Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Here’s what we’ve been up to: admiring the local Longhorns cattle. Pointing out the Katy water tower. Visiting the mall. Checking out all the playgrounds. Running into old friends and making new ones. Admiring the fish. Shopping for Christmas presents. Admiring the Christmas tree. Walking around light displays in our neighborhood after dark. Eating quesadillas…
Fall and pumpkin pie The darkening starlit sky The champagne is dry I hope it is obvious that a pieku is a holiday haiku. Toward the end of our Thanksgiving feast my mom passed out slips of paper announced the price of dessert: participation in pieku creation. No inspiration Like Evelyn’s pumpkin pie, So out…
Isaac and Eloise were initiated into traditional Thanksgevening prep tonight with stuffing duty. Thanksgevening is, of course, the night before Thanksgiving when everyone gets tasked with feast prep. I made cranberry sauce (with orange, ginger and cinnamon this year). Isaac and I made a cranberry-apple pie. My parents made more pies and stuffing and everything…
Where but Texas can you ride an armadillo on the carousel? Isaac rode “that whale thing” (manatee). The carousel was the highlight of our visit to the Houston Zoo I think. Mama and Daddy went on one of their Costco dates while the kids and I met my college friend Hannah and her family at…
USS Kearsarge Harriers Join Fight Against ISIL ARABIAN GULF (NNS) — Naval Aviation rejoined the fight against ISIL Nov. 19 when AV-8B Harriers from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM)162(Reinforced)launched from the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) to conduct their first missions over Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR). The last Naval…
This is me, rocking my interview. And this is my done-with-training-first-day-of-work selfie in the contemporary gallery. OWL bet you want to come find the fowl in this glass curio piece! Any day is a beautiful day at the Chrysler Museum of Art!
We did this in VA before Thanksgiving but I didn’t feel right about Christmas posts yet! NOW I DO!
