On select fall Friday evenings the sounds of a football game drift across our neighborhood. They come from Mount Vernon High School and float the mile or so across a neighborhood and then over the woods and creek to our street. Depending on the wind the sounds rise and fall or go quiet. At their […]
A highlight of the New York trip this summer was seeing the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I missed it because I was still on the train, but John was full of details the next day. Which was a true sign of how great it was because he often limits his comments to “good”. […]
Caroline and I toured the College of William and Mary yesterday and were completely under whelmed by it. The admissions talk and tour were all about being the second oldest college in America, the great history of the school, and being considered the best public school in the nation. But they did not try to […]
Uncle Bobby sent us the news of Dumbledore being outed by JK Rowling. Caitlin brought it up today and I was quite proud of her for her reaction which summed up my thoughts exactly. “The problem is now republicans won’t want their kids reading the books because Dumbledore is gay.” On the other hand it […]
We went to the Bishop Ireton homecoming football game this week so we could watch the watergirl. She is pretty cute in her long blond pony tail and gray BI trainer t-shirt – filling up her green Gatorade bottles with water on the sidelines and handing them to the players who want them during a […]
Caitlin’s been playing field hockey this fall. It turns out she has a real knack for the sport. She’s starting sweeper on the JV team and is a major factor on the field. As we like to say, “You don’t mess with Caitlin.” It is a great opportunity for her intenseness to be put to […]
Plumbing problems in our house come in groups. In the midst of our kitchen sink problems the upstairs bathroom sprung a drip into the laundry room below. I’ve seen enough of these drips to know a pinhole leak when I see one. And sure enough the plumbers today clarified that is what it was and […]
Because you clog up the sink. Scotty got the initial stuff out by opening the drain pipes soon after it occurred. But the worst didn’t until a few days late. First I noticed our fairly new floor start to well up a bit. Then things would back up after the dishwasher ran. Scotty tried snaking […]
“Don’t clean out the snake cage by dumping the dirt down the kitchen sink.”
You would think this would be obvious, but apparently it wasn’t. His excuse: “Michael said to hurry.”
It is intriguing that we live near the World War II version of Guantanamo Bay. What is now Fort Hunt Park was used in World War II for interrogating Nazi prisoners of war. This was such a hush-hush operation it has only been reveled in the last few years as historians have been tracking down […]