Aug 11 2010

The kids and I decide to finish shopping for school supplies. Mary insists that only WalMart has the colored folders she needs.

On the way, we detour to visit the new location of Smith Flat Charter School

We're considering Smith Flat to augment our planned homeschooling.  It is a college prep charter that holds classes only 2 days a week.


It's down a very unassuming country road, just outside of unassuming Diamond Springs.

I love this place - I mean, the Mother Lode country in the Sierra foothills.   It's pickup trucks full of hay bales and Harleys parked in front of bars.

Aug 9 2010

Jonathan and his friend JR camped overnight in the woods a few hundred yards from the house.

As the sun rises there's a strange silhouette in the tree 

I'm embarrassed that, until I examined the snapshot, I didn't recognize the turkeys.

We know this pair; it's a hen and chick that visit the birdfeeder.  Something must have spooked them for to roost so high.

Aug 8 2010

If I don't post everyday, I forget what happened.

Looking back at August 8th, I find a photo to remind me that Mary & I sat in a far field to watch the sun set.

Lost is the full overflowing day, and even the dancing conversation we had as we stared out at these trees and fields.  I'm certain we talked about the hummingbird's clicking, and Old Man N who originally built the house across the way, and...

Aug 7 2010

• I take a slow walk by myself in the morning.
• Stray to the vet for a checkup.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Aug 6 2010

• Jonathan's Last Day (of his summer job)
• I drive Mary over to Stephanie's for a swim, talk to Lisa
• Mary's Last Day (of her summer job)
• I reward them with fast food for dinner

Aug 5 2010

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Aug 4 2010

• Mary & I to the Feed'n'Seed, for bird food and to look at the saltwater aquariums.

• We also bought some catnip, but our stray cat ignores it.
• Always 1000 adventures on a walk around the neighborhood
  

• Click on the hawk for magic moment
• The kids love Trollope's The Way We Lived;  I have the weirdest pre-teens in the world.
• At the same time they're on a Donna Reed binge...