The plan: Surprise Dan The reason: He’s sixty The ruse: Ask him to help me work at my house while his party gets prepped. The sketchy part: Get him back to his house by 4:30 PM where the assembled throng awaits. Dan and Adam arrive at my house around eleven, and after coffee and talk […]
The plan: Surprise Dan The reason: He’s sixty The ruse: Ask him to help me work at my house while his party gets prepped. The sketchy part: Get him back to his house by 4:30 PM where the assembled throng awaits. Dan and Adam arrive at my house around eleven, and after coffee and talk […]
I hadn’t meant to stay. Actually, I had meant to miss this by hours — Michael hinted that Hil B would be in appropriate garb at the one-minute-after-midnight Sudbury Paperstore long-awaited sale of the last in the Harry Potter series, so Tricia and I swung by about 7:30. Kinda forlorn actually, and after a nice […]
Matt claims he didn’t ask for an iPhone for his birthday and given that he has the youthful Velcro-like mind, I won’t argue. I thought he had, or maybe I translated his enthusiasm into a a birthday wish. His phone, ordered online, came the morning of his birthday, but we lied, and said it had […]
Matt claims he didn’t ask for an iPhone for his birthday and given that he has the youthful Velcro-like mind, I won’t argue. I thought he had, or maybe I translated his enthusiasm into a a birthday wish. His phone, ordered online, came the morning of his birthday, but we lied, and said it had […]
A birthday present for smiling Dan.
Yesterday Matt turned twenty, and thanks to Joe, Robby and Drew, dozens of Matt’s friends came by to wish him the best. The party started early, most of his buddies arrived late, and we gave him his present, an iPhone, while the sun was still out. How else could we (Birdbrain) take pictures and […]
In the spirit of rakkity’s panos, here are two from the roof of our house. The first emphasizes the view from our bedroom and the second is about a 360. I’ll add that the wider photo about did me in. First, I was standing on the top of the chimney, maybe a two and half […]
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Before the beach. If you walk out the back door and straight across the pond and then over the road you’ll end up on the beach. Or you can use the front door and take the more traditional route by walking down the street. The owner claims it’s an eight minute walk, but we’ll call […]
Early morning sunlight in our bedroom. Taken from the roof of our house.
This rental house borders a pond, and if you look directly across the pond you can see the ocean, even the tide breaking on rocks off shore. The last two days fog has obliterated that view, such that in the early evening you may not even see the lights of nearby houses. This morning we […]