Les Dames d’Escoffier foodies savor flavors of Wheaton’s diverse delicacies: that headline from the Gazette online says it pretty well. The Dames is a culinary society, the DC chapter of which recently visited the lovely and tasty community of Wheaton.
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Becoming a Citizen in Gaithersburg
I had my naturalization interview about a month ago. On Sunday, I went to Gaithersburg for the next step: the ceremony. The ceremony was part of the opening of the annual Celebrate Gaithersburg in Olde Towne event. The town(e) was kind enough to send good directions and a free pass for the parking garage nearest [...]
Storm Without Power Cut!
Wheaton had a pretty decent-sized storm yesterday (Wednesday) evening. But we never lost power for more than a few seconds at a time. I was relieved that we didn’t have a power cut, but I think that the kids were a little disappointed. I was surprised, once we got out this morning, at how many [...]
Photo of the Summer
Of all the photos I took this summer, this “leaning shack of Wheaton” best captures our first summer in Wheaton/Silver Spring/Montgomery County/Maryland/DC area. It’s outdoors. It’s local, from Wheaton’s wonderful Brookside Gardens. It shows storm damage. We had three storm-induced power cuts this summer: 54 hours, 24 hours, 4 hours. I regard summer as over, [...]
Citizenship
Yesterday I went to Baltimore for my naturalization interview. I applied for citizenship via marriage. It was an impressively rapid process. Application (N-400) sent: 5/26/10 Receipt date: 5/28 Priority date: 5/28 Fingerprint appointment: 7/12 Naturalization interview: 8/26/10 So from sending the N-400 to the interview was exactly 3 calendar months. That’s rather faster than I [...]
Visiting Virginia
Charlottesville is the furthest south I’ve been in Virginia. Four of us went to dinner yesterday (Sat) evening. For a change, the other two weren’t our kids, but another couple who have two kids – but also a babysitter. We went to Zinc, where we sat outside by the fountain; I enjoyed the steak frites, [...]
Three Pools and a Coupon
We’ve recently tried out three swimming pools, two in Wheaton itself and one in Silver Spring. First we went to a start of season party at the Parkland Pool, on Arcola in Wheaton. We found out about the party via a flyer at the nearby Little Gym of Silver Spring, where the kids enjoyed some [...]
Strawberry Fields Today
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]