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A walk in the woods, 3-Jan-2021
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A walk in the woods, 3-Jan-2021
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A walk in the woods, 3-Jan-2021
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A walk in the woods, 3-Jan-2021
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I recently
scanned all of my Dad's negatives from 1952 and 1953
in Japan,
Korea, and the Philippines
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I recently
scanned all of my
family's photo albums.
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I scanned
tons of photos, negatives, and documents in January
through March
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Making
vanilla extract
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New door from the laundry room to the garage.
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After
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After
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I got so stoked about my Dad's old B&W negatives, I
had to get cheap, used copies of his cameras:
Rolleiflex (I already had this, his actual camera),
Argus C-3, Leica iiif, Canon iii
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March snow
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March snow
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March shooting at my brothers' cabin near Mitchell Lake,
MN
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March shooting at my brothers' cabin near Mitchell Lake,
MN
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March shooting at my brothers' cabin near Mitchell Lake,
MN
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March shooting at my brothers' cabin near Mitchell Lake,
MN
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March: It's spring, water on the ice and the deck
furniture is pressure-washed.
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Lightening the load: Gave away a lot of CDs and
DVDs.
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Spring morning on the pond
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Early spring squills
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We replaced our bathroom countertops: Before
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After, including new light fixture, towel ring, and
painting
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Main bathroom: Before
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Before
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After (almost done)
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April snow -- it didn't last
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I've been looking into family history and visiting grave
sites. (I know we won't be here much
longer.) Oakland cemetery in St. Paul, where my
grandparents Louis and Julie Blilie are buried and
Selma, Ira, and Alvin Harrington
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Louis and Julie Antonette Blilie graves, Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minnesota
More
family information at this link
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Selma and Ira Harrington graves, Oakland Cemetery, St.
Paul, Minnesota
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Alvin Harrington grave, Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul,
Minnesota
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Sunset
Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin, the Gundersen, Gregerson,
and Richards grave sites
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Sunset Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Gundersen
family grave site
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Sunset
Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: John and Antonette
Jorgine Gundersen graves : Before and after
cleaning
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Sunset
Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Joesfine (Josie)
Gundersen grave: Before and after cleaning
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Sunset Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Gustav
Gundersen and his wife Sophia's graves: Before and
after cleaning
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Sunset Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Gregerson
family grave site
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Sunset Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Adolph and
Ida T. Gregerson graves: Before and after cleaning
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Sunset Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Bert and
Olga Richards grave site
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Sunset Cemetery, Woodville, Wisconsin: Bert and
Olga Richards grave site
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Bert and Olga's farm location. Glenwood City,
Wisconsin. 2863 - 130th Avenue. All the old
buildings are gone. 1950s - 1975.
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Next, I drove east to Abbotsford, WI, and then north up
Highway 13 to Ogema and Prentice Wisconsin.
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Location of Hillside Cemetery, Ogema, Wisconsin and the
location of the Blilie family graves.
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Hillside
Cemetery, Ogema, Wisconsin: The Blilie family
grave site
More
family information at this link
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Hillside Cemetery, Ogema, Wisconsin: Hans Christian
Blilie grave stone, before and after cleaning
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Hillside Cemetery, Ogema, Wisconsin: Regine (Arnsen)
Blilie grave stone, before and after cleaning
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Hillside Cemetery, Ogema, Wisconsin: Maurice Blilie and
John Blilie grave stone, before and after cleaning
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I figured out that my great uncle John married Ruth
Victoria Peterson, circa 1920. She died in
childbirth with what would have been their first child,
in 1921. I found her grave online but couldn't
find it in Hillside Cemetery, where it's supposed to be.
She's listed in the 1910 census (Prentice, WI) as
daughter, age 12 in the John and Kristina Peterson
family (both born in Sweden), and in the 1920 census as
daughter in law in the Hans Christian Blilie household,
age 21.
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After the
cemetery in Ogema, I went through town (see First
Lutheran Church) and then east about 5 miles to Timm's
Hill, where I walked up the highest point in Wisconsin.
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Views of the
old Blilie farm, Ogema, Wisconsin From
there, I drove north towards Prentice and stopped at the
site of the Hans Christian and Regine Blilie farm.
It's at the corner of Morner Road and Prentice
Road. Hans Christian Blilie owned the north 1/2 of
the NE 1/4-section of 24 of Township 35, Range 1 East in
1890. He did not own it in the 1920 plat book.
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Driving west on US Highway 8 in northern Wisconsin
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Jamie, with his birthday present -- a BIG lens.
150-600mm
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Shoreview spring scenes
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Shoreview spring scenes
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Spring cleaning of graves at Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul,
Minnesota
More
family information at this link
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Spring cleaning of graves at Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul,
Minnesota
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Rascal and his staff approve the warmer, sunnier weather
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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One of my big spring projects: Replacing the lower
level door with an Andersen sliding door
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Spring on the pond
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Rascal, guarding the house
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William
O'Brien State Park
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William O'Brien State Park
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William O'Brien State Park
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A still life, "Last
Night of the World"
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Broken bridge
pin!
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Using up landscape blocks to bolster the neighbor's
fence
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My next big, hard, spring project: Removing the
old gravel pad for the hot tub and moving the rocks to
our existing borders. Hard work!
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Moving rocks
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Moving rocks, filling the crater with 1.5 yards of soil
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Crater filled, seeded, watered, and grass emerging
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Seafood dinner
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Relaxing post-vaccination concert and party at Kent and
Peggy's place
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Painting the deck.
(The projects never end!)
And aftermath of deck board replacement.
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Visiting my parents' and sister's graves on Memorial Day
More
family information at this link
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Visiting my parents' and sister's graves on Memorial Day
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Visiting my parents' and sister's graves on Memorial Day
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Rascal has become Toulouse-Lautrec's cat
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Lightening the load: Giving away CDs and DVDs
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Turtle Island rises again. Crummy phone photos.
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Hot, damned hot!
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New dishwasher. Our faithful Bosch finally
died. New Bosch.
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Late May: A cold dragonfly awaits the sun in our
front gaarden.
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Jamie's photos of 3 otters on our pond
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Jamie's photos of a green heron on our pond
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My photo of a green heron on our pond
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Jamie's photo of a family of mallards on our pond
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Deer and Turtle Island
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June visit to Shawano
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June visit to Shawano
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Phyllis got a new haircut (July)
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Jamie's COVID look gets cleaned up
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Click on the photo above to go to our White
2021 visit
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Click on the photo above to go to our White
2021 visit
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More turtles up
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Summer morning mist
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A summer visit to Carlos
Avery Wildlife Management Area
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A summer visit to Carlos
Avery Wildlife Management Area
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Late summer visit to Shawano
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Late summer visit to Shawano
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Late summer visit to Shawano
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Jamie got his first job at Target!
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Rascal approves of summer
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My Serrano peppers coming along
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Lowest pond level we've ever seen
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Upper deck railings all repaired
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Joe's 30th birthday dinner at Tria
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Harvesting my Serranos
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Harvesting my Serranos
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Summer pond scenes
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I sandblasted our driveway in September
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I sandblasted our driveway in September
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I sandblasted our driveway in September
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I sandblasted our driveway in September
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I sandblasted our driveway in September
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I sandblasted our driveway in September
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September scenes
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Refreshing the beach with a yard of gravel. It
finally did in ourb 52-year old wheel barrow
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Refreshing the beach with a yard of gravel.
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We went to Shelley's parents funeral.
Here father Richard Horberg's army uniform.
Julie I. and Richard O. Horberg
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Jamie's first day of Senior Year!
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I found the grave of my Great Uncle John Blilie's
wife: Ruth Victoria Peterson in Hillside
Cemetery
in Ogema, WI, along with her sister and parents (the
latter three of which were born in Sweden)
More
family information at this link
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Hillside
Cemetery
in Ogema, WI
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Hillside
Cemetery
in Ogema, WI
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Hillside
Cemetery
in Ogema, WI
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Grave locations at Hillside
Cemetery
More
family information at this link
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Jim and Phyllis conquer Timm's
Hill
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A wildcard here: My Dad in the late 1940s at his
mother's home, 1806 Wordsworth in St. Paul, MN
Link
to my parents' family albums
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Another wildcard.
My sister Julie E. Blilie, 1983
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Baldwin
Cemetery
Where Bernie Kotts' grave is located and his parents and
other family members
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Baldwin
Cemetery map
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Cleaning graves, Baldwin
Cemetery
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Bernie Kotts' grave stone
Baldwin
Cemetery
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Bernie Kott's parents grave stones
Hattie Kotts, Ben Kotts
Baldwin
Cemetery
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Bernie Kotts' sibling's graves
John H. Kotts, Ruth Kotts, John's wife Marie (I think
she's his wife)
Baldwin
Cemetery
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Bernie Kotts' sibling's graves
John H. Kotts, Ruth Kotts, John's wife Marie (I think
she's his wife)
Baldwin
Cemetery
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Time to fly south
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First frost
Duck abstract
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Fall at Tamarack Nature Center
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Fall at Tamarack Nature Center
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Fall at Tamarack Nature Center
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Lake Pepin
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A drive along the Mississippi River and lunch at Villa
Bellezza, Pepin, WI
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Villa
Bellezza
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Villa
Bellezza
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Villa
Bellezza
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Villa
Bellezza
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Fall in Shoreview
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Fall in Shoreview
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Fall in Shoreview
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Fall in Shoreview
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We had a nice visit from Patrick, Heidi, and Tommy
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We had a nice visit from Patrick, Heidi, and Tommy
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Fall visit to Shawano, Sissy and Kay. At the
brewery.
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Jamie's fall concert
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Jamie's fall concert
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Monday night: 63deg F, rain and thunder
Tuesday morning: 20deg F and snow
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Phyllis's new haircut, beautiful
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Thanksgiving weekend with Joe
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I built some
folding easels out of figured mango and koa to hold our
Kindles
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First frost
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Final trim
for the new basement gliding door: The treshold
piece.
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Final trim
for the new basement gliding door: The treshold
piece.
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Final trim
for the new basement gliding door: The treshold
piece.
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Rascal loves
the fireplace
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Ice on the
pond
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My
grandmother Julie Antonette (Gundersen) Blilie's wedding
ring, which I found in a box from my Mom's house.
[My Dad's
birthday is wrong.]
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I got Phyllis
a new set of stainless flatwear (which we love) and I
built her a new silverware tray from flamed walnut wood.
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The complete
plan for the silverwear tray, including shellac
staining.
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Our 19th
Anninversary dinner at Tria
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I
repaired our damaged garage door panel. (The
company stopped making our paint job -- from only 2
years ago!)
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First big
snowfall
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Small furry
neighbors
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Jamie's early
Christmas present: Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8
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Jamie got his
wisdom teeth out. Not fun; but he did great.
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50°F on the
back deck in December
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Opening
Christmas gifts
Christmas day
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New Year's
Eve with the Smiths
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New Year's
Eve
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I've been poking aorund in my Lightroom files:
Some old photos:
Phyllis from 1982
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from 1983
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from July 1983
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from July 1983
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from 1983
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Some old photos:
Phyllis and Jim 1983, Beaver Bay, MN
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from 1983
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from 1983
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Some old photos:
Phyllis from 1983
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Some old photos: Reed family, 1991
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Some old photos: Peggy and Kaitlin Reed, 1991
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Some old photos: Kirsten and Kaitlin Reed,
Rochester NY
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Some old photos: Isanti, MN 1993
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Some old photos: Isanti, MN 1993
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Some old photos: Isanti, MN 1993, Mom and Scout
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Some old photos: Dad and Mom and "William of
Orange" 1989, Isanti
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Some old photos: Eric, Allison, and Gretchen
Wetzel, 1989
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Some old photos: Our wedding, November 2002
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Some old photos: Our wedding, November 2002
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Some old photos: Our wedding, November 2002
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Some old photos: Our wedding, November 2002
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Some old photos: Me in 2010, holding a photo of
Phyllis and her Mom from around 1977
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Some old photos: Jamie age 6
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Some old photos: Jamie age 6
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Some old photos: Jamie age 6
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