Life With Boys

Unresolved Blogger recovery lead — original post body still not recovered. An original Blogger comment notification confirms that a Quiet Morgan You’ll Wake The Dinosaurs post titled “Helicoptor Tour … It made me a bit airsick …” existed during the September 2008 Kauai trip. Verified original Blogger URL:http://wakethedinosaurs.blogspot.com/2008/09/helicoptor-tour-it-made-me-bit-airsick.html What survives The earliest surviving Blogger comment… Continue reading

Went to the Valley of the Temples (in the liquid sunshine) and then we drove up the coast a bit. Even saw a turtle stick his head out of the water, but it looks like a rock in the photo so I’ll spare you. Today we catch a plane to Kauai. Continue reading

Here’s a few shots of our VA-Cay so far. All is well. Hawaii is beautiful. Will post more later. Continue reading

See, aren’t you glad to have me as an informant. I get to learn everything the hard way and then pass the knowledge I’ve gleaned on to you. Today’s lesson — the importance of furnace and air conditioning servicing Seems an air conditioner needs to be serviced every year — if you do this it… Continue reading

I’ve been investigating making photo slide shows and came across Smilebox — it looks awesome and easy to use — give it a shot. Continue reading

And while we’re on the topic of drug commercials. Is is OK to have an errection for 3 or 3.5 hours? How did they decide 4 hours was the point in time at which you should seek medical attention? Continue reading

Little Carol came into the kitchen where her mother was making dinner. Her birthday was coming up and she thought this was a good time to tell her mother what she wanted. ‘Mom, I want a bike for my birthday.’ Now, Little Carol was a bit of a troublemaker. She had gotten into trouble at… Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — September 8, 2008. Original email from Jo Zeimet. Original subject: “RE: Just a little hello.” Body preserved verbatim. Dave and I were having an email exchange about whether and how he was going to ship Grandpa’s workbench here. I made a joke I would have made with any of my friends,… Continue reading

I’ve been wanting to get a digital SLR camera for awhile now and with our upcoming trip I guess Matt decided to give in — so now I have a whole new set of instructions to read. Here are a few shots of the boys playing this afternoon. (In the bottom on they are “sharing”… Continue reading

Friday night of Labor Day weekend Matt got a wild hair to go somewhere. (We’d already checked into taking the train to Chicago, but it was sold out). So we ended up finding a room at Tan Tar A at the Lake of the Ozarks. It’s kid friendly (mini golf, bowling, playground and their favorite… Continue reading