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Yesterday I had a couple of errands to run in the morning. Ciaran and Dela were at camp so I only had August, Xavier and Tevye. One of those errands involved going to the bread outlet store. Thing is, we don’t get to go there often because it really is pretty out of the way….
Welcome to the “all Ciárán” edition. Sometimes he gets overlooked or passed over, not intentionally, but it happens. This week is not the case. It was his birthday a little earlier this month. He was happy to once again be having his birthday at home instead of while on vacation. A couple of days after…
People ask one of two questions when I tell them we spend a couple of weeks at Yellowstone National Park earlier this summer. One is the inevitable “How was it?” The other question people ask first was a bit surprising. “Did you camp?” And this question was asked by people who know me, people who…
I now have all of Queen’s released studio recordings, which may not seem like a big deal, but it is not as clear cut a prospect as you might initially imagine. There are of course the fifteen albums the band has released, but that’s not the whole of it. Each of those studio albums has been…
We went on a family road trip vacation to Yellowstone this month. Tevye did not get his regular nap schedule so there were times when he simply fell asleep where he was. The little guy got so tuckered out just being carried around sometimes. Sometimes he was so tired he couldn’t even finish his lunch….
I don’t discuss upcoming films much, but this one is an exception. Life, Animated tells the story of Owen Suskind, an autistic boy how found his voice through Disney animated films. The film has already opened in several theaters, but over the coming weeks it will be in several more. I will post the full…
Alright, so it’s actually Saturday, and I haven’t posted anything since we started our vacation, and these pictures aren’t even of us on vacation, but I wanted to get these posted and out of the way so I can start with the vacation pictures proper without this hanging over my head. The day before we left…
No “last day of school” pictures from me. I do pictures on the first day and I figure that’s good enough. Besides, I’m snapping pictures of the kids all the time. At least, I’m trying to. A couple of weeks ago one of the boys in August’s Boy Scout troop was working on his Eagle…
I wonder if this mini-series is what set me off on my life-ling interest in history. “Roots”, the original 1977 mini-series has arrived on Blu-ray for the first time, and it has been that long since I have seen it. I remember when it was first broadcast. It was a massive success and this was…
We are a week into summer vacation and I feel as if I have already lost the battle. Maybe those are not the correct words to use, but that is how I feel. Battle-weary. Last Tuesday was the last day, a short day, and it went well enough. The following morning I had to get…