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Exercise:  We registered for the Covered Bridges Half Marathon with our friend Heather, and we’re officially halfway there as of today based on training runs.  Brian and I booked 6.8 miles today, our first run over 6.5 miles this season.  It was a bit cloudy but reasonably warm for March.  We’ve been enjoying the hills […]

As some of you know each year a few of my friends and I enter a bracket of mascot picks in the NCAA tournament. These picks are generally terrible, but they’re great fun to discuss and they give you something to cheer for once your own sorry picks have been eliminated. The basic rule is […]

We’ve lived in our house for nearly eight years now and the church next door has been a pretty decent neighbor. One area that has bothered me over the past three or four years is their snow removal. About 50% of the time whoever is snow blowing for them leaves a pile of snow on […]

What happened to this week?  It has included a lot of networking, career pondering and research, and work work work for me.  A trip to DC on Monday, digging into a troubled project, and then attending an all-day off site management meeting yesterday were some highlights.  It was fun, but now I’m truly exhausted.  Even […]

While we were filing paperwork in the office, I thought I heard a singing or crying sound.  Brian identified the source as Slinky in the fireplace room, and here’s what we found when we investigated. Slinky is a lot faster than he lets on.  He let it almost get away a few times, only to […]

Evidently we are either not inspired these days, or nothing much is going on.  A little of both, I think.  We’re in autopilot for the most part, doing what we typically do, so it doesn’t seem noteworthy.  When writer’s block hits, it’s time to return to our favorite topics.  In our case, it’s the yard […]

I’m trying something new in this post. When I post images on this site I have to edit them down to the proper size. From now on I’ll try to link to the original photo by clicking on the edited photo in my post so you can see the full size image. Susan went to […]

Today was a joint Juddmansee dinner effort, and it may be our new favorite.  Our friends Asa and Jessica have a tradition of capturing “Great Meals at the Douglass Household” on film.  I’m afraid our great meal is being devoured without pictorial evidence, but here’s the description: 1. make fresh Queso Blanco 2. roast fresh […]

It’s been quite the week with all of the contractor fun going on at the house (see our last two posts) plus trying to get ready for a vacation to see our families. During all this chaos, I got a chance to see my best friend from high school, Hans, who was in town for […]

Last weekend we did a little work the yard to keep our momentum going, mostly defined the beds and moved the extra sod to the two bare areas. One area was where the bees built an underground hive a couple years ago, so there’s a valley in the lawn. The other area was under the […]