1) What are you doing this spring that you weren't doing 1 year ago? Making a habit of running or cycling daily. 2) What pandemic precautions are you still taking? Giving people space, masking up indoors, seeing less of people than I'd like and giving strangers more personal space including stepping off the sidewalk as we pass each other. Also, ( Read more... )

The allergist's waiting room may be good for my writing, now that I've finished the Persepolis graphic novels (in the original French - my European-style swearing will be greatly improved) - thanks, spacefem for the impetus! Persepolis got more personal and relatable as I got further along; the voice was funny and poignant and the drawing was always ( Read more... )

The rest of August went by quickly, but left some evidence behind. With the help of Oscar and the neighbour kid, I built some garden boxes out front. We still need some dirt and then to transplant a few things in, but the boxes look good ( Read more... )

Ada is now over two months old! She has been camping, is starting to stick her hands in her mouth, babbles a bit and still sleeps pretty well.

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Here are some pictures from March to recently… we made it through the chilly spring, had a baby, discovered Vivien’s career aspirations, and hit the Ormstown Fair.


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Ada is ten days old today. She's 10% heavier than at birth, doing all the infant things, looking around a bunch, and has completely skipped "newborn" as a clothing size. I think I have the transition to parental leave more or less down this time - a few days of leave before the birth were a nice ease-in, and now I'm definitely coffee-powered but ( Read more... )

Last week, I took some photos of our bare-looking but largely planted garden.
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The holidays went by pretty fast - it felt like we were doing something social nightly for about two weeks. It's a good thing Oscar generally seems to like parties!

Christmas eve, we went over to Elizabeth's parents' place for the traditional nut loaf, cookies, rum balls and gifts. Christmas day, we drove to Ormstown and joined 17 or so family at ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Fathered a child (well, I guess some salient bits were done in 2009), grew peas, built a hardwood floor, drafted a will, published a statistics paper, took a train in business class, drove a pickup truck.
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It's been a little while since I've summarized what's up in point form.
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• Healthy
• Getting the hang of caring for Oscar and being domestic
• Put down flagstones in the back yard
• Gathered a bunch of kale seeds for next year
• Oscar's first overnight trip to my parents' place went well