Posted on Friday, June 26, 02009 under
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I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Between running, working, and those other little things that come up… well, y’know… This quasi-drought it killing my garden. It sucks. Sure, I can pump water on it all day long, but the moisture bakes out of the soil in less than a day anyways. Some of the plants are doing okay — after they get established, they flourish because they can get their roots down deep enough — but the seedlings are slow and suffering. If I get even a dozen carrots out of the patch this year, I’ll be surprised. I spent a couple hours building Claire a sandbox the other day. We had looked at a couple of the plastic doo-dahs, but I figured it [...]
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Posted on Monday, March 16, 02009 under
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Claire has a list of new words she loves to say. Thanks to the visitation of her grandparents and aunt, up to this weekend she has added or improved (with her own toddler-play on each, of course): auntie, grandpa, grandma, run, daddy run, snap, sparkle, arm, bowl, apple, fish, cheese, a variety of letters of the alphabet, the first line of about six songs, and just about too many others to keep listing them here, really. We actually got out of the house and saw two shows this weekend. “Doubt: A Parable” at the citadel was enjoyable and was a multi-layered commentary on experience, respect, evidence, hierarchy, and lost innocence. “Annie” playing at the Jube, was just Annie. It was good, and the under-plot of [...]
