A Snowboarder is born
last update: 02/07 @ 21:08
Robert showing off his new found form snowboarding on the grounds of Castle Roberto (the Masonic Memorial). We ended up with 17.8 official inches, making this the fourth largest snowstorm in DC history (and December’s was also in the top 10). More photos in Robert’s section.

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Robert on the snow bank
last update: 02/06 @ 18:04
We got another serious snow storm this weekend. It snowed from Friday afternoon, all night and it’s still going as it’s approaching 6pm Saturday. Unfortunately, this snow fall was much wetter and heavier than December’s big dump. We have several big branches down in the back yard, and I’m really impressed none of them took out the phone line (yet).

It’s starting to taper off now after an official 17 inches at National Airport — that makes it number five in all time snow fall here, if we get another two tenth’s of an inch there, it will be number four.

(Photo Credit: Laura Norman)

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Snow again…
last update: 02/03 @ 10:33
I missed last weekend’s snow because of a nastly cold; I spent most of the weekend zoning out while Sarah and Robert went sledding and snow man building. Today I took a few hours to sled while Sarah gathered materials for a job interview tomorrow.

Go Sarah!!!

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Maneuvers
last update: 01/26 @ 22:34
Sarah took this picture of the new mound waiting for the big garden. As Robert told me later, he was standing on the “maneuver” ready to fire his cannon — “if you look really closely you can see the black powder.”

He had a bath that night.

I’m sure the “manuever” had aged enough to really be fertilzer, really…

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HiJYah!
last update: 01/22 @ 20:33
First Day of Karate.

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King of the cannon ball mountain
last update: 01/19 @ 23:17
We took advantage of the holiday and great weather yesterday to run up to Baltimore and visit Fort McHenry. Robert really enjoyed the cannons and kept talking about shooting them. Then one of the big cargo ships a mile or so away must have started up it’s engines — there was a huge cloud of smoke. I told Robert, “Aw, you did it!” and he was really worried for a couple of seconds that one of his cannon shots had damaged a ship out in the harbor. A couple more photos in Robert’s section.

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Lakefront Christmas
last update: 12/30 @ 21:02
We woke up at home to see what Santa brought (in addition to all the very nice gifts from friends and family) then packed up the car for Christmas part deux in North Carolina at a lovely house Susan and Loren rented for a Clark-Williams Christmas. Many more photos in the vacations section.

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Ready for the main event
last update: 12/24 @ 22:39
Tree is ready, presents are present, now we just need Saint Nick to stop by and Robert to wake up. I think both are safe bets…

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night!!!

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Snow covered DC
last update: 12/23 @ 22:16
We took in the Botanic Garden Christmas trains this morning and were so taken by the snowy field around the Capitol Christmas tree we wandered by there on our way to lunch. A few more photos on the same page in the vacations section.

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Ahh….
last update: 12/22 @ 19:23
A fire in the fireplace and a leg of lamb in the oven; life is good!

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