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We spent a short weekend deep in the woods of Eldorado National Forest with our good friends/neighbors. The Bay Area has a Mediterranean climate that keeps us warm and dry throughout the summer and blows the mosquitoes to far away regions. We confirmed before leaving that the weather in our destination was warm and dry. […]
It was a short first week for Sylvie at her new school, but long enough to be eventful. I posted pictures of the send-off on Wednesday, and no, Sylvie wasn’t the slightest bit worried about starting her new school. I was terrified – I packed her 2 changes of clothes, was that enough to get […]
We fell asleep last night to the sulphuric smoke of brightly colored cloud bottoms wafting into our open windows. Ah, July in the Bay Area! As is customary, Big Tow is driving WWII military vehicles in the Novato parade, this morning. As you can tell, the kids don’t find this exciting at all: (the blue […]
We just dropped the kids at school. Sylvie’s first day. Will lectured Sylvie all morning on what to do, where to sit, how to act. I think he may be the most excited. We got donuts for breakfast in hope that the alcohol released during the digestion of the sugars will make Sylvie more friendly. […]
It is a big week. Sylvie’s nanny share with Theo has come to an end, she is leaving her Spanish emersion school and heading off to big kid preschool to be near her brother. Will has been enthusiastically instructing her in the ways of preschool, Doug has been cheering her on, and Sylvie and I […]
… as Rustie so eloquently put it. Apparently the circus is over. We can all now go back to appreciating all that great music without wondering what sad turn of events will be next in Michael Jackson’s incredible career. Sad day. I’m hoping he left the kids to be raised by someone less troubled.
The new American Apparel shiny lame pants are highly coveted by all kids in my house. “I want the purple ones,” says Sylvie. “Ooh, get me the silver ones! No- the blue ones, do they have blue ones?” exclaims Will.
A recent fad to hit the microbrews on our coast is fresh hopping as a finishing step in brewing Pale Ales. In the traditional partial mash brewing technique, hops is boiled with the grains, losing much of it’s floral oils, which this fresh hopping returns to the brew. The green hopped beers have a grassy, […]
I had a full garden of baby fruit – (20) cherries, strawberries, (6) blueberries, a tree of lemons, … And something got there first!