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9 March 2013 The Best Birthday Parties Involve Trees

Mar 10, 2013

8 March 2013 Gifts from Arizona

Mar 9, 2013

Thanks, J&R! I am especially pleased to know that these homegrown fruits are not only handpicked but also steroid-free. (Kinda hard to believe the size of the pomelos, though…)

7 March 2013 Melting

Mar 8, 2013

6 March 2013 Real Snowfall at Last!

Mar 7, 2013

6 or 8 inches or so. It was a wet snow, perfect for packing into snowmen, snowballs and pretty good for sledding. Sam’s friends watch her zoom down the hill at Meade Park on our old sled, “Cheetah.” I take some credit for today’s snowfall, since just last weekend I packed Cheetah away for the season.

5 March 2013 The Amazing Hexagon Man

Mar 6, 2013

with his octagonal head. Sam agrees that geometry is fun.

4 March 2013 The Pavilion

Mar 5, 2013

I’ll never forgot what 5-year old Sammy said the first time she saw Charlottesville’s Pavilion on the east side of the Downtown Mall: “THAT’s not the Pavilion!” (She was thinking of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, built in the 18th-19th centuries.)

3 March 2013 Out of the House At Last

Mar 4, 2013

And I make my asthmatic kid scooter to the grocery store. What can I say? We have cabin fever.

2 March 2013 Excellent Sick Day Reading

Mar 3, 2013

1 March 2013 Thank Heavens for Books

Mar 2, 2013

They make illness–and asthma attacks–much more bearable.

28 February 2013 Nurse Sam

Mar 1, 2013

aka Elizabeth Blackwell took care of her parents today. Now that she’s mostly recovered, it’s our turn with the bug.