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Canadian ex-pat, "retired" biochemist, now settled in Silicon Valley. Watch her avoid housework by over-booking her kids, and taking on too many knitting projects! The thrills! The spills! The microwaved suppers!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Do you smell smoke?

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I drove the four girls off to Horse Camp this morning. It always smells nicer in the car on the way THERE, than on the way BACK. I stayed ou...
Monday, August 18, 2008

And so it begins

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The last full week of Summer Vacation '08.   Let's start it off with a full day of fun in the sun with horses... AND NO SUNSCREEN. Y...

RIP

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It would appear that Exoskeletor passed away peacefully some time yesterday. Live fast, die young, I guess. He was 24. That'd be DAYS...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Wasting TIme

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Man, there is BARELY a week left of summer vacation, and I had a list as long as my arm of stuff that I just KNEW I had enough time to do th...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Doctor, My Eyes.

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So, a few weeks back, I went in for my once-every-whenever-I-remember eye exams.  I think this is the third time since Nate was born.  So I...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Letting the dust settle.

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So, I bid adieu to our Marathon Team this morning at 645, and am now in the process of catching up on the laundry (and obsessively checking ...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

We know how to put the AWK in awkward

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So right now, we've got a team of guys staying in our house. Four guys who are going to be running the San Francisco Marathon tomorrow ...
Friday, August 01, 2008

I'm no sidekick!

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I had Nate and Kelly in the car with me last night coming home from a supper at church. Nate was tired, and slumped over in his seat. Kell...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

At this rate, I'm gonna need a bigger tank.

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OK, We'll call the Triops "Blinky". There's Big Blinky and Middle Blinky and hiding in the back somewhere is "I'...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

They're Aliiiiiiiiiiive!

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Skip's friend Cole is over for a sleepover. Even though they were up really late and PROMISED to sleep in, they were up early, loiterin...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

My first Swap!

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OK, I have absolutely OODLES of vacation entries to write, but they all get pre-empted by this: I signed up for a swap over at Morning Glori...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Not to be outdone musically

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Kelly had her musical yesterday morning. She's been practicing with the kids choir at her friend's church since January.  A few mont...
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Sound the Trombone

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I'm trapped in River City, people. Well, one seventy-sixth of it, anyways. Ken was finally able to finagle out of Skip how the Honors Ba...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

I kipped. Did you?

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Today is WWKIP day. Did you celebrate? Did you KIP? What? You didn't? Shame! Wanna see what I kipped? Tough. I'm showing it, any...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Late for School

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It's the second last day of school today. You'd think that by now I'd have some sort of good routine developed for the mornings,...
Friday, June 06, 2008

First day of Kindergarten... again

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We peeled out of the house early this morning, probably the first time that's happened in the entire school year. I wanted to make sure ...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Pachelbel, eat your heart out

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A-HA! I have conquered the Dragons that inhabited my computer, and were trawling around You-Tube, as well. Here's the video of Sir Ski...
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Mr. Snappy

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Well, Mr. Snappy did his job, and he did a fine job. Yesterday, we (and by 'we', I mean *I*) discovered that another mouse had been ...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Nate's Magnum Opi

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Is 'opi' the plural of 'opus', like cacti is the plural of cactus? [well, would you look at that? It's 'opera'...

All Quiet on the Western Front...

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... or is it? The second set of traps that I set out haven't seen any action. Can I hear a "Hooray"???? Last night, though... ...
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Kemma
Silicon Valley, United States
I'm a Canadian ex-pat, living in Silicon Valley. Gentle is my daughter's (late) hamster. Gentleknits is my 'brand' on my handknit goods. "Kemma Parker" is a pseudonym.
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