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Hello 2013
One week into 2013 already. Life has been keeping me busy, but in a good way. We took a two-week road trip in our new twenty-five year-old Westfalia Vanagon (Eddie) up the coast of California and into Oregon then back … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged baby, camping, Christmas, Family, first birthday, holiday, paddle, Refugio, Row for the Cure, SUP, Vanagon, Westfalia, Westy
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Oh Nuts!
Jen and I have been making Christmas nuts for eight (!) years now. It all started back in 2002 when we wanted to give Christmas presents but were low on cash. Jen’s mom had made these when she (Jen) was … Continue reading
Holiday Pre-cap
It started on December 4th and didn’t let up until the evening of the 12th with a few days trickling in after that. Non-stop holiday fun! I usually start getting amped up for the holidays in mid-November and by the … Continue reading
Posted in Family
Tagged B3 Bicycles, birthday, Christmas, Family, holiday, Hotel del Coronado, hula, Kolohe Bruddahs, lau lau, Makaha Sons, Maryland crabs, Ocean Beach Christmas Parade
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Baked brie with pepper jelly and a little family history
One of my favorite blogs to follow is Our Best Bites. I found them from another blog (LollyChops) which I found from another blog (I can’t remember which one). My Google Reader is overpopulated and has so many entries starred … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food Glorious Food
Tagged baked brie, brie, holiday, Our Best Bites, pepper jelly, Pepper Lane, Thanksgiving, Wanship
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Thankful
We started Thanksgiving off early at Balboa Park for Father Joe’s Thanksgiving Day 5K. We’ve started a tradition (can you call it a tradition if you’ve only done it once?) of participating in a run/walk on Thanksgiving morning. San Diego … Continue reading
Sewing something for myself
Today I did what I swore to myself I wouldn’t do…go to Joann’s during October. The place is chaos. But I had a coupon, things were on sale, and I needed a break from work. I figured 1pm on a … Continue reading
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Tagged apron, Christmas, craft, Emmeline apron, holiday, Sew Liberated, sewing, Thanksgiving
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The Only Post for 2007
I’m going to steal Clarke’s favorite excuse about why our own personal webpages aren’t updated…it’s like the barber who is too busy to give himself a haircut. ClarkeDesign has been keeping us quite busy, along with hula and uke, and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, just stuff, Live Aloha, My Life as a Biologist
Tagged beach, Big Island, camping, car, Catalina, ClarkeDesign, earthquake, El Capitan State Beach Campground, excuses, Family, Fourth of July, halau, Hilton Torrey Pines, holiday, Ka Lei Aloha O Hula, Kealakekua Bay, Kona, literature review, Live Aloha, Pele, Prince William Sound, Puna, RAV-4, San Diego, snorkel, Toyota, UpperDeck, vacation, wedding
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Oodles of Owls
Ok, I’ll be honest. No more promises of photo updates to this site, it’ll happen when it’ll happen. :) But, I can promise a new update from camp, right now. Baby owls, baby wolves and other camp stories, ready and … Continue reading
Posted in My Life as a Biologist
Tagged animal behavior, beach, camping, Fourth of July, hiking, holiday, home, jets, nests, New Mexico, owlets, owls, rain, wolf pups, wolves
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Holidaze
Well, we zipped through the end of October right on into November. I have decided to black out my memories of the beginning of this month in order to make it through the end of this year. We did the … Continue reading
Posted in just stuff, No Place Like Home
Tagged Alias, costume, halloween, Harry Potter, holiday, home, nerd, science fiction, Sony, Sydney Bristow, Thanksgiving
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