Ninety-Eight

Posted on November 1st, 2009 by egiles

Sunday morning MH and Alden made waffles.  After breakfast Alden played in the woods with MH as I lit the burn pile in the back.  It took a long time to get started, probably because everything has been so wet.  It was the largest blaze I’ve ever made.  It died down within 20 minutes.
We then [...]

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The Houston Zoo and Train

Posted on September 30th, 2009 by egiles

Alden came into Houston with MH Wednesday morning so he could go to the doctor with us and see the ultra sounds.  When I asked him what he wanted to do on Wednesday, he said go to school.  He had been to visit his future school the day before and didn’t want to leave.
After MH [...]

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Hiking at Lake Somerville

Posted on September 20th, 2009 by egiles

Alden said he wanted to go to the county fair, and was walking around saying, “go to county fair”.   After a quick nap, we cheked where to go to the fair.  Unfortunately, when we checked how to get there, yesterday was the last day.  Shucks!  So, we started saying “go to the lake!”  And Alden [...]

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Snakes!

Posted on September 20th, 2009 by egiles

On Saturday, I mowed the front yard and hit a copper head!  It was almost full grown.  How scary.  I had to finish him off with a shovel since it was still alive trying to bite a stick.
On Sunday, I went out to finish weed-eating from last weekend.  I got the weed-eater out, put in [...]

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Alden spends the night at Grandma’s house

Posted on September 19th, 2009 by egiles

I got home late Friday night as I had to finish up work and then miss traffic.  MH had made an excellent pot-pie that she heated up and we got to bed and watched some Poirot.  Saturday morning we slept in a little and MH made some coffee and French toast.  It was very yummy.  [...]

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