It has been a busy, fun-filled Fall ’round these parts, and as I have had many aspirations…yet few actulizations…of blogging, here is our Fall summed up in four photo collages: FALL HARVEST Although we planted four pumpkin plants (one jack-o-lantern and three pie), only one plant survived and only one solitary pumpkin on that plant thrived. As [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Fall by Four
Posted in At Home, In the Kitchen, Kids, Out & About, Random, Running on November 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Home & On Our Own for the holidays
Posted in At Home, In the Kitchen, Kids, Running on November 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This year marks my husband’s and my tenth Thanksgiving together, and this was the first we’ve shared with no extended family or friends (we’ll be spending Christmas the same way this year). It was just us and our boys in our little home, in our own kitchen, at our uncrowded table. My original plan was [...]
Pumpkin Ice Cream Recipe
Posted in At Home, In the Kitchen on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had a few people say that they wanted the recipe to my pumpkin ice cream from this post. Sorry it has taken me so long to get it up. I had actually just improvised my ice cream on a whim, combining a simple vanilla recipe that I really like with a pumpkin recipe that [...]
Smarty Pants
Posted in Kids on November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We’ve known for years that our eldest is a smarty pants. What isn’t clear is just how long he’s actually known this about himself. My boy came home from school one day last week and asked me what a “nerd” is. He said a kid at school had said he was a nerd because he’s [...]
Do You Know The Difference Between a Kenyan and a Keynesian?
Posted in Just in Jest, Random on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If the answer is yes, then you’re smarter than these “Rally to Restore Sanity” folk… And I really hope the answer is yes.
Marco Rubio…I Like What I’m Hearing
Posted in Politics on November 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I Live In A Circus
Posted in FREEDOM, Just in Jest, Society on November 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The latest madness from the Nannie state: San Francisco is now banning happy meal toys. Here’s the problem, here is where it becomes clear that there is a battle raging between do goodism and freedom, pure and simple. What happens when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors realizes that despite the lack of toys, Happy [...]