May’s Mutterings: Rants and Ramblings
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 15
So the original intent of the post was to show you before and after photos of our driveway and front yard as the final items to have been renovated before winter set in. Here they are: The more entertaining photo, however, is of a tree that crashed into our backyard…
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William, Victor (sort of), Charles and Peter
This past holiday break has allowed us to do some things that we don’t normally have time to do (like seeing 3-hour movies, but I digress). There were several productions that we saw that we very much liked. The first is the Shakespeare Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Harman Hall stage resulted in a…
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May’s Rules for Ragamuffins in Restaurants
Tom Sietsema, the food critic for the Washington Post, has a weekly online chat about various restaurant and food-related issues. Every so often, there are chatters who complain about parents who bring children into restaurants. So I have decided to write May’s Rules for Ragamuffins in Restaurants in response. (This is mostly a venting session…
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and is having a wonderful holiday season!! In the spirit of the season, we are posting a photo of our 2012 gingerbread house (please note the snowball fight taking place in the front yard, complete with a snowball manufacturing facility) and our Christmas lights on our newly renovated…
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Protected: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Movie Trifecta
We don’t usually manage to get to movies much, as they require we be at a specific place at a specific time for two plus hours, and that is usually too much for our schedule to accommodate. Even when we get to the movie theatre, we rarely see anything that is not PG-13 or below. …
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Best Buddies Miami
We took the kids with us and spent this past weekend in Miami where we attended the Best Buddies Miami gala. Best Buddies (www.bestbuddies.org) is an organization that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing them opportunities for friendship, employment assistance, and leadership training. We’ve been involved with the organization since 1994, and…
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Disney Half-Marathon & 5K
Jim and I have been training to run a half-marathon since June. (I haven’t wanted to mention it because I didn’t want to jinx us.) We chose the Disney Wine and Dine Half-Marathon which was held at Disneyworld this past weekend on the theory that if we were really going to run a half-marathon, what…
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Protected: Halloween 2012
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Protected: Boy Scout camp
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