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H got home by lunchtime today, and we decided to go out for a walk. I could never manage the Ergo carrier H often uses for B, because adjusting it requires reaching buckles and webbing in locations behind my back … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2009
H, sweet B, J the W, and I are back in New Hampshire after a nice weekend in Connecticut. For reasons I can’t fathom, H and her two fellow fellows began their academic program a week behind. (Someone somewhere dropped … Continue reading
I was going to post this last Wednesday, but discovered I didn’t have the photo on my laptop. I’m back in Woodbury for the weekend, and here it is. My dad turned 85 on January 14. (The joke in the … Continue reading
Minnesota has arrived in New England. I stepped outside to walk Jasper 45 minutes ago, and thought, “Whoa, this is a little different.” I checked when H left the house just now. It was -22°F (-30°C). No wind chill, so … Continue reading
It’s chilly here. I walked Jasper just before daylight, and it was -6°F (-21°C), with a windchill of -12 (-24). No walk for sweet B and me today. But New England’s current cold wave pales compared to what’s happening back … Continue reading
Sweet B, along with her Nazgûl screeching, has been standing—solidly, but with help to balance—for a while now. Today, after a mind-clearing walk with Jasper, H set her on the kitchen table for a little shakin’. J the W was … Continue reading
Sweet B is making a fair amount of noise these days. Some of it is normal baby babbling. But most of it is various modulations of something between an avian squawk and an angry cat. Because of this and the … Continue reading
Jasper the Wonderdog and I just returned from a mutual scamper through a beautiful fluffy snowstorm, shuffling whitely down the middle of unplowed and untraveled streets. Baseball season seems far away. But there is no escaping the fact that New … Continue reading
I’ve been having trouble getting sweet B down lately. She’ll go to sleep in my arms as usual, but she wakes up, instantly and crankily, when I lay her down on couch or bed. I just drugged her with milk … Continue reading
It’s warmed up today enough that snow has been rumbling off the roof all morning, the invisible freight trains passing on nonexistent tracks frightening even our profoundly phlegmatic J the W, who is tucked even more completely under the coffee … Continue reading