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13 October 2013 Feed Us

Oct 14, 2013

Kitsy, Salmon and Brother came for breakfast.

All dressed up to go to the Mini-Maker Fair with her father today. The plushie puppy is actually an “epi-puppy”–an epi-pen carrier that Sam can wear around her waist. Sam loves it and it has made carrying the epi-pen a lot more fun for her. Unfortunately she came home from the fair feverish and ill. Too bad the puppy …

11 October 2013 Team Captain

Oct 12, 2013

Captain of the Orange team, Sam first picks her father. Good choice. He’s fast and skilled. Plus he’s her father. But she’ll pick her old lady second, right? Nope. Not third or fourth either. Alas, she knows MY level of soccer skill all too well. I eventually donned a white jersey when someone else’s kid picked me. I …

10 October 2013 Kneeling Dive

Oct 11, 2013

UK Trip 2013: Photo Retrospective– Lewes Castle

Oct 10, 2013

I lack photographic imagination. We’ve been to Lewes Castle, just north of Brighton, several times, and it’s worth the repeat visits. It’s a splendid example of Norman castle constructions with later embellishments. But I just keep taking the same photos over and over again! Entering the Castle gate, July 2013. …

UK Trip 2013: Photo Retrospective– Queensbury Mews

Oct 10, 2013

I’m a sucker for the photo retrospective–same subject, same treatment across different time periods. So when we walked past our old street in Brighton this past summer, I made the family stop so I could capture this photo: Sam, age 7, on Queensbury Mews in Brighton. Sam, age 3, on Queensbury Mews in Brighton

9 October 2013 Housework

Oct 10, 2013

Sam: “Mom, there are enough crumbs under my chair to build a small army.”

8 October 2013 Apple Pickers

Oct 9, 2013

Our homeschooling group went apple picking today at Henley’s Orchard in White Hall, Virginia. Tasty.

7 October 2013 A la BibliothÃ¨que

Oct 8, 2013

Looks like we were about to have a board room meeting, but no, it’s a new year for French Club, now meeting weekly at the downtown library. It’s looks so calm here, doesn’t it? I was trop occupÃ©e to take any pictures of the ensuing mayhem.

6 October 2013 The Lemon Head Lemonade Stand

Oct 7, 2013

They had quite a few customers. And thanks to generous tips (and an aggressive marketing campaign, which consisted of riding a tricycle up and down the sidewalk yelling “Fresh Squeezed Lemonade!”) they each came away with $1.26.