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Alyssa at her dance recital


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Six months plus between postings isn’t really that bad is it? Of course I have an excuse with school, work, and family absorbing my free moments. However, the school excuse just took hiatus because I am now a graduate. Monday night (6/16) was my last night of class, which was a little anticlimactic because the graduation processional was on May ( Read more... )

I've been exchanging phone calls with my old friend Pat Rogers who I haven't seen in over 10 years, he has been trying to make contact with old friends in order to reconcile any hard feelings. I also think he is feeling odd about his place in life given that he has moved to Dallas Texas in order to further his musical interests. Nevertheless, he ( Read more... )

Well, it's pretty obvious I don't post often enough, you know the typical excuse; the kids et al. Also school and work take their toll. Nevertheless, here is a post to help share some our Christmas pictures.

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Every now and then, an image or an idea bring back recollections of times past or even actual childhood experiences.  A few nights ago, I sat down, flipped through the cable channels, and landed on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) just as Fat City was starting.  The movie seemed familiar although I cannot recall seeing it, but the era, the ( Read more... )

Disneyland slide show.

http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/gsbell/Disneyland2007/?action=view¤t=e442c148.pbw

Oh well, I'm not skilled enough to make the slide show function work in this post.

I’m a week from finishing another class and going on a four week break between classes.  I scheduled my classes this way in order to take the family to Disneyland in June.  We are driving from Boise to Reno Saturday June 9th and spending the night at the El Dorado. This should be about a seven hour drive.  The trip south will continue on Sunday and ( Read more... )

Alyssa was playing in her room this afternoon and ended up falling against her bedroom door and cutting her face just to the right of her right eye.

Linda screamed down stairs for me to come up.  This added to the hysteria and when I got up to the bathroom Alyssa's eye was nearly swollen shut and bleeding profusely.

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