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It’s been a long time since we’ve experienced a proper thunderstorm. They just don’t happen in the Bay Area. I think we had thunder once in Brighton last year, but it was short lived. This storm has been raging all evening now. First there was distant thunder. Then wind. Then a LOT of wind. Then rain. Then flashes …

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Whether or not gardening works out, Sam just might have a career as a writer of Chinese restaurant menus.

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It says it’s cracked corn, but it’s not: it’s compost for our garden plot. One of the families who comes to my weekly French class runs a small farm. They offered to barter some of their produce in exchange for French lessons. So last week I got paid in eggs and honey. This week it was two enormous bags of homemade …

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“Miss Wonderly” finally gets to unwrap the elusive black bird… and I go to an adult party for the first time in many years. Of course it was a book group discussion of The Maltese Falcon, but hey… there was wine AND chocolate chevre. Definitely my kind of party.

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After reading about early humans and their tools in Early Humans (Dorling Kindersley), Sam wanted to make some weapons. Later, armed with a spear, she hunted all her plushies and roasted them in the middle of the living room.

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AC flies his foil kite at Darden Towe Park in Cville.

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