K called to thank me for the Easter junk that J, D and I sent, and she mentioned that baby E had been to see another doctor because at 17 months, he had been delayed on some developmental milestones, and he wasn't far enough on the road to talking. (According to grampa, E's father started talking early, and he had a surprising vocabulary for his ( Read more... )

Saturday my brother and I walked the neighborhood around 4 in the afternoon, since the weather had mercifully dropped in the low 80's and there was some cloud cover. It was a nature-filled walk - saw a hawk, possibly a red tailed hawk, attempting a bird-strike on a sparrow in someones front yard on Northanna, saw a mockingbird attempt to intercept ( Read more... )

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