It's not all apples and squash around here, of course.  There are also pumpkins!  And kids.  That's Choclo in the chair. (And ou...

 Actually, Leena found the camera.  Thanks, Leena! Here we are, picking an entire wheelbarrow full of apples. Why, yes, there is anoth...

 Last week we went apple picking up at Larriland Farms with Grammy.  Honestly, despite the picture, we all had a great time! All the sm...

Or maybe the closing of an era!  I haven't talked much here about coming to terms with leaving Babyville.  I lived there for so lon...

I most often use my big flat chalk board for math , and I do love my number playground , but, while we were playing on the number line , I ...

We were talking in chemistry  about displacement reactions: chemical reactions in which a more active element pushes out (displaces) a less ...

 We loved Mount Vernon!  It was totally worth the substantial amount of money! Here we are in front of George Washington's actual h...

 Yes, The Emperor had another birthday!  In commemoration of this glorious event, I give you, not one, but two seriously fuzzy selective...

We're having a nasty sore throat/ bad cold go through the house.  It cancelled a planned visit to my folks last Friday, and today I canc...

I love Maryland this time of year! Yes, the summers are too hot, and the winters are not cold enough, but springs and falls are long stret...