A ball filled with her own breath. And her father, photo-bombing the shot (of course!)

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Last game of the SOCA U8 league season. The Teal Dragons Played the Kelly Green… I dunno… Monsters? Sam was the only girl on either team. In this shot, Kelly Green player #14 tries to take the ball away from Sam–look closely– using his elbow. Foul! Am I becoming a soccer Mom(ster)? Eep!

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Thanks to the floating row cover, aka the shroud in the cemetery garden, the lettuce and broccoli are surviving the overnight freezing temperatures quite nicely. The lettuce is Red Sails and Rouge d’Hiver. I forget which is which, but both are tasty.

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Yay for the $1.50 shows at the Carmike!

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French Club is split into two groups this year– Les Grands et Les Petits. With Les Grands we are working with a textbook program called Alex et Zoé. The kids recently completed the first unit and today they presented a skit to Les Petits. I don’t think Les Petits were too impressed, but I was quite pleased. In this …

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Again at the Virginia Film Festival. AC, Sam and I saw “Autopilots”: a documentary about AC’s boss’s bid to enter a self-driving vehicle in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005.

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It’s been over 10 years since I attended a showing at the Virginia Film Festival. It’s been even longer than that, I think, that I went to a movie theater by myself! What a rare pleasure. The film, “The Armstrong Lie,” was good, too.

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Sam is obsessed with the plague, aka the Black Death that swept through Europe in the middle of the 14th century. We read about the costume that doctors who treated plague victims wore, and today she wanted to make one for herself. Apparently the beak-like nose could hold fragrant herbs and flowers. Doctors believed …

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