Leesburg, VA

UPDATE: Leesburg Dog Park opens May 9th! I went walk­ing at Olde Izaak Walton Park this morn­ing with kid and dog and was tick­led to see that the fence on the dog park has been com­pleted. I was also greeted by this sign: The dog park has a pic­nic table both inside and out­side the fence. I’d […]

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TALLY HOme for the Holidays

December 10, 2008

If you are stick­ing around for the hol­i­days and need to escape from the extended fam­ily for a while, check this out. The Tally Ho Theater in down­town Leesburg is offer­ing $1 screen­ings of Family Holiday Favorites & Childrens Christmas Classics between December 19/20th and 24th. Call or check the web­site for exact dates & times.

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Santa rides through Leesburg

December 6, 2008

Every year Santa rides through Leesburg in a firetruck. In past years we have been known to come run­ning out the front door with the tod­dler wrapped in a blan­ket because her paja­mas were only half way on when we heard Santa com­ing past. If your fam­ily prefers a more orga­nized approach you can find […]

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Happy belated Thanksgiving! We snagged a great book from the library recently! In A Plump and Perky Turkey (writ­ten by Teresa Bateman and illus­trated by Jeff Shelley) the turkeys all skip town before Thanksgiving and the town-folks try to trick them back, but (after pages of engag­ing illus­tra­tions and rhymes that please me) they end […]

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Triple-coupon-itis Redux

November 9, 2008

I am recy­cling this post from October 12th to let you know that you have another chance to triple your coupons at Bloom. You have until mid­night tonight (Sunday, November 9, 2008). But, beware! The word on the street is that you should dou­ble check your receipt to make sure they actu­ally triple the coupons. […]

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There is a great new play­ground at Brandon Park on Harrison, just off Catoctin Circle (behind the BB&T bank and across the street from the Village Lanes Bowling Center). Even though there are no swings, mon­key bars, bath­rooms, or drink­ing foun­tains it still gets our thumbs up! Everything is still in mint con­di­tion and in […]

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Rain Barrel Workshops

September 9, 2008

This sum­mer we attended a rain bar­rel work­shop. The work­shop was a joint pre­sen­ta­tion by the Loudoun Soil & Water Conservation District and the Town of Leesburg. We enjoyed mak­ing our own rain bar­rel by adapt­ing a fifty gal­lon drum to include a spigot, over­flow release, and insect screen. When we got home we needed […]

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Loudoun County Fair

August 2, 2008

17558 Dry Mill Road Leesburg, VA 20175 Today is the last day of the Loudoun County Fair and I have failed to visit once again. The fair seems to hit on a busy week for my fam­ily every year, but I plan to go and report back next year. In the mean­time I am hoping […]

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Watching the expan­sion of Lansdowne and Lansdowne Town Center was one of our first Loudoun expe­ri­ences… I am pleased to report that some­thing good has come of this bit of sub­ur­ban sprawl. The foun­tains and the live music on the green are some of suburbia’s most redeem­ing qual­i­ties. (And with the addi­tion of Go Bananas […]

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