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And it’s cool enough that I am wearing a jacket! But not so cool that we don’t enjoy an ice cream at Chandler’s.

While my left foot is in an air cast, I can’t drive our manual car, so Grand-mère kindly swapped cars with us. Thank you, Grand-mère!

I think it’s confused. Irises don’t bloom in July, do they?

Sam brought me a bouquet of galax from the Shack 🙂

for a Daddy-Daughter road trip to the Shack.

Miss Larson’s spelling isn’t quite up to snuff, but she seems to know her grammar.

We caught the CAT today (Cville Area Transit) since this hop-along Mama isn’t currently driving because of her booted foot. The bus riding was a success on all fronts. I love it when other people drive me places.

Healthy and delicious. Thanks, Mom and Dad!

My current work-around for staying off my foot in the kitchen.

Try saying that a few times in a row! Sam is helping me prepare meals, now that I am not supposed to be on my feet much at all. Tonight she wanted to prepare a little something on the side of her own invention: super shepherd pepper from the garden stuffed with leftover rice and […]

Our wonderful neighbors gave us two lovely new additions to our yard: Nanking cherry trees. Sam named them David and Goliath. Here she is holding up David in his new spot. Brute Goliath will be planted next to him.

It was not a warm evening, but when AC accidentally dropped the garden hose and it shot up into a fountain, Sam and Susie immediately went into sprinkler mode.

for my accessory navicular 🙁 So here’s the foot story: back in March I injured my left foot while playing soccer. I don’t remember any specific trauma, just that it hurt afterward and was very sore and swollen the next day. I took it easy for the next few days, figuring I’d pulled or stretched […]

I asked them to pose with their popsicles on this very warm night and this is what they did.

Sam and AC made me a number 10 pancake for Argentina’s Lionel Messi this morning, in honor of the World Cup final. Argentina lost, but Messi did win the Golden Ball award. And the pancake was quite tasty.