I spent half of this past week on Prince Edward Island, visiting Ian, Jannah and the newest addition to the Toms family, Emma, who is a very sweet, well-disposed baby indeed (what a long way we’ve come since the days when Ian lived in the part of the dorm at McGill affectionately known as “The [...]
Entries from July 31st, 2010
Rice County Fair
July 26th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Eleanor, Dan, Cati (and baby F-H in utero) and I visited the Rice County Fair last Friday in Faribault, our County Seat (home to the best high kick dance team ever). There was a petting zoo filled with miniature, baby (and even some miniature baby) animals. Baby human and baby animals – together at last! [...]
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Eleanor is a Chicken
July 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Eleanor has fears that come and go. For a while, she was extremely afraid of the vaccuum cleaner, hand blender, hair dryer and coffee grinder. Then she wasn’t. Then she was. Now she isn’t. She actually pats the vaccuum cleaner and follows it around like a dear friend when I get my act together to [...]
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A tale of two chickens
July 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Chickens
It has been a week of chicken-related highs and lows. Last Saturday, Eleanor, Emily, Dan H. and I drove out to a local farm to buy two chickens. As you may well know, Dan and Bonnie already have chickens. They had four chickens until very recently when Betty mysteriously died (RIP). I won’t bore you [...]
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The Garden
July 12th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Garden, House
When we first moved in, one of my priorities was to fix up the front garden, which, at the time, was best described as a thistle patch. I took a great deal of care choosing a handful of perennials and grasses and grandly told people “I’m planting a garden”. Torontonians and Chicagoans would murmur approvingly [...]
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The Weiszes
July 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Carleton, EDG, Visitors
Sandy, Sarah and Ezra (of baby-zombie fame) are in town. We’re having a wonderful time catching up, watching Eleanor & Ezra together (although they are largely ignoring each other. Eleanor pays attention long enough to take whatever Ezra happens to have in his hand), and generally just chilling out. On Friday, we spent some time [...]
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