|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie
and his diorama for his English class project:
The Call of the Wild
|
Jamie's
tile he made for Art class
|
We've
had a few cold days this winter: The window in
my shop
|
The
car we bought for Phyllis's Mom
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Out
to lunch at Three Squares in Maple Grove (MLK Day off
for us all)
|
Jamie
and another art project: A sculpture of an
archer.
|
Ou
first real snow event this year: We got 10
inches one night.
|
A
recent sunset -- the snow's almost gone.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
first set of skis, he loves them. Silly time of
year to buy them; but I wanted to that
enthusiam. (He just had skiing in PE class.)
|
The
snow did not last long!
|
28-February,
58°F!
|
Hot
tubbing, 29-Feb-16
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Another
beautiful day for a walk, 5-March, again about 58°F
|
Another
beautiful day for a walk, 5-March, again about 58°F
|
Yeah,
well, white Toyotas ...
|
My
new camera rig: Olympus E M-10 and various
lenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click
on the image above for a slide show of building my
most recent guitar: A B00 cutaway in Sitka
spruce and Sanots Rosewood. I made this one
faster than any guitar before: chose the wood on
23-Dec-15, playing it on 7-Feb-16
|
So
going, gone.
|
Dinner
at our favorite place: Szechuan restaurant in
Roseville
|
The
ice on the pond melting
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie,
before his 6th Grade Jazz Band concert on 10-Mar-16
|
Jamie's
Jazz Band Concert
|
Jamie
playing his solo
|
Jamie's
birthday party, 12-Mar-16
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
birthday party, 12-Mar-16
|
Jamie's
birthday party, 12-Mar-16
|
Jamie's
birthday party, 12-Mar-16
|
Jamie's
birthday party, 12-Mar-16
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
birthday party, 12-Mar-16
|
Amazing
sunset, 12-Mar-16
|
12-Mar-16
|
New
propane fireplace
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
second birthday cake
|
Sunset
again, week of 14-March
|
Still
a bit wintry, 19-Mar-16
|
Still
a bit wintry, 19-Mar-16
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Flight
of Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), 19-Mar-16
|
Sandhill
Crnaes (Grus canadensis), 19-Mar-16
|
Pussy
willows, 19-Mar-16
|
Hooded
Mergansers and Canada Geese dealing with thin
over-night ice
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Easter
brunch at Tria
|
Jamie
and his reading project poster. He did a great
job!
|
Spring
in White Salmon. Thanks to Steve for the photos!
|
Spring
in White Salmon. Thanks to Steve for the photos!
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Cranking
out some fretboards
|
Cranking
out some fretboards
|
Still
some very wintry days in April
|
But
Spring is coming!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I got
published again, Issue #125 of American
Lutherie. My article on wood stiffness
|
Jamie
enjoying the warmer temps.
|
An
evening with Nannette and Jeff at our place.
|
First
Pétanque games of 2016, on 16-April!
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
Sunrise,
17-Apr-16
|
Recent
sunrises
|
Recent
sunrises
|
Sring
is here
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Turtle
Island is back in business
|
Dinner
at Szechuan with
my Mom
|
On
the Apr-23, we had a lovely hike at William
O'Brien State Park
|
More William
O'Brien State Park
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More William
O'Brien State Park
|
More William
O'Brien State Park
|
More William
O'Brien State Park
|
More William
O'Brien State Park
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More William
O'Brien State Park. In the second photo, see
the kingfisher flying just over Phyllis's and Jamie's
heads?
|
More William
O'Brien State Park
Record
photo: This is the kind of travel trailer we are
thinking about getting when we retire.
|
Jamie
has Gracie on his desktop. Aw.
|
Visit
to Shawano and Graesham to see Jamie's Garndma Kay and
Grandma Lolly (in photos above).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
Spring band concert. Chippewa Middle School 6th
Grade Band
|
Band
leader, Mr. Blinn
|
The
7th & 8th Grade Jazz Band -- where we hope Jamie
will be playing next year!
|
Our Jamie.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The
lilacs are in bloom! (early May)
|
A
very cold morning, 7-May-2016
|
Mother's
Day 8-May-2016. Tria and our house.
|
Our
boys
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mother's
Day 2016
|
Mother's
Day boules
|
Mother's
Day boules
|
Mother's
Day boules
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spring
has sprung
|
My
birthday dinner out
|
Jamie
was honored for academic acheivement: 3 straight
quarters of excellent grades. All A's last
quarter.
|
More from
the honors ceremony
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More
from the honors ceremony
|
Yeah, the
white toyota thing ...
|
The
new love seat
|
I got
Jamie a Canon Powershot SX530 (superzoom camera) and
he is loving it. These are his photos.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More of
Jamie's photos
|
More of
Jamie's photos
|
More
of Jamie's photos
|
More of
Jamie's photos
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More
of Jamie's photos: A chickadee taking a bath
|
New
growth on the blue srpuce in our yard
|
The
front garden -- in purple.
|
Tie
dye party with Kent and Peggy Reed
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tie
dye party with Kent and Peggy Reed
|
Tie
dye in work
|
Tie-dye
|
Tie-dye
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Phyllis
and her brother Patrick and his wife Heidi
|
Jamie
and his friend Zeke, who is going with his family to
Japan for two years.
|
Successful
geese on our pond this year!
|
Click
on the image for photos
of our trip to White Salmon this summer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click
on the image for photos
of our trip to White Salmon this summer
|
Jamie
got his braces off! He's a happy boy!
He'll need them again later.
|
Jamie
has been fishing up a storm in our pond.
|
Jamie's
fish
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
fish
|
Jamie's
fish
|
Phyllis
with her friend Kim Stucki's parents.
|
Bowling
party, Phyllis's last week of school.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's
Summer Band Camp concert
|
Jamie's
Summer Band Camp concert
|
Jamie's
Summer Band Camp concert
|
Jamie's
bird photos: Barn swallows
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More
of Jamie's bird photos
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos
|
More
of Jamie's bird photos: An osprey in the park
next door to us
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More
tie-dye
|
More
tie-dye
|
More
tie-dye
|
More
tie-dye
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More
tie-dye
|
More
books going to the library: Continuing to
downsize
|
It's
been the second-wettest summer in Minnesota history
...
|
Nannette
Sorensen's birthday party at our place in August
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie
has had quite a summer of fishing in our pond
|
Fishing
with his friend Harrison
|
Computer
revision. You are a computer geek if you know
what this is.
|
My
all-Sitka B00. Sounds great!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marty and
Pablo's wedding
|
Marty and
Pablo's wedding
|
Some good
wine
|
August trip
to Shawano
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cole
Schabow's grad party
|
Cole
Schabow's grad party
|
Cole
Schabow's grad party
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My
all-Sitka B00. Sounds great!
|
My
all-Sitka B00. Sounds great!
|
My
all-Sitka B00. Sounds great!
|
Alex
Lode with his band Half Moon Devil. Many
more at this link.
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
|
Alex
Lode with his band Half Moon Devil. Many
more at this link.
|
Alex
Lode with his band Half Moon Devil. Many
more at this link.
|
Alex
Lode with his band Half Moon Devil. Many
more at this link.
|
Nordeast
Minneapolis
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Custom
12-string I built for our friend Randy
|
Heron
on our pond
|
The
night of Sept. 21, we got 4-3/4 inches of rain
overnight. The pond has never been so high!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
And
these are from 24-Sept. Eevn higher water!
|
Click
on the image for a slide
show of my prject to replace the sliding glass door in
our dining room. Big job.
|
Sliding
glass door project: Demolition and the new frame
built
|
Finishing
the panels
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Removing
the old door
|
New
frame going in
|
New
panels going in
|
Door
is in!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New
cedar siding
|
Door
and siding all in!
|
Painted
|
Interior
trim
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interior
trim
|
Interior
trim
|
Interior
trim
|
All
done!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie
with his layers for Laurentian
|
Fall
turtles, sunning
|
They
finally tore down the 49 Club
|
I
modifed and installed a new ceilign fixture for my
Mom's kitchen. (Who would put track lights in a
kitchen?)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mom's
new lights
|
Frosty,
foggy October morning
|
The
crows are flying ...
|
My
playing at the Northern Piine Fall Jam
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Archery
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental
Center.
The
slide show.
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental
Center. I'm required by school district policy
to obscure the faces of people we don't know well.
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's
7th Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's 7th
Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's 7th
Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's 7th
Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's 7th
Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie's 7th
Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
|
Jamie's 7th
Grade trip to Laurentian Environmental Center.
We had snow
the last morning.
|
Family
photos at the birthday celebration for my brother Jon
|
Cool fall
morning on the pond
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fall
colors, Shawano County, WI
|
Fall
colors, Shawano County, WI
|
Fall
colors, Shawano County, WI
|
Fall
colors, Shawano County, WI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We had a
nice visit with Grandma Kay
|
We had a
nice visit with Grandma Kay
|
We had a
nice visit with Grandma Kay
|
Sandhill
cranes flying over Gresham, WI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More fall
colors
|
|
Some new
tie-dye
|
Some new
tie-dye
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
|
|
With the
index shirt.
|
A recent
time-lapse I ook from our back deck.
|
Bald-faced
hornet nest in our front yard tree.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A recent
sunset
|
Ducks on
the pond
|
Our
retirement party bottle: A Jeroboam of 2014
Vieux Télégraphe
|
Phyllis
next guitar: Sitka spruce and spalted, curly
bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Phyllis
next guitar: Sitka spruce and spalted, curly
bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum).
|
Winter has
begun
|
Ice forming
on the pond
|
Jamie and
his snow tower
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie and
his snow tower
|
Phyllis's
new guitar: Ready to finish
|
Fun on the
day after Thanksgiving: Bowling at Flaherty's
|
Fun on the
day after Thanksgiving: Bowling at Flaherty's
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sunrise,
26-Nov-16
|
Sunrise,
26-Nov-16
|
Our power
outage eveining by candle light
|
Anniversary
dinner at Tria, 26-Nov
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New bird
feeders
|
Meeting of
black water from the park and brown water in the pond
|
Winter has
arrived
|
81st
birthday party for my Mom, at Jax Cafe
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jamie
playing in the Jazz Band concert, 6-Dec
|
Jamie
playing in the 7th Grade Band concert, 6-Dec
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guitar bits
|
Making
large peices of wood into smaller peices of wood ...
|
Snowscape,
11-Dec-2016.
(And, yes,
I am nuts.)
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos: Downy Woodpeckers (Dryobates
pubescens)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos: Red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes
carolinus)
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos: Blue Jays (Cyanocitta
cristata)
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos: Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile
atricapillus) and a House Finch (Haemorhous
mexicanus)
|
More of
Jamie's bird photos: Cardinals (Cardinalis
cardinalis)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More of
Jamie's photos, mammals this time: A red
squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). And a
coyote (Canis latrans) on our pond.
|
More guitar
work
|
More guitar
work
|
More guitar
work
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More glue
testing (and the last)
|
More glue
testing (and the last)
|
More glue
testing (and the last)
|
New living
room lights (and doorbell).
Before and
after.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Living room
lights project
|
Living room
lights project
|
Living room
lights project
|
Slide
show of the lights project
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Christmas
Eve at my Mom's
|
Christmas
morning at our house
|
Christmas
morning at our house
|
Christmas
morning at our house
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Christmas
morning at our house
|
Me,
playing "From the Beginning" in honor of
Greg Lake's passing on 7-Dec-16
|
Phyllis and
Polly, 27-Dec
|
At Grandma
Kay's, 27-Dec
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
.JPG)
.JPG)
