The Greer Family

We had our usual Halloween. The Van Meter kids parade in the morning. The block party, then about 840 trick-or-treaters.

This weekend we finally moved our stuff into the house in Tahoe. It is pretty much as done as it is going to get for a while. While we were up there, we hid a geocache. We walked from our house to Paige Meadows, met with a local dog named Rosie. She took her ball [...]

We went to the annual fair at St. Mary’s school in town. The kids had a great time. Sam LOVED all of the rides and bouncy house-type things they had there.

Sam and I met some of my Yale friends (Pascale and her daughter, Juliana, Andy, and Scott, who was in town for a conference, but has been living the ex-pat life in London for some time now). We had lunch at the De Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, visited the sculpture garden, [...]

While Elizabeth and Margaret were at Girl Scount Camp. Daniel, Izzy, Sam, and I went to Full Belly Farm for the Hoes Down Festival.  It was basically a hippie festival, but pretty much centered around kids.  There were workshops and what not on organic farming and other similar things, but we mostly just played with [...]

Margaret and I went to Girl Scout Camp this weekend for the Mother-Daughter camp out. We slept in this tent cabin with Sophie and Karla Maxfield. Most of Margaret’s troop went along, but we made up most of the camp out. We had a great time hiking to the Fairy Grove (aka Fern Canyon, a [...]

Today is my birthday. My present to myself was to go the whole day without putting on pants. I succeeded. I really liked this response from my dad: Congratulations on not wearing pants on your birthday. I have not worn pants since April 8, 1954. Marines wear trousers. Ladies wear pants.