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13 January 2011 Breakfast with Daddy

Jan 14, 2011

Daddy’s in the UK. Sam’s in the US. Thanks to Skype, they had breakfast together. (So far this is my favorite photo of 2011).

12 January 2011 Explorations Studio

Jan 12, 2011

Today AC left to return to Brighton for 3 weeks and Sam went to her first Explorations Studio class. Here she sits in front of her “house with a view.”

11 January 2011 View of the Back Yard

Jan 12, 2011

10 January 2011 The VA Office of Singing Horse Studio

Jan 11, 2011

Plus one little foal. It was after hours and she was dictating a story to her father. The story is for her much-missed British friend, Cerys, and chapter one is called “The Dragon in the Woods.”

9 January 2011 Another Useful Thing I Unpacked Today

Jan 10, 2011

A menu (with coupons!) for one of our favorite pizza places… in the East Bay. OK, so this is slightly less useful than the ketchup packet, but the coupons don’t have expiration dates, so I’ll probably keep saving them 🙂

8 January 2011 In the Woods

Jan 9, 2011

We’re having a problem with the washing machine in the new house. The problem is that it doesn’t work. Well, it doesn’t work without dumping a lot of water on the floor. So while we wait for the necessary part to come in, our friends offered to let us use their washing machine. While our clothes got a scrubbing we took …

7 January 2011 Our New Wheels

Jan 8, 2011

in front of our new digs. Both digs and wheels are new only to us, but they’re nice. Today I drove the car for the first time and I forgot to press in the clutch only a couple of times!

6 January 2011 Unpacking the Past

Jan 7, 2011

Unpacked today: a photo of AC and his flight instructor the day AC made his first solo flight when we lived in Cville in the late 90s; a little “jewel” tree that Ruth, AC’s maternal grandmother passed on to us the last time we saw her in her home in Champaign, IL shortly before Sam was born; a photo of the Cap Canaille …

5 January 2011 Still No Wireless Router

Jan 6, 2011

No, it’s not in there, either.

4 January 2011 Ketchup

Jan 5, 2011

We still haven’t found the wireless router. The bottom of my tart pan is missing, as are the braces that hold my desk together. But look! Thank heavens they packed OUR KETCHUP PACKET!