Can you tell he likes cars?

It’s about all he talks about most days. As he sat there pushing them back and forth, sending them flying through the air, and careening them into each other, he was giving me a play by play. Constant chatter. And I must listen intently to every word of it or […]

Hear ye, hear ye!

This blog is nearly five years old. Wow! I’ve been having so much fun with it, but for a while now I’ve wanted to change things. I always held myself back because I wanted to be able to keep all of these entries going when I moved. That, though, requires […]

My new pad

I never really thought I’d ever abandon my old blog. Five years is a long time. I coded it, designed it, loved it all that time. But I’ve never been able to keep up with the Movable Type updates, or figure out how to back up my posts, or totally […]

Communing with nature

He found a lightning bug tonight. As we were playing cars on the front porch. He in his PJs. Me barefoot and snapping pics, of course. Summer. It’s when you can get away with such things. We’d come across one the night before too. A tiny little mite that seemed […]

I have a good excuse

The aforementioned storms? They zapped our power. For four days. It wasn’t that tragic for the most part. Annoying that we lost most of the food in our refrigerator and that I couldn’t turn on the ceiling fan last night when it was getting warm in our room. But the […]

I have not abandoned ship

I love my blog. I just haven’t had the most organized schedule of late. I even thought about updating yesterday, but three outlandish thunderstorms kind of upended my afternoon plans. It was a very bizarre weather day. Ask anyone in West Michigan. Ask the huge tree limb that’s resting in […]