yesterday Ginger and I went on our first Richmond area duck drive, stopping at the reservoir a Brandermill, the drainage ponds near the landfill/wal-mart in Colonial Heights and City Point in Hopewell, then we went to Williamsburg for a few ponds there and the Diascund Reservoir. We saw a lot of great ducks, nothing new, but Coots, Ring-Necks, Pie ( Read more... )

Today is my last day of my long winter break, and I'm at home with a cold. I think I was fighting it anyway, and our New Years activity, running to Carytown to watch the ball rise, then running home, didn't help. I am still glad we did the run, it was a nice way to end the year, since we couln't have done it last year. We've aalso been going to ( Read more... )

hello. I haven't forgotten my lj, though I did recently set up a facebook. Christmas was great, Ginger and I stayed at my mom's most of the week, it was great spending time with the fam. We took a day to go to Baltimore and went for a tour/tasting at Clipper City Brewing (a great deal if you're up that way). We have exciting New Years plans: ( Read more... )

What a week. last weekend was the state fair, Ginger Mom, Dani and I went. I love the state fair...especially on demolition derby day.......This week I also began subbing....the first day I did high school math, which was a little hectic, I may not try that again, but Friday I did middle school, and that was much better.......Other excitement ( Read more... )

I love the Olympics. Not only is it a chance to see sports that don't usually make it on TV, its also a chance to see athletes from around the world. There are teams from almost every country in the world, despite politics. I not hearing those people who say they are boycotting this Olympics.

Ginger and I went back down to Shockoe Bottom last night to see the Martins

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It's been a fun weekend here.....on Saturday Ginger and I went by the grand opening of the Obama office in our neighborhood......there must have been 150-200 people there....very crowded, but they had stations set up for different issues and each one had a worker to talk on that issue and a printout from the website's issues page to correspond ( Read more... )

So Ginger won a free cruise by giving blood, and we went to Bermuda

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We drove through Michigan from the Sault, stopping at every lighthouse along the Huron coast (my mom likes lighthouses) I will spare most of the lighthouses, so here's one
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