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Dancing Girls
August 10, 2007
We went to a community concert yesterday afternoon in Festival Plaza. The girls got dancing to the toe-tapping bluegrass music of "The Grassholes". Beautiful day, fun time. I couldn't chose just one favorite to post so I'm posting a slideshow.
Only in Auburn Maine
August 8, 2007
can I be driving through the deserted mall parking lot (after a fruitless trip to get new eyeglass nosepads - I forgot the glasses at home, arhhh) and come across a parked minivan with a bagpiper (playing the pipes) and 3 young kids riding bikes in circles around their bagpiping ...
Week in review
April 22, 2007
Last weekend we were building snow forts and throwing snow balls. This weekend the kids went wading in their kiddie pool - yes in in bathing suits and water. In between these two weekends Maine was pummelled with a hurricane force rainstorm that devestated areas of the coast (we live ...
Planning to buy a home
February 2, 2005
We've been talking about it for a couple months and recently made a decision to buy our own home this spring/summer. We had wanted to save more for a down payment, to lower the term of a mortgage but if we wait much longer any extra savings will be eaten ...
Halloween
November 1, 2004
We had a great time tonight. This was our second halloween in our neighborhood and the second year we had our good friend's Landry's over to celebrate with us. Firstly, we all enjoyed pizza late in the afternoon. Then everyone went trick or treating and Damien and I took turns ...
One fall morning...
October 28, 2004
Fall is such a beautiful, if not slightly meloncholic time. Melancholic in that we know winter is approaching, although if you live in Alberta you're already in winter! Today the sky is a cystal clear brillant blue. There is a slight wind that carries the leaves gently down. This morning ...
