tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68290764842947559192011-08-07T09:58:39.205-05:00Ramblings, Observations, Pictures, and Insight in the daily life of Matt Zaske.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01938839450406693390noreply@blogger.comBlogger5041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-86351653644919783632009-01-25T21:53:00.002-06:002009-01-25T22:00:29.872-06:00

Memorial Day Okay, so these were taken the day before Memorial day, but the sun and wind were cooperating! So in not breaking what's become tradition, it's been a few weeks since my last rambling. Which makes this post the first of its kind in the new year. Nearly at the end of January, that is.Several random and not-so-random things have happened in the new year. Beth and I finally

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-68630066311954103692008-12-31T22:37:00.002-06:002008-12-31T22:40:06.260-06:00

Studying She really does like to figure out how things work and how to help out... So Christmas of 2008 has come and gone, and all is well. It was another good Christmas festivus, although things tend to get so busy and crazy in the days and weeks leading up to the holiday.But at any rate, we all survived, all is well, and here's to the end of another year and the beginning of the next!So to

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-81261003919999561672008-12-12T22:26:00.002-06:002008-12-12T22:28:06.298-06:00

Annoyance I know I was being an annoyance to him, but I was just returning the favor. So I've been really horrible. The last post was the day before halloween?!?!Where did the month of November (and nearly half of December) go? These are important questions. I want my month back!In all honesty, I have barely been able to keep up with my 'at home' email and newsletters. Truth be told, I

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-75994867770053192162008-10-30T22:25:00.002-05:002008-10-30T22:27:06.413-05:00

Pumpkin Carvings So here are the two pumpkins we got from Amy (thanks!), in the dark. Kirstin's is on the left (she's quite an artist), and mine is on the right.In all actuality, I carved them both, and the team of Beth and Kirstin cleaned up the seeds and innards). So it's been a few weeks again since my last post; I'm really bad at this lately. I guess life has a way of getting in the way

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-522161988022128142008-10-05T20:44:00.002-05:002008-10-05T20:45:40.663-05:00

The UMM Biomass Gasification Facility A few images I took of the south end of the new building on October 3, 2008, the date of its official dedication. So okay, it's been a few weeks since my last post; my apologies for that.Things have once again been busy, and when I've had a few moments to write or whatnot, I've usually been so tired (and not in the rambling mood) to partake of the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-35881154278161489772008-09-14T22:38:00.002-05:002008-09-14T22:40:11.410-05:00

Relaxed Felix was hanging out on the toy box just before Beth and I went to bed. As another week draws to a close, I'm reminded of the many things that I never seem to get accomplished on my never-ending list of things to do. Now if that's not an overly negative way to start a post, I don't know what is.It's not that I'm bothered by it, really. It would just be nice to make some progress on

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-13609169410851338622008-09-07T21:59:00.002-05:002008-09-07T22:00:54.233-05:00

Group PictureSo I've been horrible at this as of late, but I have a really good reason. Honestly.We were on an epic journey through the mid-south. For roughly twelve days, we were away from home and made our way through twelve states (if you include Minnesota, parts of which I'd not seen or been through before) in that time.In order of travels: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-54312951673870102682008-08-13T23:10:00.002-05:002008-08-13T23:12:49.056-05:00

Forgotten, But Not Gone This old well pump is about the only visible remnant of the house that once used to sit adjacent to it. Okay, so this title really reflects my state of mind when it comes to writing here as of late. My apologies to the flocks of visitors. :) Really.I'm serious this time. :)I really do look forward to the end of the summer season; I think it will actually mean that I

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-71190028917732911692008-07-27T23:07:00.003-05:002008-07-27T23:10:46.649-05:00

Do We Have To?Sylvie was looking around, almost as if asking if she had to leave... Eesh, that's almost been my own mental note of writing as of late. It's now been three-and-a-half weeks since the last rambling, and that's really not saying much.Life has been busy as of late. It seems always as though I've been suffering a serious case of what I like to call the 'Chinese Disease:' Draggin'

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-81594186184870181992008-07-02T23:19:00.002-05:002008-07-02T23:20:05.596-05:00

Watching The Crowd Koshka was watching all of us walk around in the yard after giving her a little bit of attention. As it's unlikely I'll get around to posting anything before Friday's holiday, I'll just say it now. :) Happy Independence Day!I had great intentions tonight to write something complex and insightful, but then got caught up in another project and reading the local paper. So

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-660627149683997422008-06-30T22:46:00.002-05:002008-06-30T23:00:24.634-05:00

Pelicans! I was stoked to see several flocks of pelicans as I drove home from town this morning. It was so cool, so I went to get my camera quickly. Unfortunately, when I stopped to take pictures, the closest ones (a hundred feet or so from my location) decided to fly off... So I had today (Monday) off in addition to the regular weekend. Or really, I just took today off on one of those '

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-50578669161428516302008-06-22T21:55:00.002-05:002008-06-22T21:56:41.654-05:00

Alert Felix was getting ready to go back inside, hence his elevated state of alertness. I should really try to be more alert (short of Beth's periodic reminder of how long it's been since my last post) about posting here, but things have been terribly busy, much to the dismay of the flocking audience here.For starters, today is our 6th anniversary. It doesn't really seem all that possible

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-36875484796788859392008-05-22T23:14:00.002-05:002008-05-22T23:18:14.435-05:00

You Take It Kirstin offers George a pinecone. So it's been nearly two weeks since the last post; my apologies to the faithful. :)With the change (finally) to spring/summer days, I find myself occupied with many more tasks than normal, and that makes for long days coupled with a periodic lack of motivation to sit and write. More appropriately, write cohesively.At any rate, a number of things

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-21894536014113128122008-05-11T22:48:00.002-05:002008-05-11T22:49:50.742-05:00

Happy Mother's Day! Kirstin all dressed up for church this morning. She's too cute. Okay, so today doesn't happen to be just Mother's Day or Minnesota's 150th birthday (I love the word sesquicentennial, by the way). It's both. And that's cool. At least to me.So go mothers, and go Minnesota.Here ends the public service announcement.In other random bits of news, things have been busy (as

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-90252174203443087052008-05-07T23:01:00.002-05:002008-05-07T23:02:14.687-05:00

Smiling Koshka's got a really unique smiley expression. Or something like that. It sure feels like it, anyway.It's been relatively quiet and yet fairly busy so far this week. I really don't have a lot to ramble about off the top of my head (short of the fact that the sump basin business seems to be doing its job). But it's been quite nice outside the last few days, and that's a welcome

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-75224031083506712742008-05-05T00:18:00.002-05:002008-05-05T00:20:36.093-05:00

Interesting Hat She was only interested in her hat after a bit. But we learned all about pinecones and rocks and grass and trees today, so she was due for some mindless stuff. There was no shortage of its intake (Vitamin D) this weekend. That's for sure!We all stayed fairly busy this weekend and had a pretty productive time. On Saturday, I spent most of the afternoon outside 'stealing' the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-7315594457553268402008-05-01T23:13:00.003-05:002008-05-01T23:16:58.752-05:00

You Hear This, RabbitShe grabbed the bunny by the foot and swung it around. Okay, so I've been awfully latent in posting around here lately. I know it's getting bad when Beth reminds me. :)I've been meaning to write some random stuff for at least the last week, but it always seems as though I get too tired to write (and it gets too late)...so Mr. Procrastination comes to visit. At any rate,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-34985337712632385102008-04-17T23:11:00.002-05:002008-04-17T23:12:50.505-05:00

So Cute She's my adorable little girl. So I officially broke out the grill today. And the first of the season -- bratwurst! Most excellent.There's really nothing quite like grilled sausage. Yeah, it's pretty much that simple. :)Short of that, the week has been busy, but in a unique way. I spent Wednesday hanging around after I got home from an evening meeting. And tonight I worked on

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-5684987123722843632008-04-15T23:30:00.002-05:002008-04-15T23:31:29.920-05:00

Intimidation They were both fighing over my attention; this time I was closer to Kurva. I love Koshka's reaction. :) So I was on a sort of pseudo-roll, when life went and got busy enough to prevent me from having lots of time to write. :)It all started last week on Tuesday with an evening meeting. By the time I got home, I didn't feel like doing anything but going to bed. So I did just

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-33947150288138474762008-04-07T22:48:00.002-05:002008-04-07T22:50:00.368-05:00

Knock Knock Who's There? I know, I know. Two posts in as many days. It's like some sort of amazing thing. :)Today was a most interesting day, on a few notes. For starters, I woke up to about three inches of snow (on top of a thick layer of ice). Skating to work this morning wasn't really all that fun, but it has been worse before. I only saw one accident (which looked more like a spinout

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-49243894936363027252008-04-06T23:11:00.002-05:002008-04-06T23:12:53.422-05:00

I'm Safe Here Kirstin and Beth share a cuddly moment for me. :) It seems like this is becoming more of a weekly post sort of thing than a daily sort of thing. I'm not sure what I think about that off hand, but we'll see how things pan out now as the spring progresses...I've been keeping busy over the last week or so. I finally after all the good intentions managed to finish plumbing up the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-3513111298334471782008-03-28T23:01:00.002-05:002008-03-28T23:02:52.726-05:00

Missing I really should glue the ivory back on... It's been a busy week. Plain and simple. I do have to say, however, that I'm enjoying the schedule that I'm holding in the new position. Yeah, it means I have to get up earlier than I'm used to, but I also get home earlier than I used to, which will be nice in the summertime when it's still light outside at 10PM. :)So it's taking some

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-15335883096655999602008-03-22T13:30:00.002-05:002008-03-22T13:33:22.981-05:00

'White' At The End Of The Tunnel It was still coming down quite a bit at 9:30 this morning, but the temperature wasn't condusive to much more accumulation by that time (it was above freezing again). Okay, so I know we got a load of snow dumped on us on Thursday/Friday, but 11 inches? Seems a bit much to me.From the best I could tell, I figured our yard received somewhere in the eight inch

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-19515225822880813892008-03-14T00:02:00.002-05:002008-03-14T00:04:04.584-05:00

Hungry Girl She was asking for more bits of her supper. Well, a year ago as I write this, Beth was in labor and just under six hours from delivering little miss Kirstin. :)It really doesn't seem possible that Kirstin was born a year ago. She's really grown into quite her own personality, and she's a blast to be around.It's getting late, so I'm not going to ramble on too much, but I will talk

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-17772947699356816142008-02-17T23:19:00.002-06:002008-02-17T23:22:13.758-06:00

Are We Done Yet? She was getting tired of being outside, although I think it was more of just sitting still. She liked the remainder of the sled ride. This is the question I keep asking myself this weekend. Are we done yet? And, fortunately, the answer is 'almost.'I've managed to get a significant amount of stuff gone through in the office/back room. I took Friday evening off (from the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-15637301180805682502008-02-14T23:41:00.002-06:002008-02-14T23:44:03.373-06:00

My Valentine This was taken moments after the Ironic picture. She's such a little sweetheart. So, I took a day off...and it was magical. Well, sort of.The last 36 hours have really been interesting. Several things have happened that I didn't expect. But I'll get to those in a moment.It did snow and blow last evening and night. In many ways, I was happy about that. It'd been a while

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-35892706321368966282008-02-14T23:20:00.002-06:002008-02-14T23:43:46.549-06:00

Woof, Woof! Koshka howls at me to get out there from her latest snow hole adjacent to the house. Back in November I rambled on about a phrase I really hate: 'Grow' whatever.Well, I happened to be reading an article online this afternoon which was an overview of Governor Pawlenty's State of the State speech yesterday. And in said article was once again, quite perversely, the quirky phrase '

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-22297233005803819012008-02-12T23:07:00.002-06:002008-02-12T23:09:25.179-06:00

I Won! Okay, so maybe I didn't win, but I did have this photo (see the original for clarity) selected as the KMRS/KKOK Photo of the Day for February 12, 2008. So I again apologize for another incredible absence from posting. Even though I didn't do One-Act this year, my early February has just been jam-packed with things happening it seems.Speaking of One-Act, it was an interesting season

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-45445650807697421322008-01-31T21:59:00.001-06:002008-01-31T22:08:13.056-06:00

Lazy George I love the look that George gave me as I took his picture. Lazy cat. :) My apologies for not posting more as of late. It seems as though I've just been really busy with various projects and by the time I get to sit and write, well, I get lazy. That, and it's been awfully cold here lately, so I've found myself in 'hibernate' mode as of late.I really must work on that. :)On

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-72758784385363821822008-01-23T00:01:00.000-06:002008-01-22T23:53:44.052-06:00

Cast & Crew Back in November, I wrote a post about the End Of An Era. I humbly signed off from a most exciting (albeit sometimes tiring and work-filled) period of my life as the One-Act director.In my various bits of resignation communication with the administration, I warned of the difficulty in finding someone to take the position and that I feared the district could possibly use that to

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-33106515004318402202008-01-22T23:28:00.001-06:002008-01-22T23:30:29.038-06:00

Elmer Fudd Gets Revenge We were watching the Family Guy 100th episode special, and I randomly took a picture of the TV. To Pay Per Channel, or Pay For A Package?I heard another report (on the radio) recently that the Federal Communications Commission is once again taking up the à la Carte cable channel issue. This is really nothing new with the FCC or the media in general.Personally, I think

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-90875304455019134422008-01-21T23:59:00.000-06:002008-01-22T23:04:06.562-06:00

Rapid Evaporation (#1) Selected frames from Attempt #1 of Matt's Boiling Water Experiment (YouTube).At -12F, a quart of boiling water thrown in the air above one's head results in this huge cloud of steam and about a half cup of snow/ice pellets falling to the ground. The majority of the water evaporates instantly. Well, not really explosives. But certainly that sort of appearance...

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-76488850255726218232008-01-19T22:41:00.001-06:002008-01-19T22:46:10.104-06:00

Peek-A-Boo! I just think this is an incredibly cute picture. She was reaching for the camera, yet was peeking around at me while doing it. It's a little after 10PM as I write this, and my thermometer tells me it's -18.6F. Yeah, that's pretty cold. :)I have been taking part, as time allows over the last few days, in a most unique pilot project at Flickr. The Commons is an incredibly

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-41518244281993174422008-01-13T23:41:00.001-06:002008-01-13T23:42:49.543-06:00

I See You Under There Kirstin looks a third time at Felix (who is hiding under the chair). As I begin to compose some ramblings tonight, my trusty digital remote thermometer tells me it's -6.7 outside. Right now. It sounds from the weatherman that this is to be the way it is for the next week or so. Honestly, though, it's to be expected. After all, it is the middle of January...It seems

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-29429775831282618882008-01-06T23:30:00.001-06:002008-01-06T23:33:16.711-06:00

A Vintage Look I was playing around with this image a bit and decided I liked how this looks. I get a very '1958' feel out of this; the faded and maroon-ish look to anything red in color.For reference purposes, here's the original image.Another one nicely Viewed On Black. Of 2008, that is. :)Things have been busy and somewhat chaotic so far this year, but there are signs that this too will

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-90211824854254038862008-01-01T23:34:00.001-06:002008-01-01T23:37:09.563-06:00

Number 2,000! She crawled right into the bathroom to check out what was going on tonight.This is the 2,000th picture of Kirstin that I've taken (or has been taken with my camera, rather) in the photostream! So a year has ended, and as a result begins another. I have been meaning to do some sort of pseudo wrap-up for 2007 for at least a week, but I've spent some time focused on other things

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-37441391420192912812007-12-19T23:01:00.001-06:002007-12-19T23:04:37.119-06:00

I Just Woke Up! And now I'm happy, happy, happy! So it's Wednesday, and the Christmas cards went out in the mail (at least for those which are to be sent via the mail) today. Hooray! I picked up the pictures I'd sent off (electronically) to the drug store for processing on Tuesday, and I have to say that I'm pretty pleased with the results. They're not perfect, but they are about what I

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-73405569808577403802007-12-17T23:32:00.001-06:002007-12-17T23:33:49.173-06:00

Happily Playing She was just happy and content to be playing on the kitchen floor. So this [title] was my attempt at bringing some life to my Monday night writing. Pretty sure I failed at it. :)Today was pretty normal in many respects, at least until I came home. It was 'photo shoot' (for real) night, and we temporarily turned the living room into a photo studio for about an hour. All in

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-86912641275926344372007-12-16T23:00:00.001-06:002007-12-16T23:03:30.006-06:00

New Guitar String? She was playing with a soon-to-be-defunct (as soon as I get enough time to finish installing the structured media enclosure in the basement) telephone line that runs to our bedroom upstairs. So it's been a good and busy weekend, just like I expected. Several things have happened in the last days, so I'll just touch upon them here tonight.For starters, I've been playing

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-79113735885510274082007-12-14T22:45:00.001-06:002007-12-14T22:49:50.124-06:00

I Eat Cookie Monster! Cookies by proxy? Cookie Monster eats cookies; Kirstin eats Cookie Monster? And it shows -- she gained somewhere on the order of three-and-a-half pounds in the last month. Crazy. :) She is officially nine months old today, which doesn't hardly seem possible.So she had a doctor's appointment, which went really pretty good. No shots at this one, so that was nice. The

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-44312817518972964552007-12-12T23:18:00.001-06:002007-12-12T23:26:47.940-06:00

It's Just The Floor Yet she was so excited to look at it from a different angle... :) There's always that one week each month when it seems to be tremendously busy. That, for me, happens to be this week. Granted, it should calm down a bit now that Wednesday has passed, but it doesn't make for a lot of time to do random projects or just sit.So I've really not done much at all at home, short

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-73670377744617526192007-12-10T22:56:00.001-06:002007-12-10T22:57:12.948-06:00

This Is MY Box! I'm not sure exactly which one was claiming the actual right to the box (they both were), but I love this picture. Unfortunately, there's a blur to it, but it's still very cute if you ask me. :) This is my number one photo (in several respects) on Flickr to date. How cool is that? :)I removed the section of the old POTS wire that Kirstin would play with on Sunday afternoon.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-9946782010523386702007-12-08T21:56:00.001-06:002007-12-08T21:58:41.747-06:00

Does This Look Like Happy To You? I had just set her down on the floor, and she became very unhappy. Could she possibly look any more sad? :) By the time most anyone reads this, it will be Sunday (or later), but that's alright. The principle still stands. Happy Saturday!It's been cold outside the last few days, and all indications are that this will continue to be the case for the next

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-47701440888672159492007-12-06T23:59:00.000-06:002007-12-07T00:29:55.593-06:00

Don't Shoot!Just like she reacts for the 'How Big Is Kirstin?" thing, so she also reacts to the "Don't Shoot!" thing. That's right -- I taught her that. :) An actual book. Cover to cover! Go figure! Go me!Every day I read a lot. I mean a lot. It's predominantly in electronic form, short of my twice-weekly newspaper reading. But as far as bound books go, it's not that often I actually

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-19495862917694185822007-12-05T22:51:00.001-06:002007-12-05T22:54:03.792-06:00

Laughing At Mom Beth was tickling her and she gives the funniest looks. So I'm on my way home this evening, and it's pretty dark by this time. I can see several miles in front of me that someone's pulled over on the side of the road. Lights are flashing.Not all that normal for the stretch of road I drive, but not terribly uncommon either. As I approach, I notice that this is a large

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-82370037406620680082007-12-03T23:03:00.001-06:002007-12-03T23:09:12.717-06:00

Coming To Get Me She saw the camera (and me) and decided that I was to be crawled to. Sometime around 3AM this morning the low here at home reached -9.4F. That's pretty cold. :) Makes me glad the [thick] flannel sheets were put on the bed. Bed was toasty! And it was good!I forgot to mention last night that I put two new videos of Kirstin up on YouTube. She was being pretty cute and

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-27956334863807874782007-12-02T23:55:00.001-06:002007-12-02T23:56:43.813-06:00

Please? I absolutely love how Beth managed to get them both to look up at her while getting a cute picture like this. They're so much fun. So it wasn't exactly the big storm they were predicting, but we did manage to get about six inches of the stuff on Saturday. Enough to justify getting the driveway blown out.So we didn't end up going anywhere on Saturday, which in some ways was expected.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-19083614822086168202007-11-29T23:55:00.001-06:002007-11-29T23:58:33.497-06:00

Nice Tail I like how this picture turned out, even though Felix's tail is in the frame (since he so nicely walked through). So it looks like this weekend will be the first real snowstorm of the season. I can't wait, really! I'm looking forward to it, right down to stocking up on some things.We ended up going to Alexandria this afternoon, mostly on a diaper and baby gate mission. It shan't

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-1307613624217362622007-11-28T23:59:00.001-06:002007-11-28T23:59:45.812-06:00

Cute Capture She was talking to me and making this crazy funny face; I just happened to take a picture at the right moment to accurately capture it. So I missed a night. It wasn't really all that intentional, but I was just too tired to sit and write last night. My apologies.I managed to go through and be a little interactive with the Flickr community last night, and that can be a little (

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-66855046782259410672007-11-26T23:19:00.001-06:002007-11-26T23:21:29.637-06:00

Winding Along In The Distance This is one of my favorite shots of the day. I like how the few remaining colored leaves frame the exposed water in this picture.Sacred Heart Creek, Renville County, Minnesota So it got really pretty cold this evening. We went from a high of about 42 here this afternoon (around 2:30, according to my thermometer) to a current temperature of 6.3. And we got some

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-74569575644019350092007-11-25T23:49:00.001-06:002007-11-25T23:50:35.227-06:00

So Terribly Cute Kirstin was being too photogenic for her own good sometimes! So I just looked back and noticed my last post was on Tuesday (11/20). I didn't think it'd been that long, but it's not terribly surprising. Due to the holiday and whatnot, we were kept pretty busy (in a Good Way).Wednesday we went to the Thanksgiving service at church, then took off from there to head out to my

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-25016658207195777232007-11-20T23:59:00.000-06:002007-11-21T00:16:46.769-06:00

Observant George was in a very observant pose here. I think it's a really good picture of him. I had the opportunity this afternoon/evening to sit in on a really big brush fire out at the golf course. This was attempt #2 at setting the entire thing ablaze (the last attempt was in June, I believe)...and with a nearly 20mph wind from the north-northwest, there was no doubt it'd be quite the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-19974080791548882602007-11-19T22:41:00.001-06:002007-11-19T22:42:53.475-06:00

Dad's Home Beth was taking pictures of Kirstin when I got home. She was so excited to see me! I don't exactly know why, but I am completely devoid of rambling thoughts tonight. So this is likely to be quite a short entry.I came home from work a little early (so I could still have light by which to work) and installed the old air conditioner box. It's a pretty snug fit (a Good Thing), and

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-35778476183548369312007-11-18T23:58:00.001-06:002007-11-19T00:00:28.591-06:00

King Of The Couch Felix actually stood to have his picture taken. And it was a good one! So I did manage to get the old air conditioner box painted. At least good enough now for the winter. So if all goes well, I'll get it installed tomorrow afternoon and that project will be knocked off the list.We ended up over at Phil & Gail's house (although Gail was gone) for lunch today after church,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-87873752836968068882007-11-17T22:41:00.001-06:002007-11-17T22:45:09.541-06:00

Flirty Girl She was flirting with me when I first set her down on the floor for picture time. You know, Saturdays tend to be boom or bust for me. I either get some stuff done, or I get nothing done. There's never really any middle ground like 'I sorta got a few things started, but lost ambition...'That's probably a Good Thing, but I did manage to get a few things done today. For starters,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-85940836497259438442007-11-15T23:16:00.001-06:002007-11-15T23:20:32.061-06:00

Help, I'm Falling! I think this picture turned out pretty cute. Almost like she was losing her grip and falling backwards... And it does so quite early now. It's the one thing about the wintertime I really don't care much for. It usually means feeding the dogs in the dark and spending copious amounts of time indoors. Where it's light.Ah well. This too shall pass, just like it does every

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-17370840693529055872007-11-14T23:13:00.001-06:002007-11-14T23:17:02.383-06:00

Looking On Up I really like this picture that Beth took of Kirstin this evening. She excels at being cute. I actually think this pose makes her look an awful lot like Ma's (Grandma 'Ma') baby picture. Where did the day go? If you have any idea, please let me know. It just seemed like today flew by...and I'm not sure where it went.The thing is that it wasn't really any day out of the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-31847329388355485042007-11-13T22:45:00.001-06:002007-11-13T22:47:30.246-06:00

Mischief? If you look to the far left of the frame, you'll notice George... Put two and two together... :) No, I've not been into any real mischief of my own; probably because the time required for mischief hasn't really been available. So sorry to be disappointing right off the bat tonight.Things have been pretty busy the last few days. I've tried to spend some time outside getting things

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-16461144397538103012007-11-11T22:56:00.001-06:002007-11-11T23:06:55.157-06:00

Cute Smile She wasn't all that smiley tonight, but it was awfully cute to catch the few she had. :) ...if you just plan it out a bit.Tis the lesson I found out this evening while I winterized and organized stuff in the shed. I managed to somehow fit everything in...and have room left to spare. Considering that I added the grill to the shed's already crowded contents, I was amazed.It didn't

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-16075871699839470682007-11-10T22:52:00.001-06:002007-11-10T22:54:19.450-06:00

What Do These Do? She was analyzing her fingers this morning. Carefully looking at them as though she didn't understand what they do. So as of this evening the dogs are no longer in their temporary exile on the east side of the house. This will likely be a permanent change.Friday afternoon I rented a trencher and made the trench for the electrical conduit to run between the house and the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-66808850369133536982007-11-08T23:59:00.000-06:002007-11-09T08:39:56.451-06:00

Strong -- Like Bull!This was the picture of my 'bench pressing prowess' that Phil took. But before I get that far, I've decided to write several posts tonight (each on their own topic) rather than combine a bunch of thoughts in hopes of somehow weaving some resemblance of continuity and purpose in a single post.I guess I'm making up for lost posts during the last month or so. Or being lazy.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-76739309824170408552007-11-08T23:50:00.000-06:002007-11-09T00:25:49.439-06:00

Cast The cast picture of the 2007 RCW One-Act I've been meaning to write about this for some time, but I've just not really had the time or actual drive to sit and do it. But the end of an era in my life has come.I am no longer at the helm of the RCW One-Act Play.It's not like I got fired or quit myself; more of an amicable understanding between two parties. For one thing, I was at the top

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-6436103664479421952007-11-08T23:36:00.001-06:002007-11-09T00:25:58.977-06:00

Neat Side Picture Okay, so a few weeks ago we made scalloped potatoes for an event. That was all fine and good, except we made a bit too much, and they boiled over in the oven. Well, not for long, but long enough for an amount of liquid butter to basically pool in the bottom of the oven.So we dealt with the smell of burning butter in an oven during that event. Airing out the house helped

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-41226659278728362642007-11-06T23:04:00.001-06:002007-11-06T23:07:54.214-06:00

An Abandoned House Built in the Minnesota River Valley, literally just a few feet (if that) from the solid rock bed. This was taken looking to the northwest (it's the southeast corner of the house). It's gotten colder outside since the last time I wrote (last night). The current temperature at 10:45PM is 19.2 degrees. It's good and cold outside.The dogs seem to enjoy it, though. And

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-46886503390695818402007-11-05T22:55:00.001-06:002007-11-05T22:56:03.511-06:00

Sitting So Nicely I love this picture -- she was sitting so nicely and having a good time playing. I'm going to head for bed pretty soon, but I needed to write a post to at least inform anyone who happens to be checking up on me that I am indeed still alive and kicking. :)Well, sorta.It has been a pretty tremendous six days since my last post. Amongst other things, Halloween happened. That

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-85381382542050035192007-10-30T23:28:00.001-05:002007-10-30T23:30:57.960-05:00

A Cute Girl My favorite thing about Koshka is still her one blue eye. So I managed to work out a pretty productive day in several aspects today. For starters, I got caught up on the various emails, newsletters, etc., that I had received over the last week and something at the office. I also did some electronic organizational stuff that is periodically necessary in order to maintain clarity.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-16142515049680130582007-10-29T22:52:00.001-05:002007-10-29T22:52:39.779-05:00

Prepared For Takeoff Beth took this picture of me just prior to launch. I can cross this off my list of things to try. I was dizzy and had a massive headache for the rest of the day. It gives me a headache just thinking about the ride... Well, perhaps not quite yet, but it's getting closer to normal. It's been a very busy past few days, hence my somewhat normal lack of posting as of late.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-15454058514178817932007-10-24T23:07:00.001-05:002007-10-24T23:09:40.025-05:00

One Tired Baby She was so tired when we got home tonight. As is very obvious by this picture. As I'm a bit on the tired order tonight (as per the usual), I'm going to run with the picture title as tonight's post title.The big difference today versus the previous days of the week namely centers around the fact that we started later today than before (due to some moving of corn that needed to

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-40966681611792223242007-10-23T23:01:00.001-05:002007-10-23T23:02:20.087-05:00

Eyes On George Just before she went to bed, I caught this picture of her looking at George -- this time with George's head in the frame. I guess that's a Good Thing most of the time, right? I'd tend to agree, actually.I have spent a considerable amount of time out in the field in the last two days, which has been nice. Got to have an 'upgrade' tractor today, which was cool. Very roomy and

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-82623690806115495882007-10-21T23:51:00.001-05:002007-10-21T23:56:06.139-05:00

God, Is That You? She was actually looking at Beth, but since we just got home from church, it seems fitting. :) So here it is already -- Sunday night. Another week shortly commences...and that'll be cool.It should be a pretty busy week coming up. I know the neighbors want to get as close to done with the harvest process as possible, so I will likely be busy with that, which is cool. It's

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-27463581106964018222007-10-20T22:57:00.001-05:002007-10-20T22:58:41.223-05:00

Happy To See Me She was happy to be sitting on the couch and reading her book. And to see me, of course. :) Okay, so I didn't actually mow the lawn myself (Beth did it), but it finally got done. At least most of it did. The grass was going on eight inches in length in areas of the yard; it was well beyond where it needs to be at this time of year. Especially since this will likely be the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-33400378233065528392007-10-17T23:08:00.001-05:002007-10-17T23:08:49.713-05:00

It's Cold Outside! I absolutely love this picture! It's quite possibly the best picture I've ever taken (my opinion) of Kirstin in the last seven months. She's just too cute! So it's been six days since my last blog entry -- my apologies for the masses of loyal readers. :)This past week has been quite the bit of busy-ness, so by the time I've managed to sit down to do pictures (which also

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-43107277178836385472007-10-11T23:09:00.001-05:002007-10-11T23:25:48.276-05:00

Feet Taste Good I took this picture as Beth was changing her into pajamas. She likes eating her feet. I spent most of my awake hours today in the tractor. Simple as that. It was a fairly gloomy and overcast day with very little appearance from the sun. Regardless, there's something very relaxing, almost zen-like, about sitting in the tractor all day. It's a good time.In random bits of

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-19540870804283036622007-10-10T22:41:00.001-05:002007-10-10T22:44:39.934-05:00

Here's Looking At You! She has such an inquisitive personality already. Okay, that's a bit of a poor title, but I'm awfully tired and can't come up with anything better right now.It's been a long day. I started out in the field and did that through the mid-afternoon. Then I came home and read the paper, took a shower, ate some food, and we went in for choir tonight at 7. Not really all

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-35368892861274946082007-10-08T22:55:00.001-05:002007-10-08T22:58:08.805-05:00

Structural Engineer She's studying the structural integrity of the creation. And doing some 'stress testing' of it. So in the last twenty-four hours I've managed to get three of the seven episodes of The War burned to DVD for later viewing at my pleasure. I've got two more ready to go -- I'll do one tonight when I go to bed and set another to go in the morning when I leave the house. So

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-10760169184638118872007-10-07T23:04:00.001-05:002007-10-07T23:13:06.940-05:00

Peaceful Times She so quietly fell asleep tonight in the bouncer just prior to getting ready for bed. She usually stays awake and plays, but today must've been too big a day for her. It's tough being a baby, you know. It's been another busy weekend, and I skipped another day's post. But I was quite tired when I got home (I ended up out in the field for most of the day -- which was a good

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-69616799392791587862007-10-05T23:55:00.001-05:002007-10-06T00:04:26.104-05:00

Not Sure About Sauerkraut Sauerkraut is perhaps not her favorite food (yet), but she was open to repeated attempts at tasting the juice. :) Not really. I did 'take the day off' from work, however. It was gloomy, so I knew I wouldn't likely be out in the field at all...so I figured it was a good time to stay at home and attempt to get a few projects taken care of.I did indeed manage that.

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-42425226311319757862007-10-04T23:57:00.001-05:002007-10-04T23:57:47.873-05:00

A Cute Felix This is probably my most favorite picture of Felix. Ever. For some reason it turned out pretty much perfect. He's usually not quite this photogenic. His upward-looking glance is what I like best about the picture. Okay, this is a short post. Really.I just checked, and partially due to the numerous cat pictures I uploaded tonight, my core Flickr photostream views (people who

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-30668400276753461142007-10-04T23:34:00.001-05:002007-10-04T23:36:15.700-05:00

Stop It, Dad! I was tickling her and getting pictures at the same time. Quite a feat. She has the cutest little laugh, and this is probably my favorite picture of the bunch. So I'm going to shamelessly brag about my fifteen seconds of newfound Internet fame.A long story short (as possible), I read Jason DeRusha's "DeBlog" pretty religiously. There's some good stuff in there. Last evening

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-79673540398570794172007-10-03T23:09:00.001-05:002007-10-03T23:13:06.384-05:00

Talking To Me She was a bit on the chatty order when she woke up after coming home. So as of this morning, I have recorded the entire set of Ken Burns' The War, with one exception -- episode #5 -- which I'm set to record on Saturday afternoon.I'm excited to watch it all, but I have no idea when that will be. There will be something like 22 hours of video when it's all said and done (each of

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-79796864332195336632007-10-02T22:45:00.001-05:002007-10-02T22:46:32.237-05:00

Felix Is Gonna Get It! Felix plays like a normal cat, and this was no exception. Only big difference here is that Kirstin was on the other end of the toy. I'll keep this brief. As of tonight's picture uploading, my Flickr account stands at 2,400 pictures. Exactly. Crazy.Kirstin is also on day #203, which is strange to think about. That's quite some time already. And she's been

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-73024019581523872007-10-01T23:23:00.001-05:002007-10-01T23:23:46.652-05:00

No, No Picture! She was actually just rubbing her eyes from being tired, but I think this looks so cute, almost like she's trying to block the camera picture. I spent more time out in the field this afternoon and evening, so I've been trying to get caught up with other things around here. So I'm a bit on the tired order and bed is very soon calling.The switch to corn has been made, so that

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-2156524731715556792007-09-30T23:12:00.001-05:002007-10-02T22:42:41.517-05:00

Like Daylight, Except NightI really like how the light sensor in the camera gets screwy with manual settings and the right angle. It makes the orange (High-Pressure Sodium) yard light look almost like daylight. The colors really pop out...unfortunately the dogs didn't sit still and it was windy (so I wasn't exactly still myself). Yeah, it's been a busy few days. I've ended up helping out

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-50921272567566239052007-09-27T23:34:00.001-05:002007-09-27T23:39:04.846-05:00

Surprise!I think her little looks like this can be priceless. :) So I took a night off from the daily entry. My apologies to the mass of loyal readers. :)I was mighty tired and after doing pictures didn't feel at all like writing anything, so I decided to go to bed rather than make a completely pointless post.I made some calls today, all with one intention in mind -- to negotiate. I'd read

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-25216412392414108552007-09-25T22:51:00.001-05:002007-09-25T22:53:29.170-05:00

Old Snow Fence I really like how this picture turned out. Facing into the direction of the sunset and looking uphill (northwest) toward the snow fence. So I'm getting closer to having all the random pictures I took on Saturday uploaded. Tonight I did the scenery ones, and sometime in the next few days I'll do the rest of the abandoned farmsite ones. Too many, and the photostream gets a

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-29676857823808147522007-09-24T23:59:00.000-05:002007-09-25T00:21:13.125-05:00

Gonna Eat That Foot Mmmmm, foot. :) I didn't sleep well at all last night, and it showed today. I was just having a more difficult time getting to sleep (probably because of my activities on Sunday). I usually don't have any problem falling asleep, but then last night just as I would fall to sleep Beth would start coughing. Then I'd be awake again for a while.It made for a

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-87582656067514315542007-09-23T23:24:00.001-05:002007-09-23T23:28:04.044-05:00

Not Too Sure About That Pickle It was pretty cute to see her reaction to her first pickle. Okay, so perhaps it's not a long weekend in the traditional sense (three days), but we were quite busy this weekend. It started out on Friday afternoon when we loaded up and headed for my folks' place for a night.That was good times (as per the usual). Good time to simply relax a bit and just hang out

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-60776625837941502122007-09-20T23:59:00.001-05:002007-09-21T00:00:35.506-05:00

Not Particular About My Napping Spot She just decided to quit playing and rolling around to take a nap. It only took a week, but we finally got the water situation resolved. As it turns out, after overspending about $1,200, but to nobody's particular fault. I'll get to that in a minute.So the intention was to get this thing dealt with right away in the morning. Well, that was a noble idea,

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-35702246038783922042007-09-19T23:33:00.001-05:002007-09-19T23:37:24.298-05:00

I Sorta Like This Pirate Stuff A series of photos taken in the spirit of 'International Talk Like A Pirate Day,' she was briefly enjoying her time with the parrot and staged scene... When I discovered late last night that it was International Talk Like a Pirate Day today, I was really pretty stoked. I wanted to immediately dig out the old eye patch and go have some fun.Alas, that didn't

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-21013324859724173172007-09-18T23:38:00.001-05:002007-09-18T23:39:53.467-05:00

Fun With Exposure This picture looks more like a painting than a photo to me due to the high saturation from the overexposed image. So I went a little overboard tonight -- I managed to take something like 83 pictures in the course of about an hour. I was on a roll. Of those 83, I managed to upload to Flickr about 25. It's a fairly good spread of items, and I had a lot of fun messing with

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-61415687846953024472007-09-17T23:35:00.001-05:002007-09-17T23:37:56.884-05:00

Cute Apple Shirt She had this cute little apple/ABC shirt on today. She wears the heck out of her clothes. :) So today's weather was just kinda miserable -- one of those really hot and humid sort of days. I noticed that officially at the airport this afternoon (in Morris) the temperature/heat index reached 86/89 respectively.God Bless September in Minnesota, right?The air was thick -- cut

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-56968786617022767562007-09-16T22:46:00.001-05:002007-09-16T22:47:44.464-05:00

Tired And Sick Little Girl She is battling the little baby version of the same cold that Beth and I currently have. I have to say that she deals with it pretty well -- all things considered. She's fussy, but not screaming constantly or the like. ...by launching a Gecko in space?I ran across this article about NASA studying spaceflight and the Gecko last week and have been meaning to

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-20582313155143102122007-09-15T23:05:00.001-05:002007-09-15T23:06:55.718-05:00

Thumbs Up! Beth somehow managed to capture a picture while she had her hand in a thumbs-up position. Awesome! Kirstin is a happy baby, even during adverse times (such as battling a cold). She really takes it all well -- arguably better than me. :)It's been a long day. Not because I've managed to get anything done (I haven't, short of a lot of Super Mario World playing), but since I've been

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-37460544036779705292007-09-15T17:39:00.001-05:002007-09-15T17:40:58.907-05:00

Lil' Smiley She was having such a good time on the floor during her morning play time. In ways, I wish I actually had a tide about which to speak. But I don't. In fact, quite the opposite.So the well guys showed up Friday morning to see about resolving the situation with low water pressure (and what was presumed to be an underwater leak). They started in right away and prepared to lift the

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-7796741366927857382007-09-13T23:42:00.001-05:002007-09-15T17:41:36.291-05:00

Singing AwayShe loves to tell stories -- sometimes in song. So today really started out about as normal as a Thursday can get. And it was normal until about 11:45 when Beth called informing me that the well pump had been running constantly for on the order of two hours (at least). She had noticed very low water pressure and then the all-familiar hum when the pump is running. This is not

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-39731195726646770352007-09-12T23:18:00.001-05:002007-09-12T23:20:45.994-05:00

It's MY DeskAnd you can't have it. So there. Well, until you pet me. Okay, that's a bit of a strange title. My apologies. This subject came up today during morning coffee, and it was pointed out that someone is drinking a very expensive 'health drink' to be generally healthy. I countered with a point of 'not consuming a family size bag of Tostitos in a 24-hour period of time pretty much

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-15725085758365019952007-09-11T23:02:00.001-05:002007-09-11T23:03:15.938-05:00

Bright Blue Eyes She's got extremely blue eyes and is always checking everything out. I won't linger on terribly long tonight; it's been a busy day. Beth got a call this morning from Jill asking if she could watch Henry for the day. So Beth was busy with Henry and Kirstin through the normal working hours. So that was a bit on the unusual order, but worked out regardless.I managed to get

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-49766569958229855252007-09-10T23:31:00.001-05:002007-09-10T23:32:50.973-05:00

I'm With Ducky! She was so happy and excited to get pictures taken tonight. Even when posed with her little ducky. So it was a Monday, and I could tell. It was pretty quiet at work today, which was nice...but in an odd way it's also nice to have at least a small fire to put out on a Monday morning (just to jump-start the week). No such fire existed, so it was simply back to the mill.Erik

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-26757382114293075312007-09-09T23:40:00.001-05:002007-09-09T23:41:19.353-05:00

Uncle Lynn Plays The Harmonica This time close up. Now you can see the look of interest on her face. We had a pretty good and busy Sunday, just as expected. This morning was a late church service (since we had a service and potluck in the park), which was kinda nice for the change (not quite as early to get up). We were out there for a few hours doing the church thing, eating, and visiting

Mattnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829076484294755919.post-23153043646638426042007-09-08T23:23:00.001-05:002007-09-08T23:25:33.958-05:00

Petting George George wasn't so in to this tonight, but he put up with it for a while from Kirstin today...if for nothing but the added attention he got from us. At the time of writing, I can actually smell other things again (not just bleach), but I was nearing the 'concerned' mark when I completed the job tonight and was unable to smell anything but bleach. It was like I was stuck at a

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