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A good friend of ours lives in a neighborhood that realtors optimistically call "north Corktown" (a casino, a stretch of prairie, and some old, lovely houses mixed with newer ones north of I-75 and south of MLK). He wishes they would call it Norktown instead. My kids love dropping by his house for a visit because his neighborhood is full of farmers and the sorts of people begging to get into long, protracted conflicts with the city over their growing drifts of pot-bellied swine or the Christmas displays swelling their porches.
This chicken belonged to a house my friend's girlfriend referred to as "The Spirit Farm." My daughter kept screaming "Wild chicken! Wild chicken!"
This is all a few blocks from the Catherine Ferguson Academy, an old art deco school that's been adapted into a farm and educating pregnant teens/teen mothers for years (an extraordinary program). They have horses!
Definitely one of the coolest parts of our city. All this about a mile from the skyscrapers of the central business district.
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Brother napping on a chilly day? Make, bake, and decorate some sugar cookies
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has a great free Family Day every month, and yesterday the theme was ROBOTS and SPACE INVADERS! The museum had a bunch of incredible materials and art supplies set out for kids to build their own robot and space alien costumes. Some of the costumes were really incredible (my architect neighbor was there building his son a very impressive getup). We brought our old Halloween costume for a head start and used some of the materials to give it an update (reboot?). My favorite new element was the transparent red eye thing she glued on, hers was the robot kitty tail. The exhibit provided some really cool Star Wars-style backdrops for pictures, too.
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It was a little disappointing to find it tucked away behind a really ugly strip mall. Here's the view from the front door:
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We spent part of the morning making our own pirate flags. She wanted hers to be "kind of like a dog pirate." No complaints here. We set shore on the sandy beach where old Brass Knuckles McCabe had buried his chest of doubloons.
"Arrrrr, so this is where the treasure be!"
p.s. can you tell we're excited for Kate Inglis's book?
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We have a whole bunch of these things that people gave us over the years. Every once in a while it's fun to throw them all out on the playground and watch the neighborhood kids crawl around in them. We did this the other day and I saw this awesome scene:
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"Purple Zombie
Drinking Coffee
Yeah yeah yeah."
She makes me sing the first line, then she sings the second, and Gram chimes in with the third. Someone really ought to dump a load of used tires on us.
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