A Trip to the Airport

One positive thing about the Mother-in-Law’s flight getting in so late last night is that it allowed me to go to the airport at my favorite time. I think that this fascination may date from when I was small, and my father used to come home from extended international business trips. Most of the time, [...]

I did, in fact, bake a cake

The sun is out today, for the first time in what seems like a long while. While I’m certainly not a Seasonal Affective Disorderite, I do appreciate the feel of the warmth on my face, and the squint in my eye.
The Mother-in-Law is coming for a visit this weekend. She originally was gong to come [...]

It’s written in a book

Although you know that the amount of sunlight you get at a certain time of the morning changes at a basically even pace throughout the year, it’s still wonderful when you pull out of the driveway one morning, and the season seems to have changed. Daughter #1 noticed the light this morning, and asked if [...]

This is our countraaaaaay

Living, as we do in a red section of a red state, and being blue, but not overtly, I’ve wondered recently whether our neighbors look askance at us. Our children are well behaved, our driveway is empty on Sunday mornings, and we send our kids to a private school. Now I know that they know:
Scarborough [...]

Snots on Though

My view of snow, and what counts as a decent amount of snow during a winter, was set (quite obviously) when I was a young child. All of this talk of snow by a couple of friends-who-happen-to-be-bloggers (as opposed to blogging friends, people that I know through blogging), got me to thinking about when I [...]

Soft-sel

It turns out that we in Johnson County don’t have enough salt to last the winter. With at least of couple inches of snow on the way today, this could turn out to be a problem. But the most wonderful thing, and by extension the Internet as a whole, are the comments people have left. [...]

I’ll pack a lunch

I was just called by the Wife and the Kids from the car, trying desperately to get home in the sleet and freezing rain that is pelting central Indiana, and asked the name for a baby llama, and the collective for llamas.
A baby llama is a cria, and it is a herd of llamas.
I’ve got [...]