Archive for March, 2008

Aaahhh…The Peat
March 27, 2008

A couple days ago I mentioned that the whole family visited the amazing World War One Museum over Spring Break. Well, after that inspiring walk through history, we took the short ride to Browne’s Irish Market. I talked about this cool slice of The Emerald Isle a couple weeks back when I did [...]

Haggle The Horrible
March 26, 2008

According to a story on FirstNews, yesterday, it is okay to haggle just about anywhere nowadays. At first I thought that meant “You put your right foot in…you put your right foot out…you put your right foot in and then you shake it all about” but that’s the Hokey-Pokey, not The Haggle! Then [...]

Broken Bracket
March 25, 2008

Part of our family’s spring break was spent putting our NCAA March Madness Brackets together. (Do I have to pay somebody, like Jim Nantz, for saying “NCAA March Madness?” Oops. Now I owe even more.) We also watched a lot of basketball and ate lots of treats. I’m not so hot on picking [...]

A Break From Today
March 24, 2008

Here’s hoping you all had a wonderful Easter weekend. And, if your kids were out of school last week, a great Spring Break. By the way, on this past Saturday, I saw a row of Easter Bunnies all marching backwards. Yes, it was a Receding Hare-Line! I can only use that [...]

Hello. Goodbye.
March 13, 2008

First, the HELLO! to the Cougars of Central Elementary in Olathe. We had a terrific visit on Wednesday. Central, which opened in 1883, is the oldest school in Olathe. No, I did not do a weather assembly on that first day. Smart aleck. They are rightly proud of their [...]