At the playground

Those were the hay days of ours!

First day at school

So today was David's big day as he has started his school curriculum at George Hall's. We were all quite nervous, he couldn't fall asleep last night and I had tears in my eyes when I saw my little boy going inside the classroom. He is really ready and independent by now. A year ago he would be crying, hiding behind us and insisting on us staying with him inside. Today he just went, playing a comedy with heavy supplies bags and thus diminishing his attention to a bit non-standard situation. But he made it. We made it.

California XIV - Summer in the air

I have to admit that here in US I am much more aware of the threat of going to prison for a traffic offence than back in Czech. In Czech, you always get away with a last warning or a fine at most, if it is not killing obviously. But here I am afraid that I might go to jail just for wrong parking or speedy driving. No that I would like the idea of going to Czech prison, but going to American prison really horrifies me. So cars with signs of Highway Patrol and men/women in them have my absolute respect. (I couldn't resist to publish the mini photo series above to bring a picture of California HP near to you.)

This is something I wanted to share with you for a long time, already in England. Both countries, UK and US offer on the market only cane sugar, in almost 100%. You wouldn't tell it from beet sugar but during those 4 years here I didn't have a single new cavity. I don't want to say strictly that it is a cause and consequence issue but it crossed my mind several times that there could be some causality. But it's definitely not a non-obese sugar, though they say that the main cause of American biggest health problem is connected to a content of a 'high fructose corn syrup' which you can find in many food products, even in bread, hamburgers and ketchup. So put these three things together and you get a sugar bomb.

Both our young sons will pass this month significant milestones in their lives. Adam will start solid food besides my milk (end of babyhood?), and David will start his school curriculum on 29th July (end of childhood?). You can imagine that we are pretty excited.

The weather here in San Mateo is more than fair. Rains ceased in late March and since then temperatures linger around twenties, though evenings can be noticeably cooler. So we practically live outside, the door to the yard is still open and we can whenever just go for a walk, for a bike ride or to play a bit of soccer, or base- and basket- balls. Which we do. On weekends we spend our days either at beaches, or on hikes on many of nearby trek trails in surrounding hills. Moreover, there is a nice pool in our community so we go like every other day to take a dip. I guess I haven't been so active for a long long time.

We also have had visitors last week, both Laku brothers Afolabi and Dele were here for the last weekend. It was great to have them here, David enjoyed them very much and we all had a great time (I hope:). So here they are, all five of A.-A. boys.

A jeste dva nahodne objevene objekty

Mark Bradford - Analog

Richard Tuttle - Village

Dva drevene domy aneb nabizi se srovnani

Boston

Taiwan