Category: Family

  • Starting First Grade

    Kenny started 1st grade on Tuesday.  He’s been looking forward to it and fortunately, it looks like he will have lots of fun.  He has 24 kids in his class, including most of his friends from last year.  Plus, he gets his own desk. :).  Anyway, here are a few pictures. Kenny, standing in front…

  • Last gasps of summer

    For those folks trying to get ahold of my since last Tuesday, I’m finally starting to get through my email so unless your message got caught by one of my fairly aggressive spam filters, I’ll respond soon.  So what have I been up to, well, I’ve been in San Francisco with my wife.  Alyce and…

  • Diamond Lake redux

    So this weekend, my family and I spent 4 nights down at Diamond Lake with my wife’s two sisters, their families and their parents.  (not pictured, my brother-in-law, my wife’s parents and me) For Kenny and Nathan, it was their second trip down to Diamond Lake in 2 weeks.  During the first trip down, we…

  • Best Friends

      Nathan and Goldie   Kenny and Goldie   Kenny and Nathan

  • Kenny and Nathan camping

    We took Nathan and Kenny camping for the first time this last weekend.  We drove down to Diamond Lake, in Southern Oregon and had a nice relaxing time with the kids and my parents (who camped next to us).  My dad and I took off Saturday and road from Diamond Lake to Crater Lake and…

  • Going to the movies

    Living in a small town has many benefits — no traffic, quiet neighborhoods, friendly neighbors — but sometimes, it can be a little inconvenient.  For example, if we wanted to watch a movie.  For the first 4 years, we’d have to drive to either Corvallis (25 miles) or Salem (21 miles — but awful traffic). …

  • Lost in Airport hell

    I spend the weekend in DC as a panelist for an NEH grant.  It was a very interesting experience.  Having never been on an NEH grant panel before, I was somewhat amazed by the tremendous number of high quality research project currently being undertaken in the humanities.  If this is a representative sample of the…

  • Blustery Day

    Wow, we had a bit of a wind storm last night.  133 MPH winds in the mountains, 114 MPH gusts recorded at the coast, and gusts in the 80 MPH range in the valley.  Living in the valley, we get very few such wintry days and you can tell, by looking at the number of…

  • A visit to Santa

    One of the things that I love about our little town is the number of kid friendly activities that go on.  It was actually one of the reasons why we’ve stayed in Independence, rather than move to Corvallis.  Anyway, our city has something called the festival of lights.  It’s been a cool parade that has…

  • Belated halloween pictures

    I have a number of posts that I’ve started over the past month, but obviously been busy.  At some point, I’ll start writing about why — but for now, I’m catching up.  For example: Alyce and I took Kenny and Nathan trick or teating this halloween.  They were cuties.  Kenny is obviously Superman, Nathan —…