Meghan fell asleep around 2030 while I was out at the supermarket. I came home to find her conked out on the couch and was informed that she'd been that way for 15 minutes, so off to bed she went.

I have things to get done, but I'm indulging in a Hurricane and gonna play Tetris for a few minutes.

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I've decided to do my chores tomorrow morning. I'd rather curl up with a book tonight instead!

We had a nice time at the Colonial Plantation today. There was supposed to be an exhibit devoted to Medieval Times but the ground was too muddy for any of the actors to do anything, but we did get to see a cooking demonstration as done in colonial times and explore the grounds. The trip was brought to a halt when Meghan discovered-and sat in-a mud puddle. By then, we'd seen most everything. I lamented my lack of forethought, though. It'd been nice to have brought lunches and had a picnic-but the mud-sitting woulda killed that. The mud-sitting killed my other plan. I'd wanted to stop at the Car Show at Rose Tree Park and take a quick walk-through on the way home.

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After a month of not getting to sleep until 0100 or 0200 or thereabouts, my daughter has finally fallen asleep at a decent hour, without any coaxing or cajoling from me. She conked out all on her own on the couch at a few minutes before 2330. Perfect? No. I'd like to get her back to going to sleep between 2130-2200, but I'll take this. I can live with this.

I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and I'm not going to assume this means anything-I need to see a pattern over time before I say that the phase has ended. All I know is my daughter is in bed now and I have earned this beer. Tony made Hurricane mix last night, but tonight feels like a beer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lessem

We visited his private residence today as part of a fundraiser for Joe Sestak's campaign for Senate. He is the creator of the dinosaurs that appeared in Jurassic Park.

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No. That would just weird me out.

FILL YOUR BATON WITH FIRMNESS!

WTF?

New name for a penis: Dude piston.

John Allen Mohammed, aka the Beltway Sniper died tonight as the result of lethal injection. This is not a loss at all.

Tony took Meghan over to his mother's so that I could get some much-needed housework done. I've gotten the fridge scrubbed out, bathroom and living room floor mopped, and Meghan's room organized. Got laundry in and the rest of what I need to do can wait until either tonight or tomorrow morning.

I got an email last night that pleased me. The congregants of St. John's have found a new church home. They've moved to St. James Kingsessing in Southwest Philly-the Old Swedes Church. It's about 10 minutes from St. John's. A couple other congregants were at St. Stephen's the last time I was there.

And Tony won $100 worth of free groceries by entering a contest at the supermarket he takes his mother to. We have until the end of December to use the gift certificates.

We had a lot of fun at Linvilla Orchards today-spent some time in the playground, took a hayride, did some shopping in the Farmers Market, and ended the day with French fries and fresh-pressed Apple Cider. We came back with quite a haul of fruit and veggies, plus Apple Cider, Cheese Popcorn, and Ginger Snaps.

For dinner, I made a very simple pork chop dish using one of the apples I purchased today. The recipe doesn't specify what kind of apples, so you can use whatever you like. I don't even know what kind of apples these are. But they're quite yummy.

For the dinner, just sprinkle each chop with salt and pepper-I used Sea Salt, then lay a few apple slices across each chop, sprinkle apples with sugar or honey-I used a small amount of sugar. Bake in a foil-lined pan at 350*for 40-50 minutes. I served this with white rice and baby carrots. Yum :)