“I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.” – Tom Hanks





I took my kids on an overnight to Bellingham. It was overly ambitious on my part because it was a lot of work for less than 24 hours – but the kids loved the pool – and the luggage cart — and the fold out bed. And did I mention the pool?

While my foot is recovering from the pool rash I earned doing a cannonball, Mr. D seems to have sustained a far more serious wound….April Fools!




Anyone remember my follow-up piece about the window after our next door neighbors moved and Miss O’s best friend was no longer on the other side of the fence? When I wrote about re-opening the window 6 months after that move and seeing a puppy on the other side, several people suggested that I should share the piece with the new neighbors. Guess what? I did – and now we have a new best friend that comes to visit from the other side of the fence.

There’s been an impressively quick turnaround on our neighborhood artwork after St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s the soda display.

As I mentioned after we ran into Macklemore, I’m not all that well versed in my rap culture. But this sign still made me chuckle. Except it wasn’t til several hours later that I got the “2 pac” part of the joke.

And the neighborhood skeleton is also looking hip – hippity hop, that is….