Tag Archives: Humor

Simple Sunday – Where All Good Jack-o’-Lanterns Go To Rot

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Shoes

One of the many not much talked about benefits of living on a patch of land in the woods is the ability to set free the Jack-o’-Lanterns at the end of the Halloween hubabulub – a catch and release program … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Pumpkin Patches Through the Years

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Shoes

The last three years we have gone to the same pumpkin patch and have forced asked the kids to stand by the How Tall This Fall? sign so we could take their picture.  Cody is on the left and Carter … Continue reading →

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We Think of you While you are Sleeping

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Shoes

Monday through Friday Carter and I have lunch together before he heads off to his afternoon preschool.  Almost everyday over our meal Carter brings up “the people on the other side of the earth”.  I think he is quite enthralled … Continue reading →

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Drunk with Power and Demanding Candy Corn

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Shoes

I think I may have mentioned in passing a time or two that I am room mom in Cody’s first grade class.  Actually I am one of three moms who signed up this year (although I was not planning on … Continue reading →

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For Want of a Paper Plate

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Shoes

We had the talk again this year: [pirate, firefighter, robots, bats]   While opening our box of Halloween gear: [candles, spiders, three witches hats]   I seized up one black and pointed hat laughed a loud cackle, and said that … Continue reading →

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Do you Sock and Sandal?

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Shoes

I never meant for it to happen but happen it has.  It is with some shame and apprehension that I tell you, I have become one of those people.  You know the ones.  They flip-flop around or look granola in … Continue reading →

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Excuse Me Ma’am but There’s a Fly in My Bowl

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Shoes

I don’t like fish.  They swim around and around, staring with their big unblinking fisheyes.  They don’t just quietly hang out, oh no, they lurk and lurking in my book is plain creepy. Fish.  They unnerve me mostly because I … Continue reading →

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Beer Goggles Carter Style

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Shoes

I was looking through old photographs for a picture of Carter as a little guy to put in my Skater Boy post and came across this picture from June of 2010. It made me laugh out loud and I love … Continue reading →

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Hanging with the Skater Boys on a Tuesday Afternoon

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Shoes

Ever since Carter can remember, he and I have been making almost weekly trips to the local skate park.  When he was a baby and a small toddler he rode in his stroller and later, as the years went by, … Continue reading →

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Fort Flagler – One Point on the Triangle of Fire

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Shoes

I will never be a historian or a historical writer so if you want the history of the three forts Fort Warden, Fort Casey, and Fort Flagler that make up the “Triangle of Fire” you have come to the wrong … Continue reading →

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