Ding!

July 31, 2009

Another round of photos are ready and waiting on Flickr. I’m totally in batch-mode operations at the moment… I leave the photos to accumulate for a few weeks before even loading them onto the computer to look at them. The laundry piles up and then I do 3 loads in a day. I make a [...]

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Hot enough for ya??

July 30, 2009

I’m really not kidding about the heat. It’s hot, hot, hot and hotter. Strangely enough, I seem to be acclimatizing to this unbelievably steamy weather. I’m still sweating sitting still in the shade, but I’m getting slightly more zen about it. Yes, ever so slightly more zen. I’m still planning on camping out somewhere air-conditioned [...]

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I’m too hot

July 28, 2009

and sweaty. that is all. (more pics and writing to come soon, when I can actually concentrate enough to complete these tasks. until then I’ll be taking tepid showers and drinking ice water. see you then.)

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Life’s Longing for Itself

July 14, 2009

10pm and finally, FINALLY, both girls are in bed and asleep.  The dishes and laundry await.  Today was a long day, yesterday was long too, but cumulatively they blur by fast and faster.  Claire is starting to look me in the eyes and gurgle a long, convoluted story about her dreams when she wakes up [...]

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Beach!

July 13, 2009

It’s a sweltering July day – what to do?  Go to the beach with everyone else, of course! While we were there the coastguard hovercraft zoomed into the bay and up onto the beach.  It was huge, noisy and fast, and attracted an enormous crowd.  I would have taken pictures except my hands were, of [...]

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