Rare November ride: Mass. North Shore

Don jumped on the bike this A.M. and got in a ride. It started out 46 degrees, calling for the cold-weather gear (no fairing on the Shadow 1100 = layer up when it’s below 60), but quickly evolved into a sweet, mid-fall gem of a Sunday, 65 degrees and sunny.
Heading for the North Shore, [...]

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Costumery

Halloween pictures, barrette mania, and modeling the new winter coat Gran made for Susanna out of polar fleece:

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Mine Falls foliage

The light was amazing today around 3 at Mine Falls Park in Nashua as Don walked Milo and Glory, so he whipped out the cell phone and started snapping pictures…should have brought the much higher quality Canon but oh well…still you get the picture.

All they knew was that it was perfect walkin’ weather at 60 [...]

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Bob & Darlene’s Fall Fling in Melvin Village, NH

We flew up to Melvin Village yesterday (well, drove, really) and hung out with Patrick’s godparents, who threw a get-together up in the woods. While our GPS got us lost by confusing Wolfeboro with Melvin Village, we got our money’s worth of fall foliage…which seems to be coming in slowly but surely…and late. Still, Don [...]

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Fall stuff

Just emptied the cell-cam and wanted to share some pictures:

Susanna at the SEE Science Center grinding gears…

…making bubbles bigger than she is…

…and in general having a good time.

At the Milford Pumpkin Fest.

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Don, kids, Carolyn and Rebecca visit Allison in Plymouth

Today was homecoming at Plymouth State, and we loaded up the van with Don’s sister Carolyn and daughter Rebecca to visit Allison. She showed us around and of course we attended the festivities on the green outside the Hub.
We met Allison at her place, a grand old house barely off campus she shares with 14 [...]

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Meet the new hound, Milo

Not much to say except he is a 7 year old male, returned to the kennel because previous adopter got a new job that included long hours and night shifts and the dog did not like that at all.
He is named after Milo Aukerman, the lead singer of the punk band the Descendents. (Yes, [...]

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Jack-o-lantern

Patrick got a small (4″-6″) pumpkin at his first grade field trip to Parlee Farms Friday, and he was hot to carve that thing up and make a jack-o-lantern. This, it turns out, is one of those skills one assumes dads have, and Dad tried not to disappoint.
So here goes. He drew the face he [...]

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Fenway, Monday

Well things started off cheerily, with Beckett supposedly starting on Don’s only 2009 game at the Fens with cousin Doug (from Ohio, Red Sox diehard, go figure) and his son Alvin.
Then Beckett was scratched with back spasms, Bowden gave up 5 hits and 4 runs before he got his second out, and it went [...]

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Tents!

Location: EMS HQ in Peterborough, their annual sample sale and clearance.
Goal: A boys’ tent and a girls’ tent for camping next year, upgrading our single 2-person tent setup so we can camp as a family next year after our excellent test-trips with the kids this year.
Mission: Accomplished!
We had no idea EMS stores rented gear, [...]

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