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This isn’t Granddad’s corn

We’ve seen but never purchased these individually shrink wrapped ears of corn.  I wonder where they are from.

This is not a Barbie doll

I saw these at the State Department Store.  They are fat dolls full of candy.  Don’t get me wrong, I disagree with the impossible body type that some dolls project – but this is awful.

Dramatic pose in the diamond window

Another picture from Sara’s phone from that Saturday.  Keith in the foreground and me posing triumphantly in the diamond window.

The man lift and shed

Here’s a picture of me on the roof that Sara took on the Saturday we spent working on the shed when Mike was visiting.

The shed siding

(Clearing out pictures from my phone.)  This shows the red cedar that I used for part of the siding on the front of the shed.  I figured out that the boards were originally from Northern Lights restaurant.  They were the wainscotting in the dining area and we salvaged them from the burn pile at the …

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We’re off to Mongolia

Well, we’re on our way.  Pepper was in charge of packing most of our bags and since she has moved overseas before I am very glad she took it on.  When she moved to China she sold most of her belongings and only took a few bags with her.  This time we built a storage …

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Mike and I at Kito’s

Last week Mike VanElzakker came up for a visit.  I was horribly sick for the first few days but still had to DJ at Kito’s over the weekend.  Mike was last here in 2006 and I was DJing at Kito’s then and recall taking a similar picture of us then.  

Beards Drive Me Wild

Sarah made this awesome woodblock print and gave a copy to Pepper for her birthday.  I’m biased about the awesomeness though.

Peas!

I accidentally left the garden gate open one night and deer ate the tops off of all of the peas we planted.  All but two plants looked dead within days.  (Deer tear the plants they eat – they don’t shear them off.)  But almost all of the plants seem to have made a recovery and …

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Jordan’s radishes planted in late May

Here is one of the big radishes from the crop Jordan planted after our vacation.