Duck, Duck, Goose.

Yesterday we were driving home, and we saw a flock of geese, flying really low, over our car. I had barely glimpsed them, and was staring - mouth open, when Bob shouted "Get the camera, get the camera!!!" The geese were so big, and so beautiful! I couldn't stop staring.

"I don't know where it is." I said.

Bob rolled down the window still shouting

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International Port-A-Potties

Their tagline is, "Keeping the Project Flowing." For real! Would the American equivalent be, "AmeriCrapper"?

Wonderful Wellies

   

Owen and Ella have lived in Los Angeles all of their lives. Which means that they have lived their lives in a desert. People living in LA don't really think of it as the desert. We water our gardens and our lawns daily to keep things green and growing, we put big spraying

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Black Isle Brewery: Save The Planet Drink Organic

As we write this blog, Bob and I are sharing the last bottle of beer we brought home from our last little road trip. It's an oatmeal stout called the Hibernator -- a dark and chewy meal of a beer and it's perfect for this quiet, rainy day.

While we were in the West Highlands last week we went to the Tallisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye. The kids weren't excited abut it. So we were suprised when Ella said

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You Say Porridge, I Say Oatmeal

We've run out of oatmeal. Normally not a big deal, but this was really good oatmeal and we can't get it anymore because the four-hundred year old water mill that made it is closed for the winter. These oats were ground on a big-ass millstone powered by the stream that ran past the mill. We even got to watch the oats being ground and bagged. The miller would scoop them into each bag, carefully apply a bead of Elmer's glue to the opening and hold it shut for a few moments before moving on to the next bag. I'll say it again. It was good oatmeal. The bar has been set very high.

So now we're oatless, as I said, and we went to the grocery store. I left Brenna in the wine aisle

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