You insert your quarter and pull the arm. Every third, tenth, hundredth time, you hit the jackpot. Your brain likes jackpot. You insert your quarter and pull the arm, insert quarter, pull arm… But the 4-year-old is easier to please.…
Category: NaBloPoMo
what is the last thing you do before bed?
Tonight’s prompt: What is the last thing you do before bed? Which is funny since I’m writing this blog post in bed. But it won’t be the last thing I do. The last thing will be to read some portion…
and then we came home
The last day of our trip. How to spend it? In the morning, Jonah realized his dream, hatched the night before during the 4 hour drive home from Alamogordo, of creating a “model train” out of cardboard boxes and lengths…
too tired
What a day! Too tired to download and post photos. Or even explain in a detailed manner. Best shot: We slept in the trailer on Aunt Dorothy’s front driveway, woke up and played in said trailer for a while. Went…
yesterday
I will back date this post but I can hardly hold up the ruse as I’ve already written today’s post and as you have seen or will see, I am wringing this info out of one tired brain. Yesterday we…
the green chile odyssey continues
Today we continued our quest for food that is smothered in cheese and green chile. Did you know there is an official Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail? We ate at one of the official locations, the Magdalena Cafe. Yes, it is…
jonah’s birthday rock(et)s
This kid is cleaning up for his 4th birthday. We actually started before we left town. I picked up a water bottle at Whole Foods with space illustrations on it. (Nevermind that the illustrations are inaccurate: their version of Saturn…
in which my housesitter earns a purple heart
So the first day, it was the chickens. I’d put the iPhone down, stepped away from my technology to improvise with Linda in her studio, which she built herself (with a little help). When the phone rang at the house…