If you are ever looking for an entertaining evening, you can’t beat a night at the ol’ ball park. Especially when it’s a ball park filled with 6 and 7 year olds who are just being introduced to the world of swinging bats, flying balls and a lot of confusing rules. I’ve always heard about the kid sitting out in right field picking [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Emma’s first softball season
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mulberries, mulberries everywhere
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We have one mulberry tree in our yard and it currently has a lot of mulberries. A Lot.
I looked up on the internet how one harvests mulberries and it said to lay out a tarp and then shake them down. It didn’t mention the fact that you should do the shaking when there aren’t a half dozen neighborhood kids [...]
Cleanup time
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Most of the news media has packed up camp now and has followed the flood waters down to Missouri and other places south. The river crested here on Sunday/Monday a couple feet under what had been predicted and has thankfully started to recede.
Here’s a shot I took of the water crashing up against the Burlington Street bridge near [...]
Getting closer…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our neighbor, Enrique, has a pilot’s license and shared some of the photos he took with us from his flight today (Friday 6/13). What’s hard to believe is that they’re predicting at least another 4 feet before the water crests next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Here’s what the Coralville Strip looked like today. It’s facing north - Iowa softball diamonds [...]
Getting ready for the flood
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve spent the last few days glued to the TV watching the non-stop coverage of the flooding tearing through Iowa. Kari got a call from her parents up in Charles City on Sunday or Monday and they said most of her home town was underwater. All the bridges across their river were closed and the 150 year [...]
Magic ear wax?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kaylee came through her impacted ear wax procedure with flying colors yesterday. (Turns out the doctor didn’t just make the diagnosis up – I looked it up on the internet and it really does exist. If it’s on the internet it must be true, right?)
Kaylee is never one to do anything half way and apparently the [...]
Sir Limp-A-Lot
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas got his cast off on Tuesday, as scheduled. Yeah! It was a pretty long 3 weeks, but by the end Thomas was walking around on that thing pretty much all the time. He wore out the padding by his big toe so we patched it up with duct tape. Gotta love duct tape.
The doctor said that the break that took Thomas’ 18 [...]
