Gallery of Our Family Photos

2017

All images are Copyright © James W. Blilie, 2017:  All rights reserved

 

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Phyllis and Jim's family 2001      Moving In To White Salmon, Jul-2001

Phyllis and Jim's family 2002      Our Wedding, 29-Nov-2002

Phyllis and Jim's family 2003

Phyllis and Jim's family 2004

Phyllis and Jim's family 2005

Phyllis and Jim's family 2006      Glacier National Park 2006

Phyllis and Jim's family 2007

Phyllis and Jim's family 2008

Phyllis and Jim's family 2009

Phyllis and Jim's family 2010      France June-July 2010

Phyllis and Jim's family 2011

Phyllis and Jim's family 2012      Norway, Sweden, Denmark, June-July 2012     White Salmon 2012

Phyllis and Jim's family 2013

Phyllis and Jim's family 2014      Our Petanque terrain - 2014

Phyllis and Jim's family 2015      England 2015   White Salmon 2015

Phyllis and Jim's family 2016      White Salmon 2016

Phyllis and Jim's family 2017      White Salmon 2017

Phyllis and Jim's family 2018      New Orleans 2018   France 2018   White Salmon 2018

Phyllis and Jim's family 2019      Key West 2019

Phyllis and Jim's family 2020

Phyllis and Jim's family 2021

Phyllis and Jim's family 2022

 

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The new skyway coming together at my work (these are from November)

Garlic and rosemary lamb chops

Hinges and design notebook for the coming built-ins for our living room

Doors for the built-ins

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Doors for the built-ins

Doors for the built-ins

Doors for the built-ins

Doors for the built-ins

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Doors for the built-ins

Pieces for the built-ins

Published again, last June

Published again, December

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Drill jig for the hidden hinges for the built-ins.  (Hidden hinges example)

Drilling the holes from the front to the back of the cabinet uprights.  3/8" holes through the width of a 9-inch board.

Drilling the holes from the front to the back of the cabinet uprights.  3/8" holes through the width of a 9-inch board.

I hit them pretty well!

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My new table saw sled

Phyllis and her colleague Jill marched in the Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017

Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017

Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017

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Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017

More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

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More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

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More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

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More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets.  

 

The hinge hole is deliberately off-center. The drill jig sets it a specified distance from the front of the part.  This is so that on the two sides of the hinge, the parts are flush to each other.

More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets

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 More building the living room cabinets

More building the living room cabinets:  A slide show of the lower cabinets

Finishing

Boring the holes for hidden hinges in the doors.

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Finishing

First cabinet (of 4) complete.

First deck time of 2017 - in February!

My Mom in Florida in February.  Photos by my brother Charlie

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Winter shots of our place in White Salmon.  Photos by Steve Mason

Jmaie's birthday.  We still owe him a proper celebration.

Sunshine in April.  Finally.

Our fisherman in the evening.

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Hot tub, ready for filling!  I had to repair the pump motor.

Nice trip to the Como Conservatory

Nice trip to the Como Conservatory

Nice trip to the Como Conservatory

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Snow on 11-Apr-2017

Our new built-in cabinets, finally getting installed.  Before.

Our new built-in cabinets, finally getting installed.

Our new built-in cabinets, finally getting installed.  IN with lights off.

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Our new built-in cabinets, finally getting installed.  IN with lights on.

All done except the glass shelves and doors in the top cabinets.

A time-lapse video Jamie took of us installing the cabinets..

Family shot at Easter lunch.  16-Apr..

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Jamie's recent video of Sandhill Cranes calling in the swamp across the street from our house. 

More of Jamie's bird photos:  Yellow-rumped Warbler (aka Audubon's Warbler, Setophaga coronata)

More of Jamie's bird photos:  Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis)

More of Jamie's bird photos:  House finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)

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More of Jamie's bird photos: White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)

More of Jamie's bird photos: Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum)

More of Jamie's bird photos: Red-winged Blackbirds, male and female (Agelaius phoeniceus)

More of Jamie's bird photos: Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis)

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More of Jamie's bird photos: American Robins (Turdus migratorius)

More of Jamie's bird photos: A tom Wild Turkey, displaying (Meleagris gallopavo)

More of Jamie's bird photos: Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)

More of Jamie's animal photos: Baby Eatern Cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus), resting under our Bleeding Heart plant (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)

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Click on the image above for a detailed slide show of making and installing our living room built-in cabinets

Jamie finally got his birthday sleep-over with his friends.

Partial aftermath of the sleep-over

Spring has sprung, finally

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Spring has sprung, finally

Details of the new living room built-ins

Details of the new living room built-ins

Details of the new living room built-ins

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I built a little easel so we can display my Dad's painting on the mantle

New birthdwy present for me:  The brittle star fossil, bottom, center.

Spring

Jamie's Spring Band Concert

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Jazz Band

New Turtle Island

More work around the house

Easter 2017

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Again this year, Jamie received the Academic Achievement Award from his School, Chippewa Middle School. The battery in my camera died just as he approached the podium to get his certificate!

Send-off dinner at our place for Jon, Bobbi, and Kai, before they headed out to Albuquerque.  Mid-May.

Another from the send-off.  Bobbi took this one.

Ark weather in Shoreview,

late May 2017.

5 inches of rain in two days.

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Our new rhododendron -- planted this time in a much more sensible location

Our great new blinds.  These are the living room blinds.

Our great new blinds.  This is the kitchen blind:  Power-driven roll-up with remote control!

Cottonwood season!

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We re-painted the deck over two weekends in May/June

A visit to Grandma Kay (and Larry) in Shawano, Early June

A lovely Father's Day morning hike at William O'Brien State Park

A lovely Father's Day morning hike at William O'Brien State Park

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A lovely Father's Day morning hike at William O'Brien State Park

A lovely Father's Day morning hike at William O'Brien State Park

Jamie and I had a nice hike at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.  (Phyllis was in WI to help her Mom with an orthopedic surgery.)

More from the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

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More from the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

More from the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

More from the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

More from the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

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Photos of our place in White Salmon, taken by our friend Steve

More of Jamie's wildlife photos:  Painted turtles on our turtle island (old island)(Chrysemys picta), bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis), black phase gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

More of Jamie's wildlife photos.
VERY large Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), frog of uncertain species, from the Minn. Valley NWR

More of Jamie's wildlife photos:  Female hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) on our pond.

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More of Jamie's bird photos.
We have friendly Orioles this year (Icterus galbula).

More of Jamie's bird photos.
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), House Wren (Troglodytes aedon), Gray Catbird in full song (Dumetella carolinensis)

More of Jamie's bird photos.
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus)

More of Jamie's bird photos.  Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina), American Goldfinches (Spinus tristis)

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More of Jamie's wildlife photos:  A dead bluejay found in our yard, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

More of Jamie's bird photos.
His big score this summer: Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus).

Jamie's best score from our trip to Minnesota Valley NWR: An Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea), plus wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) at the same place 

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We had a family photo taken in May (anticipating Jon, Bobbi, and Kai's departure for Albuquerque, and a new life there).  The photo is by Lance Hill.

More of Jamie's bird photos

More of Jamie's bird photos

More of Jamie's turtle photos

Bottom is a Spiny softshell turtle

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Eastman Nature Center

Our house before it was repainted this summer

Turtle, geese, and Tamarack Nature Center near our home

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Our refurbished laundry room

Our refurbished laundry room

Jamie at his Summer Band concert

New tie-dye

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Link to our White Salmon trip 2017

Just a handful of White Salmon shots

Just a handful of White Salmon shots

Just a handful of White Salmon shots

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Just a handful of White Salmon shots

Shawano in August

Replacing the light and vanity top in our downstairs bathroom

Replacing the light and vanity top in our downstairs bathroom

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Replacing the light and vanity top in our downstairs bathroom:  All done!

Six goldfinches on the feeder at once

Como Lake walk with Phyllis on her birthday

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday

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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday

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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday:  The water lily pond

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday:  The water lily pond

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday:  The water lily pond.  Victoria amazonica

The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday:  The water lily pond  Victoria amazonica

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Published again in American Lutherie

Cool, misty full-moon morning

Our bathroom refinish from Miracle Method.  Very happy with it!

Our bathroom refinish from Miracle Method

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Phyllis's birthday dinner out

A few photos from Stephanie and Brock Reopelle's wedding, October 14

A few photos from Stephanie and Brock Reopelle's wedding, October 14

A few photos from Stephanie and Brock Reopelle's wedding, October 14

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A few shots from the reception

Some of Jamie's sketches:  "Medieval Town on a Cliff"  and ":FullCubes"

Some of Jamie's sketches:  "Miscellaneus Stuff", "Nautilus", and "White Salmon"

Some of Jamie's sketches:  "Warbler 2" and "Chickadee"

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Old phone photo of me at my sleep study in May

Our house, before and after a much-needed paint job this summer

Our family photo we had taken in May and the tripod I made for my Mom to hold hers above her fireplace.

November snow.  No!  (It melted)

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New tie-dye idea, stage 1.  Stage 2 will put a rainbow swirl behind the yin-yang.

Making cassoulet for Thanksgiving

Aafter that early snow, it got warm again.  Well, warm by my standards!

Our anniversary dinner (15!)

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November sunset.  Jamie helping with the leaves.

A warm November day walk in our open space across the street.

A warm November day walk in our open space across the street.

Jamie's winter Jazz Band concert.

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Jamie's winter Jazz Band concert:  Including his solo (improvised!)

My first Octave Mandolin, coming together

My first Octave Mandolin, coming together

My first Octave Mandolin, coming together

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My first Octave Mandolin, coming together

My first Octave Mandolin, coming together

Slide show of a major mod I did to a customer's guitar:  Reshape the neck to match an existing guitar of his and then replace to bridge to match.  It came out well.

We made a big, natural suet log this fall, hoping to bring in the Pileated woopeckers.  It worked!  Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) in this shot.  It's been COLD!

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Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) on the suet log.  All the bird photos are Jamie's

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) on the suet log.  All the bird photos are Jamie's

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) on the suet log.  All the bird photos are Jamie's

 

And the moon

Downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), and Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus).  All the bird photos are Jamie's

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More tie-dye

Christmas 2017

Christmas 2017

Christmas 2017



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