Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
Best picture ever.
Click on the photo to see the full-size, full-color pic.
We took this photo in April, ’96, at Huntington Gardens, one of the nicest places in LA (and about the only redeeming feature of the notorious robber baron’s villainy). Karen looks so happy in this, and Jake has such a precious “WTF?” expression, as if he were debating the wisdom of this whole life thing.
Had another cud-chewing memoirist bit in mind today but then I thought, Eff it. What’s really important? These two are really important.
Today is Jake’s day. No homework, except we’re “making him” watch Scotland, PA. (He read Macbeth earlier this year, so this movie should be a nice tie-in. Plus, it’s funny as hell.)
Afterwards, we’ll pick up cat food, make a run to the bank (the kid never spends any of his money. He likes to say he’s richer than we are. He certainly has less debt), and buy fudge.
And for once, tomorrow’s Thursday Thirteen is a chip shot: Thirteen Memories of Jake — with more photos.
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Very nice pic.
One of my favorite photos of Jake too. Happy birthday Jake!!!
I like the wtf expression.
But why can’t anyone comment on your Nest piece?
It’s good, you should let people comment on it. Or can they, and I’m just not clever enough to figure out how.
Thanks Gabriele, Sis.
Isabella, I’ve never figured out how to allow comments on what WordPress calls “pages”. For the other stories, I’ve linked to a blog post where folks can leave comments. I’ll see if I can figure that out for Nest. Glad you liked it 🙂
oh thats right! i remember when i figured out that jake and i have the same birthday…tell him happy shared birthday from me!
re: Comments on “pages”
Doug, if you’re running the same version of WordPress that I am, here’s how you allow comments:
On the
Write Pagepage, there should be a bunch of boxes clustered to the right of thePage Contentbox. One of these isDiscussion. In here you will find checkboxen forAllow CommentsandAllow Pings. Select one or t’other, or both even.Make sense? I hope so.
Are you sure it’s a WTF expression and not a “Once he clicks this picture, like they don’t have enough already, I mean really, I’m going straight after that squirrel over there. As fast as my wee leggies will take me.”
Wonderful picture, and I hope Jake had a great day!!
But I must say, how can anyone say that American educations are substandard when they’re reading Macbeth to under tens. They don’t do that here, and really they should. C’mon, it’s Scotland after all. Tcha.
(I’m jealous of Karen’s beautiful, long hair. I’ve never managed to grow mine long before the cry of “Oh my God it’s a Yetti! Run!!” follow me through the streets. She’s lovely.)
Lyvvie, we’re homeschooling him. He read Macbeth at age 10. In the schools, he’d be 16 or 17 before they gave him Macbeth to read.