AC has joined the “age 40 and over” city Soccer league and played his first game last Sunday evening on the “Sporting Cville” team. Let me tell you, those age 40 and over players are out for blood. They certainly got a lot of AC’s. Not pictured above is the enormous gash in his leg. I’m rather glad he’ll be escaping …

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We’re experiencing some technical difficulties with our online gallery site. I am continuing the Photo365 project, but will be unable to post the photos to this blog until the gallery problem is solved. Hopefully that will happen before my Tech Support flies off (flees?) to the UK next week!

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That’s the name of the mountain and the hike, not the name of this crossing, although AC’s gait does look a little ragged 😉 More pics from this hike soon– it was beautiful and not far outside of Cville.

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And thinks about pouncing on the toy Sam is dangling. We’re cat sitting this weekend and Sam is thrilled. “You take care of the food and water and litter box, Mom,” she says, gesturing dismissively. “I’ll handle the playing.”

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Grand-mère treated Sam and me to a viewing of the Picasso exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. It is a fabulous exhibit, made all the more special to me because I saw many of the pieces displayed 20 years ago at the Musée Picasso in Paris. The art work is just as fresh and exciting as it was in 1991. But me, I …

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we arrived in Brighton. What a year. I could have never predicted one year ago where we’d be today.

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We all dusted off the bikes this afternoon for a little ride along the Rivanna Trail. This is where we stopped and turned around (and none too soon, I might add, because tree roots and rocks were already conspiring to unseat me). We had just started meandering the nearby streets when Sam’s trail-a-bike got a flat tire. …

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