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If a picture is
worth 1000 words, a video says it all.
Summer has come, and Summer has gone. As we await falling leaves and the arrival of a cord of firewood, we look back on one hell of a good summer.
Christmas - New Year's Eve 2007
One For the Ages
For the Family Sancomb, Christmas at Ponderosa Sancomb is always special, but this Christmas - New Year's was, as they say, "One For The Ages". There is considerable debate amongst the lot, over who among the sibs has not be here for Christmas. Safe to say that virtually every Christmas all four of our children have been, "Home For The Holidays". Christmas, that is, not New Year's Eve. Matt and Holly were in Oregon for Christmas and joined the party mid week. But this year, we think for the first time since the sibs were in grammar school, for New Year's Eve, we were able to say, "The Gang All Here". Mom and Dad, four "children", three spouses, three grandchildren, one American bulldog, and our good friend Ginny. Now that is a party.
Christmas 2007
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New Year's Eve
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The Great Chia Pet Caper
For decades it has been my desire to father a Chia Pet. Several attempts over the years ended in failure with the poor thing dead or dying and relegated to a musty shelf in the basement sometime in mid February. Last year, or was it the year before, I resolved to get under 200 pounds, and I am happy to report progress if not total success. This year, a new resolution, you guessed it, to father a Chia Pet. Walgreens cooperated by having an after Christmas half price sale, and we were off. Amazing how a Chia Pet grows if you simply keep it watered.
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I am happy to report that paternity has been confirmed.
Balls, Have We Got Balls!
We have the pleasure of living fairly near two recreational fields which are a great place for a man and his dog to take a walk. In this case, son Scott and their American Bull Dog, Ginger. During the course of their week-long Holiday stay at Ponderosa Sancomb, Scott and Ginger dragged home no less than 120 balls: Softballs - 9, Wiffle Ball - 1, Golf Balls - 30, Soccer Balls - 2, Odd Ball? - 1, and finally Baseballs, no less than 70. What do you do with that many balls, well you will just have to ask Scott and Ginger.
Leo Mueller - Three Years Old November 2007
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What better journey than to visit your daughter, son-in-law, and grandson on the occasion of his third birthday. Just doesn't get any better. A great time was had by all.
Wicker Park, named for brothers Charles and Joel Wicker who were developers in the 1870s, is always a welcome destination for getting, "out and about".
Following our arrival on Wednesday we had some quality time seeing Kerri's latest exhibit at the U of C Special Collections Library; The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Additionally we got to see the work she did at the Oriental Institute. Kerri was contracted to make very elaborate mounts for books of maps and other cartographic exhibits as part of a featured exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World. The work she did, unfortunately, does not show on the web site, and photography was strictly forbidden. You will have to just take my word for it that she did some nice work creating custom made mounts.
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If a picture is
worth 1000 words, a video says it all.
fence Day - Barrington, RI October 27-28, 2007
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It just does not get better than helping your son dig fencepost holes. The only thing better is playing pool and drinking beer as a reward for your fine work. By the way, I hope you are aware that when called on to dig postholes through ground infested with rocks the size of grapefruit and tree roots that won't give up, there is no better method than calling on your handy, dandy, shop-vac. Tim "Taylor" Allen would have been proud of the auger work, but to get the job done with posthole through rock and roots, poke and vacuum. Works like a charm.
If a picture is
worth 1000 words, a video says it all.
Carey Family Gathering: October 20-21, 2007
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Peg (Carey) Sancomb's sibs and progeny.
The Carey Family (Peg (Carey) Sancomb) recently gathered at the Meadowmere Resort in Ogunquit, Maine. Elaine and her husband Bjorn were in from Halden, Norway by way of Quebec City. Frank and his family gathered from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The whole family got to catch up at a Sunday morning brunch.
Ogunquit is a great destination, featuring, as you might expect, lots of restaurants and other places by which to be separated from your money. One of our favorites was Amore a cute little breakfast/lunch place where the morning wait on weekends can be over an hour.
Remember someone once said, "It's a small world". Well, follow this. Our close friend Norm Methot, has a sister Marty, who has a daughter, Monique. Peg Sancomb has a sister, Elaine. Marty was Elaine's Big Sister at college, and Monique cooks at Amore where we had breakfast Monday morning. (Couldn't stand that Sunday morning wait.)
Home Sweet Home: Fall, 2007
Life since California has not provided nearly the photo-ops that we had back then, but it is nice to be Home, Sweet, Home.
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So, cleaning the gutters, sailing Irish Rover, and manning Tag Sale Headquarters. Yes; Home, Sweet, Home.
Mantra #1 "There is no such thing as a Free Lunch."
Mantra #2 "If life deals you a lemon, Make Lemonade."
May, June, & July found me in California on business. It being such a chore to get East at the end of the week, I decided to come home only on the weeklong break for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. If that is the bad news, the good news is that I had my weekends free in the Golden State.
Boy, did I fill those weekends
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There were actually opportunities to take pictures of thing other than myself. In fact, just about everywhere you turned there was a beautiful sight or vista worthy of a click.
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So, you are walking down the street, and a guy come up to you and says, "Not for nuttin, do you know any one who has driven through all of the drive-thru Redwoods in the whole World"? So, you say, "Sure do, I know J. T. Sancomb."
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Actually, there are only two "Drive-Thru" Redwoods. Klamath had to call its tree a, "Tour-Thru" to avoid the possibility of litigation. Can you imagine? Don't believe it, check it out.
