Category: family

This morning I accompany Kim and Charlie on an overcast walk up the Bushnell Lane fire road. Encountered a couple of hikers, sighted a herd of about thirty deer when we ventured over the hilltops away from the main trail, watched Charlie and his pranks.

Janet’s christmas cactus suddenly begins to bloom …

This happens at least weekly …

Ivi and Kim leave today on a crisp winter morning, returning Ivi to her final undergrad semester, so many westward miles distant …

Starring Lisle.  With supporting cast …

This morning …

Guess I could let you in on a little secret.  I have learned that Ivi tends to disregard any family email or blog post unless its title contains the keyword “Charlie”.

Keeping it simple: spanakopita, sauvignon blanc, fruit …

This morning we connected for a lo-res Hangout session with Ivi — even Charlie got in the act.  Ivi showed us her new winter coat and an unbelievable stack of four large hardback books she planned to read this afternoon as she works on her thesis.  Which she says she has no worries about, and was smiling throughout.

In her role as leader of her college’s ballroom dancing club, Ivi often interacts and performs with other campus dance groups, like the salsa club, and spends as much time as she can dancing at local Portland venues.  Now we learn that she has joined with the campus Japanese dance group — in her happi coat — for a forthcoming International Students’ Day performance of the traditional Japanese fisherman’s dance/song.  While we don’t know if the Lewis & Clark version will be recorded, I did find this YouTube vid hopefully to give us an idea of what it is all about.