Highland Elementary’s kindergarten classes went on a (Strawberry) field trip to Homestead Farm today. I volunteered to chaperone, and so ended up fruit-picking, hayriding, and doing other fun stuff. Although it’s ~45 minutes from Wheaton, I might well take the whole family, including 3yo, to Homestead. The strawberries were great. The supporting cast of staff, [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
Tasty Wheaton
The 15th annual Taste of Wheaton merits a post, even though I’m a couple of weeks late. The photo is from the local Gazette. It shows lemongrass chicken from the Saigonese Restaurant. The Saigonese stall was the first one I visited; we intend to have more of their food. We enjoyed our first-ever pupasas. I [...]
Our Neighbors the Robins
That’s robins as in birds. There’s a nest in the wisteria over our deck. Little blue eggs started to appear in it, until there were four. Now there are no eggs, but there do seem to be some very tiny birds. I haven’t had a close look at the chicks. The robins were smart enough [...]
Chabon: Local Boy
I didn’t realize, or had forgotten, that Michael Chabon is from round here. There’s an interesting interview on a WaPo blog (via Largehearted Boy). Chabon recalls: Hurricane Agnes.. in his grandparents’ Silver Spring home: He and younger brother Steve went to bed in the basement, only to awake to the “magic” of a suddenly flooded [...]