Category: Stay day

  • Pool party, baby

    8:02 am, New Britain, CT:  Back when the kids were smaller, we’d watch Yo Gabba Gabba a lot. If you don’t know it, you should. It’s sort of a trippier version of Sesame Street, if that’s possible.  At any rate, Ted’s – and for awhile Q boo’s – favorite features musical number was the Aquabats’…

  • Cocktail hour, NB-style

    6:30 pm, New Britain, CT:  sure, this is Connecticut and all. But not all of Connecticut is, say, Darien or Greenwich.  Thank God. No offense, friendly CT peeps. But.  Here, for instance, is what my mother-in-law and HHW, unsolicited, offered me for pre-dinner drinks. My sort-of joke can of IPA, literally labeled “IPA.”  And a…

  • Tennis, anyone?

    5:46 pm, New Britain, CT:  spent more time on a tennis court today than at any point in the last six years, with the exception of our racquet-minded friends Paul and Dot’s wedding.  I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the sport. But it felt good to be back out there. Especially with the kids and…