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After taking off from work for the trip to Alaska, it was near imperative for Karen to work this weekend, Birthday or not. Steve went to the Arts Center for Saturday Open Studio and at the end of the day presented Karen with a pendant crafted from silver and Alaskan...
Pam & John invited us over for dinner after work. With two little ones they are finding it harder and harder to have a social life. We try to squeeze it in between work and bath time. Sam is becoming much more sociable and Alex (Baby Boo) is downright cute!
CJ and friends returned from summer studies in Paris and London. Our long haired jeans & sneakers clad daughter left with a duffle and backpack five weeks ago. She returned a la Sabrina with a cute Paris haircut, slinky dress, kicky sandals, and fashionable bag....
Trying to get back into the groove. Yesterday Kirk and Steve resumed the house renovation project and Karen returned to All Children's. We did celebrate Independence Day with our silversmithing friends at Deb & Win's house. They have a wonderful spot for viewing...
Thank you Anita and Maggie. It's easy to sit around and talk about how much fun it would be to go to Alaska together as a group of 44 friends. But it takes tremendous dedication by a core group to make it actually happen. Without the two of you taking the moose by the...
Our Alaska Video Our long anticipated adventure is finally winding to a close. We awakened Saturday morning to sunrise over Vancouver. We said goodbye to our home for the past week, and to Michael's Club - we'll miss them and they assure us they will miss us,...
The narrow stairs in our house no longer exist. They have been ripped out and are being replaced by Kirk Hamilton. The new oak treads will be deeper than the old ones and will be so much easier to walk up and down. Actually so many things are being fixed up and...
Mike & Cathy, Matt & Emily hosted a dinner cooked in the side yard over an open fire. The recipe for the main dish came into our family in the 1960's. Mother used to call it Boy Scout Stew, but the rest of us preferred to call it Slop. Regardless of the name...
We transported CJ to Tampa International Airport from which she departed for Philadelphia then Paris. She will be studying Art History there for 4 weeks and in London for another week as part of a University of South Florida Study Abroad program. She will live at...
The party started on Saturday when the Cathy & Mike arrived to help us prepare. Then on Sunday when Greg and Joel arrived we kicked it up a notch. Sunday night we we did all the chopping, shucking, cleaning, marinade making, etc. that we could do ahead of time....
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Once upon a time we used to listen to our friend Gary expound on the probable/certain existence of Bigfoot with a healthy degree of skepticism. We'd never seen any scientific or even tangible evidence of the existence of a large hairy hominid nor known anyone who had...
Back when Dinah Shore, on behalf of General Motors implored Americans, to "See the USA in your Chevrolet" Steve's parents purchased a 1956 Chevy Belair and packed up the family for a great cross country trip that included a drive to the top of Pikes Peak. Today Steve...
One of our recent technical challenges has been dealing with "storage full" messages on Karen's iPhone 6S. The technician at City Mac in Traverse City identified the inordinate amount of data used by the Notes app and suggested deleted some of the 700 notes. Sounded...