New Toys

A friend gave me a camera and a Smugmug account. (Actually, two friends gave the camera and one of them gave the Smugmug.) Here’s a link, in case you wonder what John and the boys look like, here’s your chance. (There’s one picture of me in there taken by the Cherubim.)  The best way to…

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New Toys

Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. A friend gave me a camera and a Smugmug account. (Actually, two friends gave the camera and one of them gave the Smugmug.) Here’s a link, in case you wonder what John and the boys look like, here’s your chance. (There’s one picture…

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Vegetable Times

So, yesterday, I came face to face with the ugly truth…that I was intimidated by trying to feed vegetables to the Cherubim. This was very embarrassing..>I am not usually prey to intimidation…but I had to admit that was why I did not confront him regularly and force the issue. As I prepared the plate of veggies, I thought to myself…

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Pie Madness

Yesterday, I undertook making the yearly pies while on the phone to my mortgage company. This turned out to be a bit of a mistake, as I wasn’t thinking quite as clearly as if I hadn’t been doing something else at the same time. (But I had been on hold an hour to talk with them. I wasn’t about…

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I Wonder As I Wonder…

Last night, we went on a candlelight tour of Sully Plantation, a local house dating back to the 1790s. We arrived to find Father Christmas dressed in green robes and his elves, who gave candy canes to the children, passed a tent and campfire surrounded by civil war soldiers (whom I insisted on calling ghosts,)…

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No Point Reading the News

I notice that when things change, you see a news article about it, and then a bunch more that don’t seem to know that it has happened. Like Global Cooling. A few articles came out showing that it was cooling…even Old Farmer’s Almanac…but this doesn’t stop the EU from passing grueling laws to stop Global…

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Modern games

I am so amused to hear my children play, because everything occurs in levels. They are standing in the living room, swinging boxes and hobby horses, pretending to have magic powers, and shouting at each other things like: "Okay, now we’re on Level Three." "No, you can’t use invisibility until you get to Level Seven!"…

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Child Logic

John: "Okay, it’s bedtime. Time to quiet down and read our bedtime book. You must put away the horse-weapon and the box-weapon." Juss to Orville, one tenth of a second later: "Okay. We pretend I have the box-weapon and you have the horse-weapon." So, what about you guys? What have your kids been saying lately (or your…

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Doctor Who — Part Two

As often happens with such things, a friend sent me his choice for the good Doctor, and now I can’t picture anyone else in the role. So, whomever they pick, I’ll probably be vaguely disappointed. The Talented Peter Wingfield                                                                                                                                                      As my friend said: "After all, we already know he can play a good quirky immortal wise-guy."

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