We’ve got pedaling down. It’s steering and stopping we have trouble with still. Mr. Perpetual Mess likes to ride this trike as fast as possible across the driveway and crash into “Treasure Island” (a circle of grass with two very large scraggley pine trees in the middle of the roundabout…

I have a secret love of poultry. Not just to eat. I think ducks, chickens and geese in particular are just wonderful creatures. I can sit and watch them all day. Our neighbors told me about the duck pond in one of the very old cemeteries near my house, and…

Yesterday was our wedding anniversery. I don’t know what it is about our wedding anniversery, but for some reason BOTH of us have trouble remembering that it is on the twenty second of May and not the twenty third or twenty fourth. And throughout the last eight years, we’ve actually…