I mentioned my mom’s neighbor Mildred the other day. Well today I finally spotted her out in the yard and went over to tell her thank-you for the wonderful Christmas stockings. We said our hellos and I thanked her and made small talk about her flowers and her home’s new … Read More

My cousin came down from Tacoma with his two girls, nine and eleven, today. They may be way older than Ouest, but she didn’t care one bit. And the girls were exceedingly nice and super patient with her. It was obvious their mom had given them the full run down … Read More

Since Mexico we’ve been telling Ouest that she could make oatmeal cookies with Grammy. She’s been very excited by the prospect and today she finally got to do it.

I’ve probably already mentioned how excited Ouest gets by the prospect of taking the dog for a walk. “Hey Ouest, wanna go for a walk?” “Binton too? Binton too? Purple rope?” That’s code for is Winston coming, and can we use the purple leash? My mom’s neighborhood is full of sweet … Read More

Our buddy Nick is in town. It’s funny, we originally met because of the website years and years ago, and only later did we discover our mothers live eight blocks away from each other. Now we’re writing a book together. I know it’s something I say all the time, but … Read More

We went to a Bum friend’s house for dinner tonight. The RVGoddess took great care of us on the food and drink front and we had some nice conversation with new IRL, in real life, friends. It’s not often we spend an evening with another blogger. For the first time … Read More

Today we were walking to the park when a dog came bounding up to us. Ali and I could see right away that it was a friendly young pup, but Ouest didn’t see it that way. She saw an animal about the same height as her racing straight at her. … Read More

My mom and I had some business today at her attorney’s office and took Ouest along with us. We walked in the door and were saying our hellos when I looked over and saw Ouest had backed herself up behind the chairs against the wall of the small sitting area … Read More

This afternoon we went to a VW get together downtown. Synchros and Vanagons, not the good ol’ splitties, but still a fun gathering. We got to meet and hang out with a lot of people who had followed our VW bus adventures as well as a couple of sailors who … Read More

We went to a wedding tonight for the daughter of my cousin. It’s weird to have a cousin marrying off her daughter while mine announces in the middle of the ceremony, “Me go home now. Home now. Home now?” Unfortunately Ali had to stay home with Lowe. A wedding didn’t … Read More

Ouest isn’t so grown up that she doesn’t have the occasional meltdown. Today we had an early morning bout of crying because, get this, she didn’t have any purple underwear. And if she didn’t have any purple underwear she wasn’t going to wear any underwear at all. We had a … Read More