Our odyssey into a land of new furniture has begun. We received 2 armchair recliners on Friday and have already spent a lot of time reading with our feet up!

With tomorrow being the fall equinox in the northern hemisphere (happy vernal equinox to readers down under!) it seemed a good time to post photos from Liam’s last day of work as a camp counselor and Miles’s last day at summer camp. These photos were taken just a few days…

Luckily for this street, the wind blew the tree away from the houses, lots of branches down around the neighborhood

Today is the first day of school, Liam starting his senior year and Miles starting 7th grade at his new school. Good luck today, Liam and Miles! Colette sent another first day of school photo, this one from Colette’s first year in school, Barry’s first year in secondary school and…

We had a great time on vacation in Hells Canyon! I’ve uploaded a bunch of our photos to my flickr site, more to come! http://www.flickr.com/photos/cynren/sets/72157635125790121/

Liam and his friend Sofie went to a sweet 16 party recently. Formal attire!

It’s been a while since I posted a garden update, and the latest news is that there are some lovely very small flowers growing. The yellow flower below, with small buds beneath, is the flower of wild arugula, or rocket. I put down seeds for arugula twice and both crops…

Almost two years after moving to our house from his previous life as a carnival prize waiting to be won, Swimmy Wimmy has found a new place to live. He departed in a plastic bag, quite like the one he arrived in, though he was much bigger after over a…

As part of a new urban livestock thing going on at Garfield Park, they have goats on the grounds one week a month. The goats belong to a fellow west side resident, and they come over to the conservatory grounds one week a month to munch on the grass there.…

Last week Danielle and Chris visited from Minneapolis which was huge fun for all of us. We failed to get any photos of them 🙁 but we had a great time! However I do have photos of two things they inspired us to do: try airpresso coffee and bake our…