I’m Gonna Count to Three

I’m Gonna Count to Three

Amanda finished making cupcakes for Milly’s party this weekend.  She also found out that the traditional parental threat of “If you don’t [insert undesired action by offspring] by the time I count to three, I’m going to [insert punishment here] doesn’t work on Milly. What happened was that Milly was reaching up on the counter […]

A Farewell to the Johnsons

The Johnsons joined us for dinner tonight and brought presents for Milly, since they will be leaving before her birthday.  Milly was extremely excited to see that she was getting prizes.  Prizes are was she calls surprises, which, over the last few weeks has been toys, food, dessert… all kinds of different things. Tonight Milly’s […]

Fine Dining Restaurant-Quality Dinner

Fine Dining Restaurant-Quality Dinner

Our small group was treated to a fine dining restaurant-quality dinner by the Ayars tonight.  No joke.  I mean their place smelled like a restaurant. The first course was what Paul described as sort of a fisherman’s soup.  Honestly, I didn’t like a lot of the stuff in it, but I did give it a […]

Neighborhood Traffic

Neighborhood Traffic

Milly and I took a walk to the store this morning because we were kind of low on breakfastable foods.  I have never seen so many cars pass through our neighborhood as I did this  morning.  There are two entrances to our neighborhood off a semi-major road, and it just so happened that there was […]

Burning Trees

Burning Trees

I spent a few hours today burning limbs and clippings from what Phil and I cut yesterday.  As you can see from the picture, I had several tree’s worth of debris.  In case you’re wondering, the fire was behind that pile, in the burn pit.  I wasn’t burning that massive pile in the middle of […]