Road School at Gettysburg

Jr Ranger Badges at Gettysburg We’ve been hyping up the Jr Ranger Badge program the National Park Foundation offers for months now. Gettysburg was sort of just a pit stop to break up the drive so Brecht worked and I took the kids to the National Military Park in Gettysburg. Before … Read More →

Road School Is In Session

I’ve been wanting to write about a number of things, but I’ve been so crazy exhausted at the end of each night. So…school. The kids joke about calling me Mrs. Palombo when we do school work. It’s been hard to get them to sit down and do formal work. Hard for … Read More →

Captains Log. Day 12.

I feel goood

feeling stronger

I feel stronger. My father has a dynamometer in his office and growing up in my late teens and through all of my 20s and even into the beginning of my 30s I could show up and pick the thing up and squeeze off 160…  damn near the top of … Read More →

Captains Log. Day 11.

There’s a stark contrast in the aesthetics of eastern and central Pennsylvania. Central Pennsylvania is gorgeous. Eastern Pennsylvania is…. not. We traversed PA via 87 to 84 to 80 and it is horrendous. Each state I’ve driven through I’ve thought to myself… I’m going to write a post and award this state the F-U … Read More →

Stacking Wood

I pity the fool who messes with this guy when he gets to school
I pity the fool who messes with this guy when he gets to school