Yes We Can

The yard sign was a first. So were the lobbying emails and phone calls to friends and family in swing states. It makes me believe that Yes We Can ...

View From Our Window

The first measurable accumulation at 6:10 this morning

Climbing & Rapelling

Dan & G went to an indoor climbing studio last weekend. (My back -- ahem -- prevented me from joining them.) G started out tentative, but was rapelling by the end of the afternoon. Dan enjoyed it enough to want to learn how to belay the next time out. There is some noise about doing it again this weekend ...

Rapelling

To the top to sound the gong

Band Concert

The 7th and 8th grade bands and choirs gave their first concert of the year last night, in honor of Veterans' Day. What is more satisfying than listening to patriotic music by not only your own, but other people's children for an hour and a half?

Trombonists extraordinaires Frances & G

Hard at work

Frosty Moon

View from our bedroom window, 11/11 @ 4:11 a.m. (Guess you had to be there)

Weekend Holiday

A group we belong to was offering a special weekend rate at The Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells, so we took advantage of it. We've been to seven indoor waterparks since G was little, and this was the most disappointing one we've ever visited. It is poorly laid out, overcrowded, understaffed (by people who don't care about service) and not well maintained. After the first night we skipped the waterpark and looked for other things to do. (We tried to check out a day early, but they'd only refund our money in a giftcard -- believe me, we will never be returning!) Fortunately for G and me (but not Dan), the Dells is home to a Tanger Outlet. (How can you beat Gap shirts for $3.59? We'll each take one in every color!) We spent a major part of Saturday eating and shopping, then went back to our room and read until we got a second wind. G then tackled a rock wall; we ate dinner, then she tried it again. We left early Sunday but stopped in Madison on the way home and did more eating and shopping. We've got a good jump on Christmas shopping and a winter wardrobe.



Faux Northwoods cabin decor

Faux Northwoods cabin decor with WiFi

Scaling the rock wall (taken from a second story balcony)

Least Wonderful Time of the Year

It is flippin' snowing like crazy and sticking here right now!

Day Off

Yesterday G had a vacation day to mark the end of the first quarter of school. She and her schoolmates deserved it -- I could not believe the amount of work piled on 12-year-olds over a two-day period (G had six tests, two projects and a speech). We took it easy and enjoyed a nice, fairly warm day, which was a good thing since it is rainy and cool here today.

Last of the combining

Last day of bubbles?