There are still four baby wrens, mostly unresponsive until the mother comes by with daily rations. I hesitate to say this, maybe it’s a confession, but back when Skunk was alive not all the babies would fly away. Once I saw Skunk jump up and spill the entire nest onto the porch floor. It’s what […]
Matthew called me from his class. I was hanging blueboard so it took me a minute to answer. “Dad, we need to register the car.†I knew what he was asking and why, but it was the consequence that grabbed my attention and I stalled for time. “Your instructor said so?†“No, I picked this […]
I think these are baby wrens. They have a nest in one of our porch hanging plants and Diane and I check up on them when we water. This photo is posted for balance, to balance the boys with guns pics below, to restore the gentle order of this web site. Wondering if Horrified in […]
I crawled out of our tent at about 2 AM and turned my flashlight in the direction of the boys’ campsite. Matt, Robby Nadler and Chris Grosjean were three hundred yards away, up a steep hill and beyond a thick, wet spring-nurtured, canopy of green. I assumed they didn’t see the light and I went […]
When we began this project several months ago, there was a loose understanding that hours of labor required and overall duration would diverge notably. It was also understood that Adam would have to put his own shoulder mightily to the wheel, unable to afford Michael doing all of the work. But even hindsight isn’t all […]
The website for Trusty Transport, the company bringing Matthew’s BMW, claimed door to door service. But when Jeff called from Evansville to say that Rick couldn’t drive to his house, and that he had to pick an abandoned K-Mart parking lot, I knew there would be no front-of-my-house delivery. Luckily, we live a mere two […]
The website for Trusty Transport, the company bringing Matthew’s BMW, claimed door to door service. But when Jeff called from Evansville to say that Rick couldn’t drive to his house, and that he had to pick an abandoned K-Mart parking lot, I knew there would be no front-of-my-house delivery. Luckily, we live a mere two […]
Dan tells me that he’s been working eighteen hour days on his brand new Tufts contract that will provide him with work for the summer, and then he sends me this picture.
I get up every morning at 5:20 and the first thing I do is surf to movabletype.com and read other blogs. Many are extraordinary in content and design but far too many are self-indulgent online diaries with insipid descriptions of daily events. The first one I read this morning described getting up and reading other […]
IÃm not sure it was entirely coincidental, but this site was sent by someone related to me. http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/ Random samples: We’re staying at a German friend’s flat in Berlin and he brings out the photo album, as people do when conversational desperation has set in. It’s largely pictures of a holiday he went on with […]
In 1968 I showed my father an article in Car and Driver by Brock Yates. It was that review of the BMW 2002 that prompted him to buy this car, which will be picked up today in Evansville, loaded onto a seventy-six foot tractor trailer, and then dropped off here in Acton later this week. […]
“You can write it but only if you add that I never take a vacation, I never ask to go to France, all I want is that he take care of my boys.” Mark and I were finishing toasted chicken, cheese and tomato sandwiches Jan made for lunch, and we were about to go back […]