It was 100F/38C Tuesday. It was 103F/39C Wednesday. 101F on Thursday, and it’s supposed to be 105F/40C today. Then it should cool to 100F for the weekend. Ugh!

Granny That’s Florence, my MIL. She’s 84 years old, and she takes no medication. That’s impressive.

Chunguita & Pulguito checking out the cemetary We waited for Kathy, Linda, and Granny to pick us up after eating at Keller Haus. There was this cool cemetary (all cemetaries are cool) right next door. Susan J wife of Geo. D. Hillard July 21, 1845 June 28, 1883 large John Craige 1804-1837 large ? Died [...]

I dropped Chunguita off this morning. Things went well. She didn’t want to hold my hand until the very last minute. She brought home homework last night, and DH and I helped her fill out some information for her homework folder. Chunguita loves homework.

Some pics from our day on the party boat. It was grand fun.

Last day of summer It’s the first day of second grade. Chunguita had an anxious night, but she was sound asleep when I got her up at 7 am this morning, and she ate her breakfast. There were no tears at school, but she clutched my hand until the teacher said it was time for [...]

Historic Trees Grove We stopped and had lunch by the log cabin in Golden Gate Park. After lunch, the kids and I checked out a couple of plaques that were in the area. Both were mounted to boulders. The first one (picture to the left) was a monument to the original 13 colonies. Supposedly, it [...]

Do those of you with … uh … ethnic … uh … or foreign … names get the Nigerian e-mails in languages other than English? I mean if my name were Stein, would I be getting them in German and English? Of if my name were Chen, would they come in Chinese and English? Maybe [...]

The label card is for a spiral aloe, but that’s not a spiral aloe. That’s a spiral aloe.