My perseverance has met a new challenge this week: strategic lawn watering. M. spent hours and hours this weekend dethatching (had to look it up in wikipedia), seeding and fertilizing the huge expanse of lawn that surrounds our house. Most of the lawn went into hiding (i.e. dormancy) as temperatures hit 105deg F this summer, with little rain for ( Read more... )

When M. asked my plans for winter break, I told him, "Oh clean up the office (in our house), donate stuff to goodwill, work on my resumes/applications, prep for my winterims class." Of course, today I have been completely free of all encumbrances, primed to get started on my list ( Read more... )