Tag Archives: Guy

~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~

Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here.  But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some … Continue reading

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~:: Christmas Day ::~

So, Chaz came to stay overnight on Christmas Eve, as she always does. But she did not get up before dawn.  Neither did we.  The kids were all going to show up at about nine, so the following pictures are … Continue reading

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~:: Triathlon ::~

Triathlons don’t usually start with roaring scary thunder storms. But ours did this morning.  G’s, I mean—it wasn’t mine. I don’t do triathlons. And neither did he, actually, this morning.  Here’s how it went: up at five thirty, he was … Continue reading

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~::May 2012 – Revisiting Summer::~

Rewind: so many stories I wanted to record. I only remember them now because I took the pictures – which is the point, then, for taking them in the first place.  So I take us back to the very beginning … Continue reading

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~:: More Educational Moments ::~

This is probably just the rest of the actual lessons learned.  Maybe. Lesson One: how to fix a gate, primarily to make it rattlesnake proof (my take on it) but also to make it functional (Gin’s take on it) so … Continue reading

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~:: Tales of Santa Fe: Pt. 7 ::~

And here is what you get if you wait long enough: Your baby (who has a better camera than you do – not just the lens, either), shooting pictures of her father holding her little son.  In her very house. … Continue reading

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~:: Tales of Santa Fe: Pt. 3 ::~

This first bit is going to double as a “farm Friday” for Wabi’s blog.  I used to be the video guy in the house.  But I have retired from that and now leave it to these children.  Especially Cam, who … Continue reading

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:: Up the mountain ::

This header, I just wanted to explain, is just another one of my poor efforts to capture the river light.  You can see that the yard is dark – that dark, velvet green of late summer.  But the last light … Continue reading

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Rivers of Drowsy Aspen

One of the greatest delights of our lives is to ride the mountains in autumn.  Every year I’m scared we won’t get up there.  But every year, we manage to sneak away (if you can call it sneaking when you’re … Continue reading

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