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Like most ardent Beatles fans I was chomping at the bit to watch the Get Back documentary on Disney+. Having watched the original film documentary of Let It Be I can understand the desire to revisit the material and attempt to tell a more complete overview of the events of January 1969. I don’t want…
I have a few posts from different events over the summer to post up, but here are some pictures from throughout the whole summer that do not match up into one of those. Let’s start off with Xavier in a tree. How about a picture of Grace? Xavier was taking a soccer camp being held…
It has been twelve days since the 2019 school year has started, but today is actually the first full day of school. First up was Déla who had her first day of 9th grade. Then, nearly a week later, August had his first day. The next day it was Ciaran and Xavier’s turn. For the…
That was a short summer vacation. Alright, so I didn’t get to update the blog AT ALL like I had planned and hoped. None of my usual pictorial posts, nothing about camps, it’s just been a wasteland here. I could go into the specifics of just how busy and crazy things have been but I’ll…
Here are a few things from the end of May and June that didn’t get posted yet. Towards the end of the school year the 5th grade does “Colonial Day” where the whole class dresses up according to their job. Here is Ciarran, thrilled I am taking his picture. The hat I purchased while on…
This past weekend Seattle hosted the Ace Comic-Con, the second time it has been here. Ace Universe is new to the scene, relatively speaking, with many other comic conventions having been taking place throughout the country and even globally since the 70s. A couple of years ago Ace Universe embarked on a project to offer…
I have a bunch of stuff to post, but want to get these up first. As we all know June is the end of the school year. It also happens to be the end of the year for dance, and there was the recital. This year, however, was different because we have not just one…
Nature has many lessons for us. Take for instance the lesson we learned on our family vacation to Yellowstone National Park a couple of years ago. For this story, it is important to know what a pika is – a small mammal, larger than a mouse but is a species related closer to a rabbit….
This was, of course, the big album that changed everything for Queen. Bolstered by the success of Sheer Heart Attack, but frustrated with the lack of monetary compensation (the band was broke) Queen successfully negotiated their way into new management, a new contract, then headed into the studio to make the best album they could….
Here are some pictures from the rest of May closing out the month. During the spring concert Xavier and a couple of his classmates performed Irish dance. Here’s Tevye enjoying the whole show. While I was in D.C. Laura decided it would be a good idea to have Grace out of the stroller, so now…