Not only is this the “family vacation retrospective” post, today actually is the last day of summer vacation for me. It went fast, and I’m a little sad because I like being home… but I also love my job and I’m looking foward to being with my students as well.
Ok, so we went to Pigeon [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 21, 2008
Vacation redux.
August 18, 2008
A family vacation: with special appearances by wild turkeys, scorpions, racoons, sharks, bears, jellyfish, sunny skies, sweet tea, vomit, weddings, waterfalls, temper-tantrums, bona fide Cheerokee Indians and Michael Phelps. (Okay, not really Michael Phelps, but I totally felt like I was there with him those last two races. Does that make me a stalker?)
I honestly don’t have time to relate all the details about our fantastic vacation to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg TN, but check back because I’ll be updating this post when I have time. Suffice it to say for the moment that it was exactly what a family vacation should be (except for maybe the vomit [...]
August 4, 2008
The tree on the house goes “Boom, Boom, Boom!”
When you have beautiful but huge, shade-providing, 50 year old trees, you have to worry about things like this happening.
Usually, though, you worry about things like this during ice storms (like Nov. 2006 when we were displaced from our home for 7 days because a utility pole snapped and hit our house) or during violent [...]
