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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not…..� Thomas Henry Huxley

Archive for October, 2008

Another week

Posted: Friday, October 10th, 2008 @ 11:27 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

Mark’s new skates came in, the new ones from a different company then the ones we waited and waited and waited and waited for.  This company, WeberSports Inline Skates  went out of their way to take parts from several other skates to make the skate just the way Mark wanted them made.  Great customer service, […]

It is the end of the week, isn’t it?

Posted: Sunday, October 5th, 2008 @ 8:08 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

So I wrote last night exclaiming how glad I was that it was the end of the week.
Silly me.  Sunday is the end of the week. Or is it the start of the new week?  I sure hope it is the END of the week cause I do need this week to be DONE!  […]

T.G.I.T.E.O.T.W.

Posted: Sunday, October 5th, 2008 @ 12:06 am in Family Stuff | No Comments »

Thank God It’s The End Of The Week.   We had a nice evening at a friend’s Octoberfest.  Good brats, good German Potato Salad, Dark Beer, Warm Fire and lots of friends to talk to.  We were the only hs’ing family there once again but that’s ok, I don’t have to ‘pass the bean dip’ with […]

This should not have happened

Posted: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 @ 1:40 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

This week we have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Mark’s FIRST & BRAND-NEW inline speed skate boots.  For the past 6 months he skated on borrowed speed skates and we were very thankful that the one coach had some that fit him.  We wanted to make sure that he did want […]

Ear Infections….in dogs????

Posted: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 @ 12:35 am in Family Stuff | 1 Comment »

Brutus has been crying when Mark’s hands come near his ears.  Not like him.   And yesterday he was crying, wimpering quite a bit.  I could hear fluid like sounds when I rubbed Brutus ears but he didn’t flinch or cry or do anything other than request, as a dog will request, for me to rub […]