September 14 2010

Too many ripening bananas means banana pudding.

September 13 2010

Left the kids at home doing schoolwork...

...homeowners' association fixing culvert before winter rains...

...doveweed & horeshound

September 12 2010

Mary & I take a 2 hour walk, identify some new plants - Chaparral Honeysuckle, California Goldenrod - and got pictures of others to research...

...watched bluebirds feast on elderberries...

...later headed to town for some shopping...

...mistakenly bought parrot feed instead of bird seed...

...yard work before dinner...

September 11 2010

Morning:  Jonathan goes running, Mary & I go walking

chickory

Evening movie: 1995 BBC version of Austen's  Persuasion
 

The casting, the acting were stupendous.

September 10 2010

My birthday.  Happily surprised to learn I'm a year younger than I kinda figured.    There were greetings from childhood friends on Facebook.

Kids and I to library after school.

Drove Jonathan to an evening party.  Passed through small towns on the way.

September 9 2010

Walk while kids at school.

There is a fierce little airplane buzzing over the fields, diving then soaring out of sight.  It was amazing, it hardly made any noise - and incredibly fast.  A new technology?  I saw an old man in his driveway controlling the thing.

X-Country Meet

COLD.  Temperature dropped from 100 to 65.   The sky is overcast.

Day spent anticipating the Big Meet.  After lunch I pull a group of kids from school and drive to Rasmussen Park.

In the back seat the kids talk:

• nurses checked heads for lice and some kids were sent home.  "Lice can hide in blond hair."  "What's the singular of 'lice'?"  "Jackson came back to school with a bald head!"

Mary & Jonathan both compete, but there's lots of dead time for crowdwatching.

Jonathan got 4th Place ribbon; Mary placed 30th in her group.