avablog

As I was getting ready for work this morning, I had a moment’s pause when I thought it was only Sunday. Is it possible the weekend passed so quickly? Bah. We had fun celebrating my mom’s birthday, which included a couple dinners and sledding yesterday at a nearby elementary school. I debated whether to take […]

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Viva Mexico!

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Midwesterners spend a lot of time each year contemplating weather-related minutiae, particularly in the winter. For my part, the early morning today was consumed by contemplation of which combination of frozen precipitation is worst to shovel. I’ve decided that one inch of sleet topped with another inch of snow should probably place near the top […]

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Packing snow like that to be had yesterday comes along only a couple times every few years. Ava and I took good advantage of it.

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From our stroll out at Squire Point yesterday afternoon. It got kind of cold and nasty, but Ava had fun. Can’t say the same for Leah….

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Ava made a tiger mask at school and has had great fun wearing it and growling at us. She has claws, too.

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What a gorgeous weekend. I guess there won’t be too many more like this before the snow flies. Stay golden.

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G.G. and Poom Poom are coming to town this weekend for pumpkin patch madness. I have to say, Halloween is something I don’t look forward to these days nearly as much as I used to. I suppose that’s what growing up will do to you.

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We’ve got a maple in the yard that’s on the verge of dropping its last leaves. You know what that means, don’t you?

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I came home last evening to find Ava painting the sidewalk with her mother. I’m a big fan of diffuse sunlight, so I grabbed my camera and started clicking away.

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What a great weekend in Madison! I believe this photo sums up our adventure fairly:

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I’ve been shooting RAW lately in my XTi and playing with the results in Adobe Camera Raw. I’m still undecided about whether I want to spend a lot of time fussing with my shots after they’re out of the camera, but I have to say, a couple small tweaks can make a noticeable difference in […]

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Ava with Poom Poom and Joyce, scrubbing apples in Decorah this past weekend.

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I took this shot downtown in front of the Java House sometime last week. I just like the way it looks, is all. Dunno why she was standing like that, but, then, why does she do any of the things she does?

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Little froggy escaped from the shower and ran outside. This shot was obviously taken AFTER we got the towel around here. The front porch was full of nudity there for a couple minutes. Also featured: Leah’s knee.

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We were way too busy lounging on the shore, hiking, eating, drinking coffee, taking pictures, collecting sea glass, and skipping stones to ever sit for long on the computer. Hope you all had as nice a week as I did. It’s comforting to know the scandals keep coming at the UI while I’m away.

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I found a black strapless bra in the parking lot at work this morning on the way into work. So, if you’re missing a black strapless bra (and have relatively small breasts, by the looks of it), you know where to look.

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We didn’t pay anything extra for the flowers in the yard at our house when we bought it last year, but I suspect I may have if it had been an issue. I’m particularly smitten by these blackberry lilies: I noticed them even before we moved in, since they were just up the street from […]

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Then (July 2007): And now:

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We drove down to Burlington on Saturday to spend the day knocking around and visiting our friends Bob and Jude, who now live in my grandmother’s old house. It’s nice to go and see them and to get to spend some time in that familiar place. Ava likes it, too. And she likes to play […]

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