Finally........
After a day of the pater familias giving up most of his time to tinker with the computer, I am finally able to read most of what’s new and get back to writing. So much chaos...........we had an AT&T e-mail address, which was absorbed by Prodigy and now Prodigy has become part of SBC/Yahoo and we chose to ‘upgrade’ our service rather than chuck it all and just get a new e-mail service. What a mess. Luckily, Dad has pretty good luck at getting real people on the phone and getting answers. But now, we can no longer run Netscape.....it just didn’t work. I guess we have Internet Explorer, which has me all confused. But, it may be good after all. For about two weeks, some blogs just wouldn’t load.........especially
Gerard’s, which is always so rich in art. But they work now. So I’m counting my blessings.

OBLIGATORY THANK YOU TO EMILY!!!! for answering Dad’s phone calls and e-mails. You are a gem!

Something neat..........
Just as I was getting back on the computer, I received a phone call from my friend Pat. She couldn’t wait to tell me that there was a home a few blocks from hers that had a Little Tykes
castle put out for the garbage. (Oh, the delights of living in an affluent area!) Rick was kind enough to put his shoes back on, we grabbed the boys and jumped in the van and drove over and picked up the castle. (Martha said she had homework, but I think she just didn’t want to be associated with the operation. That’s OK - the castle took up a lot of room!) Eddie is pretty close to the top age for this toy, but the price was right and I think the guys will have a lot of fun with it.

Pat has such a good eye. She is always finding marvelous stuff. She finds the good stuff when we go to the rummage shop, too. I always find the weird stuff. We like to fantasize about opening our own shop of ‘treasures’ that we would find elsewhere and then sell at not unreasonably inflated prices.

New interesting blog.......
I found this blog - The Fabric of Society is Here - I think it was mentioned on Tom Abbott’s blog. That was about the time I got the ‘castle’ call and ran out of the house. Sort of lost the train of thought for a while.......

It’s cool to find another mother of six who homeschools. And she eats bon-bons in her spare time! (Oh, well, I have a secret bag of Twizzlers hidden in my sweater drawer. Which could account for the dull ache I feel in one of my molars. Didn’t I just get done with a big round of dental appointments a few months ago? not again............)