The 1st Sunday of Advent
Today is when the Advent season officially begins. The children can start putting the felt nativity characters on the advent calendar. Actually they should have started yesterday, but I’m not
News
Dishwasher
As of Wednesday, the dishwasher is running again! Hallelujah!
Catching Up
A lot has been going on…. Oct 31: Abigail turned 6! I took the kids and the triplets from next door around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. The first time our kids
Griffin Lodge
The South Branch Regional Library recently decided to have a Teen Writing competition, so naturally I decided I’d enter to see if I could string together a reasonable story. I
Critters
Well, I’ve already written about the snake, but I thought it was time to include pictures of the animals we choose to have around. First there’s Lucky the toad. He’s
Death of a Snake
Several weeks ago we discovered that a snake found the underside of our paddleboat a nice place to hang out, but Tartan had not been able to get enough of
The weather is getting nicer
I like October in Texas. The weather eventually starts to cool off and it’s a comfortable temperature outside. The cold front that came through yesterday was a very wet one
I wish my dishwasher was working
Our dishwasher gave up the ghost on 21 September. Of course, the part that needs to be replaced takes about 2 weeks to come in- so I should hearing something
Pardon my contest entry…
I entered to win the writing instruction program MY Access! Home and the SAT Prep Pack on the HSB Company Porch!
It’s October!
How did that happen? At the end of the month, Abigail will be six! She is planning on having a Spongebob themed party. I’m going to have to start thinking