Oh hello, long neglected blogger account

Hi everyone... all two of you who subscribe to this feed. Here's a little visit during lunch as I'm sitting here trying not to let my head explode with excitement.

Jessica has been in Germany for 3 weeks and will be home within a few hours. 8 to be exact. She's probably in France right now or in the air on her way here. I have no idea how long it will take her to fly home, but I can't wait.

I miss her.

I do.

I love my daughter, in all her awesome amazingness. To be honest, I do not know what I will do when she goes away to college. It is going to be hard on my heart and soul. The coming home from work time will be Jess devoid and I don't like that.

So I will try not to think about it.

In addition to Jess being away, we've been busy. The details in life are all over at the official (a)musings blog. And you really should go over and visit and read and soak in all the goodness that is (a)musings.

Top order of business is a summer full of Shakespeare.

Geoff is doing Henry V (he plays Bardolph, and he gets hung for stealing from a church. Nice!) and Jess and her ilk will do Romeo & Juliet. Everyone's 2nd least favorite Shakespeare play, but it will be a good one. I assure you. They are performing it all over the city of Salem, up in Haverhill, hopefully in Beverly and Marblehead... So there will be opportunities to see the show. Don't miss it if you're north of Boston at the end of August!!!!!

Alrighty then. Just wanted to say hey. If you're visiting, leave a comment and say hey back.

Later.

beach brodie, beach brodie gimme yer hand... or paw for that matter.

beach brodie
Originally uploaded by amusings

Hey.

So this blog is oft neglected. Actually my journal is oft neglected as well but I feel resurgence and awakening coming on. I thought I would post an update to this neglectoblog and let you know what was going on, which you can, of course, read in the official awesome (a)musings journal.

We take the dogs to the beach.
--Geoff graduated cub scouts and is now a boy scout.
--Geoff is a hormonally enraged psychopath who is alienating all his friends and causing me to live a life of living hell. Please, someone, tell me this gets better.
--Jess and the Rebel Shakespeare Company will be going to London next week and will be doing stuff with Royal Shakespeare Company and acting in the streets at Stratford. I'm super jealous and grind my teeth at night.

I guess that's it.

Do go visit the journal. It's a happy place.
http://www.amusings.net/clg

Have a good day, and enjoy the Beach Brodie.

Good Turns Daily

Hi,
Long time no blog.
Just a quick note to let you know my Tenderfoot Scout is going to be blogging.
http://goodturnsdaily.blogspot.com/
is Geoff's new blog. Right now I'm the owner, and it is under my profile, but I may set up one for him to blog with so he can do so with a little more autonomy.

Check his blog frequently (do the RSS feed thing) to see what he's doing in trying to be a better Boy Scout and better person.

cheers!

from July to October, a lot went on.

Hello to anyone actually looking at the blogger blog. Oh, how I've neglected it. Well, I could cross post to every other entry I've done at the "Official" journal. Or I can just point you there.

Highlights were:

We had a German Exchange Student.
My sister got MARRIED in a very beautiful Celtic ceremony.
We went to NYC with our German Exchange Student.
Geoff started football.
My company got bought by another company, but I can't blog about that.

And life continues to rock on over at the official journal and in life in general. Sign the guestbook in the previous entry if you care to. I think 2 people every eight weeks come visit this page. So.

Go to where the real story is.

Check out my Guestbook!

Summer Skin

I haven't been using this site too often, have I?

The RSS feed for the main site has been so effective that I haven't had the opportunity to come over here for postings. But I wanted to just take a minute and cross post a bit.

I had a bad day yesterday after accidentally finding something out that I didn't ever expect or anticipate:
June 20, - Shedding of our summer skin

The school year is finished for the kids. Geoff is suffering from boredom:
June 16 , 2007 - School's Out

Jess turned 15 and the bridesmaids threw a bridal shower for my sister:
June 11 , 2007 - Jess' Birthday and Linda's Bridal Shower

A tremendous weekend storm knocked out school for a day for Jess:
June 4 , 2007 - School Closing!

Doug and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary, and I extensively quote Kenny Rogers for the entry (ew! what is wrong with me?):
June 2 , 2007 - Happy Anniversary

So that should keep you busy for a while if you use this site for updates on us at (a)musingsland. I'm off to work. Have a good day. It is a beautiful, sunny day.

what's the story morning glory?

235/365 watering the morning glories
Originally uploaded by amusings

Geoff planted seeds in egg cartons back in April. This past weekend we decided they were big enough (and hopefully all frost/freeze warnings are done for this part of the year) to put into the ground.

My daily review of their progress finds that there are some missing. We're not sure who ate them. Perhaps the spiders I disturbed when I dug up the ground to plant things. Touche, spiders... revenge seems to maybe be yours. But me and Mr. Ortho bug spray for plants to keep bastards like you from eating them will see you this evening... ha.

This is my favorite time of year, when everything is vivid green and springing to life. The lilacs are done, but the azalea up front is exploding and the rhododendron is kicking into high gear. Pretty soon everything will be past peak, and the heat will oppress and we will all be whining about the temps.

Over at the official journal, there are several entries since last I photoblogged here. Do go visit. I also set up (with a lot of help) an RSS feed over there, so you can subscribe and get the regular updates. I maintained this presence just to point over there for quite a while, seeing as it had no update feed. Now that it does, I think I'll just photoblog over here.

And perhaps I'll photoblog other people's photos and talk about how wonderful I think they are.

Who knows.

Anyway. Go to the official journal for a total wrap up of so many things... now I'm off to work. Yay.