Monday, June 29, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Family Get-together
We hooked up with Abe's family and got to visit all kinds of cool places.Read More
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Family Get-together
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, June 26, 2015
Matsuo Basho
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
William Shakespeare
Monday, June 22, 2015
Samuel Butler
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Hosea Ballou
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Aldous Huxley
Family Vacation
Leo was recently selected to represent first grade for his school in a local academic competition. There were nine schools participating and Leo won first prize, of which he was extremely proud. He put in quite a bit of work after school and at the weekends, and the four hour written exam was pretty heavy duty, so we felt we would reward him with a little vacation.
In the past, any trip or vacation we've gone on has been to see family, seeing as they all live so far away. However, for the first time since the kids were born, we decided to visit somewhere purely for the joy of going some place new.
Our destination was the Copper Canyon in Mexico. This area consists of four large canyons (and several smaller ones), each of which rivals the Grand Canyon. Abe and I had made a trip down there just after we were married, and had been blown away by both the culture and scenery. On that occasion we had gone to Creel and visited the canyons closest to it. This time, we decided to go to the much less touristy town of Guachochi.
On one night we stayed with a friend of ours who has a remote homestead in the high altitude pine forests near to Guachochi. Her place was absolutely beautiful. She has a series of log cabins, a couple of apple and cherry orchards, chickens, and about 100 resident hummingbirds. It was lovely catching up with her, and the cool climate was very welcome after a hot trip.
We also went up in a small plane to fly through the spectacular Sin Feroza canyon. It's more than a mile deep, interspersed with waterfalls and smaller canyons. The plane ride was fun and certainly gave a unique perspective. The airport even had a tiger, yes a real one, which the kids loved. It lived with a dog, and may have been retired from a circus.
It was a really lovely little vacation, and we definitely hope to do some more exploring in the area when the kids are older and ready for some serious hiking.
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Family Vacation
Friday, June 19, 2015
Ivan Turgenev
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Werner Heisenberg
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
James Russell Lowell
Friday, June 12, 2015
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Walter Hagen
Monday, June 8, 2015
Robert Green Ingersoll
Peaches
We planted a few trees up against a wall at the town house last year, to test out the espalier technique (whereby branches span out flat instead of as a canopy). The results so far have been amazing, in that a very young tree already has two ripe fruit on it, weeks ahead of our other peach trees. We're attributing the early ripening to the added heat that the wall stores, and we hope that this thermal mass help protect the trees from the late freezes that can sometimes kill a tree's blossoms.
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Peaches
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Workshop’s Organized
We have finally finished moving all our tools and materials into the workshop, and everything is organized and labelled. It took a while, but it was well worth it, as things are a lot easier to access.
With the work table also completed, we are ready to start on any number of projects that fill up our To-Do list.
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Workshop’s Organized