I was struck by this video Al Franken did for his campaign launch. It’s yet to be determined if he’s the next Paul Wellstone, but he would make a fine replacement for Norm Coleman.
I’ve decided to change the format of this place again, as I wasn’t keeping up with the posts and was mostly putting up pictures. Moving forward, I intend to put a favorite latest photo here in the post which when clicked will take you to the album it’s in. I’ll write the occasional blog entry here and might just go ahead and blog here rather than that other place. Devon will just have to get used to the fact that Daddy sometimes uses bad words when describing various politicians. Feel free to poke and prod if you haven’t seen an update in a while.
I remember listening to this song many years ago in a galaxy far far away. I was reminded of the Star Wars Christmas Special today, which in turn reminded me of this.
Devon went horseback riding today with Mom, Sasa, Hannah, Leslie, Uncle Scott and Opa. Sarah thought Devon needed some new cowboy boots to go for a ride, so here he is…
Halloween has seemed a bit less festive this year because of the loss of Ken, but we did get out and do our Pumpkin Carving Party Sunday and Halloween Trick-or-Treating tonight.
Devon was a bat this year. Sarah liked his Dragon outfit better, but it took a few hundred hours less time to make the bat costume. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the various activities…
More to come once I get everybody else’s pictures.
Ken died Tuesday night after a sometimes tough battle with Parkinson’s disease.
I’ll remember Ken as an absent-minded professor type who was always happy and jovial and could always be counted on to know the latest sports scores…especially golf! He had a long career as a geologist and professor at FSU in which he devised and improved upon dating of water through the examination of naturally occurring radio isotopes and tortured many students in the finer points of crystallography and mineralogy. The last few years he had been working on a theory which if true would show how the prevailing interpretation of the U-series disequilibria in mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) had violated mass balance principles.
Ken (or grandpa doggies, as Devon referred to him as) spent the last several years as assistant dog wrangler for Julie’s Big Dog Rescue operation. He always seemed willing to accept another foster dog into the home to be nurtured and rehabilitated and could be counted on to send the dogs away with a well developed skill set of ball and Frisbee retrieval.
Below are a few pictures of Ken taken over the last few years:
We’ll Be having our Annual Pumpkin Carving Party on Sunday, October 29th at 5pm. We’ll provide carving implements, dinner and drinks, you provide the pumpkins. Hope to see you there.
We met Manda & Quinn and Lincoln & Melissa this morning at Bruegger’s and then went to Winthrup Park to let the kids play. Manda & Quinn came up for the weekend for a conference and the ball game. I took around 200 shots, but thinned it down a bit.