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Erin and I have been hard at work these last few months, trying to do as much ourselves at possible. It’s been a fun challenge learning how to use all the software on my computer to come up with creative products. My mom helped out immensely be sketching and painting a variety of […]

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This is a famous alley in San Luis Obispo called Bubble Gum Alley. It’s actually really disgusting. People stick their chewing gum on the walls. Some places have inches of stuck gum, and people get very creative with writing and drawing in chewed gum. I took this picture with my cell […]

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Here’s a picture collage of Erin’s first 30 years, created by of her mom Judy:

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For Erin’s 30th Birthday I took her for a romantic weekend getaway to the Jenner Inn, just north of Bodega Bay.

We stayed in the Fanny Jewel Room

Saturday morning we got up, ate our breakfast at the Inn and then headed up to Monte Rio for a canoe trip up the Russian River

Where we saw lots […]

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Well, it would be difficult to find someone who’s been to a more spectacular wedding than the one put on by Paul Wilson and Cynthia Phinney in East Livermore, ME last week. The wedding was months in the planning and it all payed off.

Raphael and I were lucky enough to join a large group […]

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Last night we went out to Gritty’s in Auburn, ME to meet up with a few old pals from high school.

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I stumbled across this article while surfing the web yesterday. It’s one of those inspiring articles that makes you want to start taking action immediately. A few good points that I’ve taken away from the article:
1. If you never spend more than 99% of your income, you’ll always have more money than […]

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I’ve made a lot of bread-machine bread in my time (31 whole years!) but I never made it completely from scratch. It was fun to mix everything up, knead the dough and watch it cook. I’m not sure making one loaf of bread in a modern kitchen really benefits the environment. The […]

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Last night as we were leaving a bbq up on the mesa in Santa Barbara, Anna and Oscar found a skunk and decided to give chase. Anna wound up with a decent coating of oily skunk stink across her face. It was really quite nasty and was my first personal dog spraying. […]

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