Some vignettes from our trip this weekend – this time at Pensacola: We appear to have developed a little habit that we probably should break ASAP. ‘Tis the habit of taking our annual fall beach trip, and then picking up a new furry family member on the way home. We’ve had Jasper a full year…
Labor Day Morning Meal Planning
Well clearly this has been in drafts for some time . . . Dinner prep is kind of complicated during hurricane season. Don’t want to have too much in the freezer . . . we’ve learned from painful expensive experience! Here is the list (ETA – still haven’t made quite a few of these, so…
I Pickleballed, and Other Updates
Well. Pickleball is quite fun. We played on Friday night. Even though I wasn’t very good (I can’t help but hit the ball way too hard and it flies miles outside the line); and even though I ended up playing two games against a VERY condescending mansplainer while my husband monitored my response out of…
Studious Beagle is Studious
So HOWWWW goes the start of the school year for you all? Jasper is ready to get rolling on some projects. As are these boys! Fourth grader reporting for duty. He and the 8th grader started school on the same day. I forgot to take a picture of the tenth grader when he started a…
Herky Jerky and Hot
OK. Indulge me in one rant about starting the school year in the middle of a run of “feels like 120 degrees” weather. OMG. It’s so hot and miserable. OMG. Their schools annoy me most of the time anyway, and the sizzling, rain free, humid steam room heat and scraggly dead vegetation means I am…