Prickly pear and persimmons in the back yard.

Had Mom over for dinner tonight. We should see her more often.

Meghan and I went to a fundraiser dinner for the local botanical garden. Kind of fun to see how the other one percent lives.

On a light rail adventure today with the bambina, exploring the neighborhoods around several stations.

The bambina marched with the rest of the band at last night’s football game. It started late and went into overtime, so we all got up a little late this morning.

Picked up my new suit today.

Helped the dude move into his dorm today. He’s feeling pretty good.

Had family and friends over yesterday afternoon to observe the dude’s graduation, and upcoming start of college.

The bambina is home sick from school.

Today’s walk was relatively short — 12.5k steps, 6¼ miles.

Ended up in Columbia City: Spam sliders at Marination, espresso at Empire.

Riding light rail from one of the new stations that opened yesterday, an easy walk from our house.

Not like I don’t have enough things to do, but I’m finally getting the itch to catch up on my commonplace book links. It’s been [checking calendar] over a year and a half since I last posted, and a lot has happened.

The bambina had her first day of school today. The dude slept in.