February 1, 2007 – 2:10 PM
Just in case you ever wondered how much snow it takes to close school in this neck of the woods, the answer is:
not much.
January 24, 2007 – 6:26 PM
We often joke that we can tell that BD is the only one in the family who was actually born in Kentucky by her aversion to shoes.
This morning, as is often the case, she was running a little late. She always dresses before she comes downstairs for breakfast, but her feet are bare. Somehow, the time [...]
September 16, 2006 – 3:03 PM
I have on my U of L T-shirt. Chips and dip await. HS, home for the weekend, is making a beer run for us (he doesn’t actually like beer himself, but I think he likes the idea of getting carded, since he looks about 17).
We are ready for our Cardinals to take on Miami.
No one here has [...]
Yesterday was a lovely day, but it was evening before I got a chance to get to some gardening I had planned. Just dividing some creeping phlox and planting a few late begonias.
By the time I’d planted a few of the begonias and pulled up the phlox, I decided to call it a day [...]
I love May. It brings sunshine and warm temperatures.
Usually. For the past week or so, we’ve had highs in the upper 50s or low 60s with gray skies. I won’t even discuss the lows, except to say that we’ve made more use of our hot tub than we usually do this time of year. Let’s [...]
I told you about our picks for the Derby last week.
Mr. B decided to put them in an exacta. For those of you who are non-betting people, that means you pick the first two finishers in the correct order. Most bettors will “box” an exacta bet, meaning you bet them with either horse coming in first. [...]
Once upon a time, our friend Racetrack Lenny came down to join us for the Derby (no one here actually refers to it as the “Kentucky Derby”). Tickets for this event are hard to come by, unless you’re willing to pay a small fortune (as in thousands of dollars) to a ticket broker. This despite [...]
You can’t live around here and not realize it’s Derby time. Even schools close down on Friday.
Kentucky Derby Festival events started over a week ago with Thunder Over Louisville, an airshow and a huge fireworks extravaganza. If you think “huge” and “extravaganza” are redundant, then you don’t know Thunder–it takes both words [...]
Ah, spring. The time when all Kentucky public schools turn to thoughts of…testing. The infamous Commonwealth Accountability Testing System, or CATS (obviously named by a Kentucky fan, not a Louisville one).
While the scores mean nothing to the students, they mean everything to the schools. Do well, and you get bonus money, which you may choose [...]
Spring has definitely sprung. Rainy days alternate with sunny ones, so the grass is growing like crazy. I feel like we have a Chia Lawn.
There are foals in the horse pastures (well, you wouldn’t expect them to be in the cow pastures, would you?). The redbuds have finished blooming, while the dogwoods are [...]
