During an intense rainstorm tonight, a river formed in our back yard. I didn't want to get WET so I took this photo from an upstairs window, and you can't really see the full glory of this river, which even had a current that looked stronger than the Rio Grande.…

Typepad has made some changes and I can't figure out how to do the simplest things, like move pictures around on a post OR delete a picture on a post. So I appreciate your patience, there are bound to be some wacky posts ahead of us while I figure it…

The garage across the alley from our back yard has been built. It looks great! On the same day, leaves appeared on our tree and the city delivered us a new recycling bin that we didn't even ask for. When it rains, it pours.

Finally a weekend solidly above the 70s, we went down to the Indiana Sand Dunes where we went on a walk with the Kings.  Here is Cindy, Liam and Andrea.  Later we came home and had dinner in our back yard!  Yipee!

Miles did an assignment this week: choose a forest animal and write about why it would not make a good pet. He chose a lion and did a very good job on his paper! Oddly enough, this assignment coincided with a news item in Chicago this week– a cougar was…

Readers have asked how the work is going on the lot behind us and the sidewalk in front of our house. Both projects are definitely coming along, albeit slowly. Kinda like Spring this year! It's getting here, but slowly. This photo is of the new concrete pad they poured in…

Sarah, Alexander and Thomas gave Miles some amazing microwave popcorn for his birthday–it was a cob of corn that you put in a bag and cook in the microwave. The popped corn pops right off the cob into the bag! Below, I'm holding the still-steaming cob with a few popped…

Seven and dancin' Miles had a birthday party yesterday, there was no school so we took the King kids to the Mythic Creatures exhibit at the Field Museum. Then we went to Greektown for lunch. Yum!

I was lucky enough to see a solo performance by Herbie Hancock (fresh from his grammy win) the day after my birthday at a marketing awards show (I think the gig is he performs for a bunch of advertising people in return for an increased chance at getting one of…