The Banana had a run in with a piece of furniture in a neighbor’s house yesterday afternoon.  The furniture won. Dr. Peds suspected that her toe might be broken, and it turns out that he surmised correctly.  This morning he took her in to have it checked, and an Xray…

We’ve had our toaster since we’ve gotten married.  It has four slots for extra thick bread, and I haven’t encountered a lot of toasters like that.  I like our toaster a great deal.  However, in its old age it is getting to be a bit unpredictable, and if you don’t watch…

  Last weekend I traveled with the Arrowhead Chorale to Winnipeg, Manitoba for a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers with the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and The Winnipeg Singers (a professional chorale ensemble). It meant getting up before sunrise to get on a bus as the sun was rising so that we…

We were waiting for YaYa who was having a piano lesson, and decided to take a quick walk around the block.  There are two Little Free Libraries within a block of YaYa’s piano teacher’s house.  When we got to the second library, Mt. TOF pulled out a Disney book from…

Last weekend I hopped on a charter bus with the Arrowhead Chorale last weekend to travel to Winnipeg for a performance (a post is coming about that soon). Before I left my little guy with very mixed emotions said, “I’m really happy you are going to have fun singing, but…

About five weeks ago my external CD/DVD drive randomly stopped working.  I discovered in the morning one day when I was in a tremendous rush to burn a CD to use at a music class that I teach.  The drive wouldn’t read the CD no matter what I tried.  It…

Mr. TOF and I were reading a children’s picture  book.  At the end of the book, a mean and nasty Rat repented of his thieving ways and spent the rest of his life sweeping in a cake shop. Me:  If your job was sweeping every day, where would you want…

Someone, and I’m not really actually sure who, managed to slice through the edge of a feather pillow with a fingernail clipper. You can about imagine the glorious mess. Classic. Luckily, YaYa could be bribed with a steep payment to do a patch-up job, and I still have a pillow…