Oops, we did it again! Kinda like Britney Spears, except not. We had so much fun blueberry picking last time that we decided to try it again. This time, my daughter and I brought along my more loquacious half, which made for interesting picking, as I’ll explain in a minute. Last time, our goal was […]
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Memorial Day Journey
We woke up yesterday morning to find ourselves still without air conditioning or internet. Inconveniently, our A/C unit went belly up right before Memorial Day weekend, and then Sunday morning, our internet went down. We were working on fixing the problem, of course, but some solutions come faster than others, particularly when it’s a holiday […]
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Coastal Carolina Blueberries
Here in Coastal Carolina, with our abundance of sandy soil, blueberry picking season is in full swing. My first year after moving to the island, I completely missed blueberry season in part because I had been accustomed to much later start dates along the Lake Michigan coast. So, now well-familiar with the timing of the […]
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Pirate Miniature Golf
One of the funny things about living in a tourist area is that, because you live there, it’s easy to put off doing the tourist activities indefinitely. You can always do it later, the thinking goes, so sometimes you end up waiting perhaps for years for the ideal time. In Chicago, this was not entirely […]
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Pools of Water
My small people love it when low tide leaves a sandbar and what we call “pools†of water in the sand between the sandbar and the shore. So yesterday, when the boys got home from school, I announced that the pools were back and declared the afternoon a “no homework†afternoon. Usually, they get half an […]
A Weekend in Washington, DC: Part Two
On the second day of our trip to Washington, DC, we were in the mood to do something else touristy, so we decided to visit the National Air and Space Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. It had been recommended to us by friends who had taken their two daughters there the day before, so […]