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day 1474: odin's golden birthday!

day 1473: in da 'u.p.' playin' with cousins and preparin' for a golden birthday!

whoohooo, it's odin's golden birthday which i had never heard of before but plenty of people have...

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Uploaded on Jul 4, 2008

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we're in the upper peninsula of michigan playing with cousins and preparing for odin's ...

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Uploaded on Jul 3, 2008

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day 1468: enjoying the, um, fruits of our labor.

profiling pectins.

it took us the better part of a day to make 30 half pints from our garden strawberries and today...

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Uploaded on Jun 29, 2008

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when we're making our strawberry jam we decided to compare the tried and true sure gell fruit ...

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Uploaded on Jun 28, 2008

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who is coming over to help us make jam from 20 pounds of strawberries?

day 1466: at a baseball game, pretty much mostly not thinking about retinal detachment. outtake.

the garden is producing quite nicely - i picked around 10 pounds today with plenty more coming...

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Uploaded on Jun 28, 2008

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Uploaded on Jun 27, 2008

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day 1466: at a baseball game, pretty much mostly not thinking about retinal detachment.

day 1465: odin's adventure at the mayo clinic.

we decided that it would be fun to attend a previously scheduled la crosse loggers game...

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Uploaded on Jun 27, 2008

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after receiving word from the mayo clinic at 9 a.m. sharp that we should get there as quickly as...

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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2008

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day 1464: the long arm of prematurity reaches out and sucker punches us.

day 1462: when asked, odin will tell you that haley the hippo doesn't really mind being swung by her tail.

it was a sunny, beautiful morning and odin came into the bedroom. "poppi, i see spots. i...

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Uploaded on Jun 24, 2008

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Uploaded on Jun 22, 2008

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58.6 m.p.g. and, no, i'm not even attempting to hypermile the tdi.

photo of odin in 'babble' parenting magazine.

three years ago when we bought a new jetta diesel tdi , talking about being worried about $4 a...

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Uploaded on Jun 17, 2008

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some might be interested to know that babble asked for permission to use "day 684: laying...

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Uploaded on Jun 16, 2008

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day 1455: happy father's day! outtake.

day 1455: happy father's day!

he is, i must say, quite an extraordinary ball finder. and perfectly happy to chase them down near...

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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2008

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happy father's day ! when we asked odin what he wanted to do, he said he wanted to take...

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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2008

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cyanoacrylate smackdown.

purportedly ailing newman gave $120M to newman's own? or sold his ownership?

i can say with some authority if you really need some old school cyanoacrylate gluing action, the...

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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2008

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we like newman's own products, so we were interested to see that paul newman recently donated...

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Uploaded on Jun 13, 2008

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breaching the yytri-primmer dam.

the cresting kickapoo moves south.

heavy equipment works on an intentional breach of the yytri-primmer dam which is just a few miles...

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Uploaded on Jun 12, 2008

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well, it was sort-of a normal day today for some us. i ignored road closure signs and followed a...

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Uploaded on Jun 10, 2008

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