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, [...]
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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 [...]
MoCo Gets Its Groupon
Groupon is a combination of coupon and group. Every day there’s “something cool to do at an unbeatable price” (i.e. a coupon), but, in order for you to get the offer, enough people must sign up for it (that’s the group part). It’s a localized service, so there one “something cool” for each location. I’ve [...]
Where’s Wheaton?
Wheaton, the place I now live, is in Maryland. It is: Flagged on the map I made for this post. Part of Silver Spring. Wikipedia describes Silver Spring as an unincorporated area, and Wheaton as one of its neighborhoods. In Montgomery County (MoCo), and hence part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Wheaton is not: Inside [...]