The site has moved from our Tera-Byte hosting to Slicehost. Much gratitude to Tera-Byte who served us well for many years and provided excellent support along the way. Our domain registration is now handled by DynDNS. Email is being setup for the houesholder-yogi domains, but is not ready yet.

Yes, you can wipe away your surprise. That was a new post. At long last, there will be more new posts after too much time away. The site will be going through some changes, moving to a new host, moving our domain registration away from GoDaddy to DynDNS (GoDaddy, your sexist ads are obnoxious, no more money for you). So, in the next few days we may be up, we may be down, but we will be back. If you see badly formatted pages or unfriendly behavior from the site, please email me (and let me know which browser and version you are using).

3 a.m. this morning

The air is cool and misty. A calming change from the daytime heat we’ve been experiencing in the city.

The boy is in the stroller as we walk around the neighborhood. Him – insistent on going outside, on going to the playground. Me – hopeful that a short walk will put him out.

The buildings are asleep. The cars are a sleep. ‘Mini Cooper is asleep,’ he chirps. ‘Yes, that too.’ Babcia and dziadzia are asleep. Grandpa is asleep. Vujek Ryan is asleep. Ciocia Max is asleep. Everyone is a sleep. All your friends are sleep and their parents are asleep. Look, the playground is asleep. The park is asleep too.

He still has energy – he’s alert, observant, and occasionally chatty.

Let’s go see if the other playground is asleep too. On the way there it occurs to me that I could not pull this off if we lived further downtown. Too many things would still be awake there. The other playground is indeed asleep. Back towards home.

‘Wait,’ he says, ‘a little more.’ Down the short hill to see the bridge. ‘Even the bridge is asleep,’ I tell him. Though there are quite a number of trucks going west to New Jersey, going east to the Bronx.

Back home. He is still awake. I am exhausted, but he is awake.

Jake turned 2 today. We’ll take our bows for a successful couple of years. Off to the Adirondack Balloon Festival in Glens Falls, NY this weekend with many more pictures to come.

Ever since we got Alison Jay’s ABC book, Jake gets really excited about balloons. So last weekend we enjoyed Fathers’ Day Quechee Balloon Festival in Vermont, staying at the beautiful Quechee Inn. The balloons were really breathtaking – nearly twenty balloons took off at six each morning and evening (neither D or I took a ride – maybe next time). We also visited the nearby town of Woodstock, the Quechee Gorge, Amherst MA (which happened to be having a food festival) and Hampshire College (since Amherst was on the way home and D had never seen my alma mater).

Click the image to see lots of pictures from the weekend.
At some point soon, I’ll be posting images from the past 3 months.