listening to random music on grooveshark, came across an appropriately timed song about summer ending, coincidentally sung in dutch to the tune of "City of New Orleans"....

′t Is weer voorbij, die mooie zomer

The world was full of light and life
Smell of herring mixed with sunburn
A parasol 't bright light to seven and in your clothes gently rubbed the sand
We played golf and jeux de boule sins we saved in a chair we drifted on a raft on the river
We were spoiled for weeks but I'm oh everything comes to an end now with my slides in the rain here

I am also officially homeless. So long NY!

I have hummingbirds in my research plots! I have the best job in the world.

Veronica has landed in Moon. Yea! See you soon.

284, eo.

well, that would now be 2 houses that are for sale that are not really for sale in Lincoln.

cool video, how did you get the clouds to move so slow?

how many runners went through your checkpoint?

Two and a Half Hours or so at the Last Aid Station on the Ridge Run. All in all it was about an 11 hour day for us...but what fun!

Great weekend in Hudson with Roman, but lengthy trip home from Hudson, creeping traffic outside Hudson because of construction, couple of stops at quilt stores to stretch and shop, then two accidents with slowed or stopped traffic. Didn't get home til 9 p.m.

No pictures but Roman and I helped pack 95 cases of food for Feed My Starving Children. Nice mother-son activity.

I call this one 'no stitches, all teeth intact':

Stitches too? You are so competitive with ro.

yay, I got the file upload to work... seems it was silently dropping anything over 300kB. Now the limit is ~3MB and an alert pops if you're over. try again if you dare.

save those stitches

Seems like we're getting pretty close to an Ohlerama IV slogan. "More stitches than a softball to the face"

The slogan on the back of our shirts from the Salmon River High Adventure camp says: "If your mother knew, you'd be grounded". So I grounded my daughter since I was with her on the trip.

Or not at all.

No internet service at home so I'm over at the library. The good news is Comcast admits it's its problem this time and is actually sending a live person out tomorrow to fix it.

Some things it's better for a mom to know after the fact.

gross.

were you trying to match Rita's crooked nose or has the stiches scar on your forhead faded enough that you thought you would go for another?

elevation changes on that hudson 5k? smash line drive to the hot corner or misplayed routine foul pop? how about some pics, video we need to get this to deadspin..

Weekend activities:
Saturday: 24:46 on the Hudson 5k (first 5k since high school)
Sunday: 6 stitches in the nose from softball.

Fabulous day in Chicago with Adrienne -- Breakfast at The Orange, visit to Lincoln Park Conservatory and Zoo, afternoon we saw "Nickle and Dimed" at The Green. We took the train there and back. The weather was beautiful. The sites were great and the show was excellent.

imagemagik not having its best day today...