
I’ve been a Doonesbury fan since before I understood all the politics it dealt with. This is a great article on Garry Trudeau and this is a link to the strip on-line.
A few weeks ago Train Boy (known in some circles as J-Train) pointed out that it had been a long time since our last steam engine ride. So we planned a trip to Strasburg, PA where there is a very well run steam engine line. Sunday we picked up Granny and Granddad in Potomac and […]
The record for dead mice on the doorstep was tied this morning. Most if not all the work was done by Socks. I can’t tell for sure because while the Kitten was in all night I didn’t see two of the mice until the sun came up and the Kitten had been out for awhile. […]