Darah’s home-based childcare notified us that they’re suddenly shutting down. We had to find a new child care pronto and were lucky to find an ex-teacher who just received her license to open up a new home-based childcare. Darah begins going to her new child care on Monday. Since last year we’ve been planning to [...]
If you live in the Charlotte area – or anywhere in North Carolina – you’re already familiar with Meck Day. For my northern friends and family, Meck Dec Day celebrates perhaps one of the most influential event in American history that you’ve never ever heard of. Meck Dec Day celebrates the signing of the Mecklenburg [...]
People are often surprised when I tell them that I grew up just 22 miles from New York City (an easy train ride) yet I’ve never been to Yankee Stadium. That area of the Bronx isn’t exactly kid-friendly, but it was down-right dangerous when I was growing up in the 70′s and 80′s. Not that [...]
I was just fiddling with some new free software that creates panoramic shots from multiple standard photos by stitching them together. The freeware I’m using is called Hugin. It’s a bit complicated but Lifehacker wrote a nice tutorial for it. The truth is that I need to take better photos if I intend to stitch [...]
How cute is this? -both of them looking out the front window together. Look how much taller Boomer (a small Rat Terrier) is when he stands up on his hind legs next to Darah.
Maegan got her braces off today.
Today was the big day, primary election day in North Carolina. Who’d a thunk that a primary held in May would have any significance at all, let alone be an essential battleground being watched across the nation. Of course the big hoopla over North Carolina’s primary is the Democratic presidential race between Barack Obama and [...]
We just got proofs back from Maegan’s fourth grade school photos and they are literally the worst school photos ever taken. Maegan looks fine in them, or at least she would have looked fine if you could actually see her in the photos. Check them out. I did not alter these photos at all. These [...]
Darah’s first birthday was this weekend. Can you notice what’s wrong with this last photo?