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A magic spell for vanishing bad habits. (3/1/20)
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A lovely day for a walk. (3/1/20)
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Delta Ponds. (3/1/20)
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A homemade pizza, decorated to have the face of a bear, to celebrate my eight Ursa Major nominations. (3/1/20)
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Too cool for
school. And Wesley asked me to draw a monster with four arms,
four legs, one mouth, and one eye. (3/2&4/20)
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A cheerful, technicolor Munchkin greets Dorothy in the Upstart Crow production of The Wizard of Oz. (3/6/20)
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An actor with a wide range: from cheerful Munchkin to fearsome flying monkey. (3/6/20)
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Elaine plays a Tin Man with a big heart. (3/6/20)
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"If I only had a heart..." (3/6/20)
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Flowers for a very fine performance. (3/6/20)
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Flowers and friends. (3/6/20)
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Watching the trains
pass by 5th St. Market while we work. And going on walks, while
Elaine's busy with rehearsals. (3/7&9/20)
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Returning to his old
preschool stomping grounds, where we used to wander around looking at
the statues, especially the big silver TARDIS to the Ghostbusters
planet. (3/9/20)
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Halfway up Spencer Butte. (3/11/20)
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At the top of Spencer Butte. (3/11/20)
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It's not actually a clover, but it does have a lot of leaves! (3/12/20)
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Watching Jeeves & Wooster inspired Wesley to design a robot. (3/12/20)
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Unlike Jeeves though, this robot will be designed to obey Wesley's every command without question. (3/12/20)
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To keep everyone
connected during quarantine, Upstart Crow held a virtual talent
show. The kids won "Judge's Choice" with their dance stylings to
"Strawberry Pie." (3/13/20)
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I told Wesley to put on something warmer for going on a walk. They put on this. We went on a walk. (3/14/20)
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Elaine sings "The Circle of Life" while Wesley dances. (3/14/20)
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In spite of quarantine, we managed to celebrate Pi Day with shepherd's pie, apple pie, and chocolate pie. (3/14/20)
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Wesley made fruit smoothies with the ice cream left over from pie day. (3/15/20)
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The kids sing, "What's the name of this dog?" (3/15/20)
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The kids and their band of aquatic puppets perform "Under the Sea." (3/16/20)
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The kids insisted
that if they left an offering out for the leprechauns, then the
leprechauns would bring them chocolate. Bizarrely, it
worked. (3/16/20)
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Elaine collects daisies and braids them into chains as we walk. (3/17/20)
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"The Nature King doesn't need a daisy crown." Although, they do have one. (3/17/20)
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"The Nature King always picks a random Nature Prince," says Wesley to their randomly chosen Nature Prince. (3/17/20)
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Taking a quiet moment in a quiet place. (3/17/20)
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If only the trails had stayed this quiet. (3/17/20)
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A dragon with their
rainbow drawings and rainbow decorated spelling tests. See, once
you have pictures of them, you can recycle them. (3/17/20)
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Rocks and a river add up to a whole activity. (3/18/20)
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Sometimes skipping stones, sometimes just chucking them as hard as they can. (3/18/20)
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As more and more
people quarantine, it's a narrower and narrower path to walk through
the wilderness and avoid them. (3/18/20)
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We seek the road less traveled. (3/18/20)
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Wesley has opened up a pizza shop and offers delivery for a reasonable fee. This is a breakfast pizza. (3/19/20)
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The jello dessert
pizza came highly recommended. I paid 1 cent and received three
dollars in change. However, somehow, while I received pictures of
pizza, Wesley went and got the last piece of actual leftover pizza from
the refrigerator. (3/19/20)
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Wesley proceeds to wax philosophic about how the pizzas they sold
me don't even look real, while tightly clutching the last of the real pizza. (3/19/20)
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Wesley reads a passage from the book they've been reading, for an Upstart Crow challenge. (3/19/20)
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For an Upstart Crow challenge to make art outdoors, Wesley built a wall and drew a mural on it. (3/20/20)
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Trudy is a very old dog, but she is somehow still alive. (3/20/20)
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Wesley does the dishes. (3/22/20)
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Elaine makes jam tarts. (3/22/20)
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A fine, civilized time. (3/22/20)
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With all the free
time and lack of structure, Elaine has taken up baking pastries and
serving afternoon tea for us all. (3/23/20)
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Carl joins us for tea. (3/24/20)
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Reading a bedtime story to those both near and far. (3/25/20)
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Elaine makes scones. Wesley devours them. They had chocolate chips and were really good. (3/29/20)
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Wesley spent the
afternoon at Grand Janet's house where they made a staff, named it
Staffy, and then played Monopoly with it. Wesley was the banker,
but Staffy won. (3/30/20)
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