11 posts from April 2009

Fiesta!!

Apr 30, 2009
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Last Saturday we had a fiesta engagement party for Billy and Tia. We've finally recovered enough to do a blog post about it. Everyone seemed to have a great time and fortunately they all came hungry, so we didn't have all that much food left over. It was a nice prelude to the upcoming wedding and we got to meet a lot of their friends. Another little girl was there and she and Jessie played wonderfully together. Jessie made it to about 10:00 and then Boppie generously offered to take her back to her place for a sleepover. Being suddenly childless caused us to get a bit too crazy though. We're too old to try to party like that these days.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Apr 24, 2009
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Clifford, the subject of many excellent books that Jessie is very fond of, paid a visit to Jessie's daycare this afternoon. Boppie was there to pick her up and caught some of the action.

Morning walk

Apr 20, 2009
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Purple Mountain Saxifrage in the house

Lucy walking faithfully by us.

The weather continues to be gorgeous, so this morning Jessie and I took the dogs for a walk on the North Hills. A few flowers have started to pop up with a lot more on their wayers have started to pop up with a lot more on their way.

Sammy way off ahead exploring.

At the top. Good thing for cheerios and raisins.

Busy week

Apr 20, 2009
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I have been on standby to watch my friend Heather's daughter, Hanna, when she goes into labor. Last Wednesday morning I got the call and Jessie and I headed up to Big Fork (near Kalispell) to play with Hanna while Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital. In the rush to get ready, I forgot the camera. Big mistake because Jessie and Hanna were so cute playing together. They are exactly 2 months apart and they get along very well. It was a big potty-thon - as soon as one of them said she had go, the other did too. Good thing Hanna has 2 potties because they was a lot of simultaneous peeing! No accidents at all!

This past weekend Ryan and Elizabeth came over for a visit from Billings. Greg and Ryan got some good biking in, while Elizabeth, Jessie, and I did some serious playing on the playground. They had face painting at the park that day, so Jessie got a strawberry on her cheek. After they left we got a bunch of early stuff planted in our garden - spinach, sweet peas, sugar snap peas, lettuce, beets, onions, and swiss chard. Jessie helped plant about 60 onions sets and then I suggested Daddy and she go play at the playground for a while. She was into it, but not the best little gardener yet. The plan is to have a bunch of climbing stuff grow over all the hog wire fencing to save growing space and make it pretty. Hope it works!

Graduated to the Big Girl swings.

Found a ball

Shredded cheese rocks!

Apr 14, 2009
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Easter

Apr 13, 2009
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Jessie had a fun filled Easter day that started out by dyeing eggs. Then she went to visit some donkeys - she didn't like the donkeys too much. They were a bit overwhelming. She also saw a puppy and rolled in a giant pile of donkey poop. After her nap, Billy, Tia and Boppy came over for dinner and she got to hunt eggs in the yard. She liked finding eggs so much, we had to hide them again and again. Then she hid them...and found them. Good fun.

Fenced and ready to go

Apr 11, 2009
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Dog proof at last

The garden is now fenced. Tomorrow we go pick up and till in a pickup load of donkey poop. Then we are ready to sow chard, lettuce, spinach, and kale.

Easter egg hunt

Apr 11, 2009
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Our haul: 3 pieces of candy and a tatoo.

We went to the University Easter egg hunt today. Roughly 10 gajillion plastic eggs and pieces of candy were spread all over the oval in the middle of campus and every kid in town (or so it seemed) stood on the sidewalks, poised to lunge out onto the grass to greedily swipe as much loot as possible right as the bell tower struck 1 o'clock. It was all over in about 90 seconds. Jessie ended up with 3 pieces of candy.

The new bike

Apr 7, 2009
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The girls pose nicely

Whip

This project is over 2 years old. It has laid, sat, and hung in my garage in various stages of completion through 2 winters and now it is complete. And I really like it. It is a light, simple, fast, single speed town bike. I chose the 3/4 strap on fenders for simplicity and because I will likely ride my cruiser if the weather gets sloppy enough to warrant full on fenders. This bike is fun and cheap - the Karmann Ghia of bikes.

Spring is back

Apr 5, 2009
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Pre-dinner play

Eating lunch on the back patio

We were able to eat dinner outside for the first time this season today. We also got all the sod cut from the garden and loaded in the truck. Now all we have to do is fence it, till it, and plant it. Jessie had fun at the playground this morning and then in the yard all afternoon. Sharon got a good trail run in with Elizabeth, Skagit, and our dogs, and I got a nice long (although still snowy and muddy in the hills) ride. We even dried a load of clothes on the line outside!