It’s Christmas!!! It snowed a bit! Actually more of an ice storm, so it goes. Here’s Aunt Mandy with The New Dog. His name is Lewis and he’s our new best friend.
Chloe’s been working away on animations. As of 12/26/22, this one had more than 55,000 views! (and yes, it is incomprehensible to adults) Click here to see more of her animations on YouTube.
Chloe felted up a storm for her school’s holiday market fundraiser. Check out all the things she made, all felted! …and more! This was part of her classwork, which believe it or not is Business Math. About time they taught this stuff to kids early. Here’s a breakdown of what they were working on, leading […]
Chloe has been busy felting up a storm! Felting is where you take loose fibers of something like wool, and turn them into something more useful or interesting. Here she’s made breakfast: toast, egg, bacon, plate and fork! All out of loose wool. Here she’s made a holiday cake out of wool by felting. These […]
Chloe decided to be a TeleTubby, as you can see. Here she is with her friend Sophia, about to hit the streets for CANDY! It turned out to be a pretty terrible night for it with cold weather and torrential downpours. Oh well, that happens. They had fun anyway. Here’s how the jack-o-lanterns looked on […]
It’s almost Halloween, and that means pumpkins! First off, the Leaf Eraser Gun cleans up the front yard. Sugar skull! Carve, carve, carve! Steve’s on the left, Lisa’s on the right. Chloe’s two pumpkins. The one on the left is “The Scariest Thing Ever: Duck With A Knife!” and the one on the right is […]
On the side of Mt. Saint Helens, you know, the volcano you may remember from 1980? It’s right up the street, more or less, from Portland. Volcanoes throw out lava, which makes lava tubes, which result in fun caves to explore. Chloe’s 6th grade class just had an overnight camping trip to explore this very […]
Here she is! Off to the first day of 6th Grade! Here Chloe made dinner for us. That’s German Schnitzel, in this case chicken breasts pounded flat and breaded with gravy. Plus steamed broccoli.
At the very tail end of summer vacation, we managed to squeeze a quick camping trip out to the KOA outside of Astoria, right across the road from Ft. Stevens State Park. So many things didn’t go as planned, we lived a comedy of errors. Here we are trying to put up my big tent: […]
I recently got to spend two full days with Chloe. Let’s check out some photos, shall we? Here’s Chloe making dinner for us: This bit of craziness is a draft of the artwork Chloe provided for the flag her group at camp made. Pretty funny, eh? What the heck, is this? It’s a little helicopter […]