I’ve just uploaded 30 photos from our weekend in West Virginia…and I’m struggling to figure out how to break them up for a series of posts. Going with the, “If you don’t know where to start, start anywhere” approach, I’m going with “potatoes.” Potatoes. As in “potato gun.” Benton and I made one a couple […]

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These pictures are from a few weeks ago, but they seemed worth posting (and I’ve probably got another couple of posts from this trip as well — Benton’s “flaming mini-raft” needs to be written up, for sure). One of the real benefits of moving back to Ohio is that it’s a lot easier to get […]

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Pictures rather than words…

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Three households of Bob/Pam grandkids convened at the farm for several days the week leading up to the Fourth of July. Shortly after the first group arrived…the power went out. Four hours later, Bob got the generator running. 15 minutes later, the power came back on. We’re just happy that Bob didn’t wind up with […]

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Last night was a late night on all fronts: Julie, Carson, and Alana were at the block party that Julie initiated/coordinated as a welcome/farewell/get-to-know-each-other event — diligently planned around the work and travel schedules of as many people as possible on the block, but overlooking… Benton’s first baseball games of the season — a double-header […]

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Trips to Bob’s farm in West Virginia are pretty much always on the “over-” end of The Stimulation Spectrum for the kids. And, a 3.5-4 hour drive back home is where the crash can hit. Especially Alana. Clearly, she had already been enough of a handful in the morning as we packed up that we […]

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Alana is a bit fearless. She discovered that she could get herself into the tire swing by herself if she just sort of rag-dolled her way in. Meg was plenty happy to provide the locomotion!

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I wrapped up an utterly exhausting week in Austin by getting 3.5 hours of sleep on Friday night, catching a 5:40 AM flight back to Columbus (via Houston), and then getting in my truck to drive 3 hours out to Bob’s farm in West Virginia. I arrived shortly after 2:00 in the afternoon, which meant […]

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Carson got a great book on fingerprint drawing (and requisite inkpads, pen, and pad) for Christmas from Cheryl and Bruce Bone. He was wayyyyy into it. With pretty nifty results! Carson being Carson, it wasn’t too long after the above picture was completed that he began freestyling. So, we went from innocuous happy people…to superheroes…to […]

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