All the rain recently has given my 100 year old rose bushes LEAVES!  Maybe this means they'll survive the winter after having been transplanted.  As all they've had all summer is a little green wood, I'd pretty much figured they were not going to last the winter and I'd have to dig them up next year ( Read more... )

Monday P and I went to Marquette, Tuesday he was tested for what specific learning disability he has.  We also went to see UP, which is excellent.  And to Menards, where we got odd, misc. things like 2x4's and lettuce seed tape ( Read more... )

The boys and I were crabby on Saturday, so we drove down to our farm and hiked up to the Douglas Houghton falls (which are no longer open to the public, but our property borders them). It put all of us in a better mood. We didn't run into any little bears (a worry since the mama bear took up residence around the farm) or even any little squirrels ( Read more... )

Had a good, if cold and rainy, weekend.  Potted seedlings, played with baby, it was good ( Read more... )

It was M's 13th birthday on Saturday.   My youngest sister's boys spent the night.  There was a rousing networked game of Age of Empires, a long running pine cone fight, hours of plotting and planning for the next D&D game (which will happen after hockey is over, apparently, and before baseball-- my nephews are in very time consuming sports), and  ( Read more... )

The weekend was sunny and reasonably warm up here.  Saturday we did the boys classes (swimming for P and Aikido for M) then putzed around the house until dinner time.  I'd picked up Bolt earlier in the week and we decided to sit and watch it all together.  It was VERY funny.  The kids laughed, we laughed, all the signs of a good Disney movie.

Sunday ( Read more... )

I'm working on setting up an appointment with our client for Thursday.  We're very nearly through the first two stages of the contract and we need someone to approve it :)  Then it's on to the front page redesign.

The boys took a downhill ski racing class on Saturday.  They liked it, but not enough to actually want to race.  Especially after Patrick ( Read more... )

The first meeting of KeGS (Keweenaw Gluttony Society) went very well. The theme was german and we had an excellent Sauerbrauten, with spatzle and sauerkraut. the tceisele 's made a very nice sour cabbage and bacon side dish and brought a loaf of Stolen which was very good. P made a Swiss cheese fondue (on the assumption that anything with beer is german ( Read more... )

Got up early on Saturday because lorilei0120 had to work early, so I had to pick up Jax. The furnace was out. I looked out the window to make sure the vent wasn't plugged, then power cycled it. It started again. I think it does this when the wind is from a certain direction... I think that causes a backdraft on the vent and it thinks the vent is plugged ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful weekend. And we did nothing outside.

( How we spent the weekend... including cops, food and garbage )