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New Cat

17 November 2011

In the  spring I lost my faith­ful min­ion Trip. Early this sum­mer we added Peach to our menagerie. As much as I love the big orange doo­fus, he’s just not min­ion mate­r­ial. (Also, he prefers Jim’s com­pany to mine. Curr.) So… to rec­tify the lack of a min­ion for the Mag­pie Cen­ter for World Dom­i­na­tion. We have added a second cat. […]

Tagged as: izzy, peach

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Playing Catch Up.

17 November 2011

A new toy.     But before we can do any­thing about that… We have to fix this. Yeah, that’s pretty much half of the dash pulled out. Tomor­row night the other half comes out. All because I don’t like cold feet.   (Update to the update — Jim got it all done and but­toned back up on Sunday. […]

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II">Weekend Picture Taking, Part II

6 June 2011

Hm, the week­end picture-taking didn’t end Sat­ur­day morn­ing, though that was my plan. We headed out Sat­ur­day, late after­noon, to hit up the lum­ber yard for 2x4s and grab some din­ner before head­ing back home to fin­ish the chicken aviary improve­ments. (more on that later) I grabbed my cam­era and threw the 50mm lens on […]

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Weekend Picture Taking

5 June 2011

It’s been a long week­end already and it’s only noon on Sun­day :) Of course I started it on Fri­day. Early fri­day morn­ing I headed out to take some flower and yard pic­tures and to start get­ting the birds at the new feed­ers used to my being around with the cam­era. The yard is a […]

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Day 7 — In Which There Are Very Old Churches

18 September 2010

Well, there we were, on vaca­tion, tak­ing a cou­ple of days off for fire­works and parades. But that’s all over and only the con­fetti and red, white, and green bunting are left. So it was time to get mov­ing again. Out to the Mix­teca. Once the cen­ter of cochineal pro­duc­tion and the Span­ish Empire’s new world […]

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Day 3 — Marching Bands and Plants

15 September 2010

Oof. It was late last night and I posted this entry to the wrong blog. So here it is about 12 hours late. For break­fast this morn­ing we had march­ing bands. One of the largest of the local high schools had their parade to the zocolo in honor of the Bicen­ten­nial. First there was a bit […]

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Day 2 — In Which I Resist Words

13 September 2010

So… all you get today are pic­tures. Jim’s obser­va­tions for today.

Tagged as: doors, grafitti, madonna, shoes

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Day 1 — In Which We Slack

12 September 2010

The first day here in Oax­aca is always a lit­tle slow.  I’ve been beaten up by the air­lines, the alti­tude change is more than 5000 ft, and there’s the nec­es­sary trips for sup­plies (beer.) Lead­ing to not doing much. A brief after­noon stroll to try out the new lens was all the ambi­tion I could muster. […]

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New Glass

5 September 2010

We spent a lit­tle time down at the expen­sive toy store ear­lier this week­end. We came away with two new-to-us lenses. The first is rather dull — it’s a straight across replace­ment for the 70–300 that we already had. The new one has VR, Nikon’s image stabilization/vibration reduc­tion pack­age. The longer the lens the more […]

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19 years and counting — in Winthrop

22 July 2010

Last week­end J and I spend a few days “away” in Winthrop WA. It was a nice chance to relax and spend some down time with each other. Fri­day after­noon was hot and dry when we left Seat­tle. The long route through the moun­tains (up to Hwy 20.) The canyon below Dia­blo dam was com­pletely dry. Sign […]

Tagged as: norton commando, roadtrip, winthrop wa

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