Just got email notification tha the 700 slides of Morocco that we sent in have been digitized and the thumbnails are ready online to be captioned and arranged in folders before they are burned to 3 DVDs and sent to us.  The thumbs look really clean and the color and luminosity looks right.

In the heart of Chisago County:

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I went past two garage sales on my dale walk and came home with two cast iron frying pans (one three inch and one eight inch) I picked up for one dollar and qty six white resin stacking chairs for 2 bucks each.  The chairs cleaned up very nicely.

Max and Alex bought some much fireworks in WI that they refused to tell me how much they spent and all I got was this nifty t-shrt.

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I think Alex set this one up:


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Huck did this last year too, may have written about it:  I was out in the yard and noticed the Gracie and Lili not acting right.  I thought, "where's Huck?".  I walked up to the top of the hill and there he was, runnig around our corn patch all upset and lathered up.  He was surrounded but the white electrical tape fencing, so he couldn't get out ( Read more... )

In other all around the edge on two sides of the property.  On the Deere took about an hour. 
Gus's camera came.  We burned 3/4 of our rewards points on one of our credit cards and ordered a Nikon S570.  Nice little starter camera, it comes with a stitch assist function and software.  I shoved her out the door to do some testing, kind of cool ( Read more... )

I see my sister molinaslim  nearly killed her car by driving it without oil.
Funny, because I nearly did the same thing.  Decided I didn't want to pay to get it done and would do it myself... next week.  Or the week after... or if I have time, the week after that....
So finally after running something like 12,000 miles on an oil change, I got the fixings, ( Read more... )

"One good thing about music, when it hits you fell no pain"

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Working in the yard today. Got the Deere going, lubed the mower deck and bought 16 bucks of diesel for it. The grass is getting deep in some places ( Read more... )