Devon went with his parents this morning to his new school. He played with the other kids, met his teachers and is learning all the rules that go with being at school. He seemed to really like it and was upset when he had to leave. He’ll start officially on Thursady and will stay the full day.
Add commentFebruary 27th, 2007 at 01:08pmPosted by ::matthew
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.
Add commentJanuary 30th, 2007 at 02:11amPosted by ::matthew
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…
Add commentNovember 11th, 2006 at 11:29pmPosted by ::matthew
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.
Add commentNovember 1st, 2006 at 12:04amPosted by ::matthew
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:
Add commentOctober 25th, 2006 at 10:30pmPosted by ::matthew