Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

This post is for Ang in Texas at St. Fairsted Farm, well, and everyone else who honors me with a visit here.  She made a post about her chicken & dumplings, and that got me hungry for Grandma Ree’s Chicken & Noddle dish.  Ummmm, so good.   I posted a short version over at her site […]

DS and I went on our first college tour to University of Delaware, Newark, DE. We went since it is practically in our backyard but prior to this DS didn’t seem thrilled about the thought of attending UD.   Yes, I’ve never been on a college tour before so I don’t have anything to compare this […]

Here’s a new question to add to the question-list you should have by your side when you call the local public or private school to sign your DC up for the once-in-a-lifetime-this-test-really-counts-PSAT:
Ask whether the school is going to have construction going on.  Ask whether they will have a BUZZ SAW running directly below […]

As I drove my 11th grader to the private school where he took his PSAT this morning I noticed that the woods had a red color to them.

Their red color was from leaves turning but my garden has some red flowers too.

Fall is here.
Which is why I jumped at the chance to take some photos […]

Today at 15:12 all the trimwork in the house that needed to be painted by me was finished.  There were miles upon miles of it, two coats too.  My right arm is stiff and sore again from painting.  While I was painting I wondered about how nice it would be to just have been able […]

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, […]

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!  […]

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 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 […]

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 […]