the baby’s baptism was last weekend. then we had a party for her and for the boy’s birthday. never have there been so many little feet running around my house. at one point i considered getting out the baby gate to lock them all upstairs. pictures at the other website.
we were having some issues with bedtime since the boy and girl moved into the same room, so the boy came up with a solution. when everything is done (books, hugs, teeth brushed, etc) and it is time for them to go to bed we set a timer for five or ten or fifteen minutes,
yesterday was “special persons day” at the boy’s school. all the kids were allowed to bring in one adult to see the classroom, school, etc. so he picked me and i was back to school for a couple of hours in the morning. it was pretty cool, i got to see all the various rooms;
i had to go get my oil changed over lunch so i took a few pictures of hazy cleveland on the way back downtown from the west side from cliff drive from the top of edgewater park from the bottom of edgewater park from the end of wendy park on whiskey island cleveland browns stadium
we made it back pretty much unscathed from our trip to the country. the only highway excitement was on the way home when the wife was driving, a big rig had a tire blow out about a hundred feet in front of us. pretty loud but the truck driver was unfazed and just kept going
we’ll be loading up the family truckster and heading south again this weekend, in a couple of hours in fact. stopping in cinnci tonight and then on to the annual fall festival in kentucky on saturday. activities promised include fishing, horse rides, the fall hay ride, the big bonfire and camping out. the big kids
here is a look at the current basement setup: picture one, you can see shelves with some of my gaming stuff, my fencing helmet, the monitor for my firewall on top of two old ups’s and the top of the firewall itself sliding to the right you can see the bright light, one of the
i finally got a good picture of the dsl setup and i added it to this earlier post you can see where the two new phone lines come in and where i split the lines before the phone goes into the punch block (the phones for the house) and the other line goes to the dsl
this weekend is the harvest moon, it is called that because it gives off enough light to let farmers work late into the night harvesting their crop. at least, that’s what i recall. all my crops are in so i won’t have to use the extra light. i took the big kids for a walk one
this was the first week the boy took the bus to school so some morning scheduling adjustments had to be made. his bus is supposed to arrive a couple of houses down the street from our house at 7:37am but the kids who rode it last week informed us it was arriving early. apparently we are the
