Starting to feel more like fall
last update: 10/07 @ 22:37

The weather is starting to feel more like October now and the water from Hurricane Helene has dropped a bit.

The river was still higher than I’ve see it in quite a while, about 4.3 today. I played around in the current, ferrying across and getting pushed around a bit.

I wasn’t able to get up to the Virginia chute, but did take a peek at Difficult Run. At water levels I’m used to, it’s hard to get back in there.

Also, I poked up the back channel to see what I could see.

A Heron, a duck, some turtles and lots of buzzards today (along with a couple hikers and a kayak or two).

It was a nice day to be out; I don’t know if we’ll get any really good colors this fall, but clearly we’ll know pretty soon.

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Unexpected surprise
last update: 10/04 @ 16:09

Completely unexpected mail today: A thank you from President Joe Biden.

Wow…

I think I’ll look for a frame and find a place to put this up.

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I voted …
last update: 10/02 @ 17:40

… and so should you!

I took Hurricane Helene as a reminder (as Sarah has been saying for years) to vote early and not worry about any unforeseen circumstances on election day.

Now, can I opt out of the campaign ads?

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Another busy weekend
last update: 09/30 @ 13:56

We’re back home after a brief trip north (and keeping on eye on family recovering from Hurricane Helene south of here).

With the recent (perhaps questionable) shift of the UW Huskies from the Pac12 league to the Big10, the planets aligned and they played Rutgers, where Sarah grew up.

Sarah picked up tickets and talked her brother into joining us (he and their mom were the football fans back in the day — Robert has gotten Sarah and I much more interested in college football than we were).

It was a good game and closer than many expected, but the Huskies lost by 3.

And Rutgers put on a great show: the marching band had LEDs they could use to draw out words and maps during halftime (with the stadium lights out). And they had a brief drone show!

The next day, Sarah, David Z. and I walked around Highland Park including going by their old house. It was great fun to hear the stories of them growing up.

That evening was Sarah’s high school reunion — more fun stories of growing up.

The next day (Sunday), we drove into Brooklyn to have a great brunch with Ian, Sophie and David.

And after brunch, we headed to Manhattan for an engagement party of one of Sarah’s classmates’ daughters.

As I said, it was a fun, busy, three day weekend.

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The tradition continues…
last update: 09/25 @ 17:15

Robert posted this first day of his junior year photo :)

It’s always fun to look back over the years…

• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008

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Family
last update: 09/25 @ 13:50

More photos in the vacations section.

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Enjoying Retirement!
last update: 09/18 @ 19:18

We’re getting ready for a cousins reunion.

With the new found free time I have, it’s much easier to fire up the smoker.

Yesterday was shopping and prepping.

Today was smoking.

Thankfully, our beach sun shade is hanging in there and works as well for the little bit of rain we had today.

Tomorrow will be cleaning up (less fun but important).

And then we can enjoy the reunion over the weekend!

I thought it fitting for my contribution to be my Dad’s smoking recipe. I sauced a bit less this time and Robert is telling me I really need to try dry rub.

It’s great to have the time to do this.

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Thank you Evan!
last update: 09/15 @ 18:08

It was a picture perfect afternoon for baseball.

And we were happy to put Evan’s tickets to good use.

We saw the Nats win!

And two of those runs were homers!

A great afternoon!

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Another beautiful day…
last update: 09/10 @ 23:20

… water level was a little low; just under 2.8

But temperature in the low 80s.

Blue skies.

Weekday, so plenty of parking spaces.

And only one class of SUPs on the river.

So plenty of fun.

I left the class in the Maryland Chute and went to play on the Virginia side. When I came back, they were just heading downstream so I had Maryland Chute to myself.

And I’ve never seen deer crossing the back channel before.

I also saw turtles, heron and an egret.

And lots of little fish, every time I looked down.

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Shakedown Cruise
last update: 09/07 @ 15:06

We took advantage of the weather to check out our camping equipment (expecting to get more use of it these days). This was just a quick trip to Western Maryland that proved we have the basics covered.

A few more photos in the vacations section.

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