6. The Pacific Crest Trail, William R Gray. 196pp
Typical National Geographic book: lots of pictures (which I loved), text fairly well-written but still a bit tedious to read all at once. After reading "A Walk in the Woods" I was interested in learning more about our own trail. We passed one of the access points thereto in our recent snow hunt, and ( Read more... )

So, I took my violin to the music store to have Gary take a look at my fine-tuners. He was out, so I went to Teen Challenge to kill some time until he came back.

As I was perusing the 49-cent rack outside, a short, very tubby dude with sparse grey beardage and sweaty strings of hair spilling out from his baseball cap came out with a woman in a ( Read more... )

Number of times Molly burned her mouth with electricity: 2
Number of pro wrasslers met: 1
Number of patterns transferred to 9x12 manila envelopes: 15

Molly is on the floor. She was happily playing with her toys until I opened my LJ update window. Figures. I love my chubby little pumpkin ( Read more... )

Let's start the year off right with a chipper Janeway, shall we ( Read more... )

Following some sage advice from a krikketgirl, this mother decided to go ahead and start transitioning M to her crib in the other room. First step: portable crib at foot of our bed. This way she's by neither of our heads (specifically mine), but still handy to fetch when nom time cometh. Going to try this for a few nights and see if it helps us (and her) ( Read more... )

The office seems really huge now that the cot and the ironing board and the car seat box and scores of other things are no longer on the floor. I can deal with that. Dan cleaned out the coat closet downstairs and reorganised it. I think he's nesting ( Read more... )

• 09:45:23: is not happy with the Indian child sponsorship people. At all.
  
• 15:00:13: @ jacquelynfisher Oh, I'm just annoyed that they do not seem to care to communicate with me no matter how much I try to contact them...
  
• 15:00:38: is sitting on the couch with an achy back while Anna sweeps cobwebbery from the ceiling.
  
• 16:44:41: like a ravening she- ( Read more... )

• 08:24:55: is up after a long and crampy night. Now her back hurts and she has to think of something for breakfast.
  
• 10:24:13: is pondering her plan of action for the day. She thinks perhaps the most intimidating project should be tackled first: the Office of Doom.
  
• 14:30:11: has a burnt tongue from her yummy split pea-potato soup.
  
• 21:16:14: won a ( Read more... )

• 07:13:59: is out of bed. Would rather stay IN bed.
  
• 08:21:34: getting ready to go for her morning walk... er, morning waddle.
  
• 09:54:52: thinks she was wrong in believing she descended from ducks. It had to have been penguins.
  
• 11:02:29: is working on the Baldwin Herald, eating dried cranberries, feeling GooGoo wiggle, and listening to Fernando ( Read more... )