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Molly Has Met Her Match

Tim — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:03:19 +0000

As Elwyn slowed down over his last few years, Molly often seemed downright cruel. The brisker the weather, the more likely she was to decide that she wanted to wrestle and run — neither of which Elwyn was particularly capable of doing.

Just a week or two before Elwyn died, our next-door neighbors got a yellow lab puppy name Anabel. When they got her — 3 months ago — she looked something like this:

She’s, um, grown a bit:

And, suddenly, Molly has taken to peering cautiously out the back door to make sure the coast is clear before heading out to do her business.

Often enough, though, when the weather is brisk, she’s up for a bit of rambunctiousness:

Stay tuned. There’s at least a 50% chance that a human is going to tear something in a kneecap as these two bowl around our backyard.

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Fall Foliage Has Arrived!

Tim — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:46:15 +0000

After a recent post, my dad commented that it didn’t look like the colors had really started turning up here yet. That was just what I (had not) managed to take pictures of!

Alana and I went for a little walk (scooter ride in her case) yesterday and saw some pretty vivid colors.

This little fellow is staked out in his backyard quite a bit — he seems to have gotten used to us enough that he wasn’t racing back and forth barking like mad.

After we got back, Benton and a friend were kicking a soccer ball back and forth in the road — it’s the neighbor’s house behind him that really has some neat coloring in his tree (and some neat Halloween decorations).

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A Halloween Ham

Tim — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:27:40 +0000

Destined to be a rare series of photos, as there is ‘nary a trace of pink anywhere in this ensemble (Halloween-themed bow and shirt courtesy of J):

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Fall Flora and Fauna

Tim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:23:49 +0000

“What are you looking at?!”

And some turning maple leaves near the Smuirfield Golf Club

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Wilderness Explorations with Carson

Tim — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:35:14 +0000

Carson and I went for a walk last Saturday morning. The main destination was the “hideout” that he and a couple of friends have discovered near the playground near our house, but we wandered through the woods and over a creek and elsewhere in the process.

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Another Saturday Night in the Driveway

Tim — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:11:06 +0000

The weather was too perfect to not have a fire in our driveway last Saturday. It was a small group — only three families — but it was a fun evening.

The classic image of the evening was of four girls aged 5 and under all simultaneously roasting marshmallows:

That led to some gooey mess with one of the girls (Sadie):

Which led to a very attentive Molly:

Meanwhile, the boys were playing with their Go-Gos — using some oversized Janga blocks to build structures for them (these structures were later destroyed by Girl No. 3 in the first picture in this post — younger sister of the two non-Wilson boys in this picture):

So, where was Benton with all these young kids running around? Asleep on his bed, face down and fully clothed. He’d been at a sleepover the night before and had stayed up until 4:30 AM! The sad thing was that he was the one who suggested the fire in the first place, and he was the one who helped collect and cut up the firewood! Nevertheless, the next day, Sunday, he was up for more firewood collecting with Carson in preparation for the fire we’ll have on Halloween (or, at least on the night that trick-or-treating happens, which isn’t Halloween, which is just odd):

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Eat Your Heart Out…Tom Watson!

Tim — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:04:24 +0000

It was just last week that I compared Carson to Michael Jordan. And, here we are with a comparison to Tom Watson:

Carson and I wandered down to Smuirfield on Saturday afternoon to play a round of golf. I, of course, brought along my camera! Carson did a masterful job of extricating himself from a bunker:

There are certainly worse ways to kill an hour on a crisp fall day!

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Then And Now: Extended Clothing Edition

Tim — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:44:14 +0000

Yet another installment in our semi-regular Then and Now series, in which Julie demonstrates her impressive memory when it comes to which of our kids wore what clothes when, and which ones had pictures taken of them in those clothes.

Alana: November 2007

Alana: October 2009
In Which the Dress Has Become a Blouse

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Eat Your Heart Out, Michael Jordan!

Tim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:39:55 +0000

Michael Jordan’s tongue is as legendary as his perimeter shooting and ballhandling:

Carson’s doing his best to follow in MJ’s footsteps. At least from a lingual perspective.

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A Crisp, Fall, Saturday Morning in the ‘Hood

Tim — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:37:02 +0000

I took a little walk on Saturday morning to check out the foliage in the area. And to, um, play with my camera.

A little guy who posed for me

The Smuirfield Golf “Club”
(site of many a daytime and nighttime pitching outing)

Walking/Bike Path Nearby

Halloween Is in the Air

12th Hole at (the real) Muirfield Village Golf Course

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