We don’t have a lot of little kids in my immediate family, but my sister has two dogs. They are Lab crosses and they are a lot of work. None the less my sister dressed them up and took them down to the local mall to enter them into a costume contest sponsored by Woofy’s…

Today was the first decent day in the last few so we got up early and finished our overhaul of the shrubberies near the front door of my mom’s house…

Today wasn’t the best day. Last night I couldn’t sleep. I was reading “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” and I got up to look up a book on actual motorcycle maintenance, you’d be surprised how influential this book is. It is found in the philosophy section, but I’m more interested in the motorcycle maintenance and I guess the father son dynamic. My dad was a biker…

Yesterday, yes yesterday, we had a large family dinner at my mother’s house. It was a potluck, but still as the hosts we had to do more than our share of preparation. I never had to cook anything, but I did get up at 7am to start cleaning and setting up…

In addition to peanut butter, Huuna also loves socks. Every morning she goes around and picks up yesterday’s socks off the floor. She tries to fit as many in her mouth as she can. “Socks” is one of the words she understands. You can really get her going by repeating it in a silly voice…