I picked up the first round of papers from West Potomac High School the other night. Only after I extracted four, filled them out, and signed them could we pick up Caitlin’s schedule. But that left 43 papers to be reviewed. 43! They cover everything from the bus schedule and Fairfax County Handbook to forms […]
It has been such a great summer that Scotty has declared he wants a “Do Over”. We all agree. Hopefully that way we’d get our week at Star Island. We wouldn’t change our time in NYC or the Balsams except maybe to add a day to each one. At no expense of course. We might […]
It is called Chicken’s Pickens. The name originated from John when he was three or four and we were taking the long trip home from Pel Reunion with Unlce Bobby and Joy. (Other names created at the times were Puppies Wuppies, Kittens Mittens, Mittens Kittens, etc. As of yet Puppies Wuppies is the only other […]
Because it is Caitlin’s middle name we have been following Hurricane Dean closely. And not surprising for a hurricane named for Caitlin, it reached a category five. Caitlin expected no less. But she was disappointed with the lack of destruction since she wants this one to be remembered. I think there is still hope if […]
The pajama factory (Granny) has been working over time. At least on pajamas for 8 year old boys. John arrived at Camp Granny-Granddad to find a pair of frog-patterned pajamas. A week after he arrived home an animal print pattern set came in the mail. Yesterday’s mail brought two more which, as John pointed out, […]
When Louise wrote this about the Webkinz craze we were only vaguely aware of it. True, by that time John had been indoctrinated and was playing on Anna or Evie’s account, but we missed out on the buying the stuffed animal part. Plus he returned to playing Pokemon, or worse watching YouTube videos of others […]
I’m not a Barry Bonds fan. Partly because of the whole steroids issue, but more because he’s only nice when he wants to be. For now he is charming and interesting and what a great athlete should be in the midst of a record chase. But for much of his career he has treated people […]
Our visit to New York City with its clean streets, safe feeling, friendly people, and general air of functioning well, left Louise and Scotty big Bloomberg fans and willing to consider him for president. I was inclined to give Giuliani a lot of the credit for NYC’s improvement over 20 years ago, but after reading […]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been to Huntley Meadows twice and found it vastly changed from last spring. When I was there a couple of weeks ago the streams where snapping turtles and snakes had swum before were completely dry and empty. The three acres of water had shrunk to a puddle about […]
Riding camp ends with a display of grooming and then a “horse show” which consists of watching the kids walk and attempt to trot around the ring. I arrived to find John in the stall red faced and dripping sweat but cheerfully combing out Pal’s tail. He showed me some other parts of grooming and […]