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These pages chronicle our latest excursions, our hobbies - Mike's Land Rover, and Jenny's Garden, and the antics of our pups, Duke and Kate. |
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11.9.09 "I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy." - Daniel Webster | |
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9.24.09 Why I refuse to watch Fox news. | |
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9.11.09 For all those who lost their lives this day 8 years ago, may your loss be never forgotten, nor the struggle to fight the agents of hate and religious fundamentalism be laid aside. | |
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3.15.09
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2.18.09 Under a house of cards, George dug a basement. Any news is bad news |
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11.13.09 We need this year over. I can't lose another animal. The latest victim? A poor kitty - 9 weeks old and gorgeous. His mom's family had named him Cloud. He was with us only a couple days. |
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9.18.08 Another year, another Land Rover rally. Mike made it to Youtube with his excellent trail leading. I wasn't my normal happy self with Stripe being gone, but did manage to be photographer on a trail. |
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9.9.08 STRIPE 1991 - 2008 Stripe died today. Thankfully, he went very fast and I can hope without pain. A liver tumor was found in January, the vet said it wasn't treatable. So we just monitored for signs he hurt. We will miss Stripe so much. |
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8.16.08 Well if all the digging of the roses didn't kill Mike's arm, almost losing his finger to the chop saw opened both our eyes. What a great birthday present he had, his own trip to the emergency room. Luckily after surgery, his index finger should heal with range of motion mostly in tact. |
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7.16.08 Its nice to have a Dad that is adventurous in his old age. He wanted to go whitewater rafting this year. So we waited until the higher than average runoff came through - what a blast! |
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6.30.08 The gardening season is in full swing. After a scare with almost falling off the upper deck when the railing came apart, we decided we could no longer ignore the hazards of the rotted deck. We splurged to get a patio and deck that will last. The down side? I lost my beautiful rose garden. It was like the garden knew it was going. I had roses that had never bloomed before - decide this was theyear to go for it. We dug all the roses up, we'll see how many live. |
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5.25.08 The Grumpy Lizard is gone. Grumpy had a been fighting an infection in her mouth that left her unable to eat on her own, and as it turned out, without any good bacteria to digest the food we syringe fed her. Mike doesn't think we will get another lizard. |
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3.19.08 Harriman State Park - cross country ski trip. All I can say is WOW - what a beautiful place. We met Deb in Salt Lake and met up with a number of her friends and drove up to the park that is just south of Yellowstone Park. This will definitely be on our list again. |
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3.3.08 What a fun birthday. We went with Mark and Beth cross-country skiing in Frisco. The alpine center there had a number of trails, and we took a half-day class then ran a trail. I think we all did great - especially Mike on his first time. We all had some spectacular fall, but managed no injuries. This was in prep for our ski trip to Harriman State Park with Deb. |
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12.4.07 We are definitely a nation of debt. According to the Federal Reserve, Credit card debt across the United States jumped to 877.1 billion dollars in 2006. Which is nothing like the debt our government has put on us National Debt Clock |
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10.1.07 Wow does time fly - summer is gone, and there is nothing to show for it but gardenwise, but more dead plants and plenty of apples. Katie has discovered apples, and is a few pounds heavier now that she eats desert 3x a day! I also found a cool mapi - to show where we have travelled.... hmm I think I need to venture east! |
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3.19.07 We have returned from a week in Mexico - its never long enough. Playa Del Carmen | |
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Our Pet Projects
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All Duke has to say is...
WHAT?? |
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10.5.06 - What cell phone? What roll of toilet paper all over the floor? What toothpaste? What 2 loaves of bread? I have no idea who did that. I was sleeping. Katie did you see who it was? This section changes by the week... as Duke is discovering new ways of getting into cabinets, on counters, and where ever his nose leads him. | |
Our kitties are the sweetest things. Ginger and Max have definitely filled the hole in our heart left by Stripe's passing.
