My sister Maureen e-mailed Laurel an Amazon gift card for Laurel’s June birthday. Laurel bought yarn and needles and learned to knit by reading some online instructions. She intended to make a scarf but made it too wide, so she called it a “thneed” from Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. She recently finished it and gave…
I hadn’t been to Kings Island (amusement park) since I was a teenager, and I think I had more fun today than I ever did then. There was no teenage-girl drama. (My friends and I used to get season passes, and usually one of us was being a pill.) We only waited in two short…
We met Amy and her family at the zoo on August 17, Amy’s 43rd birthday. It’s a wonderful place, and they’re doing lots of environmentally-friendly things. They just opened the greenest restaurant in the US, and they have “one of the largest public urban solar displays in the country,” according to a USA Today article.…
Laurel, Charlie, Mom, and I drove to Hocking Hills – kind of southeast Ohio – for a couple days. The forest there is lush and beautiful, and Charlie kept saying, “This is like Costa Rica!” We even saw moss growing on trees. I asked Laurel if we’d ever seen moss in Colorado. She said, “I…
We arrived at my mom’s house in Hamilton, Ohio on July 31. My sisters Amy & Jane and Amy’s family came over to Mom’s house today. I’ve been cleaning out my mom’s basement, thus the basement bench photo.
We’re saying goodbye to friends and nearly all our stuff. We’ll miss you (Friends – the stuff, not so much)! More photos to come soon.
We flew to Costa Rica on February 3rd, 2013, and flew home on February 14th. We stayed near Arenal Volcano, Monteverde Cloud Forest, and Montezuma (on the southern Pacific coast). We went horseback riding, zip lining, swimming, and, in Laurel’s case, boogie-boarding. We saw lots of monkeys, but I don’t have great pictures of them…
We’re selling stuff on Craigslist and at our first garage sale. We’re trying to spruce up the place and declutter before putting the house on the market in May.
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 