happy memorial day

Eebs and I spent the night at E-dawg's and played games and ate snacks til the cows came home. We were going to head to Singing Beach, but smoke from fires in Quebec made the air unpleasant and very hazy (reminds me of the crazy wildfires in norcal a couple summers ago but no ash falling here). We called off the beach with plans to go on a more beautiful day that will not hazard our health, and instead got lobster rolls on the wharf.

It was colder than we thought and we were dressed for the beach,
so beach towels were used to stay warm as we sought our lobster rolls:

best lobster rolls ever!! I'm still dreaming about it:

smoky sky from Quebec fires- can hardly see the city! The air is very acrid and unfriendly. Supposedly a change in wind direction was supposed to blow it out to sea this evening, but that has yet to happen:

the desert in the spring

Erin and I went to AZ to see our relatives. We got a nice hot day at first, but we seemed to drag the Boston weather with us and it was down to 70 by the end of our visit! We were bummed, although I'm sure the Arizonans weren't.

(it was my nephew's birthday party that weekend too.
soooo tasty cake with lemon curd filling and italian cream frosting made by pastry chef John)

great moments of the spring

Ben and Jerry's free scoop day.

We hit up two locations for double the pleasure.

JP Licks $1 scoop day- no pic but it was awesome. I got Dice Kream (rice pudding ice cream, named for Dice-K).

Boloco free/$1 burrito day. (free for small, $1 for large. save the children.) Pretty great lunch.

Gore Place Annual Sheepshearing fest

popping corn on the cob

easter fun

adventures in babysitting

MFA Art in Bloom

random fireworks...

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(f to the y to the i for those who don't use google reader: I've been playing catch up so you might want to peruse the spring months to make sure you didn't miss anything.)

It's Nomar Day!

Take me out to the ballgame!
Take me out to the park!
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack!
I don't care if I ever come back!
Oh it's root! root! root! for the Red Sox!
If they don't win, it's a shame!
Cuz it's one! two! three strikes you're out
at the ol' ~~~~
ball~~~~~
gaaaaaame~~~~!

(our view, looking up)



Bomb scare before we got there... long row of silly high school boys in front of us when we found out we were sitting in the wrong section (oops!) and moved over to the right one...high ten from the kid in front of me when we got a home run and we beat the LA Angels 3 to 1.
Happy Nomar Day :)

water water everywhere and not a drop to drink

This weekend there was a breach in the water line, and all of Boston east of Weston, with the exception of Cambridge, was on a boil water warning. Eebs and I were babysitting that weekend, and didn't get word til we got home in the evening after a production of Pirates of Penzance. By then the panicked masses had cleared out the grocery stores of anything water-like, the family whose house we were staying in didn't have any supply of water and eebs and I have no food storage to speak of. I got our measly 3L jug of water and brought it over. It was late though, and since the kids had to go to bed, everyone ended up brushing their teeth with seltzer water. We drank a lot of seltzer water over the next few days- they had a big supply of that! We also boiled water-- thank heavens it was just at a boil water warning instead of a complete ban, or we would have been in a fix. I heard water even came out brown in some places! Luckily ours wasn't brown and we felt ok boiling it.
This was a startling wake-up call to face a real-world situation where a supply of water would have been good to have on hand. It's not too late to get started! Spring goal: get food storage/emergency preparedness under wraps.