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Enjoying our small yard
Video unavailable — originally hosted on Google Video (discontinued 2012). Blogger id cd39a0f362666b68. The dog was so quiet and calm at the shelter I feared she would not be playful enough for the kids and Joe. As soon as I brought her down to the yard she started running laps around the yard. Finally we…
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New dog
I read online that Seattle had an abundance of cats and kittens at theshelter so they were holding Catapalooza event. I decided to take thegirls to look at the kittens with a slight possibility of adoptingone. The kitten we wanted to see was being adopted by someone else sothe girls asked if they could check…
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New principal at IVE
Our new principal started at Issaquah Valley Elementary this summer.She had the PTA board members and their families over to her house fora homemade lunch. The kids loved meeting her plus she had aprofessional sized trampoline and 3 young pygmy goats. Monti decided to skip her last day of choir camp to go to the…
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Bored hot gorilla
Video unavailable — originally hosted on Google Video (discontinued 2012). Blogger id 4bf10e9c96865dc3. We watched the gorillas for nearly an hour. The baby gorilla was so bored and her mom had no energy to play with her. I could totally relate. The young gorilla finally discovered that the kids on the other side of the…
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zoo during the heat wave
The zoo was very empty when Dahlia and I went. It was in the 90’s butin the shade it was fine.
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more heat
Seattle just isn’t equipped to deal with extreme weather. An inch ofsnow cancels school and shops close down in 100 degree temps. In Seattle’sdefense most people don’t have air conditioning and some don’t evenown a fan. Several of my friends booked hotels to stay at after theircrayons started to melt in the house. We all…
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Hot, Hot, Hot
We had several days in Seattle where the temperatures reached into thetriple digits. New records were set all around the city. The DJ’s onthe radio were having fun with the high temperatures playing any songwith hot or heat in them.
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trying to find a cool spot to hang out
Monti attended a choir camp in Seattle during the hottest week of thesummer. I had planned to stay in Seattle between 9 and 3 with Dahliainstead of making the round trip twice each day. We tried rollerblading and bike riding on some paths in the city but it was just too darn hot. Playgrounds were…
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Monti goes first
She tries to put on a brave face but she is so very worried andscared. I hated the waiting but I knew once you get it done you don’thave to worry about doing it again.