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Blogging at 30k’

Wireless on a 5 hour flight cross country. Performs slightly better than dial-up. Doing my fatherly duty on this here father’s day flying amongst all the children. Rowdy bunch of folks they are. Just my kind of crowd. – b

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Summer Cabin Trip

I haven’t had time to fill in the descriptions or even put the photos in the correct order, but you can see the photos from our trip to the cabin this past weekend here. – b

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First Swim

Abigail and Jen got out for a swim yesterday. Apparently the water was freezing, but Abigail didn’t mind. – b

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Best Month Yet

Our solar production for May was the best yet. Check out the stats here. Couple that with the weather being nice enough to keep the air conditioning mostly off, the pool not getting opened until last weekend, and we only had an $18 electric bill. Though not likely to see an electric bill like that […]

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More Teeth?!?!?!

Awake twice last night. I’m destroyed. How many more to go? – b

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Drunk Kitchen

Funny stuff. http://hartoandco.com/my-drunk-kitchen-episode-1.html We watched Episode 1, Episode 4 (baking cookies) and the sexed-up Episode 7. Kind of reminds us of cooking around here before the little one came along. – b

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Brick by Brick

Last week’s demolition of my basement was pretty depressing.  It’s not exactly easy sitting around watching the walls crumble from underneath your home. Deciding to also take out the brick hearth surrounding our pellet stove didn’t help much with that pain, but we all knew it was the right thing to do and the right […]

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No Stopping Her

Abigail has a new trick. She takes her wooden abacus thingy, carries it into the bathroom, and stands on it in front of the mirror. Not only is she good enough to stand one-footed (please disregard Dad’s socks and Crocks), but now she’s doing it completely un-assisted. And this photo’s just cute. – b

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Solar Maintenance Advisory

Got an email from our solar installer. In light of their solar install successes a few unforeseen issues have arisen. snow avalanches (as you may remember) squirrels To prevent liability and/or additional responsibility upon them they now have a policy that no longer declares solar a no maintenance system. It’s now declared low maintenance and […]

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Never Satisfied

The music in the background was a total coincidence. – b

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