Camping with Lisa’s family
July 25th, 2018 · 10 Comments
Lisa’s family has made a tradition lately of camping for a week each year. This year’s adventure was to Westport Bearch near Fort Bragg, California. With us were the Rusts, Normans and Wassermanns. We took our Vistabule teardrop, Green Bean.
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No-show limo? No problem
December 6th, 2015 · Leave a Comment
This is what happens when Lisa’s entire family gets together to go see Christmas lights and the Limo company FAILS! Instead we all go shopping at the mall and visit Santa.

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New Year’s retake
March 13th, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Patrick and Kaitlyn relived a moment on New Year’s Eve from 11 years earlier.
Great fondue on New Year’s eve at the cabin, Jody! Thanks!
December 31st, 2014 · Leave a Comment
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More from Steve’s Facebook…
July 9th, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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Oceanside Vacation Day 5: Easter and an aircraft carrier
June 1st, 2014 · Leave a Comment
No one wants to wake up at 7 am on vacation, but the kids were up in anticipation of the Easter egg hunt and the adults were up by default. The Easter Bunny brought sand toys, kites and other vacation-related toys for the kids. So by 8 am the kids took off in search of
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Oceanside Vacation Day 4: Animals in the ocean
June 1st, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Today was all about the ocean. We barely left the house except to walk to the fishing pier and back, and chose instead to spend our time on the beach. The surf that had been extraordinarily high for the last few days-even prompting a weather warning of 6-12 foot waves-had subsided. The waves had previously banged against the rocks just off our deck. Now they were 50 feet
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1,5,10: What we were up to 1, 5, and 10 years ago…or at least close
May 29th, 2014 · Leave a Comment
One year ago: At the cabin in Serene Lakes for Independence day with Les, the Petterles and Wassermanns, July 4, 2013.
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A picture is worth at least a dozen words here
June 18th, 2013 · 1 Comment
I’ve been having a blast lately going back and reading old posts (for some reason I’ve been focused on 2005 and 2006) and adding pictures to them.
Take a look at crazy cruise pictures from “Hot and Weary in Acapulco”, or look for a great shot of Les getting snockered in
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Memorial weekend at Serene Lakes brings family, kids, friends, kids’ friends
May 29th, 2013 · Leave a Comment
While memorial weekend at our cabin in Serene Lakes admittedly didn’t bring a lot of tearful memorializing of our men and women serving our Country, it was celebrated the way so many American’s celebrate: with family, barbecues and food. A few of the kids brought friends up which brought our numbers to
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