Ruby and I walk everywhere in our town – to the post office, the many parks, the library, the bank, the river, the coffee shop that re-opened (hallelujah!), and the farmer’s market, and the cemetery (I love reading all the old names on the markers). I hate, hate, hate cars (with good reason) so walkability [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘summer’
August 18, 2009
summer evenings
We’re beginning another heat wave here – I think the high is 95 today and 99 tomorrow (which means it will be over 100). But the past week or so it has been incredible. We have spent our days and nights outside. One night John and Ruby planted some of our fall/winter garden while I [...]
August 13, 2009
Summer Concerts
Our city hosts a weekly summer concert series on the riverfront in the summer. Its pretty fun and always good for people watching. Last week we met some friends who were celebrating a birthday for an evening picnic and dancing to a band playing salsa music. We can hear the music from our house and [...]
August 7, 2009
how we survived the heat
Right now, its 2:00 and 65 out. It’s August. A week or so ago it was 108. I’m not sure what is happening here. We had several days of 100+ temperatures. If you don’t live here, I’m not sure I can describe to you what this is like. Most people don’t have a/c here. We [...]
July 17, 2009
Ahhhh, the coast…
My parents just finished a trip of a lifetime. My maternal grandmother passed away just before I became pregnant with Ruby. The only state she had never traveled to was Hawaii and she always wished she had. So my mother and her brother decided to go to Hawaii together in memory of my grandmother. They [...]
