This post has nothing to do with the kiddos and everything to do with a list of non-family “things” I have found myself enjoying immensely or finding highly informative over the course of 2009. Documenting them here for posterity’s sake (with my signature verbosity, unfortunately).
Podcasts
As I think about it, I can trace my days of [...]

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Camera, tripod, remote shutter release –> Picasa:

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When we were camping over Thanksgiving, I introduced Benton to the idea of slow-shutter-speed photography. During that trip, it was waving lightsticks and sticks with glowing embers on the end of them. Ever since, Benton has been coming up with other ways to put the technique to use.
Last night, he dug out a couple of [...]

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We got our first real snowfall last night. Benton helped shovel the drive and then immediately headed into the yard to gather more snow to make a fort. Within an hour, all three kids were outside.

Alana made little snowmen:

Carson found the experience exhilarating:

Even Molly got a little frisky (with Anabel, from next door):

And then inside [...]

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We’ve been in Ohio for over two years now…and haven’t gone camping since we moved! That’s hard to believe, but it’s also easy to believe — the kids are getting to an age where they’ve got weekend commitments of one sort or another quite often, and, on 3-day and 4-day weekends when we would have [...]

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I took a little walk on Saturday morning to check out the foliage in the area. And to, um, play with my camera.
A little guy who posed for me

The Smuirfield Golf “Club”
(site of many a daytime and nighttime pitching outing)

Walking/Bike Path Nearby

Halloween Is in the Air

12th Hole at (the real) Muirfield Village Golf Course

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Julie and I just got back from a Boston vacation planned around the Salem wedding of Mike Dumbroski and Matt Woodward. We had a ball, and Marilyn survived watching all three kids for five days! This post just covers the wedding. It was a relatively small affair, but the fates aligned such that a good [...]

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Julie, Benton, Carson and I drove over to Dayton for the Dayton Ohio Giant Scalers (D.O.G.S.) annual airshow on Sunday. The initial plan was for just Carson and me to go, but Benton’s ears pricked up when he heard us talking about it, so he went as well (it’s still not entirely clear if that [...]

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Our two-part visit with the Herberts — great friends from Austin — wrapped up early on Saturday morning when Bob and Jack flew back to Austin. They swung through Columbus on their way back to Austin from Michigan (they also had stopped — with the Herbert women in tow — on their way to Michigan [...]

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Our plan for the vacation was pretty straightforward: Julie would drive to Dallas with Carson and Alana, arriving on Saturday morning; Benton and I would stay in Dublin for his three baseball games and then fly down to Dallas on Saturday night; we’d spend Sunday and Monday morning visiting friends and family, and then drive [...]

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