tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40099780701925659732024-02-18T23:07:15.683-08:00Everyday GiftsCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-29797704332266513242011-04-22T14:27:00.000-07:002011-04-22T14:27:50.509-07:00The Boat In Our Garage Part 2 - Motor SwapYou can find part 1 of <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2011/02/boat-in-our-garage.html">The Boat In Our Garage here</a>.<br />
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Every family has it's own language.<br />
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Things that in some way define who they are.<br />
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At our house one of the things that most amuses me is when the guys take on a little problem solving.<br />
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My hubby is the king of figuring out how to make something work.<br />
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Throw a couple of the boys into the mix and things are about to get real interesting.<br />
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Since my last post there had been a whole lotta scraping and grinding goin on.<br />
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There were layers of dust on any uncovered surface.<br />
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And progress was progressing.<br />
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The word on the hotline in late March was that Collin would be around for the weekend and that can only mean one thing.<br />
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A whole bunch of stuff is about to get done.<br />
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We like to take ample advantage of <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/02/uti-grad.html">Collin's</a> <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/06/cha-cha-changes.html">education</a> and professional experience whenever he's around.<br />
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It was the perfect time for the motor swap.<br />
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Here's a hint...<br />
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It involves this...<br />
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Yes...<br />
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A garden tractor and a motorcycle ramp.<br />
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Can you see why I just revel in these things? <br />
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How can you not smile just trying to visualize what they could possibly have in mind when you see something like this in the garage??<br />
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So boat A...meaning the one in our garage... was to receive a motor transplant from Craigslist donor boat B <br />
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</tbody></table>I'm going to refrain from much mechanically oriented commentary here cause pretty much anything I say I will be totally making up and it will assuredly be wrong.<br />
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You're welcome.<br />
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Collin catches me at this every time I try.<br />
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It's kind of become a sport for him<br />
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So here's where the tractor/ramp gadget comes in...<br />
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Unfortunately for all of us the tractor/ramp thing didn't have enough hydraulic power and try as they might the motor stayed put and the rear tractor wheels lifted.<br />
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It was definitely the most entertaining solution...<br />
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On to solution 2...<br />
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While I was gone all three of them hung from the pull up bar in the garage to see if it could take that much weight....<br />
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Can I just say... <br />
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I'm still kicking myself for not witnessing that.<br />
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We'll all just have to take a moment to make up some crazy mental image of that...<br />
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Since that idea seemed to be working out they moved on with solution 2...<br />
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And... on to a borrowed solution 3.<br />
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Boring yet effective...<br />
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I'm so glad they didn't get to this solution in too much of a hurry.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"> I bet some of you have wondered aloud what people who don't have cable or satellite do with themselves...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Well now ya know.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Collin hopped right in there and got a lot of the electrical run in no time.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Electrical systems are kinda his thing.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">For which his dad is very grateful.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqRWoUmHQZuMfw_DYitVjpgRigKsg5bYaotP4l1Eb-an_FedqFaL1X9Rg9OI7ujj8-81HKiQ1MpBXTWEs9oMQJqGklMuKCUg-sCGVjMbpc2hjpJanweVMAexbXRKq2PvAtGqOwDlCqdY/s1600/20110320-DSC_0070.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">More work has gone on since this little weekend of amusement and I'll have more stuff coming.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Collin is supposed to be here again this weekend .</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ya never know what might happen.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'll be on the look out for cheap entertainment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Happy Easter to all,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cath</div></div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-22231934088177546122011-03-26T08:42:00.000-07:002011-03-26T08:43:07.508-07:00Raising The Lion's Whelp - Port Clean Up Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In case you haven't been following along you can find my post about the tsunami aftermath <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2011/03/aftermath-tsunami-31111-brookings.html">here</a> and <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2011/03/dismasting-lions-whelp-port-clean-up.html">part 1 of the clean up here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On day three of working to raise the Lion's Whelp I got one early message....really early....like still dark out early... that this would be the likely day that she would be floated to the surface.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next message I got was that she was up ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm gonna have to dock his pay for that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Soo I don't have the part when she came up but there was plenty of other interesting stuff....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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She had some good sized holes in her hull that hampered the floating a bit. The crew had to find all the holes so that they could be closed off and the pumps could be effective.<br />
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With some constant pumping they were able to keep her afloat.<br />
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There was a little timing involved.<br />
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The plan was to utilize the hoist at high tide.<br />
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Sean was in a dive suit as well since he had helped to find the last of the holes that needed securing.<br />
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I came back later when the tide was right for the hoist.<br />
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It was pretty interesting.<br />
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So I shifted to a better vantage point.<br />
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Once everything looked like it was in place they began to raise her.<br />
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The range of colors in this one blows me away. 92 feet of Gor.geous.ness. Who knew?<br />
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And Mama didn't raise no dummies...<br />
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I sprinted (Dylan will debate my definition of a sprint but it was as sprintly as I get) to get off the end of the dock.<br />
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You all know I love ya more than my flip flops ....<br />
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but after the recent battering from the tsunami I wasn't real secure about how much more they could take.<br />
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Plus I'm kinda wimpy.<br />
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So we will now pick up after the sprint :).<br />
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From a safer angle.<br />
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And the Port officials...<br />
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And the work crews.<br />
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They will continue to get the thing done.<br />
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I have no doubt.<br />
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In order to make the most efficient use of the resources currently available the Port has opted to reduce the crews so Sean's dive boat job is done for now and I won't have the tip line but I'll try to keep my eyes open. <br />
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I find it all to be so amazing.<br />
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The everyday gift of seeing something extraordinary on an ordinary day.<br />
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Lookin around for the extraordinary,<br />
CathCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-87513604796794478462011-03-25T19:23:00.000-07:002011-03-25T19:23:41.844-07:00Dismasting the Lion's Whelp - Port Clean Up Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Our oldest son, Sean, got the opportunity to be a part of the crew working to clear some of the sunken vessels in our port.<br />
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The design of his boat makes a particularly good working boat for dive crews.<br />
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It's deck gives easy access to equipment and convenient places for divers to load and unload.<br />
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<a href="http://www.radonboats.com/">Radon boats</a> are frequently used as dive boats.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After the hazmat crews did their thing to clean up the area around the Lion's Whelp, the dive and salvage crew got to work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkDZrv-c6PDjgxDG-4ROTwlZfu5-Id9AKYs9dbraYB2voVbJ4J9SRuGI5US9_oMsjiaFNGkLIIVdubB3xpucVABcGFYX7bn1lI4RdJF19jbY8T0c3C_oF6C6zw07qygs1k9bzf_GqtjQ/s1600/20110318-DSC_0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkDZrv-c6PDjgxDG-4ROTwlZfu5-Id9AKYs9dbraYB2voVbJ4J9SRuGI5US9_oMsjiaFNGkLIIVdubB3xpucVABcGFYX7bn1lI4RdJF19jbY8T0c3C_oF6C6zw07qygs1k9bzf_GqtjQ/s1600/20110318-DSC_0013.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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The first step was to dismast her.<br />
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The more I learn about the history of this ship the more bittersweet the process seems.<br />
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As I hear the stories of her history and the lives she has touched....<br />
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The adventures she has seen....<br />
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The places she has been...<br />
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It has all made me stop at take a better look.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wreckage needed to be cleared.</div><br />
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Our Port officials and work crews have accomplished an amazing amount in a really short period of time.<br />
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They've been working really hard and doing the best they can under some really long hours and unfavorable weather conditions.<br />
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I'm pretty proud of them all.<br />
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And this is all sort of fascinating.<br />
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But it's painful at the same time.<br />
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I'm pretty sure Sean feels the same way.<br />
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Glad for the opportunity...<br />
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But sad to see this beauty go.<br />
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As a very small child he would drag books of wooden boat designs (courtesy of his sailboat loving dad) into his bunk bed at bed time and build models of sailboats from whatever he could find.<br />
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I'll post a photo some time soon of one of my favorite things...a model he made from balsa wood, a metal keel and fabric for sails.<br />
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It's funny how when you look back you can see the path so clearly but when you try to look ahead it all seems so mysterious.<br />
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There's no places he's happier than on a boat.<br />
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Robert made him wave for me.<br />
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He looks thrilled huh?<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-43016555303561236992011-03-12T18:44:00.000-08:002011-03-12T18:44:13.800-08:00The Aftermath - Tsunami 3/11/11 Brookings Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At 4 a.m. on Friday morning I was awakened to the sound of sirens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They ran on and on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the south Oregon coast that long ongoing set of sirens means a tsunami warning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the first of every month here at 5 p.m. they test the system so we all know what it sounds like.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At 4a.m. though it takes a while to compute.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I rolled over after a bit and said "Tsunami???".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Still it took a few minutes more to think to grab my phone and check the local news.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then of course I saw it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The awful thing happening in Japan and the ensuing warning for Hawaii and the West Coast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We've had these before and they never pan out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our house is high enough on a hill not to be in any danger.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I couldn't go back to sleep though and went to watch the news report paying special attention to what was happening in Hawaii since that can be and indicator for us about what the swell might be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Around 6 I took a quick roll call of my kids.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sent Sean a text message to make sure he had heard the sirens and wasn't planing to head out on the ocean for a day of fishing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Got the reply that he was out of town...inland for the day and his boat and gear were safely stored at his house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Arik, fishing in Alaska didn't reply at first and I was uncertain of the forecast for them which left me feeling a little uneasy. I heard from him later in the day and discovered that they didn't feel a thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Strangely, fishing in Alaska felt like a relatively safe thing that day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Collin, I knew was on his way to work in Eugene and well out of harm's way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dylan had a day off from school and was safely tucked in bed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It looked as though Hawaii didn't get much as the first surges were scheduled to come through so we thought it would be another uneventful warning and went about our morning rituals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I grabbed my work stuff and headed for the office a call came in from Rich who had been about half an hour ahead of me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He said he was watching the port from an upper vantage point and had never seen anything like it. The ocean was swirling and the river was sucking out and surging in. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rich is a waterman. He's been on the ocean in some way most of his life. He knows it well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In all the strangeness I did something I rarely do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I left my camera gear at home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So the few that I have here from Friday are from my phone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The port was closed early on to all but essential personnel so we all had a distant view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I still don't really have words for what I saw. I've never seen anything like it my life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Watching our river suck out to a such a shallow level that we could almost see the bottom and then rushing in a rapid surging rate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The confused swirling waves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here you can see some of the rippling toward the mouth of the river as it sucked out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8V8dVXk4RY_Qe4ciah3GCXmZ9Gq0vQZIML1hqzm3zKJtmk9C9LJ_V5F_2POJFJiH7FMO5rZdAztyO4uWat4LRrbd3KypFgwEO6eNTJP_GtGoHiafBTQDY4RYPhwoq43GdVVhLPSSSk84/s1600/20110311-2011+03+11+Tsunami+003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8V8dVXk4RY_Qe4ciah3GCXmZ9Gq0vQZIML1hqzm3zKJtmk9C9LJ_V5F_2POJFJiH7FMO5rZdAztyO4uWat4LRrbd3KypFgwEO6eNTJP_GtGoHiafBTQDY4RYPhwoq43GdVVhLPSSSk84/s1600/20110311-2011+03+11+Tsunami+003.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbzP8NUv6Ae6dF6Sb1x-ypua_qq-C1E2bV-QfE0usKaxlx_8B_4Z2adrFKdfyh2mkVMpnPUeBHKRxHbKE5g1-jYE-41cJmAYYohAG6LK9h6l5BTHbq8v_yZqlYCQoFw4ltk144wDDZn9o/s1600/20110311-2011-03-11_13-35-26_359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbzP8NUv6Ae6dF6Sb1x-ypua_qq-C1E2bV-QfE0usKaxlx_8B_4Z2adrFKdfyh2mkVMpnPUeBHKRxHbKE5g1-jYE-41cJmAYYohAG6LK9h6l5BTHbq8v_yZqlYCQoFw4ltk144wDDZn9o/s1600/20110311-2011-03-11_13-35-26_359.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The rocks you can see here are not normally visible</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNnuNFpip_gsr3SUSGlmayah9jfd9_bwwbeBT2b1YkBlg8ExZqJXYhzVU5dFGiz9GVx8Ai_O0dqvErZN9mYlCxkZPCtiEzfHFHGmD9U1KWGA9HEb80WQD8J-PgkT5UxKfgbN1FBfOMYs/s1600/20110311_13-35-26_359cr1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNnuNFpip_gsr3SUSGlmayah9jfd9_bwwbeBT2b1YkBlg8ExZqJXYhzVU5dFGiz9GVx8Ai_O0dqvErZN9mYlCxkZPCtiEzfHFHGmD9U1KWGA9HEb80WQD8J-PgkT5UxKfgbN1FBfOMYs/s1600/20110311_13-35-26_359cr1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Several really good videos have been posted on YouTube and facebook so if you are curious you can do a search and find them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Banks, post offices, and even the UPS office closed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Many people here either work in the fisheries or know someone who does so there was a lot of interest and concerned spectators who had been sent home from work as their places of work either closed or asked their employees not to report that day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We spent the day as a community watching, listening to local radio and praying for the safety of the local fleet and emergency workers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The surges lasted until evening and made for a very long day for most of the locals who had been up since the blaring of the sirens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Friday evening after the tsunami threat was lowered to watch status the boat owners who had spent the day out at sea to keep their boats from getting battered in port were able to come back in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This morning I went to take a look at the aftermath and have these images to share with you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHNnfE2Mc-XzPesZsnVKbMs2hkIPPpSG2RaGzzyLLzKR7ZxlLmAD04O2XHT_f-bBTGEoeP0pCT0iql0r7SJOr7V4QU-nVMyZTaPjs1voTHaMaiH8uFn76hkeYwwYlyZlNMxacTAWoI6c/s1600/20110312-DSC_0147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHNnfE2Mc-XzPesZsnVKbMs2hkIPPpSG2RaGzzyLLzKR7ZxlLmAD04O2XHT_f-bBTGEoeP0pCT0iql0r7SJOr7V4QU-nVMyZTaPjs1voTHaMaiH8uFn76hkeYwwYlyZlNMxacTAWoI6c/s1600/20110312-DSC_0147.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the concerns in our port is that there is a campground and a hotel beachfront. Both were evacuated at 4 a.m. along with any residents in low lying areas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
It looked as though the surges did breach the usual beach area into the campground and parking areas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISNQX-k3ZgefIFBqABfJCS0ukZ_PuffjoUbPJ4eJrEyGDwdcGE3XBlRnpOxqyms-oeah6ns88Uva7DoGROw2_NZivQY5fNNtbiBW-llk1xg_9EoMU6quKeco1BalxF5-MLDTuppy-E7Y/s1600/20110312-DSC_0148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISNQX-k3ZgefIFBqABfJCS0ukZ_PuffjoUbPJ4eJrEyGDwdcGE3XBlRnpOxqyms-oeah6ns88Uva7DoGROw2_NZivQY5fNNtbiBW-llk1xg_9EoMU6quKeco1BalxF5-MLDTuppy-E7Y/s1600/20110312-DSC_0148.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The crazy tangle of angles where there once was order.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu07YoX4ftpH4ChfwVdtOwfqfWcDqFCB3Hv18kfBeaHt5AiRyozwgvpsG-xxTONx3SrfrIj4-I1SxQXzRKheiCYyzu0rO-fPwz4vcSaLf7VXCrsNKiAttJ8IUmq8eG8Q-oYkfdI7_SNvM/s1600/20110312-DSC_0126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu07YoX4ftpH4ChfwVdtOwfqfWcDqFCB3Hv18kfBeaHt5AiRyozwgvpsG-xxTONx3SrfrIj4-I1SxQXzRKheiCYyzu0rO-fPwz4vcSaLf7VXCrsNKiAttJ8IUmq8eG8Q-oYkfdI7_SNvM/s1600/20110312-DSC_0126.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDjnNg9cKZkLX32ylPqBBge5RuqVZIRj7jVeVm7Ujd28ZLCcAmwXWbfRxGH-msh4KkTebrtDW2E_WIEzgg8mFobhZ-xuxU-66xjI9Z-xjbiLCkmRGdFo6qDqkqVvhPmPRq6OBhxcKMvg/s1600/20110312-DSC_0125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDjnNg9cKZkLX32ylPqBBge5RuqVZIRj7jVeVm7Ujd28ZLCcAmwXWbfRxGH-msh4KkTebrtDW2E_WIEzgg8mFobhZ-xuxU-66xjI9Z-xjbiLCkmRGdFo6qDqkqVvhPmPRq6OBhxcKMvg/s1600/20110312-DSC_0125.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi6k6it1my3bbP9oRB_2VjtH7z_y_KxYjdrtJzfQO36FrGVEesUA_rByfPOyk9ODvQPHSo296QpmBYHq_DjNxXacvae4tPyhtbjz6ogdix2_YNZMFG63rR-h8-V-YC8yFMeEjUWEtg_GI/s1600/20110312-DSC_0131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi6k6it1my3bbP9oRB_2VjtH7z_y_KxYjdrtJzfQO36FrGVEesUA_rByfPOyk9ODvQPHSo296QpmBYHq_DjNxXacvae4tPyhtbjz6ogdix2_YNZMFG63rR-h8-V-YC8yFMeEjUWEtg_GI/s1600/20110312-DSC_0131.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9LWy6AZQdoahf93bV2_hc6YyiXzMuMnaisMFBKeVJry5Xl6_Weh1tvWUD62RYz26pQtJ2MqVick89jCLRPeyTW6NNsJ29LiQCweAtqwM0I8vzt37c-8kwHMQed_seNhS9o2cOkOP5b0/s1600/20110312-DSC_0132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9LWy6AZQdoahf93bV2_hc6YyiXzMuMnaisMFBKeVJry5Xl6_Weh1tvWUD62RYz26pQtJ2MqVick89jCLRPeyTW6NNsJ29LiQCweAtqwM0I8vzt37c-8kwHMQed_seNhS9o2cOkOP5b0/s1600/20110312-DSC_0132.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is for Arik. When talked to him he said he was glad to hear that their parking spot was still intact.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKcrWqUs8skQCynw19Xdvldi1nT0NkdoIXqQakPMxJ5RbAdd5d0Q3lLIqyqcc6IZ5nzfSvq-1mrLoHfGZEebGoxTIhzM79NO1_pYjt49cBO1eHZxl78itJ8KfCQNyFLMvvzuqUOg47s4/s1600/20110312-DSC_0134.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKcrWqUs8skQCynw19Xdvldi1nT0NkdoIXqQakPMxJ5RbAdd5d0Q3lLIqyqcc6IZ5nzfSvq-1mrLoHfGZEebGoxTIhzM79NO1_pYjt49cBO1eHZxl78itJ8KfCQNyFLMvvzuqUOg47s4/s1600/20110312-DSC_0134.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well...yes it's there Arik. But you might want to called ahead for a reservation when you head back from Kodiak. There's a tiny bit of a lineup of displaced vessels in your spot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeDqlgF1khoNSdQGr4DZ2pggtfIDszkvtOShNk1T2bUOuJgz6XwkWa7y-eo0bOJxjuLZ_vXf-juWSQlzY3Y5jTf_aEE8ewA0j9ie_-cU4pwMpRizEq8nIdIAS0lSOk_a-Kk466O4QK14/s1600/20110312-DSC_0134cr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeDqlgF1khoNSdQGr4DZ2pggtfIDszkvtOShNk1T2bUOuJgz6XwkWa7y-eo0bOJxjuLZ_vXf-juWSQlzY3Y5jTf_aEE8ewA0j9ie_-cU4pwMpRizEq8nIdIAS0lSOk_a-Kk466O4QK14/s1600/20110312-DSC_0134cr.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just a couple of months ago it was a very different place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Heck a couple of days ago really.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9132-lWwE2S9Q6Xxpvv5EZaRb0VdFEoNK8xsQ0PKlCAcnSv_Abwft7tDwEjRYlV0wiV2ogtTqInrF__ChKpAg9yz2WLGQoaIMKNqiJTcLPHHDGLpQbek1MApoanlUk8owH_fNKh73sM/s1600/2010-11-28-CrabPots-029ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9132-lWwE2S9Q6Xxpvv5EZaRb0VdFEoNK8xsQ0PKlCAcnSv_Abwft7tDwEjRYlV0wiV2ogtTqInrF__ChKpAg9yz2WLGQoaIMKNqiJTcLPHHDGLpQbek1MApoanlUk8owH_fNKh73sM/s640/2010-11-28-CrabPots-029ed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One day it will look like this again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For now....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's kind of a big ol mess.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And yet when we compare it to what the people of Japan are dealing with it seems very small.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sean got called in this afternoon to be a part of the dive team clean up crew.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He won't be diving but his particular boat makes a really good dive boat due to the flat deck. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He'll be running his boat for the dive crews to use.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It will likely be a long rainy night for them all again and he's happy to have the opportunity to be a part of it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Counting our blessings,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-25967962921976832522011-02-21T15:01:00.000-08:002011-02-21T15:02:59.077-08:00Winter Garden Update - In Which I Am Knowingly Duped<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As a reasonably long time resident of the Oregon coast I should have a handle on weather patterns right?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We get rain here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Have you heard about that?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well it's true...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our seasonal average is somewhere north of 70 inches...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And I totally try to pretend it's not true...but it is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BUT fairly often in January we get a spurt of sunshiney awesomeness and in my little pretend world I'm back in San Diego and Spring has arrived.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It gets me through til spring break when I really do get to be in San Diego.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This year we got bonus sunshiney awesomeness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Four weeks instead of two.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And we were all gettin our Spring on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Things started to really look good in the garden.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Cauliflower happiness abounds.<br />
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Seriously, we had no idea this was even out there since I don't venture out nearly as much in the rain.<br />
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Ooooo ahhhh.<br />
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Also I'd like to take a moment to mention that these shots were the first time I got to use my new lens.<br />
My first Big Girl for real glass.<br />
The Nikon 50mm f1.4 G<br />
I think I'm in love.<br />
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Purpleness happening too.<br />
Some side shooting broccoli...<br />
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And some Purple Cape Cauliflower....<br />
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Some definite visual coolness...<br />
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The kale is starting to look like a palm trees...which I love.<br />
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It goes along with my tropical fantasies.<br />
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And while the slugs were having a <em>field day</em> with outer cabbage leaves there is still lot left for fish tacos and Asian salads.<br />
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So here's where my Springlike delusions start to cause me some concern...<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">When I saw this I sprinted... in slow motion ...like in the movies....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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It's all a big lie and they are totally falling for it.<br />
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For the past two years we've gotten about 3 Asian Pears because they fall for the fakey Spring and then the hail hits.<br />
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I do love that they seem to be eternal optimists though.<br />
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The peach tree too...<br />
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Falling for it.<br />
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All this sunshiney goodness had me in a gamblin mood.<br />
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The row that we covered in plastic last year (you know, <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-garden-update.html">the one that caused me much guilt and angst</a>)<br />
Made it super easy to get a row ready to plant.<br />
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I'm almost a total convert...still some teensy guilt floating around but I think I can alleviate that with some biodegradable version and run a tester on that.<br />
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So I threw caution to the wind and planted carrots, onion, lettuce, spinach and turnips.<br />
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And it felt goooood.<br />
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The back ups of the outside stuff are lookin great.<br />
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Which is great because we love radishes but we have a horrible track record with growing them outside.<br />
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And since all of my unscientific experiments are....<br />
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Welll...<br />
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unscientific...<br />
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We never have really figured out quite what the problem is.<br />
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Suffice it to say it's not worth wasting seeds on.<br />
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So I went happily along with my spring fantasies until Thursday.<br />
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When I woke up to this!<br />
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<em>It's not supposed to snow here.</em><br />
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I can't drive when it snows.<br />
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My inner San Diegan freezes up and panics.<br />
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I tried to use that an excuse not to make it to the gym that day.<br />
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Rich laughed and reminded me that it was two inches....and I have an all wheel drive vehicle.<br />
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So I laced up my sneakers, threw back my shoulders and begged him to have his phone on in case I ended up in a ditch...since had to make it at least 100 feet down the road before there was no snow....<br />
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I know.<br />
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So remember this?<br />
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It became this...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Woot! She gambles....and gets burned.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And this....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgzZ2WobI77_AR8uqVzXzRw4881qP20IEuHR1GDOrqmh0bL-GP-NJg5c9_bAWMyTXgIf-QeRFojpQknLE3G1M-gXZjSWvYF91FR1fhNRH60ThiLTbK3WiuNW8SBVsewLSYux__x5iBIk/s1600/20110205-DSC_0056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgzZ2WobI77_AR8uqVzXzRw4881qP20IEuHR1GDOrqmh0bL-GP-NJg5c9_bAWMyTXgIf-QeRFojpQknLE3G1M-gXZjSWvYF91FR1fhNRH60ThiLTbK3WiuNW8SBVsewLSYux__x5iBIk/s1600/20110205-DSC_0056.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Became this....<br />
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</div>And of course the pear tree I tried to persuade to hold off on the blooms...<br />
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Felt the sting.<br />
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I won't collect pear recipes this year.<br />
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The hoops and nets on the blueberry bushes collapsed in despair...<br />
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This one got the prize for visual coolness...pun intended.<br />
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</div>We have another chilly week ahead and I'll just hang out and see what happens and try to pay attention when I hear my inner voice say "step away from the seed packets".<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Cathy</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-26363648186085732042011-02-04T15:28:00.000-08:002011-02-04T15:28:32.667-08:00The Boat In Our Garage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our garage has an interesting life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All kinds of strange things have occurred there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This, I think, may be one of the more interesting things....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let me introduce you to to the Frankenboat also known as the Hogcatcher....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjncHV-wdEHiGdLb5OrI9j-SMbBrKoafsLdgYrIYM0BHIuz4YThULMtuFNBdBpF_mY_p0TVe-Tp9yjUFuPk5w6Go40CQ5cUZHhEqzKLz9t2W6REoCgg22n2Xyk5JhyphenhyphenWvVDtTAMQt7ZYfn0/s1600/croberts20110115-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjncHV-wdEHiGdLb5OrI9j-SMbBrKoafsLdgYrIYM0BHIuz4YThULMtuFNBdBpF_mY_p0TVe-Tp9yjUFuPk5w6Go40CQ5cUZHhEqzKLz9t2W6REoCgg22n2Xyk5JhyphenhyphenWvVDtTAMQt7ZYfn0/s1600/croberts20110115-0004.jpg" /></a></div> It began as an outdoor project boat...<br />
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Rescued from neglect and a not quite perfect design.<br />
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It had potential.<br />
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It had good bones.<br />
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But was in need of a whole lotta elbow grease, another trailer and another engine to make it happen.<br />
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As the full force of winter set in, the whole outdoor thing lost it's charm and it was decided that if the dream were to come to fruition the bulk of the fiberglassing and mechanical work would need a much warmer home.<br />
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Imagine if you will the conversations and engineering that went into getting this puppy in the door.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It involved the removal of "stuff" (my technical term) from the top and the removal of wheels from the trailer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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And let's just say the floor jack became one of the key pieces of this grand scheme.<br />
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All snug and warm.<br />
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As packages arrive from Fiberglass Supply<br />
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I gotta try that again.<br />
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<em>Here she sits.</em><br />
<em>All snug and dry.</em><br />
<em>As packages arrive from Fiberglass Supply.</em><br />
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Sorry... I couldn't resist....one of those poet and she don't know it moments.<br />
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The guys had already begun some of the demolition before it got this uptown spot.<br />
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The plan is to add a fish hold and create a wash deck.<br />
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And from all the talk I'm hearin about how many fish this boat is gonna catch it better be a whopper of a hold.<br />
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Collin (kid #3...the mechanic) helped Rich locate a second boat that they will use for the trailer and the engine.<br />
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If ya wanna come join in the fun we have plenty of tools laying around here for ya.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-72512673337362444092011-01-14T15:11:00.000-08:002011-01-14T15:11:27.035-08:00Photo FridayIt's been kind of a crazy week.<br />
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Every time I began to make a plan something changed and rearranged and I had to scramble to get my bearings.<br />
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It's a great exercise...<br />
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Rollin with it....<br />
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Knowing that plan A can become plan B and it's eventually all just fine...<br />
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Sometimes better than just fine....<br />
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Sometimes better than plan A.<br />
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And sometimes you just look up on Friday and wonder where the heck the week went and what one possible thing was that you actually finished.<br />
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That's this week for me.<br />
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I learned some stuff....which I love...<br />
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But never really got anything finished and mostly feel like I ran in circles.<br />
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So in the spirit of rollin' with it I'm just gonna share one shot from this week and call it good.<br />
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And just so it seems planned and official and all ...I'm gonna call it 'Photo Friday'.<br />
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Have a great weekend and take time to notice the everyday gifts.<br />
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Even if it's one pile unpiled.<br />
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It's all good.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Happy weekend,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-32675845949244431582011-01-07T14:22:00.000-08:002011-01-07T14:22:47.171-08:00Boats In The Night...Or Really Cold Early Morning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I got a text message from Arik(kid #2) on Monday night saying that he would be back in port around 5ish Tuesday morning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I kindly informed him that I would be up around 5:20 to go to the gym and asked if could he please float around at sea til a bit after that so I could get down there to see them come in and take a few shots.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just kiddin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I did think that part though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Really ...if you're gonna float around all night in freezing temperatures what's an extra 20 minutes?? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, as it turned out, it was my lucky pre-dawn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I messaged him as soon as I had my shoes laced up and was headed out the door to see if I had ...hehe...missed the boat (sorry couldn't resist).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The message I got back said:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>Cupple miles.</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It made me smile. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Arik will be the first to admit that spelling is definetly not his strong suit. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was like....<em>ya that's Arik and he's headed home</em> ...for a few days anyhow before they head for Alaska.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I asked what that meant in real time....and began calculating how long I had to get to the harbor and how many police officers might be lurking in the dark.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">next message:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>10 mins or so</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">OK so that's about exactly what it takes to get there from my house so I started going through gear in my head...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">How long did it take to run to my back door, unzip the bag?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What needed to be reset?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I hit the port frontage road I saw them headed for the mouth of the harbor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yep, that was me speeding thru there at approximately 5:47 a.m.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had a boat to catch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sorry about that.</div><br />
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I took on the minefield of potholes fearlessly in the name of art, and motherhood, and getting there first.<br />
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It was at about this time that I had a revelation.<br />
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Boats carry their own lighting system. How cool is that??<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uobg8NsoEb76eMc-2lDmNegkXvdothVdiJZn8AsmgK1jBXEyGnewhL-MqOFsUH1HTfOGr_EhyphenhyphenwxWp76q_nEKheyAfKAzNlMcIQypDsYUyetDag-6rfD7hcA0ehz8iQC97LmO8wwpO9c/s1600/20110104MissSarah-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uobg8NsoEb76eMc-2lDmNegkXvdothVdiJZn8AsmgK1jBXEyGnewhL-MqOFsUH1HTfOGr_EhyphenhyphenwxWp76q_nEKheyAfKAzNlMcIQypDsYUyetDag-6rfD7hcA0ehz8iQC97LmO8wwpO9c/s1600/20110104MissSarah-9.jpg" /></a></div> I mean theoretically a person could do a really cool photo series based on nights in the harbor.<br />
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I started to get really excited about that idea....<br />
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Wow a year's worth of light experimentation in the dark...<br />
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This could be a<em> thing...</em><br />
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Until a guy waking his dog passed me and said...<br />
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"What are you doing out here in shorts?? It's 34 degrees!"<br />
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Which made me remember how wimpy I am about such things...<br />
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<em>So</em> way unlike the crews of these boats...who actually stay up all night before they come in, in the 34 degree pre-dawn thinking about what they need to do next....<br />
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I explained the whole headed-for-the-gym thing and he seemed to feel better that I wasn't quite as crazy as he had originally imagined.<br />
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Totally worth getting up and freezing your sneakers off for at least once in your life tho.<br />
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Who knows, maybe I'll surprise us all and work on this idea some more.<br />
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Happy weekend,<br />
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CathCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-42220388472264872162010-12-20T15:52:00.000-08:002010-12-20T15:52:25.997-08:00Dungeness Season 2010 - Part 3 - Bust Out The Caesar Salad and Sourdough<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ya know how it gets to a certain time of year and there are some flavors that you just can't wait for?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well crab is like that here this time of year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We usually get a hankerin' (people in rural areas use words like hankerin...go with me on this) for it right after we clean up from the Thanksgiving feast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Immediately after...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Exactly 5 minutes after.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So when the season gets delayed it's a sort of slow torture waiting for what we know is coming.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Even the seagulls are waiting...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Posting guard at the end of the jetty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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When the boats start to make their first deliveries you see a lot of smiling and fist pumping from the crews and a lot of drooling from the spectators as we get the first peek of crab in the overflow containers on deck.<br />
I love the seagull escort on this one:<br />
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By the time Sean brought his first load of the season in there was somewhat of a wait at the unloading dock so they radioed in and waited for their turn.<br />
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Which gave me time to get permission from the owner to get a closer spot to shoot from.<br />
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And while I waited I did my usual ADHD act and became very distracted by light and colors here as the sun began to set. I almost asked on of the dock guys to pose for me under this amazing light, next to this cool crane thingy... but I didn't think the crew from the boat currently being unloaded would appreciate that.<br />
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Really though, it was such a waste.<br />
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Note to self: Someday you <em>must</em> find someone willing to stand in upper rigging of a boat with it's lights on at dusk.<br />
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OK time to get back on task....<br />
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We get our first look at the overflow crab that didn't fit in the hold.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VOkUqIp-d2-CHHwdIyCe9SWN5Yu2oF2l7gcnCvu5Hqn5GQJyhQ_dR3wIfwLccIZMJJFIoOhUUMPe8qTdModR6NpuOfabU1DQ-xSgn46aFzu4sO4QnFZie1erUTQGc0-KL9DNwBMo8OM/s1600/2010-12-12-CrabDeliver-071e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VOkUqIp-d2-CHHwdIyCe9SWN5Yu2oF2l7gcnCvu5Hqn5GQJyhQ_dR3wIfwLccIZMJJFIoOhUUMPe8qTdModR6NpuOfabU1DQ-xSgn46aFzu4sO4QnFZie1erUTQGc0-KL9DNwBMo8OM/s1600/2010-12-12-CrabDeliver-071e.jpg" /></a></div>Is it just me or did anyone else just get a flash back of when Sean used to look just like that when he backed up his little VW peddle car when he was 3?<br />
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From the upper dock they lower this silver bucket thing for the crew to fill and send back up.<br />
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Which then gets dumped into these larger totes.<br />
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And repeat.<br />
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After the guys got the overflow stuff unloaded the super nice owner of the fisheries plant let me peek straight down into the main hold of Sean's boat.<br />
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Sean's load filled up two of these big totes.<br />
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On this day he had about 40 pots in the water.<br />
Every time they run out to collect crab they bring more gear to drop.<br />
So as the season progresses he will have more gear in the water.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The big boats drop all their gear at once.</span><br />
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Between the pots he owns and the ones he will be leasing he could have as many as 150ish in the water.<br />
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His permit allows for 200.<br />
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These fellers tried to make a break for it but no such luck.<br />
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When the boat is unloaded the large totes are picked up by a forklift and moved to a scale where the weight is recorded.<br />
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The fishermen are paid by weight.<br />
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This boat load weighed in at about 1400 pounds.<br />
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This is just me getting distracted by the cool lights from across the harbor...<br />
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These trucks get loaded full of those big totes and they head to a market near you.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I say this every year but I swear that was the <em>best crab ever.</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I ate mine without lemon or butter...just plain with our famous caesar salad and sourdough on the side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh man...heaven.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We picked and froze some to go on our eggs with Hollandaise sauce on Christmas. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And some for future crab enchiladas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Looking forward to that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I probably won't post again til after the holidays so I'd like to wish you all a season of peace and joy with hearts full and open to overflow and spill out to those around you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Merry Christmas to all,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-36397375181994120812010-12-18T12:19:00.000-08:002010-12-18T12:19:05.446-08:00Dungeness Season 2010 - Part 2 - Ready To Be Crabby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It seems as though every year the crab season opens just as the ocean gets really nasty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And the Oregon coast....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well let me just say.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This ain't no Mission Bay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And so the Chetco River Station Coast Guard unit was standing by on the morning the local fleet made their first run.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4T8ihiD9SchzwbPnthO5HA0o8jOAzoOKdSWNe2rsqtPaTuu2uYsz9dLmrFNwkSR77wX9-db8bjj6OJ0wli0KqvMx1zhU9dzmKmaWC7CHka2Xd8ckAZrf4u3Uh55ox8tWLsRXmBHvCzSg/s1600/2010-12-10-CrabOpener-003ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4T8ihiD9SchzwbPnthO5HA0o8jOAzoOKdSWNe2rsqtPaTuu2uYsz9dLmrFNwkSR77wX9-db8bjj6OJ0wli0KqvMx1zhU9dzmKmaWC7CHka2Xd8ckAZrf4u3Uh55ox8tWLsRXmBHvCzSg/s1600/2010-12-10-CrabOpener-003ed.jpg" /></a></div><br />
12:01 a.m. was the time set for dropping the first sets of gear.<br />
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Mostly the larger boats of the fleet went out at that time.<br />
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The smaller boats waited for daylight and a check on the river bar conditions.<br />
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This river bar can get real serious real fast.<br />
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These next two shots are from a day in November when we had high surf warnings.<br />
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And so as the first of the boats came back to reload with more gear early that morning, the Coast Guard acted as escort at the harbor mouth.<br />
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Can I just say...<br />
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One of my most favorite things about living here is waking up when it's still dark out and seeing the light from these boats on the water.<br />
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It's really beautiful.<br />
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And it reminds me of how really wimpy I am...<br />
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Seriously.<br />
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I would be such a whiner in those conditions.<br />
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And as some of the boats came in our #1 kid got his small but mighty boat ready for it's first gear run.<br />
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</div>And this goes on for the better part of of few days....<br />
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Depending upon the size of your boat, the ocean conditions, and the limitations of your permit.<br />
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One of the local boats headed out with more gear...<br />
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And Sean on his first run of the season.<br />
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He decided to err on the side of caution and go with a light load for the first run to test the bar conditions.<br />
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And this is when it starts to look reallly small to me...<br />
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I know this kid has been on the ocean since he was 5....<br />
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I know he knows what he's doing...<br />
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I know he carefully watches forecasts and conditions...<br />
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but still...<br />
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And my #2 kid is on the crew of this larger boat farther north up the coast.<br />
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And still I worry...<br />
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These guys are hard core, round the clock, out in almost any conditions...<br />
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So do me a favor...<br />
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When you sit down to your holiday crab feast and bow your heads....<br />
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Throw in an extra mention for the men who go out on the ocean to bring it in to market.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And all the mamas, wives, friends, and families who worry over them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-2509310914407859792010-12-17T16:26:00.000-08:002010-12-17T16:26:09.096-08:00Dungeness Season 2010 - Part 1 -The Waiting Game<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well alrightly then.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My clickin finger's been gettin a workout lately.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's just something about living near a working port during crab season that is really unique and everywhere I look I'm goin' "Oooo check that out."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The trouble is that everything else...season-wise is happening at the same time and it all kinda gets to be too much for the twisted tangle that is my mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And so...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the interest of actually getting this stuff posted this year...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And because I have a <em>lot </em>of stuff to show ya...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is gonna be a three parter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm gonna keep the words to a minimum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Generally, Dungeness crab season begins Dec 1st here on the Oregon coast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The guys all start getting gear ready in November.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I love to walk around in the port when as far as I can see there are crab pots and colorful buoys and line.<br />
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This year, the crab, like every other thing in nature, were running a bit behind so the fishermen agreed to hold up an extra couple of weeks to guarantee a top quality product.<br />
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Boats were stacked and ready.<br />
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OK this one doesn't have any crab gear... <br />
I just got distracted by the colors.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And the rain drops....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And patterns...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-ALAuT25Gx3CfcjD4l-kNgh4LBcSOGwEc__youxXUBArIsNwWbBXDmXGlEWUcIANLn4AZ8sKKV4ZsAIrPBcAo4RY-xolioe4V241a_yYMYaXvVVMAXlHqmL8i08LBDs8PGJFSHd67Cs/s1600/2010-11-28-CrabPots-021ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-ALAuT25Gx3CfcjD4l-kNgh4LBcSOGwEc__youxXUBArIsNwWbBXDmXGlEWUcIANLn4AZ8sKKV4ZsAIrPBcAo4RY-xolioe4V241a_yYMYaXvVVMAXlHqmL8i08LBDs8PGJFSHd67Cs/s1600/2010-11-28-CrabPots-021ed.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sorry about that...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's part of being me.</div><br />
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And so they patiently...<br />
Or impatiently...<br />
Waited for the go ahead.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-39462492934041399312010-11-24T10:33:00.000-08:002010-11-24T10:33:43.054-08:00Green Maters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A super quick post today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gettin ready for lots of Thankfulness in the house but I wanted to share something I learned.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When we got the first Arctic blast of the winter we decided to pull the tomatoes in the greenhouse and make room for cooler weather crops.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There were still quite a few green maters on the vine....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What to do?....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I grabbed one of our new fave books this year </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Serving-Up-Harvest-Celebrating-Vegetables/dp/1580176631?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Serving Up the Harvest</a><span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Serving-Up-Harvest-Celebrating-Vegetables/dp/1580176631?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Serving Up the Harvest: Celebrating the Goodness of Fresh Vegetables" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1580176631&tag=widgetsamazon-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1580176631" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1580176631" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>Figuring I was going to need to find some spiffy way to use them...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>When I looked up green tomatoes they had a muy bueno tip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxYATLiBP-0ljIZoEuk2NfgtATjquXpCjAnscYYbuenGXam8fKoFuyiyyZ3Gp9EuulZrt5LcmzUFbuGXPW4dJmM3gYABxGT1XVNZzg5qpboMlIxCM4NlAqAEE-v0m2_JNd4PcoWsk02ZY/s1600/2010-11-01-Garden-001ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxYATLiBP-0ljIZoEuk2NfgtATjquXpCjAnscYYbuenGXam8fKoFuyiyyZ3Gp9EuulZrt5LcmzUFbuGXPW4dJmM3gYABxGT1XVNZzg5qpboMlIxCM4NlAqAEE-v0m2_JNd4PcoWsk02ZY/s1600/2010-11-01-Garden-001ed.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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It turns out that if you leave the stems attached and keep them in a cool place with straw over them...<br />
or in between layers if your a layering kind of person...<br />
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They continue to ripen.<br />
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So hey I'm still making salsa and roasted tomato pasta sauce!<br />
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I had never heard that before but it totally explains the whole tomatoes on the vine thing you see in stores.<br />
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It works great.<br />
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So I've been keeping them in my guest room/root cellar.<br />
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We close the door to keep it cool and dark.<br />
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Oh and if you're coming for Thanksgiving....<br />
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You know who you are....Collin.<br />
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Never fear.<br />
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I moved the remaining maters out to the garage and warmed up the room today.<br />
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Nice eh?<br />
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Just call me Martha Stewart.<br />
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Happy Thanksgiving to all and may the thankfulness of the day fill your homes and hearts.<br />
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CathCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-67263860560171704162010-11-19T13:43:00.000-08:002010-11-19T13:43:25.262-08:00House Painting Project Part 3 - The Paint Reveal and Fixtures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm seriously hoping that no one was holding their breath waiting for this post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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If you missed <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/08/it-all-began-so-simplypart-1.html">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/09/house-painting-project-part-2.html">Part 2</a> click on the links there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We'll wait....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Okey dokey then.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Join me now for a phase where I imagined I was channeling <a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/wc.shtml">Christo</a> .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I call it Wrapped Windows.<br />
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Thoughtful and original huh?<br />
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I know. <br />
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Moments like this make my dad so proud that he put me <span style="background-color: white;">through</span> art school.<br />
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The incredibly handsome work crew did their thing while I watched with great appreciation.<br />
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I'm usually the follow up trim crew.<br />
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I know. Multi talented.<br />
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I not only wrap but paint trim as well.<br />
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Anyhooo.... we're loving the new color.<br />
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My excuse for the tardiness of this post is that I wanted to wait for the light fixtures.<br />
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Convenient huh?<br />
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So without further delay....<br />
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The motion lights near the garage door....<br />
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And the fixture that go near the doors...<br />
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Oh and some buckets of apples from the trees....<br />
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I'm sure you'll all sleep better now.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-65112188055808023132010-11-02T13:43:00.000-07:002010-11-02T13:43:02.074-07:00Senior Night and Treasures of The HeartThey call it Senior Night.<br />
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The last home game of regular season play for the Seniors.<br />
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I knew it was coming.<br />
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I've done this before.<br />
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This is the eighth consecutive season that I've had a kid on the BHHS Boys' Soccer Team.<br />
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I also knew that this one would be a little different for a couple of reasons.<br />
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1) It's the last time.<br />
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And <br />
B) This kid of mine loves this game down to his toes.<br />
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My good friend <a href="http://www.deannaleighphotography.com/">Deanna</a> took time to come shoot for me during the presentations.<br />
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Thank you Deanna.<br />
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The coaches asked the Senior boys to each prepare something to say.<br />
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None of them really wanted to go first.<br />
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Since Dylan is the team captain he stepped forward and started first.<br />
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He thanked us for helping him with everything and for always being there for him.<br />
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And that's when the magic happened.<br />
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My boy could say no more.<br />
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He choked up a bit...and so did everyone there.<br />
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Our hearts all full of love.<br />
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Full of pride.<br />
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I can't think of a time I've been more proud to call this boy mine.<br />
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And he gives us lots of opportunities.<br />
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It was one of those moments.<br />
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Squirrel away every piece of heart burstingness.<br />
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Draw a big 'ol circle around the whole thing and store in the corner of your heart.<br />
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So you can find the playback button later.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the thing that surprised me....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I now technically have four adult sons.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had no idea that my heart would keep making room for these things after they were grown.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is no limit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hearts stretch and grow all the more for handing out what's inside of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I knew in my head...but still it surprised me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am so blessed and grateful.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dylan had a great game and played his smelly shin guards off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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There were a few shots that didn't quite work out.<br />
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Some nice passes in the midfield.<br />
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And there was this:<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Under a bit of pressure.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3bse3YOrz-T6TJGpU8SbKS6Uhwc3FM7OwgiKIa7oGb8KASa8JgG3G6JDWkJ4JF_TxpiYtRyLxrcck5tD5KhLGNZh8Rx1Pi8l8SEkO6SxqCvrLoe2wukQC-KkmdOmiELRomnw2rMdBrc/s1600/2010-10-30-vsCoquil-187.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3bse3YOrz-T6TJGpU8SbKS6Uhwc3FM7OwgiKIa7oGb8KASa8JgG3G6JDWkJ4JF_TxpiYtRyLxrcck5tD5KhLGNZh8Rx1Pi8l8SEkO6SxqCvrLoe2wukQC-KkmdOmiELRomnw2rMdBrc/s1600/2010-10-30-vsCoquil-187.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Dylan shoots with the left foot.<br />
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And in it goes. <br />
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The two of them work so well together.<br />
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And little later a similar set up.<br />
The pass...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A little footwork.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUmks4yn5xNpqaqs9Z-2FX_dOibLUtFE9xdVlHlyMFiICr48gspwGnhCAA1EizcBAXE-vm2ri_2PMesmWdaotg63IiaddPRSmx91cvvGs4t01WGVMiLDX5L8i7HenKIFKBItsqgzjZsEU/s1600/2010-10-30-vsCoquil-235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUmks4yn5xNpqaqs9Z-2FX_dOibLUtFE9xdVlHlyMFiICr48gspwGnhCAA1EizcBAXE-vm2ri_2PMesmWdaotg63IiaddPRSmx91cvvGs4t01WGVMiLDX5L8i7HenKIFKBItsqgzjZsEU/s1600/2010-10-30-vsCoquil-235.jpg" /></a></div><br />
One defender down...three trying to catch up.<br />
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Right foot shot this time.<br />
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And in it goes.<br />
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The game ended in a tie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Waitin to see how my heart gets stretched next,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-53686945607249304142010-10-27T14:37:00.000-07:002010-10-27T14:37:22.594-07:00October Garden Goodies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just a quickie update from the garden.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We're in a big harvest mode right now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's the end of the season for lots of the greenhouse stuff...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The cucumbers are toast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They've been replaced by winter crucifers...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Which is basically a bare bones version of the stuff that's outside...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbages of several varieties.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's kind of our emergency backup if everything outside goes to heck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But first let's take a moment to admire the sweet peppers shall we??.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jl_gHZBwh0WVMu6CQdvH9B3DVN0_GGz51p5ahbzHfjlEDfdUz9tZFvp62zxwL2GtNKDc1BN3RYgOlmJ51ZVRuIfX20-vQS7UFcnRmuXqxUpFfERfJ0VDJPUB0nF6w2mjHMCc6JS7Zcs/s1600/2010-10-09-garden-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jl_gHZBwh0WVMu6CQdvH9B3DVN0_GGz51p5ahbzHfjlEDfdUz9tZFvp62zxwL2GtNKDc1BN3RYgOlmJ51ZVRuIfX20-vQS7UFcnRmuXqxUpFfERfJ0VDJPUB0nF6w2mjHMCc6JS7Zcs/s1600/2010-10-09-garden-006.jpg" /></a></div> They took for-pickin-ever to get ready....<br />
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And I can't say I blame them since we never did really get a solid month of summer weather.<br />
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But aren't they purty??<br />
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Which, as you know, is the highest honor awarded in my garden world.<br />
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Spinach, lettuce, mache and arugula will take their place soon...<br />
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And carrots will replace the tomatoes...<br />
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But we're letting them stay for as long as is reasonably possible....<br />
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Cause we love making salsa and we still have a lot of habanero peppers waiting for a purpose.<br />
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And check this out would ya please?<br />
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<em>Sweet peas in OCTOBER!</em><br />
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An absolute indicator of the lack of sun and heat here on the Oregon Coast this summer...<br />
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And I'll bet you thought I was whining...<br />
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Well.... I was.<br />
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Our strawberry days are probably numbered as well....<em>heavy sigh</em><br />
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With the recent rain deluge the squash vines finally gave up their indecision over whether or not we might be starting summer soon.<br />
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Luckily the <a href="http://www.territorialseed.com/product/9913/s">Carnival acorn squash</a> ....<br />
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You guessed it....<br />
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Selected entirely on the basis of potential for visual coolness...<br />
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Aren't those little zucchinis just a little sad?<br />
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They fought hard all summer and went in fits and spurts. <br />
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Some of them took on the oddest shapes due to the crazy weather changes.<br />
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Rich pulled out the whole row of exhausted squash and melon vines but left the<a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-garden-update.html"> much debated green plastic mulch</a>.<br />
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One of two things will happen.<br />
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Either it will act as a weed block and save us lots of work come next spring (<em>and alleviate further plastic guilt having served a dual purpose</em>) <br />
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OR it will create <em>the</em> perfect insect overwintering vacation house ever and create a disaster.<br />
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Just another of my unscientific experiments I thought I'd share with ya.<br />
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You're welcome.<br />
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I'll keep ya posted.<br />
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CathCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-34360171872721697322010-10-19T14:36:00.000-07:002010-10-19T14:36:44.503-07:00Homecoming 2010 and MetamorphosisThere was lots of Homecoming silliness this past week.<br />
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And since my boy is a Senior he and many of his good friends were in the midst of it.<br />
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There were a couple of soccer games.<br />
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And you know how I love to watch the boy play.<br />
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And Friday brought the main events.<br />
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A big fat Bruin assembly with lots of strangely dressed Bruins in the house.<br />
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Let's just say the blue and gold were present in abundance.<br />
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Then there was the homecoming parade.<br />
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Friday morning I told Dylan to try get a spot on the float where I could see him.<br />
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I didn't have one single homecoming parade shot during his whole high school experience where you could actually pick him out.<br />
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Mission accomlished:<br />
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So here's my baby boy...<br />
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My honor roll student....<br />
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My little AP classes genius....<br />
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Who apparently has some difficulty with which way is up....<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj28OyNMldrAZ1hO5-GsVXovz6xkCtlqY9CDmKCoRkmrAhGPOsG8xfGB-1OEC-qJ0xI-k-8c8XJFOWdLI5QCOc0cA6oBTBKBvY3ox8pSa-FkyhaQTReQZiYUKKitZdwG54_h5YzqLAeEk/s1600/2010-10-15-Homecoming-076ef.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj28OyNMldrAZ1hO5-GsVXovz6xkCtlqY9CDmKCoRkmrAhGPOsG8xfGB-1OEC-qJ0xI-k-8c8XJFOWdLI5QCOc0cA6oBTBKBvY3ox8pSa-FkyhaQTReQZiYUKKitZdwG54_h5YzqLAeEk/s1600/2010-10-15-Homecoming-076ef.jpg" /></a></div> Should I be concerned??<br />
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Friday night brought the big football game.<br />
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For many of Dylan's good friends it was Senior Night.<br />
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So we went to check it out and cheer on the Bruins.<br />
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I was telling Rich later that I went to snap this photo real quick I thought about Dylan's choice of attire.<br />
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The boy hardly ever does anything without thinking about it.<br />
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So this was interesting to me.<br />
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Loaded with patches...<br />
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And under that...<br />
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The bright orange sweatshirt of his most likely future college.<br />
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As we talked Rich said....<br />
"Huh. Kinda like he's ready to turn into a butterfly...<br />
All he needs to do is peel off the high school jacket and keep moving forward"<br />
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That's what this time is all about for Dylan right now.<br />
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I'm lovin watching the metamorphosis.<br />
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CathCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-81383970761369238952010-09-29T14:56:00.000-07:002010-09-29T14:56:56.494-07:00Fall Garden Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let me open by introducing The Fuchsia Dude.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The local deer adore him and keep him all duded up with this awesome do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQogy3z11J8f99-R0LpTl-fzSTdVOTSBceXciGC1g_xZuYfgSh3D4UYA-OOaRhzNgM_HQXz5QO8ttDrRigLEuUn0snChzCMv7vb_qhxNO4UNzL2xKfzKonSqxeO-C7PStD2yOWsuCWYjM/s1600/2010-08-15-Garden-002ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQogy3z11J8f99-R0LpTl-fzSTdVOTSBceXciGC1g_xZuYfgSh3D4UYA-OOaRhzNgM_HQXz5QO8ttDrRigLEuUn0snChzCMv7vb_qhxNO4UNzL2xKfzKonSqxeO-C7PStD2yOWsuCWYjM/s800/2010-08-15-Garden-002ed.jpg" /></a></div>Sorry... I do not deny being easily amused.<br />
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It's been a crazy wacky summer on the Oregon Coast.<br />
But I thought I'd bust out a garden update for you.<br />
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The dill battled the bush beans for supremacy....<br />
And the bush beans were winning for a while...<br />
But let's face it no one can beat out volunteer dill.<br />
And in the end victory was theirs.<br />
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The absolute best thing about the cool summer we had was that my sweet peas are <em>still</em> going.<br />
I adore them.<br />
They make me smile.<br />
And smell makes up for stinky shin guards.<br />
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Even better than the absolute best thing above ( so would that be the absolute bestester?)...<br />
Was the strawberries.<br />
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We pretty much eat strawberries every night and every morning.<br />
How awesome is that?<br />
I will be soooooo sad when they give up for the winter.<br />
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I really wanted to update you all on all the new stuff I tried out for funsies this year.<br />
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This one I didn't even try for.<br />
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although I don't remember doing that...<br />
which is not at all unusual...<br />
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Luckily it came up in a most convenient place so we let it ramble...<br />
Apparently they are very productive...<br />
Even without a lot of heat.<br />
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Sooo remember that whole <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-garden-update.html">green plastic angst saga</a>?<br />
Well I can only say that without the green plastic sheet we would never have seen the squash we were able to get this year...<br />
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And another of my new crops....<a href="http://www.territorialseed.com/product/11609/s">Tigger Melons</a>... barely eeked out an existence and would certainly have met an early demise....<br />
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But victory is mine!<br />
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I got...are you ready?....<br />
Two<br />
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Yep count em....two<br />
I stuck a strawberry near this one for scale for ya.<br />
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But wait....<br />
<br />
Since these pictures were taken we've rain, sun, and fog....<br />
So pretty much the same pattern as the whole summer...<br />
And there is one more out there!<br />
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See?? Totally worth it!<br />
I know!<br />
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Now I don't wanna go dissin on the new guys so in all fairness they all deserve at least one more shot during a more normal summer.<br />
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I mean here it is September and the pole beans are still just blossoms...<br />
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It's because of things like this:<br />
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They just look so sad...<br />
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No wonder the poor things don't know what to do...<br />
I think I might be a little scared that I'm making excuses for my vegetables....<br />
hmmmm...<br />
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The <a href="http://www.territorialseed.com/product/9836/s">Soliel yellow fillet beans</a> were scared too....and still in blossom...<br />
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Since we got a sun burst and they figured it was safe...<br />
And boy are they tasty...<br />
They will definitely get a rerun next year.<br />
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Another newbie that apparently likes a little sun...<br />
the edamame has given us exactly one edamame and beer feast...<br />
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We waited all summer for them...<br />
And I say, reluctantly, that is was kinda worth it...<br />
They were really yummy ... <br />
and I feel they deserve a real summer...<br />
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Beets are coming along....<br />
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Napa cabbage loves this time of year...<br />
Unfortunately every slug and bug on the face of the earth loves Napa Cabbage...<br />
Hopefully they will leave us enough for our fish tacos.<br />
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</div>A good portion of our winter garden is in....<br />
Cabbages, cauliflower and broccoli...<br />
It's amazing how fast they grow...<br />
Check this out one week....<br />
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One rain and sun and fog later.....<br />
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<a href="http://www.territorialseed.com/product/573/caluiflower_seed">Cheddar Cauliflower</a> one week....<br />
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One rain and sun and fog later....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mourning what could have been and looking forward to <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/02/310-days.html">roasted cauliflower leaves</a>,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-41644012285054304882010-09-16T13:18:00.000-07:002010-09-16T13:18:36.849-07:00The House Painting Project - Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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If you missed part one of the ever so simple paint-the-house project, you can find that <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/08/it-all-began-so-simplypart-1.html">here</a>.<br />
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After a few days of the "plastic is our friend" phase...<br />
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We began to find insects the size of an air craft carrier.<br />
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We quickly moved on to my least favorite phase...<br />
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The "just put siding over the whole durn thing" phase.<br />
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Windowless places make me crazy.<br />
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So we were crazy but bugless...<br />
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Life is all about trade offs.<br />
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Thankfully three of the windows and a new door soon arrived.<br />
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I am totally lovin the living room windows.<br />
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When we first chose the windows for this house we thought that the gridded windows would give a little cottagey charm.<br />
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We always regretted that decision...at least for this side of the house.<br />
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The grids were constantly in the view.<br />
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So here we have the new and improved, slightly larger, gridless windows and the famous Door To Nowhere:<br />
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Every time we have a family party or graduation we wish there was way to connect our house to the backyard without having to go out the front door and go around. <br />
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So now that our youngest child will be graduating we are shooting for a deck by graduation.<br />
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For now it's the Door To Nowhere...<br />
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But we have hope people!<br />
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Dylan helped Rich a lot with this phase.<br />
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Collin had some lame excuse about a great job four hours away...<br />
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What? Our windows don't trump a career move?<br />
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<em>*sigh* </em>We'll just have to make do.<br />
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We were still waiting on the boys' bathroom window and of course we decided that since every window on this side of the house was being replaced except one....<br />
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Well what was one more??<br />
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Are we certifiable yet?<br />
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And then....oh happy day! The last two windows arrived!<br />
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We...we in the collective sense...meaning Rich and Dylan.....added the outer siding and some trim for good measure.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Ooooo ahhhh all the windows together at last:</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-gC6XZu_myN3mb6xpbOi8dvjhn1TVrETjaYeq1HAu3ays2JvBR_W9sfK6TGeo3wDWP_G6Dsg-KtPSk2uZLc6Ios4CNGBDdnCE2R99g1KyeEAME3h90S-CYH2NqLhQLBgo3Nxo6GgTB8/s1600/2010-09-06-HousePaint-012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-gC6XZu_myN3mb6xpbOi8dvjhn1TVrETjaYeq1HAu3ays2JvBR_W9sfK6TGeo3wDWP_G6Dsg-KtPSk2uZLc6Ios4CNGBDdnCE2R99g1KyeEAME3h90S-CYH2NqLhQLBgo3Nxo6GgTB8/s800/2010-09-06-HousePaint-012.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhXCIfG7Nc1YHxX3tBHBWsPZVne1F07CcbsPKB2cgRzTj1i1WXYQohksAm44KxhC6n8vRKTV0S7JzqszaM56uO54tXcTOATZe79R9zBe5p1JioWszMkxh7seTMfo6b7kCstOLlGZMqCA/s1600/2010-09-06-HousePaint-017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhXCIfG7Nc1YHxX3tBHBWsPZVne1F07CcbsPKB2cgRzTj1i1WXYQohksAm44KxhC6n8vRKTV0S7JzqszaM56uO54tXcTOATZe79R9zBe5p1JioWszMkxh7seTMfo6b7kCstOLlGZMqCA/s800/2010-09-06-HousePaint-017.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The gridded living room windows before:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ59Fh3JA0Sl4f7n8Q1I1ylhfDx5Em3VnfYwHe9nSGzI7AURnK5gJb7g9H5G6l0Bqk1TuO4kau3qwDHefeCoEcUtYLq1YW9vCBHrvcDJnDk5Zo_l7L7AGztq1N0m-WKUJHYn2_AW7kxu4/s1600/2010-07-04-HousePaint-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ59Fh3JA0Sl4f7n8Q1I1ylhfDx5Em3VnfYwHe9nSGzI7AURnK5gJb7g9H5G6l0Bqk1TuO4kau3qwDHefeCoEcUtYLq1YW9vCBHrvcDJnDk5Zo_l7L7AGztq1N0m-WKUJHYn2_AW7kxu4/s800/2010-07-04-HousePaint-010.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No grids and the Door To Nowhere after:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjZKAeAhudCVpMxjsTluMq-uGLaB9uYsgLyq3SlaESNBbH8V7fBRJIcl-BDibC-30m7ECSgcRA0BO955C5VLOeI9IKgxprSL5HeYgvzwsU7saxZ-svQn9DOlo-R7bac0nDfmU3_NlRKD0/s1600/2010-09-06-HousePaint-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjZKAeAhudCVpMxjsTluMq-uGLaB9uYsgLyq3SlaESNBbH8V7fBRJIcl-BDibC-30m7ECSgcRA0BO955C5VLOeI9IKgxprSL5HeYgvzwsU7saxZ-svQn9DOlo-R7bac0nDfmU3_NlRKD0/s800/2010-09-06-HousePaint-015.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We made some progress today toward getting paint ordered.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A prefect reason to put this off one more week dontcha think?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-81545051967415270362010-09-08T10:57:00.000-07:002010-09-08T10:57:06.230-07:00Happy 18th Birthday Dylan!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On September 8, 1992,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in a little house in Oceanside, CA....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">literally...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">he was born at home.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">we welcomed Dylan into our world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Arik and Collin checkin out the new guy...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayc2uio0K9iMJxYXEpH85QfSvik-fjFd2Sh5bERPU7cZ0KPsLev7Gtzl2sQrslg4_sFZnnrssmEVjWTqcPsMT3NtSRTbQB17CnycJInD93aZm74PuDYYjJljjfGUSYvYI4cuRCJoMWD4/s1600/1992-09-Dylan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayc2uio0K9iMJxYXEpH85QfSvik-fjFd2Sh5bERPU7cZ0KPsLev7Gtzl2sQrslg4_sFZnnrssmEVjWTqcPsMT3NtSRTbQB17CnycJInD93aZm74PuDYYjJljjfGUSYvYI4cuRCJoMWD4/s800/1992-09-Dylan.jpg" /></a></div>He was a whopper.<br />
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Ten pounds, eight ounces.<br />
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The size of a toddler really.<br />
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I was terrified that I would never be able to handle adding another little body to the blur that was my life.<br />
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But hey... it all worked out.<br />
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He was a very shy baby and young child.<br />
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My first child who wanted to pretend.<br />
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He noticed things that no one else did.<br />
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And he made us all laugh.<br />
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He had two volumes....<br />
"Huh? Speak up!" and "Jeez don't yell!"<br />
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He had no intention of being left behind.<br />
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He was absolutely certain he could do anything his three older brothers did.<br />
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And he was usually right.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxCQ93GmgJt3lFrdEflENB_rJwq47Ny8IC6rZphdz4m2ncE7MMu3QNR4qCEG-COHvyGija5_sNr1SlPYCEJdPd-Oe7h98KQhrDGK0EEUaE7tziMKbcWYzwcJvXs5FWBlU3QSA4Fh61Z0/s1600/1994-04-DylanBball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxCQ93GmgJt3lFrdEflENB_rJwq47Ny8IC6rZphdz4m2ncE7MMu3QNR4qCEG-COHvyGija5_sNr1SlPYCEJdPd-Oe7h98KQhrDGK0EEUaE7tziMKbcWYzwcJvXs5FWBlU3QSA4Fh61Z0/s800/1994-04-DylanBball.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think this was the year we had to haul him off third base where he had taken up the base runner's stance during one of Sean and Arik's T-ball games. Wow was he mad! It was his <em>team</em>. They <em>needed</em> him!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See the skates in the background? Those are his too. I know.... they don't match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He didn't care. He was one and a half.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">skating, rollerblading, playing t-ball and catching frogs with the best of them.</div><br />
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Our kids didn't have a lot of toys...unless you count the 94 billion Legos I stepped on every night...<br />
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We were a video game free zone...<br />
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But they did have a lot of tools, art supplies and science kits.<br />
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We had kid sized tools of all kinds and for the most part they jumped right into the mix of whatever we were doing.<br />
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When we cleared our home site for our new house they 'helped' til they dropped.<br />
The guy who collects the most dirt wins.<br />
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Cooking?<br />
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They dragged over a chair.<br />
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One of the rules of fishing was that you had to help clean the boat....<br />
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However high you could reach...<br />
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And boy did he want to go fishing.<br />
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It beat the heck out of being stuck with Mom while everyone else was out.<br />
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Did I mention he made us laugh?<br />
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Sean had a lot of patience. <br />
He taught Dylan a lot of things ...<br />
And made sure he didn't kill himself.<br />
Dylan could give us all a good case of the giggles.<br />
Collin, especially, found him amusing.<br />
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We used to refer to them as Frick and Frack.<br />
They spent a lot of time together and between the two of them they had a <em>lot</em> of fun.<br />
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Helping on the volunteer crew for the Naish Wave Bash in Pistol River. Our job was to time the windsurfing heats from the top of the big rock.<br />
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He was already a windsurfing fan as well. He began windsurfing at the ripe old age of six.<br />
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The year he was seven going on eight, he and Collin played on the same Little League baseball team and he had his first pitching experience....<br />
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He was rockin' the futbol pitch in a pretty serious way....<br />
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And he and his buddy Ben ran in the Oregon State Cross Country meet in the Pre Bantam division in Sandy, Oregon where it was a mighty chilly November day.... <br />
he came in 5th...<br />
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Remember that tools thing?<br />
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Beware... it leads to scenes like this...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkjM5Q6NC2fl5ZO7sQPz9itgSfzlof3p401mysB2q52UqOm3N6b1d_uaG6xIk-mDxcfjWbcrAHZYvIPk1jnoh1StxTcRZz8tZ6io4_MuKlrS5EC8nl6ArzqAMEuuaacRdCFITwvN4jZQ/s1600/2005-08--D&C-garage-(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkjM5Q6NC2fl5ZO7sQPz9itgSfzlof3p401mysB2q52UqOm3N6b1d_uaG6xIk-mDxcfjWbcrAHZYvIPk1jnoh1StxTcRZz8tZ6io4_MuKlrS5EC8nl6ArzqAMEuuaacRdCFITwvN4jZQ/s800/2005-08--D&C-garage-(5).jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Middle School brought a few new sports onto the scene.<br />
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Track and Field...his main motivation being to be faster for soccer...<br />
and to win medals.<br />
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And basketball...<br />
Good indoor fun in the winter and chance to hang out with your buddies on the team.<br />
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One of Dylan's favorite memories is our unforgettable trip to Maui when he was in 8th grade.<br />
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He snorkeled and swam with the turtles...<br />
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Mountain biked the back side of Haleakala...<br />
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Not the Skyline road thing that everyone else does....<br />
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It's a dirt trail much less traveled and quite an adventure....<br />
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The kids loved this sign at the beginning of the trail.<br />
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He ocean windsurfed off the beach in Kehei....<br />
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Every now and then he takes a little break from all the action.<br />
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But not for long....<br />
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There are things to do....<br />
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Pigs to feed...<br />
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The first day of High School looking forward to new adventures....<br />
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Hunting with Arik in Eastern Oregon.<br />
Arik is always one of Dylan's biggest encouragers and probably taught Dylan more about sports and the outdoors than anyone else....<br />
He's always ready and willing to cheer Dylan on...<br />
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Another of our "happy places".... <br />
San Elijo State Beach in San Diego County...<br />
Worth every minute of the long drive...<br />
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You blink twice and the DMV sees fit to hand your baby a driver's license...<br />
Lord help me...<br />
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The bodies keep getting bigger and the games go on....<br />
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But I don't want you to think Dylan is only about sports.<br />
True enough it's a big part of his life.<br />
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He takes classes I never even qualified for.<br />
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And maintains a pretty impressive GPA.<br />
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He is incredibly conscientious and his work ethic is amazing.<br />
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He inspires me to challenge myself and do things when I don't want to.<br />
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Isn't that one supposed to be the other way around?<br />
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On occasion, he volunteers when he sees a need.<br />
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He finds a space for God in his life.<br />
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He shows leadership on his teams and among his friends.<br />
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I even got a phone call from a teacher last year who took time out to tell me what a great kid he is.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He never gives up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And won't let his friends down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFnRdv5iD1kO5YTgkNCStpNNUh91tRSm4bMQRoMURKdSLB_NoqRlRV50ccyjWzRtI1zVKb4VfQ-lX78vaH9uGWoTgTlp-K7iw-xGTY7i5uWSi1evBDl-a9SE7p_D1dZb4cKQ8KRiYgwI/s1600/2010-05-28-StateMeet-191.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFnRdv5iD1kO5YTgkNCStpNNUh91tRSm4bMQRoMURKdSLB_NoqRlRV50ccyjWzRtI1zVKb4VfQ-lX78vaH9uGWoTgTlp-K7iw-xGTY7i5uWSi1evBDl-a9SE7p_D1dZb4cKQ8KRiYgwI/s800/2010-05-28-StateMeet-191.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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And so it goes...<br />
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Amazing really....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am so thankful for the ride...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUi8QXx_dNt45Y9iCsxk8j961nzL6-yb2LoAOl_sBwrhwtDMIPYKRNzwb7XRO5SKJyVCmI0IE734MBaBP5ggoLHxilOMfU4al2W7TpT6AsL5tWxcs-6SFiXiWhM84NLJRR3CuAyRsOeMw/s1600/2010-08-15-HousePaint-042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUi8QXx_dNt45Y9iCsxk8j961nzL6-yb2LoAOl_sBwrhwtDMIPYKRNzwb7XRO5SKJyVCmI0IE734MBaBP5ggoLHxilOMfU4al2W7TpT6AsL5tWxcs-6SFiXiWhM84NLJRR3CuAyRsOeMw/s800/2010-08-15-HousePaint-042.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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I can't imagine it any other way...<br />
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Happy Birthday buddy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for lighting up my life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I love ya!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mom</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-23224815327465293802010-08-27T14:25:00.000-07:002010-08-27T14:30:37.468-07:00It All Began So Simply....Part 1You know how it goes...<br />
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It's just a little house project....<br />
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In this case it actually started last summer.<br />
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We figured it was about time to paint the house and since Dylan would be around for the summer we could utilize the extra muscle power, he could earn some money, and we'd knock this puppy out.<br />
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But....we never did decide on a color so the summer came and went.<br />
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SO when this summer rolled around... we were totally on it.<br />
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We picked out <em>the </em>color.<br />
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Found a source....<br />
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And started scraping and prepping...<br />
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That was when we found out the laundry room door was rotted out....<br />
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As was the floor below it...<br />
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Collin was home too, so we took advantage of his love of problem solving.<br />
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The dude can figure anything out.<br />
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Sorry Col.<br />
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Do you feel used?<br />
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If it makes you feel any better Arik's dog, Duke, was feeling rather used too.<br />
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And well.... <br />
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As long as we were replacing that door and the siding around it ...<br />
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We may as well replace the teeeeeeny window in the boys' bathroom...right next to the laundry room... and make it a bigger view window.<br />
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And so it began.<br />
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Next up we decided we may as well add that window we always wished for in the master bathroom.<br />
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Seriously. For about eighteen years (but who's counting) we've been looking at this.<br />
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And the thing is... I totally picked this house because of this bathroom.<br />
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First of all just the the fact that it had a master bathroom made me giddy.<br />
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I was totally over the charm of sharing a bathroom with four little boys.<br />
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<em>And </em>it had this great tub.<br />
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What more could an exhausted mother want?<br />
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Just the potential for sitting in a tub had me ready to sign on the dotted line.<br />
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But the thing is.....<br />
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Beyond that mirror... is an ocean view.<br />
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And <em>every day</em> we wished for a peeky hole.<br />
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And since Collin was having a great time cutting holes in our house we decided to go for it.<br />
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Muuuuch mo betta!<br />
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Only we got so caught up in all the hole cutting we didn't actually have windows to put in the holes.<br />
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Details.<br />
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For for a while we were well ventilated.<br />
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Plastic sheeting was our friend.<br />
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And the saga continues...<br />
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We have now replaced two doors, four windows, added a new window and replaced all the siding on that side of the house.<br />
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I know, right?<br />
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And guess what?<br />
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No paint yet.<br />
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More coming soon...<br />
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CathCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-8951841246192550042010-08-17T14:01:00.000-07:002010-08-17T14:08:45.733-07:0025 Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Twenty five years ago today we stood together in front of God and everybody (<em>and I do mean everybody we have a very large family</em>) and said "I do"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's the kind milestone that makes ya pull out the old album and scan photos on your almost vintage scanner and hope that no one will notice all the dust that you didn't clean off. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a very 80's affair.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The dresses and the hair were huge...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRlxVYX_NeU9mCJYlVpsh6X8ZpXXDuRII2mz3t4_hruoeWuXvF5n32yB0gp6GjVTluxlff3r1g5iJ_2A_QeqPhvMeWMo3DYK3OotozPDbUSkGCOSWONnTZXdBNCAt4RS7FA4bn4f-eUY/s1600/1985-08-17-Church-aisle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRlxVYX_NeU9mCJYlVpsh6X8ZpXXDuRII2mz3t4_hruoeWuXvF5n32yB0gp6GjVTluxlff3r1g5iJ_2A_QeqPhvMeWMo3DYK3OotozPDbUSkGCOSWONnTZXdBNCAt4RS7FA4bn4f-eUY/s800/1985-08-17-Church-aisle.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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And we were <em>really</em> young...only we didn't know it...<br />
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And everything was very <strong>pink</strong>...which strikes me as odd because I rarely have anything pink in my life.<br />
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Everyone of those girlies is still in my life in some way.<br />
The little one now has a little one of her own.<br />
We must have sealed some kind of bond-of-the-pink-dresses.<br />
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My dad has always been into vintage auto restoration so he hooked us up with one of his friends for the cool ride.<br />
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I took up way more than my quota of the back seat.<br />
What was I thinking anyhow with that dress...in August...in So Cal??<br />
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The reception was at a golf club it was kind of a Dutch version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.<br />
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My Mom and Dad....probably trying to calculate how many years it might take to pay off approximately 8 million dinners.<br />
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The cake was huge too....like three fountains under there and who knows how many layers.<br />
It was almost as big as the dress.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And if this isn't all just 80's overload enough for ya...</div>For our first dance we chose <em>How Do You Keep The Music Playing?</em><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And one of my lifer best friends sang it....that's her in the left corner.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxiax5G275oafOj8WPDjqThsf8sGVWXiwWDXOGc1hhxJETk3ypkdq1cwP0l_ejJuB-XjSobpwmc0z5oN6-u7Hmezyb1fZ2d3o-tqiKN_-cLvuw7nSaqZ763X1jJ8tWFSK7zDvvrJkeJqw/s1600/1985-08-17-FirstDance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxiax5G275oafOj8WPDjqThsf8sGVWXiwWDXOGc1hhxJETk3ypkdq1cwP0l_ejJuB-XjSobpwmc0z5oN6-u7Hmezyb1fZ2d3o-tqiKN_-cLvuw7nSaqZ763X1jJ8tWFSK7zDvvrJkeJqw/s800/1985-08-17-FirstDance.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>If we can be the best of lovers,</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em></em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>Yet be the best of friends;</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>If we can try with ev'ry day</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>To make it better as it grows;</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>With any luck, then I suppose,</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>The music never ends!</em> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It's workin' for us so far.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Looking back on the gifts of twenty five years,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-43131247454936908312010-08-06T14:51:00.000-07:002010-08-06T14:51:54.065-07:00Bits and Pieces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's been a while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Life kind of took over for a bit as it has a way of doing every now and then.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And even in the unexpected there are gifts all around.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Though none of us would have chosen the circumstances, I got to spend some time with my Mom and Dad....in a hospital ICU burn ward after <a href="http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Local-Drag-Racer-Survives-Explosion.html">my Dad's race trailer blew up with him inside</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My dad is out and about and doing much better now but it gave us all a scare.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I learned a lot about the procedures involved in burn care and got to experience a very caring burn care team.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I got to see a couple of my brothers, brother and sister-in-law, Aunts and Uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews....all in the course of a week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm still getting back around to my "normal" schedule (whatever that means) and am seriously in arrears here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's coming I promise.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few weeks ago the BHHS boys and girls soccer team gave a soccer day camp for the local youth soccer players.</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>It was time put the boot on the other foot and play coach.<br />
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Inspire their charges.<br />
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And most of all...<br />
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The girls took charge of the littlest ... and cutest...future Bruins.<br />
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This guy definitely has a spot on the BHHS soccer team waiting for him.<br />
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While I was away Dylan left for a week at <a href="http://www.nwsoccer.org/Home.asp">Northwest Soccer Camps</a>...now in their 39th year.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He learned a lot from the many coaches attending and had a very successful week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During Power and Explosion training he broke two of the Power camp records.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One for vertical reach and one for power jump .... 5 standing broad jumps back to back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He also tied the Explosion Speed record for the 20 yd dash.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And best of all....their "cabin" totally rocked the evening skits. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the coaches there...Edu...played on the <a href="http://www.worldxi.com/brazil_1970.html">1970 Brazil World Cup team</a> with such notable teammates as Pele, and Rivelino...guys who only need one name...sometimes known as the best attacking team in the history of the game. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He gave Dylan this signed photo for his accomplishments at camp....pretty cool.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2vXIfiod5PykBzJl5Ge8j3D2WnSa-GXtwsGNSCRNicNAoNyKhVbtcxaiNbhyD5BMDpzeQNaQNgYA6ELINzc6z0zfy06OuHyTS3pUpgxbu_gQ4piGkE-AO8j9adzzL820YYdz8yNstGE/s1600/2010-7-26-Edu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2vXIfiod5PykBzJl5Ge8j3D2WnSa-GXtwsGNSCRNicNAoNyKhVbtcxaiNbhyD5BMDpzeQNaQNgYA6ELINzc6z0zfy06OuHyTS3pUpgxbu_gQ4piGkE-AO8j9adzzL820YYdz8yNstGE/s800/2010-7-26-Edu.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dylan says he still has that amazing footwork the Brazilians are known for.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He also received lots of encouraging words from some of the other coaches on staff and at least one offer for a letter of recommendation if he needs one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We'll see what the year holds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We <em>loooove</em> watching the boy play.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-89190454586796058692010-07-09T12:33:00.000-07:002010-07-09T12:33:02.365-07:00Roasting Green Coffee - Keepin' Em Guessin'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are some perks to parenting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the kids are babies you can make them wear goofy hats that amuse you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A little older, and you can sucker them into things like matching up all the socks in the white laundry load.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You call it "The Match Patch Game" and the guy who matches up the most pairs wins... a nickel! <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Woohoo</span>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Still older, and you can do things that keep 'em guessin'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Collin came home from school a few weeks ago he walked into our kitchen one morning and said two things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first was "What is that?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It seems he was not well acquainted with an air popper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We've always been oil and an old pan for popping corn kinda people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I did try once to convert the guys.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It didn't fly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No amount of persuasion could convince them that they were better off with popcorn that tasted like cardboard. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Really, I tried.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second thing Collin said was accompanied by a sympathetic shaking of his head.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"You just never know what you'll find when you come home. Really guys? Popping your coffee?"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So of course we sensed an opportunity and went for the...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Well ya! Of course!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like duh.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gotta keep em guessin'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've always been inordinately amused by doing the unexpected.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ask my mom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So back <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2009/06/chemex-some-days-its-all-about-coffee.html">when our coffee maker broke and we were researching coffee makers</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/index.php">Sweet Maria's</a> and their plethora of coffee nerd stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There's a whole <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/articles.php">coffee library</a> where you can <strike>waste</strike> spend hours educating yourself about coffee, coffee roasting, and equipment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fast forward to a few months ago and we could resist the <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">nerdiness</span> no longer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was our latest order:</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpu6WxAVE4wAYJj_HMP_yvwF-yFDcsH9flBbqNiMc1hUM1U45eLUc3G10T1nccg6Da6vs-6mnLNKb78PiE9kun1oT6cwDKjm5rrnz7RaDKTOoEvwyXAM9EZASvP_34zCOZMjxTO1T2go/s1600/2010-07-02-GreenCoffee-029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpu6WxAVE4wAYJj_HMP_yvwF-yFDcsH9flBbqNiMc1hUM1U45eLUc3G10T1nccg6Da6vs-6mnLNKb78PiE9kun1oT6cwDKjm5rrnz7RaDKTOoEvwyXAM9EZASvP_34zCOZMjxTO1T2go/s800/2010-07-02-GreenCoffee-029.jpg" /></a><br />
The differences in color and flavor are fascinating.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the really cool things about Sweet Maria's is that you can read about each coffee and the farms they come from.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I <em>love</em> that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This time around we ordered (from top to bottom)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.indonesia.sumatra.php">Sumatra <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Takengon</span> Classic <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Mandheling</span></a>, <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.central.honduras.php">Honduras Organic <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Marcala</span> -<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Cocosam</span> Coop</a>, Ethiopia Organic <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Shakiso</span> <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Sidamo</span> "<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Maduro</span>", <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.islands.hawaii.php">Hawaii <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Kona</span> - <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Moki's</span> Farm</a> , and <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.southamr.colombia.php">Colombia <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Finca</span> <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Buenavista</span> -Carlos <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Imbachi</span></a> .</div><br />
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We have an amazing amount of fun learning about the differences in climate, roast recommendations, and flavors.<br />
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Go ahead and be sad for us if you want.<br />
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We understand.<br />
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Sweet Maria's recommends storing green beans in <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/sweetmarias/miscellaneous/bags.html">cloth bags</a> that can breathe.<br />
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We take the labels off the plastic bags they ship in and tie them on so we can easily choose what variety we want to roast up.<br />
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The simplest (and cheapest) version of roaster is an air popper.<br />
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Our first one croaked but I easily found this one at a thrift shop.<br />
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There seems to be some difference in roasting time.<br />
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We're not sure yet whether that was due to a different heating mechanism or the different beans we roasted.<br />
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More testing will be needed.<br />
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Anyone for a coffee tasting?<br />
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The main thing to look for according to the <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpopdesign.php">information sheet</a> (some listing of brands there too) is this sort of interior venting on the popper:<br />
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There are even web pages by <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/espressomio/COFFEEMENU.HTML">people who modify their poppers</a>.<br />
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It's a crazy coffee nerd world out there.<br />
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Be very afraid.<br />
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Today we are roasting the Ethiopia Organic <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Shakiso</span> <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Sidamo</span> "<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Maduro</span>"<br />
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We generally roast about a third of a cup at a time.<br />
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Get the popper heated up and dump.<br />
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We replace the butter cup with this little glass bowl for two reasons.<br />
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1) We can see better.<br />
2) We're not partial to the smell of heating plastic.<br />
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We like to roast near the sink and just let the chaff blow into the sink but this new p<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">opper</span> doesn't have a long enough cord so we have to use a bowl to catch the chaff during the roasting.<br />
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There are also <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/roasting-VisualGuideV2.php">information sheets about roasting levels</a>. We do it by sound and color. <br />
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I would never want to be too scientific about it.<br />
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That takes away some of the magic for me.<br />
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I just watch for color and go with it.<br />
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Rich, however, loves scientific perfection.<br />
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He sets timers, listens for the first and second "crack". The whole deal.<br />
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His, of course, are much more consistent.<br />
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But I'm sure mine are magical....somehow.<br />
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The description for this Ethiopian variety said we should look for "<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">quakers</span>" and remove them after the roasting.<br />
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They are apparently unripe beans that do not turn dark when roasted.<br />
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You can see a few there on the pan that we picked easily enough.<br />
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They say you should leave the roasted beans exposed to air in order to vent the CO2 for about the first twelve hours and then store them in air tight containers. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tL_fHU0oqze_6bRs4Oqv5ic1zKSL4uIkvyMxHtWGsWwSBAkQ4CSx1pArpVoWLyQyP2DmjmCJOQs3ysdE2ytTPTmG6av0IEv5dFpZk0TPDsl8bOgE0FCsrEIhuwHpGh4zgwGIIKEh5Ho/s1600/2010-07-07-GreenCoffee-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tL_fHU0oqze_6bRs4Oqv5ic1zKSL4uIkvyMxHtWGsWwSBAkQ4CSx1pArpVoWLyQyP2DmjmCJOQs3ysdE2ytTPTmG6av0IEv5dFpZk0TPDsl8bOgE0FCsrEIhuwHpGh4zgwGIIKEh5Ho/s800/2010-07-07-GreenCoffee-002.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Which may or may not mean that I am <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">wa</span>y more nerdy than I thought.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-89307772283394151412010-07-02T14:04:00.000-07:002010-07-02T15:12:51.401-07:00Summer Garden Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is my favorite part of the gardening year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">AND I have babies! <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Lookee</span>e:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Even though I still feel guilt over the <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-garden-update.html">whole green plastic thing</a> it seems to be working well.<br />
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The zucchini already looks much happier than last year.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And I have high hopes for these <a href="http://www.territorialseed.com/product/11609/s"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Tigger</span> Melons</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxAd4GYPQKyANx5ZQSE6HyM7-jTJVIjOdXeGGAHAXfMfopAdhbHpI9aQxvYpIPJ33M8_gIQcFzAbKQ-U6osWq57-z2u4bw7grkDhYEsWdbik9Iqm7J3MiS3fq-u7Ckapam787x1kHsuQ/s1600/2010-06-30-Garden-009ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxAd4GYPQKyANx5ZQSE6HyM7-jTJVIjOdXeGGAHAXfMfopAdhbHpI9aQxvYpIPJ33M8_gIQcFzAbKQ-U6osWq57-z2u4bw7grkDhYEsWdbik9Iqm7J3MiS3fq-u7Ckapam787x1kHsuQ/s800/2010-06-30-Garden-009ed.jpg" /></a></div>I had to replant one batch cause the greedy slugs completely decimated them.<br />
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So those will be a little behind.<br />
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But still...I have <em>hope </em>people.<br />
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How cool would it be to eat garden melons on the Oregon coast?<br />
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Chives are flowering and getting thrown into something daily, and the potatoes are about to flower too....yippee. Almost time for a potato treasure hunt.<br />
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Good thing too. I promised some nephews, who helped plant them, they could help dig them when they returned.<br />
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We've got about a week to go before they plan to find some potatoes in those mounds.<br />
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We pulled the water on the garlic and it's heading toward harvest time as soon as those tops die down a bit more.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a new one for us this year....<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">edamame</span>. I'm assuming they will look a lot like bush beans.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0suE9Mo9ZjTujCHJY9_TtGaVQd8he3WoL6q6oZzbiB0fMY1Y_MYZlroydtrbf29bcj3glZWI3CSZiCze34YIUbsrTDb7S2G90jo_X-yM12H_sMqpDIa-EYnIQ34Lzm4KL_qQcXjMKzIU/s1600/2010-06-30-Garden-020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0suE9Mo9ZjTujCHJY9_TtGaVQd8he3WoL6q6oZzbiB0fMY1Y_MYZlroydtrbf29bcj3glZWI3CSZiCze34YIUbsrTDb7S2G90jo_X-yM12H_sMqpDIa-EYnIQ34Lzm4KL_qQcXjMKzIU/s800/2010-06-30-Garden-020.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And another new one...celery...inter planted with lettuce. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It looks pretty happy but what do I know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNLhdajCA1imc7y_zMECujVA5OOhuzkN0pn95GNg-5hriEjSshtjDBFuAhqhnXFlUTxsV3X-W77OuY0LOCrREztRnQrPN27ZYg9hPeIvji3Hm7RbK7N2dv4No33EJurFVz_n9CgLMw1w/s1600/2010-06-30-Garden-021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNLhdajCA1imc7y_zMECujVA5OOhuzkN0pn95GNg-5hriEjSshtjDBFuAhqhnXFlUTxsV3X-W77OuY0LOCrREztRnQrPN27ZYg9hPeIvji3Hm7RbK7N2dv4No33EJurFVz_n9CgLMw1w/s800/2010-06-30-Garden-021.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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The pole beans seem to be the troublesome crop this year.<br />
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This is a replant and <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">waay</span> behind schedule.<br />
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Notice the netting? <br />
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Welllll</span> the first batch completely disappeared.<br />
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And at first we blamed it on the slugs.<br />
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Cause they are usually the big culprit in the garden.<br />
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But then we saw a Blue Jay fly over and pull one.<br />
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So we apologized profusely to all the local misunderstood slugs (I lie, we never ever apologize to the <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">stooopid</span> slugs) and replanted and netted the pole beans.<br />
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They still don't look great but we should have some anyhow but I wouldn't plan on the <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2009/08/abundance.html">deluge we had last year</a>.<br />
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One really strange thing is that they didn't touch any of the bush beans right next to the pole beans.<br />
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Anyone wanna take on that mystery?<br />
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Sugar pod peas are <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">goin</span> off.<br />
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We pack them in our lunch every day.<br />
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And I'm <em>so, so</em> happy to see the sweet peas blooming.<br />
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One of the perks of Oregon living is the wild flowers that pop up and claim some territory.<br />
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Sometimes they pop up inconveniently and we relocate them. <br />
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But still... I love these even more than the flowers we get in packs and plant.<br />
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They all feel like little gifts from God.<br />
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Love em, love em.<br />
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Got some berry action too.<br />
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These are new plants this year and the raspberries still bear the scars of the <a href="http://everyday-gifts.blogspot.com/2010/04/notice-spring-is-temporarily-on-delay.html">spring hail and snow</a> and we have to race the blue jays to claim our berries but we are super happy to be seeing these raspberries and strawberries.<br />
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Summer is here for <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">reals</span> when we have to put the shade covers over the spinach and cilantro.<br />
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And in general things are <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">lookin</span> good.<br />
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We always run out of room to plant <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">th</span><span class="goog-spellcheck-word">ough</span>.<br />
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And in the greenhouse....<br />
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Tomatoes are in our near future.<br />
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We go out and encourage them <em>every</em> day.<br />
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And infant <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">habaneros</span>: <br />
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It's an abrasive, pumice like powder that we mix with water and spray on. It basically cuts up soft bodied insects.<br />
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So far we are winning. <br />
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I'll keep ya posted.<br />
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Cucumbers are a bit behind. They got the axe the first time around from the slugs so this is a replant.<br />
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And the fruit trees....<br />
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fuzzy baby peaches...<br />
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and a few baby Asian pears....they look pretty sparse again this year. They get fussy about late hail.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">O<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">ur</span> early blueberries didn't take to the harsh spring weather very well e<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">ither</span> but these later types are doing well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh392w4iJrQ4ztm-Onx7sCVNMdzP2mn_kSSAB2Ir7gociUcx8bVsNrgXmIoSi_QPMwueLm0-vFlK8B5yh6eqX3B88PbFSeSu_mroVx3gGAAJtq5ZAY1PojTkQZVf9q2OLpDIs2fhbAhEwE/s1600/2010-06-30-Garden-030ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh392w4iJrQ4ztm-Onx7sCVNMdzP2mn_kSSAB2Ir7gociUcx8bVsNrgXmIoSi_QPMwueLm0-vFlK8B5yh6eqX3B88PbFSeSu_mroVx3gGAAJtq5ZAY1PojTkQZVf9q2OLpDIs2fhbAhEwE/s800/2010-06-30-Garden-030ed.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope you all have big plans for the holiday weekend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I for one, will be <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">livin</span> it up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Putting in a new back door...OK holding stuff for Rich while he puts in a new door, getting the house ready for a new coat of paint, picking peas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I know....I'm <span class="goog-spellcheck-word">tryin</span> not to make you all jealous here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But hey... my glass is totally half full so it's gonna be a great weekend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It will absolutely involve ocean views and red wine so how can that be bad?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whatever you do with yours live it up eh?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word">Cath</span></div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009978070192565973.post-6528291033685723062010-06-24T14:07:00.000-07:002010-06-24T14:07:50.529-07:00Cha Cha Changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">June.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's that time of year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Graduation season.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And any mom who has been through it knows that it does strange things to you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It doesn't even seem to matter what level of graduation it is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I get crazy flashbacks every time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Collin complete the International Trucks ITEP program at UTI and once again was recognized as a top student *<em>yawn</em>*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The thing is....<br />
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When you're the mom...<br />
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You don't see what everyone else sees.<br />
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The rest of world sees this:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I see this:</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOFuzleVhaWn6G_5OI8AEbU7CDmQYU2KZr33MrK-5dhQmtWA2jhFF4ew19Wcw-R4mfE8qv8Y3_ZrrDWuOWcC2QG0L13FE2Xn8fkVmUcxOEUabJKG-eVE8gGU2vTBNMAIYXFT3eRwaS5NU/s1600/1992-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOFuzleVhaWn6G_5OI8AEbU7CDmQYU2KZr33MrK-5dhQmtWA2jhFF4ew19Wcw-R4mfE8qv8Y3_ZrrDWuOWcC2QG0L13FE2Xn8fkVmUcxOEUabJKG-eVE8gGU2vTBNMAIYXFT3eRwaS5NU/s800/1992-07.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the engine in the newest International Trucks...the Big Bore engine....</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Collin's class is among the first to be trained on this new engine.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Just the week before he had it all in pieces.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">And everyone else can see this...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtCkSXLmh3i1sf1Ou3I7xTpGL8BK13KiV7o3krPwU3P0TTBEPqeWB4IFxaHUGlpshZZrCzcPSy_1qn3DUWjSVKoDhMFkbAKGH9Zm6FztvwVfCVSt1t2_HTP4nWOuAYd3pujgrwfC9QwU/s1600/2010-06-04-IntGrad-024ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtCkSXLmh3i1sf1Ou3I7xTpGL8BK13KiV7o3krPwU3P0TTBEPqeWB4IFxaHUGlpshZZrCzcPSy_1qn3DUWjSVKoDhMFkbAKGH9Zm6FztvwVfCVSt1t2_HTP4nWOuAYd3pujgrwfC9QwU/s800/2010-06-04-IntGrad-024ed.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>It's just crazy I tell ya. <br />
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A crazy mix of emotions.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>And while he stands in the crossroads...<br />
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Making decisions and finding his next adventure...<br />
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We get to have him home again for a bit. <br />
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Since I know that this too will change again...<br />
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The flashbacks continue in the strangest times and places.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Since he brought back our camp trailer (a.k.a. his little tin can home) we had the perfect excuse to take the boys and hit the lake.<br />
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It's one of our happy places and perfect for unwinding.<br />
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The wind was better the first day.<br />
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But I was <em>so </em>about the sun and the unwinding that day that I didn't pull out the camera.<br />
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One of the things I really love about photography is that it makes you slow down and really look.<br />
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So when I did get the camera out on the second day I saw this:<br />
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And this:<br />
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But I also saw this:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxs8LtzE6TEZD7Wy4t8zzleGB4IJmbUwHSRDaDHLNUXEK0hdJMpRNegBGNlhlHd04stCAerLcWXRZJKIhCrMUyxQOlEDjZ84SNMo4Xu9Q5A8dd1RRW0AozEomQmTJJRk9UBHFze5tJIU/s1600/2000-08-Floras-SCD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxs8LtzE6TEZD7Wy4t8zzleGB4IJmbUwHSRDaDHLNUXEK0hdJMpRNegBGNlhlHd04stCAerLcWXRZJKIhCrMUyxQOlEDjZ84SNMo4Xu9Q5A8dd1RRW0AozEomQmTJJRk9UBHFze5tJIU/s800/2000-08-Floras-SCD.jpg" /></a></div><br />
I love this kid.<br />
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He makes us laugh.<br />
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He shows us things<br />
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He talks with us.<br />
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Really talks.<br />
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And we love having him around.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Even if only for a while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We also know that he's ready for what comes next.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But for now my garage looks like this again:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNV5u2tYNL55O-4oaGDNPQfFvX06mw86QSftgENBneo_vAAttThI82obPzIXTLJ3uedKJLp3oVHI5OT_jaDch6YpvJb04LlukSEY_bJNdYD8ECiJzr7L1reSo6CkzLdPahyINEaqb9zOE/s1600/2010-06-23-C_Yota-002ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNV5u2tYNL55O-4oaGDNPQfFvX06mw86QSftgENBneo_vAAttThI82obPzIXTLJ3uedKJLp3oVHI5OT_jaDch6YpvJb04LlukSEY_bJNdYD8ECiJzr7L1reSo6CkzLdPahyINEaqb9zOE/s800/2010-06-23-C_Yota-002ed.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">From the Mommy Clubhouse,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cath</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07385861572824976867noreply@blogger.com0