I was commenting on another blog last night about how I used to draw little pegasuses all over my school papers. That's one of those wo...

My blog is three years old today! Happy birthday! (And Kate's nose is all better!)

Tall ships were in town for the Fourth of July weekend. We went down to see them on the 3rd. The last tall ships festival was three years ...

I have no idea what this child did to her nose. We've been playing outside a lot, but she never came running to me wailing "I hurt...

Doug brought home a book of The Three Billy Goats Gruff from the library, and we have been having lots of fun with it. We read the book ov...

I haven't had a new product in...oh, about three months, but I finally got these done and up in the store on Saturday. I have a few ot...

We ate out a lot on our trip, which meant a lot of time deciding where to go, traveling to a restaurant, and then waiting for our large part...

Our last night in California, we decided to go bowling. Just a fun family thing. Peter, Betsey, and Barb used to be on a league, back when...

We got to go sea kayaking, not far from Redondo Beach. That was a lot of fun. (There are places around Tacoma that rent kayaks, but we...

When I was young-ish, it occurred to me that, if La Brea means "the tar," then The La Brea Tar Pits means "the the tar tar p...

We spent a couple of fun hours at Redondo Beach. Karen said that the best time to go to the beach was either in the morning, before it gets...

I've had an unfortunate head cold for a few days and haven't been good for much. We did get out yesterday to see some of the tall s...