$700 later, the car starts again, but the mechanic notes that it will also need new motor mounts and a belt soon ( Read more... )

All winter you wait for it to be close enough to spring that you can start your seeds. If you start them too soon, they get huge but can't be put out and eventually get spindly and weak. If you start too late, you only get tomatoes if it stays warm until November.

It's time to start seeds!

Let's see ( Read more... )

Accordion is going pretty well. Playing upside down does not hinder my use of bass buttons as I'd feared, and I can in fact hash through stuff like the Tarentella and Dark Eyes with the bass (I haven't worked out the bass bits for the things I'm learning by ear ( Read more... )

It is too cold to play accordion in the park. My hands go numb if it's below 40 degrees :P ( Read more... )

Max is really into the potty, although we have not done anything more to encourage this beyond buying a potty seat some months ago. I have put him on said potty exactly twice, and he has "gone" both times, so, perhaps I should be taking his interest more seriously ( Read more... )

Charles is supposed to take a walk every day. Usually Max rides in the stroller for these walks because he has been at The Age of Running Away, meaning that if I say "stay by Mama" he runs toward the street. Yesterday, though, he happily walked in front of me and followed Dada for about half a mile before I put him in the seat just because we ( Read more... )

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Caileen and I spent Thursday night being massively ill. I am usually impervious to stomach woes, and ill on that scale tends to indicate food poisoning, so, we figured it was something we ate and Charles had somehow escaped despite eating the same thing. Friday evening, however, Charles came down with the same horrible bug, and we didn't eat ANY ( Read more... )

Max does a lot of talking. He says "pineapple," "chocolate," "dinosaur," "shoulders," and "please" (see "chocolate"). He also says "Hi Dada!" now - I think that's his only two word phrase at the moment. He still uses a lot of sign language of his own invention though, the most common of which is "stuck." It started with markers. The marker ( Read more... )