Category: emily

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Picture Post

We’re on vacation in Monterey, going to the aquarium tomorrow and whale-watching on Sunday. We had some excitement last night — our upstairs washing machine overflowed, and we drained about 20 gallons of water through some holes I drilled in the living room ceiling!

That lawnmower I’m posing with is my new rechargeable electric mower. It’s very quiet, works like a million bucks, and there’s no cord. I couldn’t find one anywhere locally, so I ordered it from Amazon, and the weekend after it came, I wired an outlet and an overhead light with a light switch in my garden shed so I wouldn’t have to keep it in the garage.

The picture of the pool shows some strange items floating about called Solar Sun Rings — they’re supposed to make the pool several degrees warmer, and I hope they work because I now own 14 of the things, and they are obscenely not cheap.

Rechargeble Mower
New Toy!		 Ceiling Pee
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Ceiling Pee
Solar Sun Rings
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From the mind of a 7-year-old girl…

Our 2nd-grade daughter Emily was given the assignment to “Write a story about a soldier who sees a horse behind a tree — use all the words in the box [soldier, story, behind]. Here’s how it turned out:

Once I was a soldier in an old old fairy tale and in that fairy tale I saw a horse that got out of a farm. So the horse hid behind a tree so I ride it back to the farm. And that story was a good one wasn’t it? The End.

(The teacher’s red pen says “Yes.”)

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Oh my gosh, he’s gonna blog some more…

If you’re an APG&ONS fan, thanks for sticking by me. I haven’t blogged for a little over three months, because we moved to a new house, with a cool inground pool and this really neat stained glass window. The new place also has a tree swing for Emily &#151 and if you look really closely, you might notice that I have a special splint on my left foot &#151 I broke it about 4 days before the big move.

Here’s a picture of Emily with a lizard.

If I were blogging, I’d say something like click on that image of the two hair ads &#151 it looks to me like if you have curly hair, you need to straighten it; if you have straight hair, you need to curl it; and whatever color your hair happens to be, it shouldn’t be, so do something that appears to be really painful, judging from the picture on the box.