What I Did Today...

I stared down personal demons. But that's not important right now. (Another -- much longer -- post for another day.)

The big fun part of the day?


Testing cake recipes!
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Flowers Are for Making Up

I'm sorry.

I've been really, really, really busy.

Actually, we've spent a lot of time at the pool, with occasional busy days gumming up my important pool time. Paul has gone from refusing to go into the deep end to diving off the regular board and cannon balling off the high dive. And Maggie swims like a little fish.

This summer has been a flurry of activity, but when I try to tell you exactly what, well...

There has been a lot of cake baking. A lot.
We do Meals on Wheels (which is a great program and I highly recommend volunteering for it if you can).
Visits from dear old friends (I don't mean they're old. I mean I've known them for a long, long time. Just to be clear.)
There's been a fair amount of band activity.
Did I mention I saw Wilco two times?
The tea business keeps growing...

There's been the garden.
There have been many, many sleepovers. And play dates. We have a giant hole in our backyard to prove it.
There was the pool camp out (still recovering.)
Of course, there's the Market.
And now, I seem to be coming out of musical retirement. (Oy. What am I thinking?)

See? It doesn't look like that much on paper, but we've had a busy summer. And I haven't done nearly all the things I planned to do this summer!

Anyhow, this is all by way of saying that if you're actually interested in knowing what I'm doing these days, visiting twitter, flickr or whrrl are the best venues. The links are all on the right side of the page. I'm hoping for more time to update once school is back in session (three weeks!!!!) (Not that I'm counting. Because I'm not.)

It's a rainy afternoon.

I'm not complaining. We really need the rain -- it's the driest July on record in the DC area. But what to do at home? Luckily, Paul and Maggie are quite creative...


This is Maggie's princess. She's making a comic book.



Paul's articulated headless horseman (he's obsessed with the book and the movie.)



He also made a horse...

Gee. I was just going to make cookies or something (I'll always pick cooking as the first activity of choice), but what they're doing is waaayyyyy more interesting.

I still may make those cookies...

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Between us, four shows in four days.

This is from Saturday night. (The Hot Noodles' Grateful Dead tribute at New Deal.) Also, I got to see Wilco twice in three days (more on this in a later post... I'm trying to go pro on the lazy circuit right now.) If I go to Norway and Sweden, I can do it again this summer. Sigh.

What are you doing Saturday night?

I know where I'll be... And I hope to hang out with some of my nearest and dearest. Or make some new friends. Either way, hope that you'll come out and show your love for one of our favorite bands!


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Hot Noodles this Saturday Night

The Hot Noodles plays a Grateful Dead show from the vault: July 1989. Twenty years ago. For some reason, there are a lot of people that we know that attended these RFK shows, although we didn't know them at the time. Coincidence?

The Noodles will be at our favorite Greenbelt, Maryland establishment, the New Deal Cafe, 8:00 to 11:00pm. Hope to see many friends there...and maybe 20 years from now you'll be talking about who you met on Saturday, July 11, at the Hot Hot Noodles show. It is entirely possible.

Summer. Going fast.

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