Even when she has a cold, this girl is busy, busy. The latest obsession is sewing.

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The greens didn’t do as brilliantly in the fall as they did last spring, but here’s one salad I got out of the garden today. I’m harvesting all of it this week since temperatures are dipping well below freezing at night.

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Starring Susie and Sam, and featuring Benjamin as the mailbox. You didn’t know you needed a mailbox for a cooking show, did you?

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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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