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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:45:31 -0400

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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:29:09 -0400

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Just found a “Guarana” at a Casey’s. Not quite as good as the ones in Brasil, but not bad.

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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:10:30 -0400

Here’s to good memories and better friends. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:51:36 -0400

Just found a “Guarana” at a Casey’s. Not quite as good as the ones in Brasil, but not bad.

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Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:55:37 -0400

I work with some cold-hearted people. One of our technicians was let go and the rest of the guys started doing cartwheels. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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1st Paying Gig

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:03:35 -0400

My oldest daughter, Marissa, plays violin in a group called Prairie Serenade. Today they played at a Farmer’s Market in Fairfield, IA. While they were playing people started donating food and other fair products. Luckily nobody threw any tomatoes.
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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:29:17 -0400

Ok this terradactyl grasshopper just attacked me.
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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:32:27 -0400

This a very sad scene.

No customers. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:57:44 -0400

Just a test from the new blackberry tour. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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A Visual Alphabet

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:32:28 -0400

What does a day off from work and a kindergartner that needs to be occupied while the older kids are being read to equal…lot’s of fun. So Meredith and I went out to take pictures of the alphabet. And here’s what we got. A is for apple:

Barbie starts with B:

Cat starts with C:

Dog starts with D:

Egg starts with E:

Granola bar starts with G:

Hat starts with H:

Ice starts with I:

Jump rope starts with J:

Kite starts with K:

Leaves start with L:

Meredith starts with M:

Nose starts with N:

Orange starts with O:

Pepper starts with P:

Q no picture.

Red starts with R:

(yeah we were getting kind of tired at this point and the level of creativity was depleting fast, so we used the same picture for two letters)

Sam starts with S:

Tree starts with T:

Umbrella starts with U:

V no picture

Wind starts with W (we took a video of the wind blowing the tree)

X no picture

Yellow starts with Y:

Zucchini starts with Z (and we have a lot of them):

All in all it was a fun exercise. Although we weren’t able to get al the pictures that she came up with, like “gorilla starts with g” a trip to the zoo was not in the rules for the game.

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Cats and Rats

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:04:55 -0400

When we moved into the house on the hill we inherited 3 or 4 stray cats. Two of them made it to winter and then one of them stuck around and had kittens. So no we have the mother cat, 4 kittens from the first litter and now she has 3 new kittens.

When she had the original litter she would bring up an occasional rabbit, mouse or mole, no big deal really.

Yesterday when I got home I found this rat. Almost as big as the mother cat laying next to the box for the newest kittens to munch on. I’m not sure where she found this rat and I’m not sure I want to know. This is a serious “Terminator” size rat. The tail was at least a foot long.

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Some things at work are just to funny!

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:24:36 -0400

Some times things happen at work that are just to funny to keep to myself. Case in point, this week we had a car that was to old for “Cash for Clunkers” brought in to be worked on. It was a fine pink 1977 T-Bird.

Ryan was trying to get it running. As I walked by he said, “My mom was 11 when this car was made.” And if that wasn’t funny enough he said he’d never worked on a carburetor before, not even in school.

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Mommy you'll be dead before I grow up.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:37:41 -0400

My youngest daughter, Meredith, was commenting on Pattie’s (my wife’s) gray hair the other day. She told Pattie, “Mommy, you’ll be dead before I grow up.” I guess it’s time for Pattie to start coloring her hair again.

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Fly Fishing Trips

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:44:37 -0400

Check out this website I found at flyfishingtrips1.blogspot.com

Are you wanting to plan some fly fishing trips? This site might have the information your looking for. Looks like it just got started, hopefully they’ll post some more information.

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Are Residential Wind Turbines the Answer

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:18:25 -0400

If you are looking for a way to save on your energy bills, and who isn’t these days, may be the answer is residential wind turbines. There are some basic requirements that you’ll need to check on first.

1. What are the zoning laws?

2. Do you have enough average wind speed to make it feasible?

3. Do you have the space?

Those are just a few of the questions that will need to be answered. For more information check out http://www.residentialwind-turbines.com

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The high cost of an oil change

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:03:54 -0400

Have you ever wondered why it cost so much to get an oil change these days? I mean it can’t be just the price of oil, can it?

Well I have proof why it cost so much.

Ok obviously their doing more than just changing the oil, but I couldn’t resist.

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Memorial Day

Mon, 25 May 2009 12:26:18 -0400

Here’s a picture that captures part of the meaning of Memorial Day for me:

Sitting under the Symbol of Freedom.

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Building a Bird's Nest

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:50:32 -0400

Yesterday at lunch I watched this robin, start building this nest. By 5:30pm when I left this was the finished product.

The funny part is, this vehicle was just parked out back behind the shop at 10:30am and we’ll be bringing it back in to finish the work on it this am. So all that hard work for nothing.

Kind of reminds me of a story I heard in Bible class growing up…”the wiseman builds his house upon a rock, and the foolish man builds his house upon the sand.”

This picture of the robin can apply to a lot of areas of life: home, work, retirement, business, eternity, etc.

Where are you building today? Will it last?

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Global warming?!? We have snow falling on April 13th, 2009

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:33:12 -0400

Global warming?!? We have snow falling on April 13th, 2009

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Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:39:42 -0400

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Grammy’s Birthday Party

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