tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-231326092024-03-06T22:24:10.791-08:00Chez BoyerJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-69512368618926755972011-11-28T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-28T04:00:28.919-08:00Mary's garden and grandchildrenMolly and Freddie give a tour of Nana Mary's garden:<br />
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Nana Mary describes her garden:<br />
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This is Josh writing. In October, I wanted to get Mom on video. I gave her the chance to talk on camera about her childhood, about Peace Corps, about teaching, whatever she wanted. As you can imagine, she wasn't thrilled by the prospect. This video about her garden is the most I was able to get. I'm glad I got it. Oh, and I got one more video, this one of her and Jack:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/j9JCzoffwwM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16564269259441596349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-60538350950394077652011-07-17T17:42:00.000-07:002011-07-17T17:59:15.506-07:00Videos of Alex, age 1We've had 2 VHS tapes of Alex in a cabinet for years now. I recently converted them to digital files and made clips from them. Those of you on Facebook have seen many, but not all of these. I now offer them on Youtube for those of you who didn't catch them on Facebook.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA24201DBC0597636">Videos are here</a>. There are lots of them. This isn't a guilt trip to watch them all. Enjoy.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>One of the VHS tapes was made by Uncle Dennis McCabe at the Stinehelfers' house and at our Durham house on Alex's first birthday, in August 2oo2.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other tape was made by Jen on our first week-long trip to Topsail with friends, earlier in August 2002. We're about to go on that same trip, year 10.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of the videos are self explanatory; they show Alex being cute. Some of you may need an explanation for the last two, the ones of a play set. Papa Dennis brought the play set from Alabama to our house in Durham, tied to the roof of his Honda Accord.</div><div><br /></div></div>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16564269259441596349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-50882102290835834702010-01-31T15:49:00.001-08:002010-01-31T16:05:01.324-08:00Sledding AdventuresWell, it finally happened. They predicted snow for Raleigh, and it actually snowed. I focused on getting the kids some boots and enough groceries in the house, and did not join in the mad pre-snow rush to find a sled -- which I probably should have. Saturday we went out with our boogie board; and Sunday we went out with the boogie board again and a nice man who lives at the top of the "sledding hill" loaned us an orange plastic sled. The kids went down a total of, oh, ninety times or so. No school tomorrow, so I'm guessing we'll be back out there again. Josh sadly had to report to work on Sunday, but he wrote the following about our trek out on Saturday: After a boogie board ride down the hill, Molly said "That was awesome, dude." Of the boogie board, she said, "That's the best skateboard in the whole world -- the whole city."<div><br /></div><div>We watched a couple drive by on a 4X4 Gator, towing their kids on sleds up the hill. Alex said, "That's a good idea." Molly pointed to kids being towed and said, "That is a good idea because, look!"</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WqTi5AIdJNE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WqTi5AIdJNE&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_vI9RX8MlqQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_vI9RX8MlqQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1yVlpvVtAII&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1yVlpvVtAII&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ak5J7OumfCM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ak5J7OumfCM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div></div>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-43673371761778755622009-09-14T17:14:00.000-07:002009-09-14T17:24:20.081-07:00Alex exercises his 2nd amendment rights<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3PYOAwwVw1EeNhGoYkHUI8Btocu_H5lpm6mcaj_2WDZm7MKd7jF0a9OLJ3hdHMEDXJiMiNXhiVuoZM6ef__v3OdDsiRGT79AMkoDnwDK-jAmKALK6nZqQ5hyhubwL_r3Aoz325g/s1600-h/alex-gun2009c.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3PYOAwwVw1EeNhGoYkHUI8Btocu_H5lpm6mcaj_2WDZm7MKd7jF0a9OLJ3hdHMEDXJiMiNXhiVuoZM6ef__v3OdDsiRGT79AMkoDnwDK-jAmKALK6nZqQ5hyhubwL_r3Aoz325g/s400/alex-gun2009c.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381481394375290370" border="0" /></a>We sent Alex to the Purple House for his lefty indoctrination. What happened?<br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6oJxPvtUOBZEgbboqjDFsgvh-T3iQFI8QyyoUUNfoRKL2aYLEyMrz-yQCsHSCdUcXmBWyKqsug0DaJyY0YcuqJRhwx9TdD3KmBxy2vjlwT96DbrHKdo9joHjkN6v0Uhyphenhyphenh96DKg/s1600-h/alex-gun2009a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6oJxPvtUOBZEgbboqjDFsgvh-T3iQFI8QyyoUUNfoRKL2aYLEyMrz-yQCsHSCdUcXmBWyKqsug0DaJyY0YcuqJRhwx9TdD3KmBxy2vjlwT96DbrHKdo9joHjkN6v0Uhyphenhyphenh96DKg/s400/alex-gun2009a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381481552910082114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHH8n351x8k5C_o37ircHpIMwt4NOiM5AYCqzXnz1zMRvlzTPlmnwlM3r3nOeH_J4Qp-U-exGK6yXEZz0WvMeU6qjqAnNEP0tTLLovqWdDOKHs1aDKEdbS-YmQ4BWjIdDiaMVAPQ/s1600-h/alex-gun2009b.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHH8n351x8k5C_o37ircHpIMwt4NOiM5AYCqzXnz1zMRvlzTPlmnwlM3r3nOeH_J4Qp-U-exGK6yXEZz0WvMeU6qjqAnNEP0tTLLovqWdDOKHs1aDKEdbS-YmQ4BWjIdDiaMVAPQ/s400/alex-gun2009b.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381482392301262642" border="0" /></a>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16564269259441596349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-64445152769103585992009-05-25T19:16:00.001-07:002009-05-25T19:22:34.340-07:00Memorial Day Weekend, Part Two<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2GPMY5wfrDQ7ReqHD6VD9EfM_1GgEv95UQbVY2Ho0d9wuRDa99dhoWpYSOjRIPQKAyHI_fGJs2t3X0n-wfvqu5BkHdqeFSON6p3rR4y4QMptQ5YuC4FD5tkkDn-aYw_DnqWV1/s1600-h/IMG_7126.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2GPMY5wfrDQ7ReqHD6VD9EfM_1GgEv95UQbVY2Ho0d9wuRDa99dhoWpYSOjRIPQKAyHI_fGJs2t3X0n-wfvqu5BkHdqeFSON6p3rR4y4QMptQ5YuC4FD5tkkDn-aYw_DnqWV1/s320/IMG_7126.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339951861315223490" border="0" /></a>At Hyco Lake, Freddie's first trip out. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUjNFj4BZB1xw3nV9OvrLZNq8ucsNkewpiYA7KCmnqZv742b-wxMH-KrHiBL_kBt1kxcECpQP0-9_PP7ThJqtDRHIa6q28w-WhBqPKJbVeD-CYsUrdF-sduc4WEGqhx6ZHisM/s320/IMG_7093.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339946503906900754" border="0" /></a>Zucchini plants, seem to be doing well so far.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidVR3UEiNX2ZET0Eg3BJ9p8JDyx_m4t4fckzT5pv0l3X6bUuKP9a63x8675qNlTkZv06pDcSQAtyaB6WFMFc1iey0666zYuI3BmNzuFnu6dgNOmX4C4ifKVR9ZUgAf6JZ3qg-2/s1600-h/IMG_7091.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidVR3UEiNX2ZET0Eg3BJ9p8JDyx_m4t4fckzT5pv0l3X6bUuKP9a63x8675qNlTkZv06pDcSQAtyaB6WFMFc1iey0666zYuI3BmNzuFnu6dgNOmX4C4ifKVR9ZUgAf6JZ3qg-2/s320/IMG_7091.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339946497303292722" border="0" /></a>Raised bed with sugar snap peas. Alex and I made a "seed tape" with the sugar snap peas. We cut out strips of newspaper and glued the peas along it 2 inches apart, then later he helped me plant them. They came up nice and even. I jerryrigged this very sorry netting myself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_r5gc517wH0PW4824ZaN6aNF_MNkVVJ4Ue_nIkkoJ1YFhuLQeEvZl_NserLV07HwiQsuCkbncP77O-SreH5xWj0BeiUSpLLnAlBfllyD4k-dCKcLvxzEPnFms19omU_pcuL9I/s1600-h/IMG_7090.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_r5gc517wH0PW4824ZaN6aNF_MNkVVJ4Ue_nIkkoJ1YFhuLQeEvZl_NserLV07HwiQsuCkbncP77O-SreH5xWj0BeiUSpLLnAlBfllyD4k-dCKcLvxzEPnFms19omU_pcuL9I/s320/IMG_7090.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339946493140324130" border="0" /></a>Other raised beds, we'll see how this turns out. There are beets, carrots, and broccoli that probably went in the ground too late. There are tomatoes of various varieties, including some heirloom brandywines that are small so far, but look ok. These have just started to blossom. There are also some peppers that are not looking tall enough yet, and some lettuce that's looking o.k., that you can't see here because they're behind the tomatoes. I have my concerns that this bed won't get enough sun, so this inaugural year will be the test.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-jhe8HVFPKLmAR8ae9paSP8PVfSENsOtIqctXsIOK3dju1Dc7ao7QzIkiGr1EhHNqNKVEUAMxB15DFFFpCR3FmD0p51kcaCP4ZTJ8kdaLuU3FuBPb5_HOw8ivZk-2C_xAbOK/s1600-h/IMG_7083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-jhe8HVFPKLmAR8ae9paSP8PVfSENsOtIqctXsIOK3dju1Dc7ao7QzIkiGr1EhHNqNKVEUAMxB15DFFFpCR3FmD0p51kcaCP4ZTJ8kdaLuU3FuBPb5_HOw8ivZk-2C_xAbOK/s320/IMG_7083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339946488348937522" border="0" /></a>Alex and Molly after we spent Mother's Day at a strawberry farm.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1wIaK-KMQ-FNmWf3Khv-teRbLeYTCPzKompIsX0nSmlXO8ljmcs6YN1pr7i1cr6sI0dVyKAa3UoL66JI-Uc5t62ZhSFQJ7jrfo29kQt_Beabk5nyXocnahTLyw9GUCbXBkcm/s1600-h/IMG_7078.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1wIaK-KMQ-FNmWf3Khv-teRbLeYTCPzKompIsX0nSmlXO8ljmcs6YN1pr7i1cr6sI0dVyKAa3UoL66JI-Uc5t62ZhSFQJ7jrfo29kQt_Beabk5nyXocnahTLyw9GUCbXBkcm/s320/IMG_7078.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339946483076029922" border="0" /></a>We went to a party a few weeks ago, and it really was not swimming season yet, but boy did the kiddos want to give it that old college try.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-9003423085750701422009-05-04T18:29:00.000-07:002009-05-04T19:09:21.082-07:00Puerto RicoA month ago Jen and I went to Puerto Rico. NPR voice: "This trip was made possible with generous support from the nanas and the papas." We highly recommend Puerto Rico to one and all.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAFw7gsjw45dmdrK4YFWT2GNIxH122mzExhx-HCr-lhDtFZTv9qiOkexE13kk0BOPyJJS-yiQfTmL_m9vdmNbME7HwQe_UFT2t_SW4lZp5c6Qn53FxKn0rtg-M4lOyxQlts1FXA/s1600-h/sanjuan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAFw7gsjw45dmdrK4YFWT2GNIxH122mzExhx-HCr-lhDtFZTv9qiOkexE13kk0BOPyJJS-yiQfTmL_m9vdmNbME7HwQe_UFT2t_SW4lZp5c6Qn53FxKn0rtg-M4lOyxQlts1FXA/s400/sanjuan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332147296222285842" border="0" /></a>First stop, San Juan<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDK9eABrAz6ojsRU1oSBcYpJdGQrjmaYpZGeJIiYE-BlP6xay1VhJ07SDmCICpQzE4bsZMotRoevWUHmTLXdCC055P37H6cIjQohgq4JjH551Pjr7K9CDRshlD-BXC6r9_SOZew/s1600-h/normandie.+073.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDK9eABrAz6ojsRU1oSBcYpJdGQrjmaYpZGeJIiYE-BlP6xay1VhJ07SDmCICpQzE4bsZMotRoevWUHmTLXdCC055P37H6cIjQohgq4JjH551Pjr7K9CDRshlD-BXC6r9_SOZew/s400/normandie.+073.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332147560377738242" border="0" /></a>where we stayed in a groovy hotel.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm5NoEiVcZjfwhj1ORyz_kw1R0RPzN03anvg4HkCF2K0zF1WyQ4ecRH1u-2E9lbQWE41IdC0DZCJBbFUOz_W7smhsAI8vdUkY-GeUewpb-38mzCKZV3RI7Q0nMk37fqXEiKMMZ5Q/s1600-h/malecon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm5NoEiVcZjfwhj1ORyz_kw1R0RPzN03anvg4HkCF2K0zF1WyQ4ecRH1u-2E9lbQWE41IdC0DZCJBbFUOz_W7smhsAI8vdUkY-GeUewpb-38mzCKZV3RI7Q0nMk37fqXEiKMMZ5Q/s400/malecon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332148228724969218" border="0" /></a>Next stop, Vieques, an island off the east coast of Puerto Rico. Esperanza is one of two towns on Vieques. Above is the the malecon, the beach side of Esperanza's main street, Calle Flamboyán. You can cross the street from here (watch out for cars going 5 mph and teenagers riding bareback on horses going much faster) to find little shops, restaurants, and open air bars where you order rum drinks and watch the sun set over the mountains in the background of this picture. It's literally paradise.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirZHQ0ZHX6y6VysN5KG0dzDGL1Amo-NBzBv-pvftorIL8e2JI5AqA2782iLruyoKx6HZ3SJQs6uzCRwXeqTwWmWNtUBtSYvowKiljOnRSaW1r73RzFdcEyYvPc5n_el5MC0xJo6Q/s1600-h/afuera.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirZHQ0ZHX6y6VysN5KG0dzDGL1Amo-NBzBv-pvftorIL8e2JI5AqA2782iLruyoKx6HZ3SJQs6uzCRwXeqTwWmWNtUBtSYvowKiljOnRSaW1r73RzFdcEyYvPc5n_el5MC0xJo6Q/s400/afuera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332147876370597474" border="0" /></a>View from the malecon out to sea, where you'll see Jen (on a good day), sailboats, and an island called Cayo de Afuera. We snorkled around the island.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYF_XJxK6rVsh2r4DBcJy6hXOVtwavfNJ6rtGSM4GxanXJjo2eXWTPzvF3Oq1D_3uI6LyRChsAdB2g2Twm5X22e8NwgHFdCTP9C8InuAEbIb45tRoRbKUUxoNIQa12yN1DH7Fmw/s1600-h/navio.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYF_XJxK6rVsh2r4DBcJy6hXOVtwavfNJ6rtGSM4GxanXJjo2eXWTPzvF3Oq1D_3uI6LyRChsAdB2g2Twm5X22e8NwgHFdCTP9C8InuAEbIb45tRoRbKUUxoNIQa12yN1DH7Fmw/s400/navio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332148308793847026" border="0" /></a>Vieques has lots of beaches. This one is called Navio. We were told they filmed a movie version of the Lord of the Flies here. We did not find a society of tyrannical children. We found paradise.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHsbMf4Az3jLEOZU1m1r3mv6Yfbi9ojuLNm5wISstI7UW3gPIAh-gP2bNNSvm1-1jNzeKsXvKl-Ec9iEkQ6j-G1xT4yJ26TY1nmVanuKvkTa_WOJ28SAvxgo1XiypGx2jyGevWOw/s1600-h/sol.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHsbMf4Az3jLEOZU1m1r3mv6Yfbi9ojuLNm5wISstI7UW3gPIAh-gP2bNNSvm1-1jNzeKsXvKl-Ec9iEkQ6j-G1xT4yJ26TY1nmVanuKvkTa_WOJ28SAvxgo1XiypGx2jyGevWOw/s400/sol.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332148394027818434" border="0" /></a>Even the local business people know they're in paradise.<br /><br />Jen's final thoughts on Vieques: we need to go back, take the kids, and she wants you, all of you, to come along.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSNIg8ODl9ckVCeDchnzHbBGIB11SVOMHOTc80GOZnG_xJqchyphenhyphenJVfnp25AXzgIipRU-iArdB08dTjPygWNVqZ7BMViVYiUoGl5CkZsiMinuSUIo5OG0hv4uvnAjebOV0a0pybVg/s1600-h/tree.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSNIg8ODl9ckVCeDchnzHbBGIB11SVOMHOTc80GOZnG_xJqchyphenhyphenJVfnp25AXzgIipRU-iArdB08dTjPygWNVqZ7BMViVYiUoGl5CkZsiMinuSUIo5OG0hv4uvnAjebOV0a0pybVg/s400/tree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332153019286090530" border="0" /></a>Final stop, El Yunque rainforest back on the main island<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiknwSs3F9XmCisjf7_C555s7j4aRzbIEgoqMM915HTbMBmxmUTWFYZPBO2T2j4l_sMkDXGKl8plbblvgRioF8LAEuQ-kVBfZr2PH79_QLqzjtmF18jGuD_GsldJAwfieuNrRti6w/s1600-h/kitchen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiknwSs3F9XmCisjf7_C555s7j4aRzbIEgoqMM915HTbMBmxmUTWFYZPBO2T2j4l_sMkDXGKl8plbblvgRioF8LAEuQ-kVBfZr2PH79_QLqzjtmF18jGuD_GsldJAwfieuNrRti6w/s400/kitchen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332148118182355762" border="0" /></a>where we stayed at a place with an outdoor kitchen, which turns out to be a great idea. The highlights of the rainforest included loud frogs, terrific jungly flora, and waterfalls.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRDQzelFML7xF4uec8pHbf3Xux05ZKCsrCd5QFWqY1vc7LZgVFliSb69U-fCP7tAkiRmFwwMv3NdepR6kGU9R2IS-ERmNE-1GBxEg5EhGPzjDoUAtXdnMz99AJFdRl3ImmMZ_GLg/s1600-h/jump.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRDQzelFML7xF4uec8pHbf3Xux05ZKCsrCd5QFWqY1vc7LZgVFliSb69U-fCP7tAkiRmFwwMv3NdepR6kGU9R2IS-ERmNE-1GBxEg5EhGPzjDoUAtXdnMz99AJFdRl3ImmMZ_GLg/s400/jump.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332148040066114114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflEO55KxH8w2CniG5Rsbc2MOM53SxaWc6YfboHpX3xJ4AbRcJfRJbtEztXw3wf_ijCeM1IyO7y8tVZAFn8E6rKwprnaOMU43d1yxZ8WuQBOVHZAm8bdTOyQiZZJiOOiga1sxq8g/s1600-h/jenfalls.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflEO55KxH8w2CniG5Rsbc2MOM53SxaWc6YfboHpX3xJ4AbRcJfRJbtEztXw3wf_ijCeM1IyO7y8tVZAFn8E6rKwprnaOMU43d1yxZ8WuQBOVHZAm8bdTOyQiZZJiOOiga1sxq8g/s400/jenfalls.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332147973180669922" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/josh.boyer/PuertoRico?authkey=Gv1sRgCLTD6N3d-qOS1QE&feat=directlink">Even more pictures</a><br /></div>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16564269259441596349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-82549131083559038272009-04-29T16:55:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:59:44.794-07:00Assorted pictures + videoSorry it's been so long, everyone. Here's a few visuals from the past couple of months. Josh reports that he will do a separate blog post on the Puerto Rico trip we took a few weeks ago.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxH6pARfsAK9y1tSTlo8Xz4qJ_bKGh5Xe9AlFGSHA7DeqbvpGVuWJZXN7F83pkjUyFJaFZKysSm8w7eLqrfnrFERFyPLiZAeNXZLXCmUH2zgG6UcTQHqScfTC1-b9Z4hDvrDGW/s1600-h/IMG_6986.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxH6pARfsAK9y1tSTlo8Xz4qJ_bKGh5Xe9AlFGSHA7DeqbvpGVuWJZXN7F83pkjUyFJaFZKysSm8w7eLqrfnrFERFyPLiZAeNXZLXCmUH2zgG6UcTQHqScfTC1-b9Z4hDvrDGW/s320/IMG_6986.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330274195647943698" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LoR10l77gVHmjcnHZ18RUQykwetZ3L9Dc-lnDDlii8BpGlWkuhCLDjCHnuipr2q-q9YHqRysmRv7hPW4_qx06_EqTzAnQGzSo6Ima_CAawCMhMQRZ7kb9KR0wr5iF4Z9FXi5/s1600-h/IMG_6974.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LoR10l77gVHmjcnHZ18RUQykwetZ3L9Dc-lnDDlii8BpGlWkuhCLDjCHnuipr2q-q9YHqRysmRv7hPW4_qx06_EqTzAnQGzSo6Ima_CAawCMhMQRZ7kb9KR0wr5iF4Z9FXi5/s320/IMG_6974.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330274189013318626" border="0" /></a>Easter egg hunt at St. Luke's, Boone. Nice service, and plentiful eggs!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsN1NvaPb8eGDShN5OUKj1SLcgyOLzwp6Qrg7-mlIG0u6CC6lTqfrYyAxoSzgyKmNUjjAn_pHKw-57hlwySyNVqXG8jn-9KSK-5iapur_kIC_C8pWpW5Cw1E0a7VlszhgXzzL/s1600-h/Puerto+Rico+etc.+053.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsN1NvaPb8eGDShN5OUKj1SLcgyOLzwp6Qrg7-mlIG0u6CC6lTqfrYyAxoSzgyKmNUjjAn_pHKw-57hlwySyNVqXG8jn-9KSK-5iapur_kIC_C8pWpW5Cw1E0a7VlszhgXzzL/s320/Puerto+Rico+etc.+053.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330274184543892002" border="0" /></a>Getting ready to watch the Heels play.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKHbUMl325G39zGWgqxsI6uWWm3ldpnEt-IN6go4SNZEwkzcwAavQ9lfyqkWmJkV2z_TsBQqGmvO-eKovLXTmPeJMvvw4gjX5CT750KBIH4NOCGuovaXRJU3sCmWesOQcXBQq/s1600-h/Puerto+Rico+etc.+010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKHbUMl325G39zGWgqxsI6uWWm3ldpnEt-IN6go4SNZEwkzcwAavQ9lfyqkWmJkV2z_TsBQqGmvO-eKovLXTmPeJMvvw4gjX5CT750KBIH4NOCGuovaXRJU3sCmWesOQcXBQq/s320/Puerto+Rico+etc.+010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330274180843046626" border="0" /></a>Alex at Douglas' Carnival. That's orange spray paint in his hair if anyone was starting to worry about the color as well as the shape...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0-OrIVvqVZWnUmpuisJnglal5yafJblntibOzA4Rei-6GCNM4vT0Js-mPx9q4iiH4D7ZKsfytDT5yDiT4cKUyo6K_G7JuVHOiWFFgpEZC6JA0-hXWg3oMA2Bd23kVcinMNj4/s1600-h/Puerto+Rico+etc.+016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0-OrIVvqVZWnUmpuisJnglal5yafJblntibOzA4Rei-6GCNM4vT0Js-mPx9q4iiH4D7ZKsfytDT5yDiT4cKUyo6K_G7JuVHOiWFFgpEZC6JA0-hXWg3oMA2Bd23kVcinMNj4/s320/Puerto+Rico+etc.+016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330274178522844082" border="0" /></a>Visiting baby Freddie. In pictures of him with our kids, for some reason he always looks ever so slightly anxious.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxJUR5sFcWaxXjufUDKaPCKA-_GBZmInmfs771RVZ0QUwLmZ9pcoWXqExuGaNYRLnZjekqiuaGbftw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw6oeH02eXGlrh5cfDhTDhx6xQt9uXA5ibMpmeorNeXXw3cFR6Fm7cWSbhGxQxHJp4S0HWy-U4wCHk' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />Side by side videos of the piano recital, and an informance depicting a tornado.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-3405558836032850012009-02-28T11:05:00.001-08:002009-02-28T11:11:38.262-08:00American Heart Association fundraiserQuick solicitation --<br /><br />Alex is raising money through Jump Rope for Heart at Douglas, donations go to the American Heart Association. The minimum online donation is $25, but you can also donate smaller amounts by mailing him a check made out to the American Heart Association. If you'd like to donate, his profile is <a href="http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=284654&u=284654-248753729&e=2268395051">here</a>. Thanks.<br /><br />If you'd like to make a different kind of donation, next month Douglas has their annual carnival fundraiser. One of their very popular events is the "Bottle Shop", where they accept donations of things that come in bottles, with commonsense exceptions like no alcohol and nothing homemade. Sodas, hot sauce, nail polish, bubble bath, stuff like that. Then they number all the bottles and sell tickets for $1 that match up with those numbers, and you get to take your random bottle home. I donate several bottles every year, but they always have more demand to buy the tickets than they have bottles. So if -- and I am thinking of my brother's beloved trips to Big Lots here -- you'll see us in the next couple of weeks and would like to donate a random bottle, we'll pass it along.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-69084580125152013792009-02-27T10:35:00.000-08:002009-02-27T10:39:35.119-08:00From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Alexander M. Boyer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2r7PheyILIRTwfQ2WtkI9_LYem97efRwrtC2i3zGv4Fb2FLgDXg2_ZTWFUsG6si2mZM8nXtcM_QmyTcdVe9OKyFQgWCRAbCJE_im_RIW5MnIP_Vqewyc1tgGS-Hsr1VLSLKgmmw/s1600-h/Alex-notes2009b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2r7PheyILIRTwfQ2WtkI9_LYem97efRwrtC2i3zGv4Fb2FLgDXg2_ZTWFUsG6si2mZM8nXtcM_QmyTcdVe9OKyFQgWCRAbCJE_im_RIW5MnIP_Vqewyc1tgGS-Hsr1VLSLKgmmw/s400/Alex-notes2009b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307548170993294258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1Jgg1HsB61dELR5XEafbuHhHHdrwJOHYtLr00NI-whES-bu_5L64oZ9eIogAr4rKhJ09VgMsU7TtuYaOGEuA_cUx1MQq5ACQiUclJaQEg-482Ot2ToCn1Ji3WHx4V3V6PHnEKg/s1600-h/Alex-notes2009a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1Jgg1HsB61dELR5XEafbuHhHHdrwJOHYtLr00NI-whES-bu_5L64oZ9eIogAr4rKhJ09VgMsU7TtuYaOGEuA_cUx1MQq5ACQiUclJaQEg-482Ot2ToCn1Ji3WHx4V3V6PHnEKg/s400/Alex-notes2009a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307548388446653106" border="0" /></a>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16564269259441596349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-21268948976382901772009-02-07T13:25:00.001-08:002009-06-17T16:36:35.523-07:00Freddie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7U2WtLRytAyB1BXUQv8NRORSyOlmJ0GhpVSNEU8S8MpFvhihILbKv_oXWYjZ71auAtMVzyD8wqJHv5wg9tI1iHdZWD2itdIyAbxLRiFyCLsSDh6HBWPVfEf-RYzmP84A967IF/s1600-h/Freddy+017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7U2WtLRytAyB1BXUQv8NRORSyOlmJ0GhpVSNEU8S8MpFvhihILbKv_oXWYjZ71auAtMVzyD8wqJHv5wg9tI1iHdZWD2itdIyAbxLRiFyCLsSDh6HBWPVfEf-RYzmP84A967IF/s320/Freddy+017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300170981366771330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXf_H4XyCHilhM0CzlypTCd262RKziuyhAny1-zI4Yu5Gzq-nH6DzSfQwmtwOCz7bKhI87yiRyCzl6BUlIYdagpyaA0S6mwR3M09cR9AfloJsqOp6w2gnoUHz4IFQ8BLiavzw/s1600-h/Freddy+030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXf_H4XyCHilhM0CzlypTCd262RKziuyhAny1-zI4Yu5Gzq-nH6DzSfQwmtwOCz7bKhI87yiRyCzl6BUlIYdagpyaA0S6mwR3M09cR9AfloJsqOp6w2gnoUHz4IFQ8BLiavzw/s320/Freddy+030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300173668607858834" border="0" /></a><br />Well, you can see this yourselves, but obviously our new nephew is just perfect. Welcome to the world, Freddie.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjG8BDktwa3EbzGPlCVM-9ntVumuDQE4HYcBO_oQCUnfKTOJUTA3Vkvbt0jOZMC3PlLFxpSoNtRNmtrU0zmSz2mMyOQLGwv4NN2AjeJ3a1-5Xh_6qqfiyeXak7tk8SjxHZioBk/s1600-h/Freddy+023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjG8BDktwa3EbzGPlCVM-9ntVumuDQE4HYcBO_oQCUnfKTOJUTA3Vkvbt0jOZMC3PlLFxpSoNtRNmtrU0zmSz2mMyOQLGwv4NN2AjeJ3a1-5Xh_6qqfiyeXak7tk8SjxHZioBk/s320/Freddy+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300171869879271810" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSGPMpjvYubF5A5NRVCBDtCQeXIInycoL_nLDTpGIKBaj2Z59Olw9SjMkmg_j0CrzfEjmyf6gKZodh79UD1SPRjqL6_gu6Qu2F3_cAFSrBTI6Djqr97pnfbEWxoK7yldVPIRY/s1600-h/Freddy+019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Josh writing today. Alex and I spent the week around New Year’s in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region> with my parents.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">My parents, Jeff and Mary, met in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Honduras</st1:country-region></st1:place> as Peace Corps volunteers over 40 years ago. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">They have been back many times, my dad nearly every year of the last 20.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">One of their return trips was for nearly two years in the 70s when I was about a year younger than Alex is now.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Papa Jeff decided it was time to introduce his grandson to our friends there. Jen and Molly did not come with us because, uh, Molly is a very fun girl, but our guess is probably not the most fun international travel companion, yet.
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">First we stayed in the capital city, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Tegucigalpa</st1:place></st1:city>, with our friend Melba Zuniga.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Above, Alex is checking out the hilly city from Melba’s 4th floor porch.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">At the Museo de Identidad Nacional with Melba’s daughter Jimena.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Jimena works for the board of elections and for TV news, and does belly dancing in her spare time.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">We can vouch for the latter after receiving a special show.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Alex hardly knew what to think.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Then we left <st1:city st="on">Tegucigalpa</st1:city> for a small town of about 1,000 people in southern <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>, El Corpus. A friend of my dad’s is a congressman, and he lent us his chauffeur to get us there.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">The chauffeur made the 3-4 hour trip in 2 ½ hours.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">As he turned the highways into racetracks, I kept telling myself “He does this for a living, he knows what he’s doing.”</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">That turned out to be true.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The streets are cobblestone.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">The speed limit is between really slow and mucho damage to your truck.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Juana on the far right, Pedro in the back, family and friends all ‘round. For those of you who know our friend Omar Lainez here in NC, Juana is Omar's sister.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyDbhFdVQz0BCSqlMhLQ9ZkOP9cSaZgmOQhx9tBPPtyYSKVfJaXbkpjFtua9qyv03FqHGcq_aBXwh6b8D2065rGtEimBi5x8PlAOKC5-TLwFtee5JfAcJSs4HHnl-w5VzIs8haLg/s1600-h/IMG_6621.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291541677923372082" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyDbhFdVQz0BCSqlMhLQ9ZkOP9cSaZgmOQhx9tBPPtyYSKVfJaXbkpjFtua9qyv03FqHGcq_aBXwh6b8D2065rGtEimBi5x8PlAOKC5-TLwFtee5JfAcJSs4HHnl-w5VzIs8haLg/s400/IMG_6621.JPG" border="0" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cjeboyer%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Samantha starts with a sparkler, the moves on to a glass of wine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Or maybe it's banana soda.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Either way, it’s a party. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Alex likes to say he lost his first tooth on the first day of the new year.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">I don’t think “lost” is accurate.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Papa Jeff felt challenged by Jen’s text message asking whether the tooth had come out yet.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">A dentist in another life, Papa Jeff worked on it until the job was done.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">I told Alex he could put the tooth under his pillow that night.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">He then asked me about the exchange rate between Lempiras and dollars -- 20 to 1 -- and decided to wait until we got home.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"><v:path connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" extrusionok="f"><o:lock aspectratio="t" ext="edit"><v:imagedata title="IMG_6625" src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cjeboyer%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg"></v:imagedata></o:lock></v:path></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:stroke></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9HgsK_fydg_ZuVac8PaW3NmuV0kyYNUMyQb8NBSnJzNlkl1XpMjUC1eDKaY6CHVbUs3hjbsY6rNcg8sJ27o8eAsg_sw27ck9E7_N8DRwkeLctEkcHhYeRGI0iAhqUXX0a-rNiMQ/s1600-h/IMG_6636.JPG"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cjeboyer%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style></a></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwCO7-wcx-calQ6cAq9OCmNbO5YZ1dnA6340YZ-1PQ3lRcZqxCszypUctwdWsN11M0jq3YuBMI8N1oLyDA-kD9KK6u83FRcI88XdF0gSVxxFeEHOV5mNQUjZ-xd7mv-FquUHLQg/s1600-h/IMG_6656.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291638278740768434" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwCO7-wcx-calQ6cAq9OCmNbO5YZ1dnA6340YZ-1PQ3lRcZqxCszypUctwdWsN11M0jq3YuBMI8N1oLyDA-kD9KK6u83FRcI88XdF0gSVxxFeEHOV5mNQUjZ-xd7mv-FquUHLQg/s400/IMG_6656.JPG" border="0" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;">When it was time to leave El Corpus, Andrea explained that she was keeping Alex.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">A note here to Andrea:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Thank you so much for being a great host to Alex.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">I hope we can return your warmth and kindness when you visit us in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">A brief flashback to when Andrea and Samantha visited North Carolina some years ago:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrY7j29GJSUMfqXcTkTezhYEgwS6-fgkGMbgpuI77q9c1dTuI3cPXQl9hGMIBbUb92LcKK-j-IeeoBu5zDPkZgG7qnuzXwByHoMmHBKS27BBZuGx2VwHDfcBdBR0R9Qiz25PBLqA/s1600-h/3084200877_c55f812e6e_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrY7j29GJSUMfqXcTkTezhYEgwS6-fgkGMbgpuI77q9c1dTuI3cPXQl9hGMIBbUb92LcKK-j-IeeoBu5zDPkZgG7qnuzXwByHoMmHBKS27BBZuGx2VwHDfcBdBR0R9Qiz25PBLqA/s400/3084200877_c55f812e6e_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291739304265343026" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Now let us return to the present, and to Tegucigalpa.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRyE1B8I5sPgtB_SKFUE174gL5Q6U8Ctpwb_pHsAapr2F3LoAUhY5p3e_-kKLmU_MU1cZVG-nzla6n0ozBkHay403hfOFQa3x8PPqoiNGITfryG-pXu9rcmJSgDCDi0ZBl0WQiQ/s1600-h/IMG_6672.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291638571465087970" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRyE1B8I5sPgtB_SKFUE174gL5Q6U8Ctpwb_pHsAapr2F3LoAUhY5p3e_-kKLmU_MU1cZVG-nzla6n0ozBkHay403hfOFQa3x8PPqoiNGITfryG-pXu9rcmJSgDCDi0ZBl0WQiQ/s400/IMG_6672.JPG" border="0" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cjeboyer%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype></span><object id="ieooui" classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D"></object><style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style><span style="font-size:85%;">Melba’s daughter, Melissa, and her husband Nelson, gave us a great tour of Valle de Angeles, a cute little town outside Teguc. Melissa and Nelson are from Tegucigalpa and now live near <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:city>. They give exceptional tours of both.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Valle de Angeles is a great place to buy souvenirs, like say…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyGB4UzeaSfkqUiVJJaW8xlMyGMTLTMtsMbBlUf1M1MkzzB8D2qVVN0EoXBK_UsIeR1r9PoDpaHFP9CJBdXY2ocI3lB8aAcsZzU8hW8Tnidaee0_XelInt4MYb4wWrOnOq2MBIA/s1600-h/IMG_6682.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291639905561239842" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyGB4UzeaSfkqUiVJJaW8xlMyGMTLTMtsMbBlUf1M1MkzzB8D2qVVN0EoXBK_UsIeR1r9PoDpaHFP9CJBdXY2ocI3lB8aAcsZzU8hW8Tnidaee0_XelInt4MYb4wWrOnOq2MBIA/s400/IMG_6682.JPG" border="0" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cjeboyer%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">… a Honduran f</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ú</span><span style="font-size:85%;">tbol uniform.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Thanks to Papa Jeff and Nana Mary for taking Alex and I on a great trip.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Thanks to our friends in Tegucigalpa and El Corpus, whose graciousness and good cheer warm my heart.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">
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But until I see my dad again, I can't get the most recent pictures up. So, here's some older ones! 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But hopefully that helps.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-22319543404667525712008-10-13T17:00:00.000-07:002008-10-13T17:38:20.692-07:00More pictures, DC & Ashburn<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1d_R_Bk427b2TECBzx6uFveREt_9kOLyuhS0PWQLvjXC3l-jcUzkCgjEhgMkIHHlsAYzIpA8fVT1HXwf5UtFagwoBclU4qry1pSdajdm2IJVVt6fnl0RRas5JerHwjFgRxP7O/s1600-h/Ashburn+%26+DC+005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1d_R_Bk427b2TECBzx6uFveREt_9kOLyuhS0PWQLvjXC3l-jcUzkCgjEhgMkIHHlsAYzIpA8fVT1HXwf5UtFagwoBclU4qry1pSdajdm2IJVVt6fnl0RRas5JerHwjFgRxP7O/s320/Ashburn+%26+DC+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256800283456818162" border="0" /></a>At the National Zoo. Unfortunately I don't know which panda this is.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyteTOGGryT-AFhDNiD7WUS0EzoRCKd-UiotvXa5CJR2xCBSO7mB8fNEAn1V9JjxYjXycRSK8kvk8-mSI5sEBrNoweQ28mSRi3yM3nlfnKwuCArTSsw99UlhV1XWSNsvysTYTK/s1600-h/Ashburn+%26+DC+007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyteTOGGryT-AFhDNiD7WUS0EzoRCKd-UiotvXa5CJR2xCBSO7mB8fNEAn1V9JjxYjXycRSK8kvk8-mSI5sEBrNoweQ28mSRi3yM3nlfnKwuCArTSsw99UlhV1XWSNsvysTYTK/s320/Ashburn+%26+DC+007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256800287911101314" border="0" /></a>The elephants are getting some fancy renovations to their area, which seems like a good idea. They don't have a whole lot of room to roam.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghysTUPQG386jRuZwxR5YqweeU07MsvCer-MyR1KxO0FnAp2J9XKSkw23cG7K0A6zaJ9tRiU9Y5aqaCGj3fQxmbi86-RuwdMODaUn7Wgt-ezFzNQyCviEIxBQ_gGj1WDl6Frz/s1600-h/Ashburn+%26+DC+013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghysTUPQG386jRuZwxR5YqweeU07MsvCer-MyR1KxO0FnAp2J9XKSkw23cG7K0A6zaJ9tRiU9Y5aqaCGj3fQxmbi86-RuwdMODaUn7Wgt-ezFzNQyCviEIxBQ_gGj1WDl6Frz/s320/Ashburn+%26+DC+013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256800290569724466" border="0" /></a>Everyone except me got to see this tiger chasing the ball into the moat. Weird.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4BNv7yhxVwEQaJpMPO8GUfRf5RLAYRMRvTulnIZbEbwOW-TfZX5r_MbtaG81_hFtDmaVK1GdYBwDJ2lGQ6gSDdHeuzVolWc4TO27p8dqn9bAOlbGFCLRMh8rKwElwN2qDctwF/s1600-h/Ashburn+%26+DC+018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4BNv7yhxVwEQaJpMPO8GUfRf5RLAYRMRvTulnIZbEbwOW-TfZX5r_MbtaG81_hFtDmaVK1GdYBwDJ2lGQ6gSDdHeuzVolWc4TO27p8dqn9bAOlbGFCLRMh8rKwElwN2qDctwF/s320/Ashburn+%26+DC+018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256800296387293490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMqgbGB7AukPFgrHsCciNLW3V3l6HUOCIBBqlX1Fxo7mVwzy7pnOVpAd8wcRlJTSeqqCxGcIJHJI3dsvZD9TjzLr4bnv_lZxsPQdPr_rkObfaiPawdT-qlvtCLTU2A-q-pTfp/s1600-h/Ashburn+%26+DC+024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMqgbGB7AukPFgrHsCciNLW3V3l6HUOCIBBqlX1Fxo7mVwzy7pnOVpAd8wcRlJTSeqqCxGcIJHJI3dsvZD9TjzLr4bnv_lZxsPQdPr_rkObfaiPawdT-qlvtCLTU2A-q-pTfp/s320/Ashburn+%26+DC+024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256800296827830946" border="0" /></a>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-82378096043516487212008-10-09T19:46:00.001-07:002008-10-09T20:16:38.755-07:00Kids & kids<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJLI8uypkpPToIk5tb3q3csP4ZlBmsB9ZJXkI0HjeWgf-QU4JPedrMPFf4clCM9XKJt27vHUYymUbLFC1SmIB2o6yj_IOlMEYgBM7sRvT4iUKROVt5P2nPRxpPRWQxBLxTW8p/s1600-h/IMG_6205.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJLI8uypkpPToIk5tb3q3csP4ZlBmsB9ZJXkI0HjeWgf-QU4JPedrMPFf4clCM9XKJt27vHUYymUbLFC1SmIB2o6yj_IOlMEYgBM7sRvT4iUKROVt5P2nPRxpPRWQxBLxTW8p/s320/IMG_6205.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255352534106058146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha_m0ium3pM8MD7SJJGosksiX72xSViaEyFeuKcM3K2zeRHIwfVoWMnOxnivNErF4Fj9no6kyJOOXfSYHryQKVAm_dTLTPtK_gQU0lTEsC1oAIzHjymaLFFgDd8o9QQFhoxW0p/s1600-h/IMG_6206.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2Sh09tfeawElNOhuS9MHCMTKmFx1KGpie547Wt3zhnWD_vIihTPujBDWq4NfwqK0ETcRmH88JwSAEj5Hrm9QqBxa1itu5P0it5qLvi8x4b9CaICCjOK-QTCA3QYTyxtQLeLk/s320/IMG_6229.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255352542505434786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBUEozp8_HCFfh9kLk8XdYz8Vdvl_wsZ3yZxYqr1Fex9XT2z6763DB-eS4iy-mFD7AcNbCWD6WrAKqNwdEFQuHshOl3Z35Hkrs42QJjPlDrfUc26VEBRmE4M9uJqm76kJ3U4V/s1600-h/IMG_6217-1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBUEozp8_HCFfh9kLk8XdYz8Vdvl_wsZ3yZxYqr1Fex9XT2z6763DB-eS4iy-mFD7AcNbCWD6WrAKqNwdEFQuHshOl3Z35Hkrs42QJjPlDrfUc26VEBRmE4M9uJqm76kJ3U4V/s320/IMG_6217-1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255352547573452466" border="0" /></a>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-54574383411088313072008-10-05T14:34:00.000-07:002008-10-05T14:50:27.293-07:00Molly singsMolly learned this at preschool. You have one guess as to her teacher's home team.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwQmKLoOhHA7K9Z7-8yksAxmyAQq01JOpmMgkLvx1GkOuxWfteKJuHxrzWRLYIhlVlwSt0hS9cr-SM' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-3905593187311435762008-09-25T19:10:00.000-07:002008-09-25T19:32:17.977-07:00Updates, picturesSince the readership of this blog is pretty small, some of you have probably heard that I recently got biopsy of my thyroid, which came back with a diagnosis of "suspicious" for papillary carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer. I was referred to an ENT surgeon, who said that because the diagnosis was somewhat equivocal, he's going to have a pathologist look at the slides for his opinion, but the upshot is that I will be getting either a total thyroidectomy or just a removal of this lesion on my thyroid (and if that turned out to be cancerous after removal, a subsequent total thyroidectomy.)<br /><br />Although it is something of a shock to be diagnosed with cancer at 33, this is a very treatable form of a cancer with a pretty much 100% survival rate with total thyroidectomy. The ENT surgeon has performed over 700 and says that he hasn't damaged any vocal cord nerves yet, which is the primary risk of the surgery itself. So, I'm just going to try to take care of myself & take one day at a time and continue to focus on other things. Fortunately (?) there's always plenty of work, a messy house, two kids, and an election season that just will not stop being weirder than all get out. I, for one, am not suspending anything.<br /><br />So, anyway, some pictures.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigScyg4zD5qk2wyJCoYcG_b_J6biTFBDJXv4RJQ-y2h9qf-nPACJa3W7cbgLkmJ3L7k_7KiaiDPB1_-dxAeKfRqIChzFGpV17ixZnRV3YGYUhFnDJlNBI71gG_wKiXlERFy23h/s320/IMG_6197.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250149971618587042" border="0" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UWh5V40te7Mx0h0WDp3dwVPpfNtq0u-_RoYamOaQ6OJgFAwCLZui36rSlrbYqb4mab40MYjK60xN8ymQANVd5iPlPnT9-e0VvY8miEv0gT1fxtLfQBLlSZRSZ7ENQmdU7tZ3/s1600-h/IMG_6200.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UWh5V40te7Mx0h0WDp3dwVPpfNtq0u-_RoYamOaQ6OJgFAwCLZui36rSlrbYqb4mab40MYjK60xN8ymQANVd5iPlPnT9-e0VvY8miEv0gT1fxtLfQBLlSZRSZ7ENQmdU7tZ3/s320/IMG_6200.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250149976420847938" border="0" /></a>Josh and I went to see Murry Hammond of the Old 97's at the invitation of our friend Brian. (Wide-eyed guy pictured below.) It was a small crowd, and we got to talk to him afterwards, and he was very funny and laid-back and friendly. He did lovely, old-fashioned songs, heavy on trains and gospel influence. You can listen <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Murry+Hammond/I+Don%27t+Know+Where+I%27m+Going+But+I%27m+On+My+Way">here</a> to some samples if you're interested.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyg2-bruyozjnWCG1vQIoGix5CUPeQHOnVRdj1BI6GnqX3VhTDEcptgbaZaCK9EsWhmARmV74Z-ptJVjbeREhBDBaPINN-RI2bTipmsJE7rU97P8pFmjll3VgZezD12cuJj78p/s1600-h/IMG_6198.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyg2-bruyozjnWCG1vQIoGix5CUPeQHOnVRdj1BI6GnqX3VhTDEcptgbaZaCK9EsWhmARmV74Z-ptJVjbeREhBDBaPINN-RI2bTipmsJE7rU97P8pFmjll3VgZezD12cuJj78p/s320/IMG_6198.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250149982596830674" border="0" /></a>We kind of hit the Krispy Kreme on the way back. C'mon, the "Hot Doughnuts Now" sign was lit. We're only human.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigiqEbrMl1ZuyXEd45Z4j7dfUs9yMVjaL4R8hYu5yb1sadHUMYFdx81QFaLfGZdh-4IbKtnvDGGrwtJXJcZvB0C5fPtM2li-ZvmqiYMw8m4V-W425bsQVtYrQj5JpF9n-h-TDx/s1600-h/IMG_6162.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigiqEbrMl1ZuyXEd45Z4j7dfUs9yMVjaL4R8hYu5yb1sadHUMYFdx81QFaLfGZdh-4IbKtnvDGGrwtJXJcZvB0C5fPtM2li-ZvmqiYMw8m4V-W425bsQVtYrQj5JpF9n-h-TDx/s320/IMG_6162.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250149991313698018" border="0" /></a>A few pictures recovered from our once-lost camera. These are from the Cove Creek festival up in the mountains this summer. We liked the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Kruger Brothers, the kids liked the ice cream and playground.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPzjqHFrRmkw98dVDKS8A6VOJMeX0ocsNILVf5JRwwdpFpNU3m5ZvbjNVlQUfMxZL-MWwqQ1aCZMyZU5pUGuliQbIQeDw1P0cvp1LACX8wakOVV9OVqlfFUGKUzINSuhqgYex/s1600-h/IMG_6167.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPzjqHFrRmkw98dVDKS8A6VOJMeX0ocsNILVf5JRwwdpFpNU3m5ZvbjNVlQUfMxZL-MWwqQ1aCZMyZU5pUGuliQbIQeDw1P0cvp1LACX8wakOVV9OVqlfFUGKUzINSuhqgYex/s320/IMG_6167.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250149995022030418" border="0" /></a>Alex, still a great older brother. We also just found out tonight that Alex will be able to play on a flag football team organized by the Salvation Army. His team will be the Panthers. We were told when we signed up that there might not be any availability, but they did cash the check so I've been hoping that meant they'd have a space for him. So, we'll see how that goes. Piano lessons + organized sports, it's a suburban kinda life.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-44179712035266369842008-09-20T20:16:00.000-07:002008-09-20T20:22:50.992-07:00Think, people, thinkWell, I really would like this blog to be primarily a place where people can come to follow the travails of our family and read our cute stories and find our pictures and other things like that. I don't want to scare people away from that with 20,000 words on Sarah Palin, not that I've gotten any complaints as such. Yet it is September of an election year, and every day the news is more bizarre than the day before, and I have a hard time holding that in check. So I'm going to do a trial launch of a parallel blog to focus on politics. I can pretty much guarantee that it will not be very original, seeing as how "good grief, look what's become of us" is not really an original thought right now. A lot of times it will probably be just links to things I like, but that's frequently true of blogs with very high readerships, too. It will not be updated any more frequently than this one, either. So don't expect much, is what I'm saying, but it will make me feel good to have an outlet, and I hope that some of you will appreciate it, too. <br /><br />So, for right now, it is just a repost of the Sarah Palin Diatribe And Screed, but I'll add to it. Check it out <a href="http://www.chezboyerant.blogspot.com/">here.</a>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-32071955961473338252008-09-07T14:55:00.000-07:002008-09-10T11:53:34.955-07:00Okay, so I'm totally lying about the picturesSome day, some day.<br /><br />It’s taken me a little bit of time to come to terms with this Sarah Palin announcement.<span style=""> </span>I’ve kind of been going through my own version of the Kubler-Ross stages, although they aren’t stages of grief, unless grief can be accurately portrayed by the sentiment:<span style=""> </span>Am I in some kind of parallel universe? What in the name of all that's holy are these people thinking? This is our COUNTRY we're talking about. Paul Krugman is a sharp guy and I have a feeling he is probably a lot more right in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/opinion/05krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">his analysis</a> than my rather emotional response here, but, my friends, it was either this or pharmaceuticals, very soon. My Facebook page has also been going through kind of “whoa, Jen’s obsessed with Sarah Palin”, so I’m going to try to put an end to that with this here Diatribe and Screed and keep Facebook for what it is good at, namely SuperPoking!, inscrutable status updates, and finding people from high school you had pretty much completely forgotten about.<span style=""> </span>So anyway, Heaven knows I think the Republicans are going to be a footnote in the history books this year (and in 2012), but taking the pick seriously, there’s no other way to put it besides: it makes my blood boil. <p class="MsoNormal">I want to note that it is Sarah Palin’s right to run for vice president if she so chooses, even if she has a five-month old special needs child and a teenage daughter with her own problems to deal with.<span style=""> </span>Newsweek reports that she went back to work the very next day after her fourth pregnancy and after three days with her last child.<span style=""> </span>Mine is not to judge her choices, and hell will freeze over before I will participate in the so-called “mommy wars.” But when she and her surrogates appear on TV and talk about how moms all over the country are going to relate to her, I’m afraid I have to respond to that.<span style=""> </span>I went back to work when Molly was 11 weeks old, which was less time than I took after Alex, and I cried every day at home because I didn’t want to do it.<span style=""> </span>But we were out of money, and I had to, and that’s fine. <span style=""> </span>My kids are pretty fantastic so far, don’t seem to be hurting for love, and plenty of moms can’t even take that long.<span style=""> </span>But do I relate to her decision to accept the nomination at that point in her life and thrust her family into the national spotlight so she can spend the next two+ months on a plane with John McCain? No, I don’t especially identify with that choice, no.<span style=""> </span>(I wouldn’t do it for Barack Obama, either.)<span style=""> </span>So, sure, it’s her right – just don’t ask me to “relate” to it, and don’t ask me to vote for her based on that because you can’t think of anything to say about her record that would convince me.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I also want to note that this is not a question of disagreeing with someone on an issue, or even on an entire political philosophy.<span style=""> </span>Any argument that is grounded in reality, argued with intelligence and in good faith, rarely upsets me on a personal level.<span style=""> </span>I might argue with you until you beg just to be allowed to go to the restroom without being followed, and I might get animated, but I won’t get mad and I won’t hold it against you at the end of the day.<span style=""> </span>I LIKE a good discussion.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>This makes me mad on a personal level because I am being told, and we are all being told, that we are stupid.<span style=""> </span>It’s hard to say what I agree and disagree with John McCain on since he’s taken multiple sides of any given issue (most comprehensive list on the intertoobz, for my money, is <a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops">here </a>), but I have always considered him to be a good man of personal integrity.<span style=""> </span>I have never been angry with John McCain.<span style=""> </span>And when John McCain said he would pick the person best qualified to run the country for his vice president, I took him at his word.<br /><br />And instead, we get this.<span style=""> </span>We get the most craven, cynical, calculating choice for a VP pick I could possibly imagine.<span style=""> </span>(To be fair, I don’t think she was McCain’s first, second, or even necessarily third, choice.) The Republican primary voters do the party the favor of picking the least “Republican” guy running and the only one, for that precise reason, with George Bush’s chance at Jeopardy! of winning the general election. They are repaid with a pick only the far right wing of the party could like.<span style=""> </span>A pick designed to shore up the crazy wingers of the party that has never liked McCain, a man who never did quite get on board with torture for some strange reason and who just couldn’t picture that border fence complete with moat stocked with piranha.<span style=""> </span>A man who opposed tax cuts for the richest of the rich, until he became the Republican nominee. A pick designed to lure disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters with the ludicrous proposition -- Check it out, ladies, we’ve got a girl, too!<span style=""> </span>Instead of doing what sensible people would do, namely threaten to hold their breath until McCain picked someone else, the base embraced this choice. <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/06/continuity-2/">A</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402845.html">couple</a> <a href="http://www.drlaurablog.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palin-and-motherhood/">of</a> <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021444.php">conservatives </a>came up with responses at least somewhat lacking in breathtaking hypocrisy, but mostly the base seemed pleased. Often the same people who for a year have been repeating like a broken record, "Barack Obama is unqualified and inexperienced", have wholeheartedly embraced a woman who, by any halfway sincere evaluation of the truth, has far fewer qualifications and experience. Notwithstanding this essential reality, they have responded with either laughably ludicrous fluffing of her resume, or simply ignoring the issue as irrelevant altogether. Confronting one's sudden and stunning hypocrisy on the importance of "experience" does not appear to be part of the equation, except for the precious few public conservatives linked above.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">For days, I laughed at loud and wondered when the “real” nominee would be unveiled.<span style=""> </span>I am pleased to say that the strategy of thinking women, in particular Hillary supporters, are dumber than salt shakers has <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Story?id=5725793&page=2">not worked</a>. The fact that I think this particular strategy is moronic -- we don’t need any new voters, thanks, just happier ones -- does not stop it from making my blood boil.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So why DOES it make my blood boil that such obvious political considerations became such an overwhelming part of a politician’s choice of another politician for running mate for a political office?<span style=""> </span>We’ve had eight years of fat government contracts handed out on the basis of cronyism and corruption from the party of “fiscal restraint” and “small government”, should I really continue to be so naïve?<span style=""> Shouldn't all hope for any semblance of effective, competent, ethical government</span> have been crushed a long time ago, inhabiting as I do the reality-based community? The reason it makes me mad is because they think I, and all of us, are dumber than a bag of hammers inside a box of rocks in the crawlspace under Dan Quayle’s house.<span style=""> </span>In the selection of Sarah Palin, the media frenzy that followed, and the Republican National Convention, here are the things we were evidently expected to believe.</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Sarah Palin and her fellow Republicans have great respect for Hillary Clinton, and really admire her courageous and historic run for the presidency.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">If Barack Obama had a seventeen-year-old pregnant daughter named Shaniqua, Republicans would praise her for keeping her baby, for her strong moral values, and for being a role model in the culture of life.<span style=""> </span>They would angrily insist that the media respect Shaniqua’s privacy after she appears in numerous photo ops with her father.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Sarah Palin, by virtue of governing <st1:state st="on">Alaska</st1:state> for 19 months, has foreign policy experience due to its proximity to <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:state>. This foreign policy experience includes both <st1:country-region st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>, and, I am not making this up, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">North Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style=""> </span>The processes by which she would have learned such valuable experience <a href="http://townhall.com/Columnists/FrankJGaffneyJr/2008/09/02/palins_experience">include “osmosis”</a>.<br /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Sarah Palin has commander-in-chief experience due to her command of the Alaska National Guard.<span style=""> </span>If you <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYiw_y2qDI">ask for an example</a> of her command of the Alaska National Guard, you are “belittling” her. (If <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Campbell</st1:place></st1:city> weren’t a woman, she would undoubtedly also have been called sexist.)<span style=""> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Among the significant things we as voters should be considering in our decision-making are how well a person shoots animals, appreciates hockey, and looks.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Other important things to consider is that being the mayor of a town with a four-digit population is <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13104.html">extremely similar to running a country</a>, and she <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html">mayored</a> really awesomely, thanks! She even, at no extra charge, tried to help libraries figure out what's <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html">safe to read.<br /></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">The guys who think it’s awesome to have a VP nominee who could be in one of those “chicks in bikinis with guns” calendars are not sexist.<span style=""> </span>I, for thinking that the word “unqualified” does not begin to capture the universe of problems with this woman, am sexist.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">It is <a href="http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/295464.html">funny</a> when people with cancer are called "a cancer".<br /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Among her legislative achievements to be heralded is fighting the roll-back of bar closing times.<span style=""> </span>It took tremendous political courage, in a state full of oil workers and fishermen, to stand on the principle that last call should stay at 5 a.m., and this courage and resolve <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDVhMDY2MmZhZmIxMDA0YzVjNzExODQyOWEwNDNjNjM=">will be reflected</a> in everything she does as vice president.<span style=""> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Sarah Palin loves her some ethics, and is <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/157439/output/print">very committed</a> to getting to the bottom of Troopergate.<span style=""> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Abstinence-only sex education is effective, and <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5986476.html">the gay can be “prayed away”</a>.<span style=""> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">That it is possible to sell used aeronautics equipment “for a profit” on eBay, and that one can make this declaration in public without anyone bothering to <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/05/plane_not_sold_on_ebay.html">fact check it</a>.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">That “I said thanks but no thanks to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/baratunde/2826860356/">bridge to Nowhere</a>” is an accurate portrayal of “I said ‘yes, please’ until the project would require that the state kick in a little bit, in which case I cancelled the bridge and kept the money.”</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Creationism should be <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/08/sarah_palin_on.html">taught in science class</a>, alongside actual science, and <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/palin-global-wa.html">people got nothin' to do with global warming</a>. Oh, hey, totally changing the subject, do you guys need any oil? We've got oil!<br /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">She won’t be doing any interviews for a while because she needs to “spend time with the voters”.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">The economy is pretty good, isn’t it?</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">National conventions are no place for discussing policy proposals.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">This country needs reform, a real change from the Democrats who’ve been leading this country for eight years.<span style=""> </span>Sarah Palin is a real reformer and absolutely <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/09/obama_rebukes_palin_on_earmark.php">hates</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/4346/palin-on-earmarks-we-did-well">pork</a> in any form.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">That's not the same black couple we showed you before at the RNC. No, it's not. They may look a little bit similar, but no, that is TOTALLY a different black couple.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">What, where, and how we drill is far less important than our need to DRILL. NOW. The Department of Energy, which says that we can expect increased supply from Arctic drilling <a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/anwr/">by 2018</a>, is staffed by known Communists.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">909 is <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check">more than 76,165</a>.<br /></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Torture against John McCain is very, very bad, and should be brought up at every opportunity, including in explaining why he doesn’t know how many houses he has.<span style=""> </span>Torture committed by the <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> is o.k., and Barack Obama should be mocked for not condoning it.</li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal">Can I just say, if you're going to pull jet-selling-at-auction political stunts, Craigslist doesn't charge a commission and eBay does. Everyone really trying to pinch their pennies knows this. Somewhat important when you're talking about $2.1 million dollars.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Let me just elaborate here a bit, because the sarcasm is pretty thick but some of this is important. Sarah Palin, when you complain that being asked tough questions is sexist and say that you're not giving any interviews until journalists learn a little "deference", you are demonstrating your gobsmackingly profound lack of preparedness for what is in store for you. For heaven's sakes, I personally stared down far greater sexism just reading the parental guide to <a href="http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Spider-Man_2/60036230?dmode=COMMONSENSE&lnkctr=mdp-parentinfo&n=1&trkid=222336">Spider Man-2 on Netflix</a>. (Hint: it's in the warnings section.) When you interview for the job of vice president through prepared remarks and speeches courtesy of Bush speechwriters, to favorable crowds without any opportunity to be questioned by voters, journalists, or anyone else, you are mocking women who got their jobs on their own steam and without a teleprompter, answering questions they were not given ahead of time to the best of their ability.<span style=""> </span> When you mock community organizers, you are mocking people who make a difference where they live, and doing it without a budget and without a staff.<span style=""> </span>You are mocking the vocation of Jesus of Nazareth.<span style=""> </span>When you mock legal protections for the accused, you are mocking the Constitution of the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>And when you make statements that in any reasonable version of objective reality are out and out lies, you are mocking the intelligence of every voter in this country.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">For seven and a half years our current president has thought of us all as stupid.<span style=""> </span>To be fair, 28% of us are.<span style=""> </span>These folks would support him if he bit the head off of a live kitten on national television. (Hint:<span style=""> </span>it would somehow be justified because of terrorism.)<span style=""> </span>And now, the same people in the same party, continue to believe that I am stupid.<span style=""> </span>Day after day, they deploy their troops to the press to say things that no one with an intact brain stem could possibly believe, I guess to “catapult the propaganda”.<span style=""> </span>Mitt Romney, worth a quarter of a billion dollars, tells us about "liberal Washington" and warns us about elites. And on and on and on. And they are gambling that in November, there will be people who will make this election go their way.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Well, Sarah Palin, it’s going to take more than ugly words, untruths, and holing up in Dick Cheney's <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheneys_secrecy_far_greater_than_reported_0623.html">man/woman-sized safe</a> to sell yourself to the voters. It's going to take more than <a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/09/03/the-phoenetic-sarah-palin.aspx">pronouncing “nuclear” correctly</a> to distance you from this administration, from whom you seem to have taken quite a bit of inspiration. I’m not stupid.<span style=""> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955Y3NJTRIE"> </a></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955Y3NJTRIE">Joe Biden’s</a> not stupid. And Barack Obama’s campaign isn’t stupid. <span style=""> </span>Do you know what those community organizers you mocked actually do, Governor Palin?<span style=""> </span>They do <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyCjg56QEYy3r8Gz2X09TnpaWOMwD9317JU00">this</a>.<span style=""> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">And they do <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/actioncenter">this</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">So just in closing, I’m not stupid, and I’m not <a href="http://www.comics.com/webmail/ViewStrip?key=62251925-81d278781a-FF">drunk, either</a>.<span style=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">And there will absolutely be updates as the insults to my intelligence roll in like federal money to <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I'm voting on November 4 for the man who assumes I'm a grown person, and addresses me accordingly. It's time to stop this party from its perpetual manipulation and misunderestimation of the country I love.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Update: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinstyle8-2008sep08,0,855616.story?page=1">Eerily similar</a> to another very prominent Republican...</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/09/surface-politic.html#more">Alternative analysis:</a> Are we stupid?</p><p class="MsoNormal">Good grief, I probably know even less about economics than John McCain and even I knew <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014616.php">this much</a> about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Barack Obama has been<a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014620.php"> reading my blog</a>. Weird. :)</p>Awwww, he <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/bush-on-palin-an-inspired-pick/">likes her</a>! He really likes her!<br /><br />UPDATE 9/10/08: The website <a href="http://www.sadlyno.com/">Sadly, No!</a> came up with this concept of "shorter". They take opinion pieces, and shorten them to a sentence or two that they feel captures the essential element of it. They are snarky and sarcastic and not always fair, and very, very funny.<br /><br />Here's my "shorter" of the Republican strategist, Mr. Feehery, featured in this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903727.html">article</a>:<br /><br />"Of COURSE we're LYING. People are MORONS."<br /><br />And of course, the polling since I drafted this blog post is bearing that out.<br /><br />Much, much, <a href="http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/11767.html">shorter me</a>.<br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-69993540501019391552008-08-12T18:58:00.000-07:002008-08-12T19:05:35.408-07:00So, anyway,I seem to have lost the camera again to the space-time continuum. So I haven't had much to add here. I think for the Time Being (which I picture as a monster ever since a conversation with Josh many years ago) the checked-out cameras from NCSU will suffice and I'll just entertain you all with my wit, and maybe juggling or something. Either that or the blog readership will plummet, from 12 to 2. <br /><br />So, anyway, I'm sure I'll think of something cute they've done, or pretty soon I'll make up something plausible. Don't go. There will be pictures soon.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23132609.post-30902951332196340232008-07-27T16:30:00.000-07:002008-12-10T21:36:49.208-08:00Topsail Beach photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLaWALiBGlTS8JeIDBC4NINyClVmdxzb91JgcN6I4wFzF509QTHd9kcjqSOv7307WiDW63NK3J0JTG07GxzzAOojREXW7orqxgDUhJrEJZ-XKX-lMA8lFxnGo2mnBpQstJy0K4/s1600-h/beach+007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLaWALiBGlTS8JeIDBC4NINyClVmdxzb91JgcN6I4wFzF509QTHd9kcjqSOv7307WiDW63NK3J0JTG07GxzzAOojREXW7orqxgDUhJrEJZ-XKX-lMA8lFxnGo2mnBpQstJy0K4/s320/beach+007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227842652231042290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSup6pknrc562Wt9BbHIzEx_Jr0g56XryDG80IoJAHswoWUmmaW4kJ0m-Nhi81pVZfFi1lAhY4lz3bNyF9wL8_b_JfyXlwVFiVcO9Ra7bK_j_Qn19-NKrmh1FkdjLYJdL69lfS/s1600-h/beach+025.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSup6pknrc562Wt9BbHIzEx_Jr0g56XryDG80IoJAHswoWUmmaW4kJ0m-Nhi81pVZfFi1lAhY4lz3bNyF9wL8_b_JfyXlwVFiVcO9Ra7bK_j_Qn19-NKrmh1FkdjLYJdL69lfS/s320/beach+025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227842655402278482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ci6_Oa7HHXPeNA-V4ytYN0gkDamz5TCnNql9rw-lJn-Pi81joXWCsUJEIywfmac87swK7Tgx0zZ0VqWCATHwOK8YgFyx6wh0OgYOomcQuF3L9Foxs6c6ivmBE5-y6QqY4wCP/s1600-h/beach+079.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ci6_Oa7HHXPeNA-V4ytYN0gkDamz5TCnNql9rw-lJn-Pi81joXWCsUJEIywfmac87swK7Tgx0zZ0VqWCATHwOK8YgFyx6wh0OgYOomcQuF3L9Foxs6c6ivmBE5-y6QqY4wCP/s320/beach+079.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227842658495260706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARW8M2Rm-rKUsjdxua250-0f3P6mWXaZGgmDo9zGMj1kTbjc9xSP3r0ig4_TcsUfRDaCGW9WC1RCVQYgsznU4QG4WLXDLVA-tPskFzmfoYnX9tmkYokPaN2FoCPwEAEITBs65/s1600-h/beach+140.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiARW8M2Rm-rKUsjdxua250-0f3P6mWXaZGgmDo9zGMj1kTbjc9xSP3r0ig4_TcsUfRDaCGW9WC1RCVQYgsznU4QG4WLXDLVA-tPskFzmfoYnX9tmkYokPaN2FoCPwEAEITBs65/s320/beach+140.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227842664165674434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixjKrRIVFUGoZUMv6QawB_eulXXXwEojBug09hmArXEKibXZsWD0ypjsHBrMgzN5pX487yvt5oBXq0wdcWNoTZz8SmMH5epTaX1ICsYzjW1gs3oNtVJTDkq9efvdPALulAHsFS/s1600-h/beach+115.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixjKrRIVFUGoZUMv6QawB_eulXXXwEojBug09hmArXEKibXZsWD0ypjsHBrMgzN5pX487yvt5oBXq0wdcWNoTZz8SmMH5epTaX1ICsYzjW1gs3oNtVJTDkq9efvdPALulAHsFS/s320/beach+115.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227842678252086370" border="0" /></a><br />We had another wonderful too-short year at Topsail. Highlights included Alex getting to launch a rocket, several times, Alex <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mARf5gGkL00">surfing</a>, several times, and Molly doing some sort of avant garde German dance in the surf and generally having a blast running around on the beach.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289661894962031573noreply@blogger.com0