May’s Mutterings: Rants and Ramblings
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 13
There is flooring (and paint)! So, lots of exciting things have been happening inside our house (lots of exciting things have been happening outside our house, too, but that’s not the subject of this blog post). First, this is a photo of the master bedroom sitting room, and you will note that there is wood…
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The Servant of Two Masters
We saw The Servant of Two Masters at the Shakespeare Theatre last weekend. The play is by Carlo Goldoni and is an example of Italian commedia dell’arte. It was an interesting play and certainly captured the attention of the audience, some of whom were laughing uproariously through the entire performance. I liked it but didn’t…
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The Avengers (the movie)
We saw The Avengers over the Memorial Day weekend. Before I say anything more about it, I just want to make sure that everyone understands that we are a family who likes cartoonishly violent movies (with the possible exception of Jim, who, at least, tolerates cartoonishly violent movies). That being said, we enjoyed The Avengers…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 12
The entertaining thing about the renovations (if living in the basement for 5 months and counting can be called entertaining) is that there are surprises every time we go upstairs and look at the progress. Of course, this is primarily because we have no idea what any of the colors or tile or flooring is…
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Chinese Water Clock
Our 10 year old is studying ancient China at school this year, and as part of the curriculum, he had to make a model of a Chinese water clock (being a boy, he was bummed that he didn’t get his first choice, the crossbow). Fortunately, Jim is really good at these projects, and after a…
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Inconveniences not problems
As I was standing in the line at the post office this morning, stressing about all that has to be done over the next few days, I learned that a child of a friend of mine who has a controlled but serious medical disorder had relapsed. This reminded me of the true priorities in life…
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Happy Anniversary!
We’ve been married 22 years as of today! It’s been more fun and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. Happy anniversary, sweetie!! Postscript: we spent the day shuttling child #1 to and from a bat mitzvah service and party and going to a school event for child #2. The day concluded with a…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 11
We have drywall on both floors! We have paint on the upper floor! I will post photos soon, but one dry-walled room looks very much like any other dry-walled room, so unless you have dry wall obsession, it’s not that interesting. Most importantly, we have tentative move-back-in date(s)!! It looks like we will be able…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 10
We have drywall! Well, on the 2nd floor, we have drywall in all of the bedrooms. (The main floor still looks like marauding hordes of Vikings have gone through it.) I have been told by those who know these things that once drywalling starts, everything else falls into place very quickly (painting, flooring, etc.). I…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 9
We were evicted from our basement in mid-March as Mr. Le needed to work on the HVAC and electrical systems and have them inspected. (You know that you have sunk to a new low in home renovation when you can’t even stay in your own basement.) The eviction was originally scheduled to be for 2…
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