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suuummmeeerrrrr
The kids keep grousing at me about what a boring summer we're having since we decided not to try to scrounge up the 500 plus bucks to join the neighborhood pool this year. Plus we aren't going to the beach on vacation. My parents had some very scary health issues this past winter, and still aren't back to good. We are road tripping to see said ( Read more... ) -
Bounce house
So I'm on the phone trying to reserve a moon bounce for our upcoming Burgerfest. We're tired of the usual place we use. Last year their POS castle kept collapsing on top of the kids. So, I call one place and they say they're out of county, and I have to call their office in my county . . . so fine I do ( Read more... ) -
Summer of damp
We've had a number of drought summers - times when the trees had turned brown and crunchy by the end of July. This year it's the monsoon season. We've had days of drizzle, overcast spitting, and gullywashing thunderstorms booming down after dark for weeks now. Everything is as green as Ireland outside with a gorgeous fecund smell of life as soon as ( Read more... ) -
Gods Bless America
We celebrated 4th of July and survived. It's not a favorite holiday of mine - tending toward the sticky and the crowded, and a jingoistic knee-jerk patriotism. It feels like a Summer Solstice for the Muggles - I mean there are any number of dates we could pick to celebrate the birth of our Nation. This one just turns out to be an AWESOME time to ( Read more... ) -
Closing
A little card shop in the local strip mall closed down recently. It was a Hallmark store and seemed like a complete anachronism sandwiched between a pizza place and Dollar General. They sold overpriced chocolates, cards, Hallmark doodads, and lottery tickets. I'm convinced it was the lottery tix that kept them in business as long as they were open ( Read more... ) -
Noticing
Every summer I notice something new about the neighborhood. Well, it usually isn't something actually NEW, just something I've never paid much attention to before. One year it was flowers. One year it was maroon, purplish trees. While most trees turn green in the summer, some remain a weird dark color - some plums and maples and such. I'd seen them ( Read more... ) -
Summer Solstice for UUCC
So, we the folks of Turning Circle pulled off another great Summer Solstice service for UUCC last weekend. I looked at my stack of programs, and we've been doing this since 2005 - woo hoo! This year was a combo of being both on actual Summer Solstice AND Father's Day on June 21st. That only happened one time before that we did a service on Father's ( Read more... ) -
First week
Okaaaay - first full week of summer break. It feels like it's been longer than a few days, but we'll hit our stride. The last week of school was so nuts. Everyone kept getting out half day, and Bri kept having to bring in special things for a picnic, and a stuffed animal and movie day ( Read more... ) -
Summer solstice service
As I usually do this time of year, I am leading a Summer Solstice service this coming Sunday for our UU church. This year it also happens to be Father's day. I looked back at past Orders of Service, and see that it's been 10 years since we last overlapped with a Father's day. We are calling this year's service. Summer Solstice: We Honor the Fathers ( Read more... ) -
Balticon
Wow, it's already over a week past, but we took the kids to Balticon over Memorial day weekend. We broke things down into manageable chunks, CZ and big kids went over Friday night, and he did a room party on that slow night. In the past he's done big theme parties like "Choclicon" with two chocolate fountains going. This year we were feeling low ( Read more... )