Christmas was a bit different this year.  Originally we had planned on heading down to the Twin Cities to visit family.  However with the blizzard rolling in, we made the call to stay here in Jamestown.  Shane and his family made the same call, so we had a Christmas event here.  It was rather fun, [...]

Merry Christmas everyone!  I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday.
Safe travels to all of those moving about the country.

A piece I had in mind this week after processing the larger image.  Hope you guys enjoy it!  (It is from a picture of our Godchild Maddie.)

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Well deviantArt has released a new gallery feature.  It is pretty cool actually.  I have been testing it a while in beta, but the final version is pretty slick.  For subscribers you can have multiple portfolios, which one might do if they were showing these to clients.  I just have the one as my main [...]

Well rumor has it that it is Spring now.  As everyone is aware we are certainly getting the water up here – though still have snow slated for the weekend.  Oh well – nature really doesn’t seem to care what our calendar says.
It has been a pretty busy last couple of months for me.  I [...]

Along the line of Ede’s doggy court, Sparky was busted, evidence collected, and sentenced.
Today’s criminal, one Mr. Sparky Barnard, was caught red-handed.
Exhibit A)
Unfortunately this was discovered as merely a cover story for the larger crime.  Committed in secret upstairs.  Right next to the location of a previous infraction!
Exhibit B)
As we all know, chewing on and [...]

It has been a busy, but exciting weekend so far.  We closed on our new house Friday.  Since then we have been looking over the place and trying to move small loads of stuff.  (The idea being when everyone shows up to help with the big move next weekend, it is hopefully just going to [...]

Well the weekend suddenly freed up. The girls were going to have a garage sale this weekend, and decided to bump it back till after Jennie and I move. (By girls I mean Ede’s and my wife.)
Actually a pretty good idea. First reason being we will have a little more time to [...]

Well the weekend is finally here for me. Looking forward to getting a little break from life in Jamestown. Not that it is going bad of course, but the fact that it is looking more like a marathon than a summer coming up. So a nice calm before the storm.
We have been quite busy on [...]

This weekend – it is nice to not have any specific plans.  Like I mentioned before one of the goals is to try to make a lot of progress on the packing/cleaning of our rental house.  I split the house into zones and have a schedule of when to get each zone cleaned and organized.  [...]