Hanging Around

Still fairly cuckoo, here. Just very busy and everyone doing so many things. But we went over to a friend's house and busted some moves on their ropes.

As my cousin Anne Frahm notes, their hair is fairly well-conditioned.

Miki's hands are quite torn up from this action, and doing the rings relentlessly at school, so now she wears fingerless gloves everywhere, to keep her fancy bandaids in place.  This makes her look like a little thug Michael Jackson.

Can you see Ida, high in this tree?  We went on a sweet sunny hike on Mt. Hood yesterday...

the summer of March

Wow. Really weird weather we're having. Just trying to deal with it. Went on some nice hikes these last Sundays. Last one, Powell Butte, the old favorite...

Many fairies and trolls live in these places.

Miki is working on many tricks, let me tell you.

This is some of MIki's homework. I'm thinking of trying to write a story based this remarkable plot

Our magnolia tree bloomed about six weeks early; it'll keep blooming and dropping unlimited detritus for me to pick up for the next 8 months.  But it's pretty.

Today we went out to Strawberry Island, up on the mighty Columbia.  Washington side.  Ate some sandwiches, ate some chocolate.  Excellent.

And Ida built a very important marker, down on the beach.

Whoa!