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Naebody in Particular podcast cover: a collage of old family photographs, handwritten letters, a magnifying glass and a fountain pen

Naebody in Particular

You won't find them on a shortbread tin, but our ancestors live on so long as we keep telling their stories. Scots, Yanks, Canucks and the Auld Enemy. Newest posts are the ancestors, but scroll for the living.

  • gardening

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    the gardening we did at the beginning of june is starting to bear fruit — and quite literally.

    sparklet picked her first tomatoes (and ate them immediately) and we’ve been using fresh basil in our cooking for the last month or so.

    agriculture thrives in the heart of the District.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    gardening

  • firsts: sparklet’s taking photos

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    sparklet’s figured out how to use the camera, or at least how to push the button when someone else aims.

    something tells me that payback (for the 10,000 pictures i’ve taken of her) is going to be a #$%!&.

  • firsts: movie night with daddy

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    mommy is out of town for work, so sparklet and i did what all good father/daughters do — we put our feet on the couch, threw in (her very first) movie, drank heavily, vegged out on the couch, ate macaroni and cheese straight out of the mixing bowl, and stayed up past our bedtimes.

    that’ll teach mommy.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    firsts: movie night with daddy

  • goodbye, reinita

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    the long transition to our new nanny-share family is drawing to a close. el español picante starts on Monday, and so we’ve had a week’s worth of goodbyes between the baby and the nanny. sparklet’s been mum on the whole thing, but my money is that she’s ready to start using her lady charms on the steamy spaniard.
    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    goodbye, reinita

  • out: bancroft

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    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    out: bancroft

  • out: family day

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    more random kids in the nanny’s photography, but these we actually recognize — a grandson, some nieces, and 22-month old sparklet that looks bigger than them all.
    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    out: family day

  • found: flowers

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  • “why won’t this pony move?!?”

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  • guestbook: aunt jojo

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  • the great glen echo park meltdown of 2011

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    i’ve got no clue what happened, but apparently sparklet doesn’t like carousels.

    and i honestly couldn’t have been more surprised if elvis and a martian walked up to me this afternoon, slapped me in the face, and demanded to be taken to see President Bachmann.

    the lady sparkler, aunt melissa and sparklet boarded the old carousel at Glen Echo park, but sparklet started bawling and demanded to be taken off. mommy handed her to me over the railing around the ride, and then got back on — which, to put it mildly, turned out to be the wrong choice.

    this coming from the girl who loves anything that involves loud music, bright lights, and being hung upside down by her ankles. even so, it looks like we might need to give it another couple of months.