Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Bowling = 4 Thumbs Up

We were setting ‘em up and knocking them down last night during the kids’ first trip to the bowling alley. Oscar had the second highest score with the aid of gutter bumpers. Yeah, he beat me, but I shared my frames with Laurel. For those of you around San Diego, we recommend that you check [...]

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Stress Relief

Back in 1989 kids used to have to go down to Melones to do stuff like this. Since I’m letting them do it at home, I’m a lenient parent. I bet that all of the Calaveras County n’er-do-wells who used to tear it up now sit in cubes and think of this scene when they [...]

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What We’re Talking About

I’ve been saying lots of spontaneous Yes We Can’s and Barack Obama’s as the inauguration gets closer. I’ll be watching all the action tomorrow and am very excited…but not as excited as Lydia must be. Check out her new blog from Washington:
http://www.threegoodnerves.blogspot.com/
Don’t ask Laurel about Yes We Can, though. She learned how to [...]

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Really Nice Weekend

Did you see the full moon last night?

photo by Pete Baer
Apparently it was the largest full moon of the year. We had the good fortune of seeing it peaking up and rising over the eastern mountains last night and setting through the palms to our west this morning. Adding to the magic of it all [...]

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Lost and Found

One of the days last week when we were relaxing on Poipu beach I stumbled across an SD memory card buried in the sand. I guessed that it had fallen out of someone’s camera bag while they were on the beach. When we got back to the condo that night, Matt (my brother) put the [...]

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We Had a Mele Kalikimaka

Brian and I spent Christmas in Kauai with the kids, Brian’s mom, brother, & Turtle. Our water babies were able to splash and play in the ocean every day of our visit and that is really why people brave the 5 hour flight out there, right? They also chased chickens, built sand castles, ate shave [...]

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