Swimming…

Tonight’s Family Fun Night was at the Haines Pool.
Let me just make one thing VERY clear.  I have a great family. Margaret, the mother-in-law was there to take care of the 3 month old at the water’s edge while Holly was in the water with the two older boys: they were having a great time!  [...]

Moose Rescued from the Chilkat the cowboy way.

My Photo buddy, Ron Horn was in on this Moose Rescue. 
They worked quite a while on this after the moose was sited and nobody knows how long the moose was in the water before it was sited.  The moose was pregnant and quite large with perhaps two calves.  There was a loader standing by [...]

A Barrow memory: First fight….

Fights are things best forgotten…
A long time ago when I was in third grade and we lived in the school at Barrow we needed to go to the ten-plex for a potluck.  I think ,back then, the teachers had a monthly potluck that moved around from house to house and it was potluck night (perhaps [...]

Sony kills HD DVD.

It was sure fascinating to see the demise of HD DVD’s this past week. 
Wal-Mart and Net Flix came out with the edict that they were not going to carry the both of the new DVD formats but were only going to stock Blu Ray DVDs, within a week I get this announcement on PC Magazine’s [...]

Why are our own kids SO fun to watch?

And why are stranger’s kids not so fun?
Today during lunch, Mark was trying to get Luke to hold his hand during the lunch-time prayer and not having any luck.  So he started to yell and him then he started hit at him and slapped him across the face then spilling Luke’s water across the [...]

John Caleb is Three (months old)!

We took the John Caleb’s ‘three month’ pictures last night on the big bed. Mark and Luke got behind me, as I took pictures, to get John Caleb’s attention, Holly held up the black comforter, and we got this photo (and a bunch more).
You can see that he’s really coming along!  He smiles and looks [...]

Busy day today:

Today I had a list of things to do:

fix the tub’s water mixing valve or replace it.
shoot a basket for the Sheldon Museum
fix the door to the car
get sand on the drive
shoot the triple threat tourney

The photos of the basket for Sheldon Museum went well.  Here’s a sample to the right.  It’s a very small [...]

My first Post to my new WordPress.com blog

I’ve been wanting to start  a new blog, that is accessible to more of the family–perhaps this will work.
Here’s a little story from out daily life:
Lately, Mark has been  into reading about mammals.  We bought a number of non-fiction books on mammals (and checked out a very large number from the library from [...]

Here’s a test post from Live Writer

I’m testing a post after the birthday party…