So very hot....  I am having trouble keeping the weeds watered enough.  They're drying out as badly as the marigolds are.  Pretty much all of the pumpkin plants are toast.  A few still have some green leaves, but none of them look at all happy ( Read more... )

Today I took all three kids to the Exploratorium all by my lonesome.  I went in with three kids.  I came out with three kids.  They might even be the same three...  We had a lovely, if messy and wet, time.  I navigated the streets of San Francisco without batting an eye.  Then we kidnapped a friend for dinner and hung out with him for a while until ( Read more... )

Tina likes that Chip (our big dog) can't eat corn.  He's got a food allergy *just like her*.  She's not the only one in the house that always hears, "oh, you can't have that - it has X in it..."  He's a comrade in arms, so to speak.

More mortgage-foreclosure-short-sale fun today.  I have such a headache and I'd like nothing better than to have this whole mess over and done with.  I don't even care how it turns out.  I just want to be able to spend my time on more important stuff like raising the kids!  I have had two full years to mourn the loss of the farm and I would really ( Read more... )

I dropped the girls off at Bela's office on my way to the orthopedist's office (close by) so I actually got a 1.5 hour vacation.  That made the whole office visit much more enjoyable for everyone (possible exception of Bela, who looked a little frazzled when I retrieved the kids ( Read more... )

There are good reasons I don't change the girls' beds as often as I should ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I see the orthopedic hand specialist about my broken finger.  I'm hoping it'll be a matter of "Yeah, it's healing fine and you should be able to take the splint off in a week".  I'm dreading "What kind of an idiot doesn't notice she has a broken bone for *five weeks*?!?!" ++  It'll probably be somewhere in the middle.  This is nearly 7 ( Read more... )

Today during my "free time", I shovelled out the van.  It's been bad for a while.  Here, for your amusement, is a list of what I removed:

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Typing is going to be hard for a while.  A month ago I hurt my left ring finger trying to catch one of my dogs that one of my kids let out the front door.  He escaped and came home about 15 minutes later.  I wound up with a sore finger - very sore.  It seemed to be getting better after the first few days.  I taped it to my middle finger for support ( Read more... )

My reward for completing the Tour de Fleece (other than all the lovely yarn and experience):


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