Below are some other pictures from our long weekend in and around Cooperstown, New York. Alana Knows the Art of Baseball Spectating (My favorite picture from the weekend) Around Cooperstown Downtown Cooperstown is eminently walkable And…eminently stoppable (for ice cream): Since Benton doesn’t eat ice cream, he got a blue sorbet/gelato or somesuch: And…a gratuitous […]

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Summer’s winding down, but we managed to squeeze in one more family trip before school starts. This one was a 9.5-hour drive (each way) to Cooperstown, New York, to see a friend play the first couple of games of a youth baseball tournament, to see the Baseball Hall of Fame, and to check out whatever […]

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I wasn’t along for this leg of the trip, but it appears that Julie took a couple of photos, so I’m posting them and describing as best I can. En route back from Maine to Columbus, Julie stopped off for the weekend at the Hallacs’ in Armonk, New York. Allegedly, Trice and Jimmy were there […]

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As I noted in my last post, my favorite shot from our main summer trip was this one of Carson jumping off of the end of my parents’ dock: As it turned out, Alana and Carson both gave me some good dock-jumping pictures, in both Canada and in Maine. Worthy of a post unto themselves! […]

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Hmmm…nothing like writing Part 1 of our summer trip and then not following up with Part 2 until two weeks later! Since that first post, I’ve made trips to New Orleans and to Austin, which, when shoehorned in amongst work, has kept me pretty busy. Better late than never, though, right? After leaving Julie’s aunt […]

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Last week/weekend, we had a round of company culminating on Saturday night with overnight human guests from northern Virginia, Colorado, and Austin, and an overnight canine guest from Akron. Getting the kids outside as much as we could led to a recreation of the yellow brick road using chalk in our driveway. That then led […]

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Friday evening, as I was sacked out face down on the bed after an excruciatingly long week, our front yard became the spot of a spontaneous cheerleading clinic led by The Dedie. The Dedie Walks Annie, Alana, Gabriela, and Charlotte through Some Routines Annie, Gabriela, and Alana Show Off What They’ve Learned More Demonstrations by […]

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Carson and Alana are both doing swim team this year — the first time for both of them. The first meet — an intra squad affair — was held last Wednesday. Both kids swam in four events and, overall, enjoyed themselves (we’re enjoying the forced improvement of their swimming skills). Carson Pre-swim body art (it […]

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Over the Memorial Day weekend, Benton was busy with baseball and various friends, Carson was really busy with new friends (more on that in the next post), and Alana…was bored. We filled the time by multiple projects in the kitchen: We started by making gingerbread cookie dough (not really the season for that, but it’s […]

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The last day of school for the kids was last Friday. I’m a week late on getting anything post on that front because Julie celebrated our 17th anniversary that weekend by leaving me with the kids and going to her mom’s. It all worked out, though, as she did ultimately come back home late Monday […]

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