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The new skyway coming together at my work (these are
from November)
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Garlic and rosemary lamb chops
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Hinges and design notebook for the coming built-ins for
our living room
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Doors for the built-ins
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Doors for the built-ins
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Doors for the built-ins
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Doors for the built-ins
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Doors for the built-ins
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Doors for the built-ins
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Pieces for the built-ins
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Published again, last June
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Published again, December
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Drill jig for the hidden hinges for the built-ins.
(Hidden hinges example)
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Drilling the holes from the front to the back of the
cabinet uprights. 3/8" holes through the
width of a 9-inch board.
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Drilling the holes from the front to the back of the
cabinet uprights. 3/8" holes through the
width of a 9-inch board.
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I hit them pretty well!
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My new table saw sled
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Phyllis and her colleague Jill marched in the Minnesota
Women's March, 21-Jan-2017
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Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017
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Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017
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Minnesota Women's March, 21-Jan-2017
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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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.
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets
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More building the living room cabinets: A slide
show of the lower cabinets
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Finishing
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Boring the holes for hidden hinges in the doors.
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Finishing
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First cabinet (of 4) complete.
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First deck time of 2017 - in February!
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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
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Jmaie's
birthday. We still owe him a proper celebration.
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Sunshine in
April. Finally.
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Our fisherman in the evening.
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Hot tub, ready for filling! I had to repair the
pump motor.
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Nice trip to the Como Conservatory
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Nice trip to the Como Conservatory
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Nice trip to the Como Conservatory
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Snow on 11-Apr-2017
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Our new built-in cabinets, finally getting
installed. Before.
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Our new built-in cabinets, finally getting installed.
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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.
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All done except the glass shelves and doors in the top
cabinets.
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A
time-lapse video Jamie took of us installing the
cabinets..
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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.
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More of Jamie's bird photos: Yellow-rumped Warbler
(aka Audubon's Warbler, Setophaga coronata)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: Cardinals (Cardinalis
cardinalis)
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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)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla
cedrorum)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: Red-winged Blackbirds, male
and female (Agelaius phoeniceus)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia
sialis)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: American Robins (Turdus
migratorius)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: A tom Wild Turkey,
displaying (Meleagris gallopavo)
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More of Jamie's bird photos: Blue-winged Teal (Anas
discors)
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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
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Jamie finally got his birthday sleep-over with his
friends.
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Partial aftermath of the sleep-over
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Spring has sprung, finally
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Spring has sprung, finally
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Details of the new living room built-ins
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Details of the new living room built-ins
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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
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New birthdwy present for me: The brittle star
fossil, bottom, center.
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Spring
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Jamie's Spring Band Concert
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Jazz Band
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New Turtle Island
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More work around the house
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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!
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Send-off dinner at our place for Jon, Bobbi, and Kai,
before they headed out to Albuquerque. Mid-May.
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Another from the send-off. Bobbi took this one.
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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
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Our great new blinds. These are the living room
blinds.
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Our great new blinds. This is the kitchen
blind: Power-driven roll-up with remote control!
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Cottonwood season!
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We re-painted the deck over two weekends in May/June
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A visit to Grandma Kay (and Larry) in Shawano, Early
June
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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
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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
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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.)
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More from the Minnesota
Valley National Wildlife Refuge
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More from the Minnesota
Valley National Wildlife Refuge
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More from the Minnesota
Valley National Wildlife Refuge
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More from the Minnesota
Valley National Wildlife Refuge
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More from the Minnesota
Valley National Wildlife Refuge
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Photos of our place in White Salmon, taken by our friend
Steve
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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)
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More
of Jamie's wildlife photos.
VERY large Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), frog of
uncertain species, from the Minn. Valley NWR
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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).
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More of Jamie's bird photos.
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Eastern Bluebird (Sialia
sialis), House Wren (Troglodytes aedon), Gray Catbird in
full song (Dumetella carolinensis)
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More of Jamie's bird photos.
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
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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.
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More of Jamie's bird photos.
His big score this summer: Pileated Woodpecker
(Dryocopus pileatus).
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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.
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More of Jamie's bird photos
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More of Jamie's bird photos
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More of Jamie's turtle photos
Bottom is a Spiny softshell turtle
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this is for the after pictures!
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Eastman Nature Center
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Our house before it was repainted this summer
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Turtle, geese, and Tamarack Nature Center near our home
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Our refurbished laundry room
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Our refurbished laundry room
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Jamie at his Summer Band concert
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New tie-dye
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Link to our White Salmon trip 2017
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Just a handful of White Salmon shots
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Just a handful of White Salmon shots
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Just a handful of White Salmon shots
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Just a handful of White Salmon shots
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Shawano in August
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Replacing the light and vanity top in our downstairs
bathroom
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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!
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Six goldfinches on the feeder at once
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Como Lake walk with Phyllis on her birthday
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday: The
water lily pond
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday: The
water lily pond
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday: The
water lily pond. Victoria amazonica
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The Como Conservatory, on Phyllis's birthday: The
water lily pond Victoria amazonica
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Published again in American Lutherie
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Cool, misty full-moon morning
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Our bathroom refinish from Miracle
Method. Very happy with it!
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Our bathroom refinish from Miracle
Method
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Phyllis's birthday dinner out
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A few photos from Stephanie and Brock Reopelle's
wedding, October 14
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A few photos from Stephanie and Brock Reopelle's
wedding, October 14
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A few photos from Stephanie and Brock Reopelle's
wedding, October 14
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A few shots from the reception
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Some of Jamie's sketches: "Medieval Town on a
Cliff" and ":FullCubes"
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Some of Jamie's sketches: "Miscellaneus
Stuff", "Nautilus", and "White
Salmon"
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Some of Jamie's sketches: "Warbler 2"
and "Chickadee"
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Old phone photo of me at my sleep study in May
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Our house, before and after a much-needed paint job this
summer
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Our
family photo we had taken in May and the tripod I
made for my Mom to hold hers above her fireplace.
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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.
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Making cassoulet for Thanksgiving
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Aafter that early snow, it got warm again. Well,
warm by my standards!
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Our anniversary dinner (15!)
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November sunset. Jamie helping with the leaves.
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A warm November day walk in our open space across the
street.
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A warm November day walk in our open space across the
street.
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Jamie's winter Jazz Band concert.
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Jamie's winter Jazz Band concert: Including his
solo (improvised!)
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My first
Octave Mandolin, coming together
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My first Octave Mandolin, coming together
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My first Octave Mandolin, coming together
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My first Octave Mandolin, coming together
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My first Octave Mandolin, coming together
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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.
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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
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Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) on the
suet log. All the bird photos are Jamie's
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Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) on the
suet log. All the bird photos are Jamie's
And the moon
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Downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), and
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus).
All the bird photos are Jamie's
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More tie-dye
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Christmas 2017
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Christmas 2017
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Christmas 2017
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