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that Sam and I made this morning. I’ll leave it to the viewer to interpret the word “mess.”

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Came across this exhibit on the downtown mall today. Each pair of black military boots symbolizes a Virginian soldier who has died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the other side of the wall were row after row of regular street shoes, representing Iraqi and Afghani civilians who have been killed in the wars. …

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Gorilla Theater Production presented Pippi Longstocking.

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At this point in his career, AC never imagined that he would be required to wear a hard hat for work. Apparently, programming software for the PA turnpike is more dangerous work than anyone thought. Sam and I both hope that he gets to keep the hat!

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AC is off on an extended business trip–he probably won’t be back home until the end of the month or later. The photo is dark (no flash) but you can just make out his rental VW bug, which is red. He needed a black car for the type of laser detection testing he needs to do this week, but red and white were the only …

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The thing about homeschooling is that you can have an idea–maybe even a plan–of what you’re going to do in a given day/week/semester/year and then usually you end up spending said day/week/semester/year watching it all turn out differently. Kids have their own timetables. Take Sam and loopercase writing. Loopercase …

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AC throws the ball in during the quarter final play-off against the Green team. After 90 minutes the score was 0-0. After overtime, the score was still 0-0. After 5 rounds of penalty kicks Uno won the game 2-1 and now they advance to the semi-finals.

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Today was one of those days where nothing went as planned. Last night, Sam and AC made a letterbox to hide somewhere around our favorite hike in the Shenandoah National Park–Bearfence Rock Scramble. The idea was to get up there early this morning to hide it. First we discovered that letterboxes are prohibited in …

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