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YaYa and Her Week at Camp
Although she’s gone again, this time to North Dakota to spend time with Grandma Kathy and Auntie Dot and some beautiful horses, YaYa returned from Bible Camp and talked up a storm for the two days she was home. She loved camp even more this year than last year, and…
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July Four
We were up and out of bed, and ready to decorate bikes! The Banana wanted a flag to go across her handlebars, and helium balloons to attach to the back of her banana seat. We filled in the rest of the bike with streamers. This year several of our neighborhood…
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The New-to-Us Vintage Bike
Because we have rough and tumble bike riders around here, some of our ultra-cheap-acquired-at-garage-sale bikes have deteriorated to the point of not being able to be fixed up. Specifically, Mr. SP’s bike is in pretty bad shape, according to Dr. Peds, so he has been on the lookout for reasonably…
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2013 Sunday Night at the Beach: Part 3 (Singing the Alphabet with Gusto)
He does love to sing the alphabet. Mr. TOF has the melody down pat, and just substitutes random letters in a completely random order. The beauty of this is that the performance is always fresh for the audience, with an improvisational feel. The flat rocks at the beach apparently seemed…
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Turtle Encounter
On Friday afternoon Mr. Trouble on Feet and I drove to Hartley Nature Center to pick up The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants from their afternoon classes (which they loved). I parked the car and happened to look over at the start to one of the hiking trails and saw…
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Things I Learned in June
Inspired by Emily at Chatting at the Sky who has been making a list of things she’s learned each month, I decided to join in with her other readers and blog about my own list of things I have learned during the month of June this year. 1. A Troika is…