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Little Brothers
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06.23.09paddlefishing
Fish, Fishing, Fishing tackle, Little Brothers, Summer (4)One of my favorite lessons as parent is that a child's unbridled curiosity is happier than the child on your agenda; early on I learned to kiss the schedule goodbye in his wake. So a fishing trip, no matter how hopeful, is just a trip to the water with poles and tacklebox in the background. The scene's wide open, this way. We took the whole family out again down at Moss Landing. Seti at the helm was restless and he bailed around sunset onto an island in the middle of nowhere on the scent of some crab. Beached flats of dried, matted ...
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04.09.09everyone is special on the farm
Little Brothers, xo (6)As testament to her skill, the cat leaves us her kill: this time, a spiny lizard. *** He picks it up off the doormat, carrying it deftly like the live ones he catches, and places it atop the cooler. Chas knows that a lizard likes sun. He does not see me watching him as he talks quietly to the lizard in a soft little language that a lizard can hear. Deliberately he collects rocks and places them around the limp body in totem perimeter, stands back and tips his head sideways. Then he disappears into the hedge, returning with fallen pine ...
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03.29.09chickens! but first: paint!
Crafts, Little Brothers, Spring, decorative arts, xo (14)The decorative arts (ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile) are explored briefly in The American Boy's Handy Book in the chapter Every Boy a Decorative Artist. I think that's where my bookmark fell out. Shadow paintings were a big hit about a month ago with the boys and we had a big agenda to fill in the following weeks with urban graffiti and mural painting that flew out the proverbial window with the arrival of the migrating birds and Spring. Spring does not mess around where we live (does it anywhere?!). From the first almond blossoms to ...
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