Wonderfully Peaceful Day

It's kinda wonderful sometimes to have a day when nothing pressing is happening, nobody's worried or anxious or in a hurry. Yesterday was that way here. Marty spent the day in his pajamas, which he hasn't done for a LONG time (but used to do once a week, on a schedule, with a "home day"). When I asked Kirby Sunday night what he had going for Monday, he said, "Watching 24." He and I watch 24 together every Monday, and last night was the grand finale (two shows together) of the fourth season.

Though other things did happen, Kirby went to paint miniatures, people came over later to play video games, someone else came to watch 24 with us, the three of us had a quiet, happy, warm day together.

Meanwhile, in England, Holly's shopping and hanging out, recovering from HesFes. There are a couple of photos at the Holly in England page, and an e-mail from her written yesterday, so that completes my report of the happenings of May 23.

Holly's in England

Holly (13, and my youngest of three) is in England and I don't have a photo yet. Here are some more trip details and her basic intinerary. The house seems empty without her.

Prairie Dogs

There are photos of kids and prairie dogs here.

Tumbleweeds

I'm selling morning glory seeds to help gather money for Holly to have in England. I was going to put a webpage up (because I had said on the insert paper with the seeds that I would), and when I went to work on that, I thought I should also do a page on tumbleweeds and one on goatheads. Then I thought I should include the Egyptian onions that are multiplying like crazy in my yard.

Well... I ended up working a long time on the tumbleweed page and I really like it. I'm going to follow the growth of two particular tumbleweeds in my yard as long as I can stand to. Maybe by the time I want them gone or they're too close to my baby trees, there will be a good looking one of about the same age and size in the vacant lot behind the house.

Family news late April '05

There's Holly's somewhat-cheesecake-like photo for the gamer profiles site the Halo II players use. Luckily, she's playing Halo II on XBox live. Before that, she was saying "I'm going to ENGLAND!" several times a day, and this is better.

Keith was sick almost from the beginning of the month, and was in the hospital for a week. Very scary. He won't go back to work for a week or two, but he's home and he's getting better.

Kirby went to Sioux City (not around here) for the weekend to play L5R (Legend of the Five Rings, a card game) and got a speeding ticket in Iowa. He paid it online, and it was so easy he declared that he should get tickets in Iowa all the time!

Marty is working so efficiently at his bootmaking job that he often comes home early, having finished all that was left in the shop for him to do. It's good for his free time, but it's not so great for his spending money to work quickly. Maybe he'll get a raise.

Intro & Intent

This is intended as one more way for people to find information on how to live more peacefully with their children and as a place to put trivial and profound family news and stories.