I’m in Interactions, the indoor playspace, in Kensington. Or at least I was on the 23rd; I’m editing this the following day. Anyway, there are these helpful labels on the toys, such as these Diatonic Boomwhackers. Great Kids Village in Silver Spring takes a different, but also helpful and probably more lucrative, approach. Parents can [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Snoburbia: Not Just for Winter
Here’s another map of the USA, to go with the one I posted earlier today. It adorns a t-shirt available from Snoburbia. That’s not a reference to our recent weather, but is the result of: snob + suburbia. I became aware of Snoburbia via a post on its blog, which I in turn found via [...]
DC as the Heart of the Nation
Washington DC as a big, red heart, pumping life-blood through the arteries of the nation’s body? The quote/link is from/to Strange Maps, a fine blog (and now a book). The map is from PublicOptionPlease, where it won a competition. Congratulations to artist Amy Martin. It makes me wonder which other locations might correspond to other [...]
Red and White
Red was doubly appropriate for yesterday, since it was both Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year. It still seemed appropriate this morning, as there was a trip to Target (big red T) to spend some of the red envelope money. We have a white afternoon, though. The snow has started to fall yet again. It [...]
Happy New Year
Year of the Tiger, that is. This rather lovely poster is by Lili Chin. Our rather tasty lunch today was from Paul Kee. It seemed that everyone in the county was picking up a large order when I was there – and that was before noon.
Snowstorm Menu
If you have power (which some people round here don’t) on such a cold snowy day, you might as well use it to cook. We made soup and bread. I made Fast French Bread using Mark Bittman’s recipe. I found it in How to Cook Everything, so did Heather, a fellow blogger who was kind [...]
Whiteout Wednesday
You know it’s bad when “snow forces snow plows, utility repair crews off the road.” But, as the Washington Post reports, that’s exactly what’s happened in DC and in MoCo. Speaking of our own county, sweet home, Montgomery schools are closed for the whole week. That means that schools will have been closed since just [...]
Snow More
It’s getting harder to deny that we brought the Massachusetts weather down to Maryland. But the snowstorm that finished last night is bigger than I encountered in all the years I lived in Massachusetts. And Silver Spring didn’t even get the very worst of it. Whenever it has snowed this winter – and it’s snowed [...]
Here we snow again…
Our first December in Maryland brought more than a whole DC-area winter’s worth of snow. January was more typical in terms of weather. Another big storm has just started. Every time it snows, Maddie asks: Is this a blizzard? It looks as though she’ll get her blizzard tonight, with a lot more snow to follow [...]
Wheaton Library to Stay
Today I actually got some news from a newspaper: the Wheaton Gazette, which gets delivered every week. As an unsolicited paper object (UPO?) it’s less unwelcome than the telephone directories that Verizon inflict upon us. The news is that Wheaton Library will stay at its current location. I regard that as good news, since I [...]