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Nemo

Here’s what our weekend looked like thanks to Nemo. We weren’t hit very hard compared to my family further east. My mother was without power for 49 hours, and spent the majority of that time curled up under down and flannel sheets with her Irish Setter for warmth. (My dad works in Boulder, CO during the week and this was one of the weekends when he was not home with mom. Of course! When one needs body heat!). My father relayed that my mother had texted that she was adorned in  “2 ntgowns, leggings, a pashmina, gloves and a wool sweater of Wes’. At Kimmy’s behest she added a fur cape of Momo’s and an old Brooks Brothers “deerstalker” hat of granddad’s.” I wish I had photographic proof of that vision! Fortunately, Kimmy drove to her house with five dudes in tow to shovel her out, but, in typical Allison fashion, she decided that she didn’t want to leave the frozen tundra of her home because she had not been able to shower in two days and felt “too grubby” for public consumption. And that, ladies and gentleman, sums up Momar. Fortunately, the power is back and Allison is thawing out.

For us Carts, life on the farm was relatively unaffected save for some soggy dogs and outerwear.

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My Eight Planets

Time to drop some solar system knowledge.

How weird is it that she’s not singing about Pluto? VERY.

And how awesome is it that she’s pretending to read the lyrics considering she is not yet literate? Also, VERY.

MY EIGHT PLANETS (sung to the tune of “Clementine”)
Name the planets,
Name the planets,
Orbiting around the sun.
Tiny Mercury, shiny Venus
And the Earth (my favorite one).
Next is red Mars, giant Jupiter,
Saturn with its rings so bright.
Distant Neptune and Uranus,
Shining planets in the night!