Wordless Wednesday: Vacation, 2000

  We went to Wisconsin Dells in early August.

the only time we ever stayed at a hotel/resort with both a pool AND a beach

Wordless Wednesday: Bridge of Character

This is in Danville, IN, on Cartersburg Road, just south on where Old and New US36 come together. 

  Today we came home via backroads.  i love not only the arches on this bridge, but the twining vegetation.

Not Quite Wordness Wednesday: Out with the Old, In with the New

Christmas Lights

We used to go to the Children's Museum every year, often several times a year, but always for Jolly Days.

Wordless Wednesday: Photoless Scrapbook Pages

These pages are about boarding the plane when i went to Europe.  No photos - who needs them?

These pages actually come before the ones above: a night out on the town, in NYC, and the next morning, before catching the plane that night.  Can you tell what the weather was?

Words on Wednesday: Did Agatha Christie write a Bodice-Ripper?

   In last week's Words on Wednesday, i wrote about the late Christie novel Passenger to Frankfort, and observed from the linked articles that it was similar to the early effort The Man in the Brown Suit.
  So

Wordless Wednesday: Soldier Train

It's About the Lion

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: The Train! The Train!

  When i was a kid, it seemed that we couldn't go anywhere without waiting for a train.

  i kinda liked trains, but it wasn't any big deal.  

  Max of course loves trains,

Wordless Wednesday: View from a Train

Wordless Wednesday: We Rode the Rails

Day Out with Thomas, 2014

  For awhile i thought this would be our last Day Out with Thomas. . .

Max and Thomas

  Max has long been interested in Thomas and friends, but it wasn't love at first sight.

Wordless Wednesday: Zoo Trip

Max and i did some day trips after Boom went to college.  These shots are from a trip to the Indianapolis zoo .

i liked the way the train was reflected in these convex mirrors.  It took several shots to get this right!

Christmas Shopping with Max

  Like always, Christmas shopping turns out to be not as done as we thought.
  However, i really thought Max was done with his.

Signs of the Times: Hope and Promise in 1939

  We think of 1939 as the prelude to WWII.  Germany overruning Europe, turning on its allies while under the influence of a madman leading a Holocaust.
  But there was more to the year than that.

Day Out with Thomas, Connorsville, IN, 2013

  People ask me if there is enough to this event to justify the admittedly high cost.
  It depends.

Remembering a Strange Sign

  MyGuy's Granddad had a lot of stories.  Like most of us, we didn't listen as closely as we should have, but MyGuy was remembering this story last night, and, as usual with us, it led to a minilesson in communicating.

How Many Ways?

showing Max our remainder after 5x3: his choice, an awkward layout to work with!

  Max only wants to play Thomas card games now.  i try to encourage him to play other games, but it's often easier to go with the flow.  It's interaction.
But we can go for more, the big fish in the small pond idea.  The deck we now play Match with contains 22 cards.  How many ways can we arrange them?  Math lesson!

• (5x4=20) +2 = 22
• (7x3=21) +1 = 22

  Well, it's a new idea.  i think we'll next go for (6x3=18) + 4 = 22. 
  What else can we do with a 2 person game with Thomas cards?

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: Cruising the Tahquamenon River

 Last Wednesday,