The Ede kids looking cute:

The Ede Family Photo:

The Barnard Family Photo:

Last but not least, ThatEdeGuy and me, with Lightning and Sparky:

So all in all – we had a fun Christmas!

Hope everyone else did too   Have a fun and save New Years tonight.

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Christmas Pics

Safe travels to all of those moving about the country.

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Merry Christmas

World through a childs eye by =olorinpc on deviantART

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Through the eyes of a child

Check out my deviantArt Portfolio here: Jake Barnard – Digital Works

Here are a couple of my favorite pieces that are on there:

On the merry-go-round by =olorinpc on deviantART

Ready for the ride by =olorinpc on deviantART

Firetrucks on Parade BW by =olorinpc on deviantART

The portfolio is separate from the deviantArt galleries, but all images displayed on there can be found in my dA gallery.  Prints can also be purchased from the dA gallery if you see something you really like.  I have discovered the downside to taking tons of pictures with the new camera is developing a huge backlog of images to process and post, but that is part of the fun!

Oh and if anyone has a better idea for a tagline, let me know.  I think it needs some work.

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deviantArt Gallery

It has been a pretty busy last couple of months for me.  I have been digging out literally (snow drifts) and figuratively (workload).  Though there have been some exciting developments along with some sad ones as well.

A couple of weeks ago I went out with my mom to Seattle (well Vashon Island which is in the Puget Sound by Seattle) to say goodbye to my Opa.  (Opa being Grandpa in German.) Our timing was good as he passed away a week later.  It was nice to get out there and spend some time with him and some of our relatives.  I was out there briefly for a work conference 2 years ago, but had only been able to visit for a day.  I did take pictures while I was out there and uploaded them to flickr.

On a more exciting note though, ThatEdeGuy saw the birth of his 2nd child, a little baby girl.  (My wife and I were asked to be Godparents – though it was exciting enough already without that additional part.) I will be posting some of the pictures I uploaded to flickr later. She had a little lung infection that has prevented them from bringing her home, though things have been going very well and sounds promising for getting to come home tomorrow.  (My wife will probably be sneaking to the hospital today to get more time holding her when I am not looking. )

Dart League is just about over for the year.  I am having trouble being sad about that as it has been a longer than normal season and even going every other week seemed like a larger time commitment than I thought it was going to be.  Even so, we finished out a lot better than we thought we were going to.  There were 13 Monday Night teams.  After riding 10-12 all season, we fought our way up to the #7 slot after this past Monday’s performance.  This weekend we have the end-of-season tournaments.  Starts Friday night at 7:30pm, then continues Saturday morning at 11am.

Locks away half of the weekend, but should be a good last hurrah with the team.  (Since we have gotten a whole lot better during the last half of the season, should go pretty well too. Though may get done with that and be needed for the Jamestown Sandbagging effort!)

Last but not least today, while I have been posting here a lot less than I would like, my frequency of updating my Twitter account has stayed pretty high.  So make sure to check it out.

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Someone said it is Spring now

Today’s criminal, one Mr. Sparky Barnard, was caught red-handed.

Exhibit A)

"Oh I am soooo sorry"

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)

Somehow... someone knew when to hide when I went upstairs... I wonder why.

As we all know, chewing on and tearing up carpet is a serious infraction if you want to maintain your status as a good dog.  Having violated multiple house rules, the criminal was sentanced to an afternoon in doggy jail.

He is very remorseful:

"Ohhh I am such a bad dog. I won't do it again I swear!"

So Sparky is currently serving his sentence for the afternoon.  At which time he will be released and be his normal bouncy self.

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In the dog house

All in all, we are still very excited.  Shane is going to try to help me finish moving the upstairs stuff over to the new place.  (Pretty much just office stuff.)  If we managed that, then it will be the main floor stuff, which all goes onto the main floor of the new place.  I think our biggest dissapointment this weekend was we weren’t going to just keep moving stuff and try to get everything moved.  (Duh it never would have worked, but we have been excited enough to think abouit it!)  Oh and that we can’t pick up Sparky (our new golden puppy) till after moving weekend.  Though that does give us more time to get puppy stuff and the place ready.

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Exciting weekend!

Actually a pretty good idea. First reason being we will have a little more time to gather stuff and also find more stuff to sell when we have everything moved out. The second being instead of trying to help with the garage sale, I can get moving on getting more boxes and actually packing things up. We close on the 11th, with the big move the weekend after that, and I feel like I have hardly anything packed. (Well that is more of a fact than a feeling, but you get the idea.)

Anywho – It just means I have to force myself to be extra productive this weekend, while at the same time crossing my fingers that there aren’t too many firecalls. (Last weekend I had a lot of house work actually all planned out was the weekend we got something around 7 pages in a 48hr period.)Technorati Tags: jamestown, north dakota, olorinpc, jake barnard

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Weekend suddenly free

We have been quite busy on the fire department, and it is getting close to closing time on the house. So between the two – its going to be a busy busy next month.

Hopefully the fishing part of the weekend will go well. We had limited time to fish last year and they just weren’t biting… so hoping to make a better shot at it this year!

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Ready for the weekend

Other than that – might go to the races again Saturday night.  Pretty cheap entertainment for $9.  I have lived in Jamestown since 2000 but only started last year.  I am a rather late convert to the whole racing thing.  Never got why people went to races and got all crazy about NASCAR on Sundays.  (It’s not football.)

However, after actually going to the local dirt track racing… I have started to get into it.  I first approched it in terms of thinking about what the drivers had to do to hold a corner like that, then friends filled me in on what the different kinds of cars did etc.  This year I am making a slight effort to pay attention to my buddies when they talk about their favorite NASCAR driver.  (One friend on the fire department is a Kahne fanatic.)  I wouldn’t say I yet have a favorite driver myself or anything like that… but learning more about something has certainly made it more interesting for me.  Don’t know if it will ever get to the point of being able to call myself a NASCAR fan, but I might actually try to watch this Sunday.

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Weekend plans and racing