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quote of the day : politics

Posted in Quote of the Day, tagged , , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
– Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959)

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quote of the day : politics

Posted in Quote of the Day, tagged , , on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.
– Barry Neil Kaufman

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brace face, attack of the killer teenager

Posted in Family, tagged , , on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It finally happened…Cam got braces yesterday. He had been dreading this moment for well over two years and now the day has come and past. And the verdict? Well I think the experience wasn’t nearly as traumatic as he suspected, but there are a few caveats.
For one, the kid can’t eat anything that requires chewing. [...]

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quote of the day : politics

Posted in Quote of the Day, tagged , , on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
– W. C. Fields (1880 – 1946)

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quote of the day

Posted in Quote of the Day, tagged , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
– Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
With politics and campaign ads in the news, I’ve decided to find quotes that sum up how I feel about [...]

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opening day of pheasant season

Posted in Family, Friends, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, once again Cam and I journeyed to Osage to join up with the guys for opening weekend of pheasant season. This year we had a pretty small crew, just Jeremy, Jim, Tony, Cam, Seth, and myself – and not a single dog among us. To make things worse, most of the ground we’d hunted over [...]

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as the leaves fall

Posted in Family, tagged , on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The rental house we’re living in has a lot of trees, so this time of year calls for some extra yard work to keep the place looking kept. We didn’t intend to involve everyone, but once we got started, everyone wanted to pitch-in and lend a hand. But as you can see, a special someone [...]

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good friends, good food, and a helluva game

Posted in Family, Friends, Hawkeye Football, Iowa Hawkeye Games, tagged , , on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was a home game for the Iowa Hawkeye’s against the Wisconsin Badgers. We invited Jeremy and Lisa down from Osage to come and enjoy a day of tailgating and football, and we had a pretty good time. We left the kids home with Grandma Deb, who came down to spend some time with Cam and [...]

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week eight and going great

Posted in Home Construction, tagged , on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Eight weeks into the new house project, and things are going very well – great, if you will. The garage floor is now concrete, as is the front stoop in to the home. The fireplace insert has been put into place and the plumbing and heating contractor has started to install our geothermal system and [...]

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effigy mounds hike 2008

Posted in Family, tagged , , on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve made it eleven years straight – hiking up the side of a major bluff just across the Mississippi River from Prairie du Chien, WI. We started going to Effigy Mounds back when Cam was only 4-years-old, and we decided then we would make this a family tradition for years to come.
The weather this year [...]

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