2012 Photo365

18 April 2012 Lettuce

Apr 19, 2012

We ate a salad of homegrown lettuce this evening (Sam made the salad). It was yum.

17 April 2012 Happy Birthday, AC!

Apr 18, 2012

16 April 2012 5 Cent Cone Day

Apr 17, 2012

Sam treated us to frozen custard at Kohr Brothers today. It was 5 Cent Cone Day and she paid the cashier a quarter, just so she could get change back.

15 April 2012 Drop Everything and Read Redux

Apr 16, 2012

I took this picture after AC’s soccer game and on my way out the door to my writing group meeting. Their plan was to do this all afternoon.

“I HATE looking at houses!” Sam was not happy when we announced that we were going to visit two homes for sale. Then she entered the backyard of the first house and started to scale trees. I was examining the kitchen when she came back inside and declared, “Mommy, I could just live outside here.”

13 April 2012 Fan Mountain Observatory

Apr 15, 2012

Once again we failed to look through the giant telescope at Fan Mountain Observatory (we goofed and arrived too late), but we did hear a fascinating outdoor presentation on the constellations and got to look through some smaller telescopes, offered by a group of amateur astronomers. We also learned that this year is …

12 April 2012 Drop Everything And Read Day

Apr 13, 2012

Sam didn’t need much convincing to participate immediately in Drop Everything and Read Day.

11 April 2012 Scarecrow Head

Apr 12, 2012

Never mind that there are no crows to scare away from our garden. Sam insisted that she needed to make a scarecrow head TODAY.

10 April 2012 I Asked Them to Smile

Apr 11, 2012

and this was the best I got.

9 April 2012 At the End of Family Football Everyone Collapsed

Apr 10, 2012

to do some strength-training on the ground.