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Joshua on August 1st, 2009

Despite the heat (actually looking at only 97 today!), we are heading out to go camping.  We purchased a tent back in May and have been waiting for it to cool off. Well that is obviously never going to happen, so we are just going to go anyway. We are headed out to Inks Lake […]

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Joshua on July 26th, 2009

Yesterday we set off to McKinney Falls State Park to take a little hike.  We got there shortly after 10a so we weren’t hiking in the worst of the heat, but it was still very warm.  The trail we chose, Onion Creek [giant pdf trail map], is about 2.8 miles long and paved (we didn’t […]

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Amber on June 10th, 2009

Our days have already been very hot!  According to the weather man our the temps we are getting right now are what we are usually having mid summer…  So it is going to be a long long summer. Last year we found that a small pool on the deck was a nice way to cool […]

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Joshua on May 6th, 2009

I made my first pop bottle launcher maybe 12 or 13 years ago with my dad.  I used it to launch hundreds of 2-liter bottles with kids from Best SELF, Together For Youth, ARIS and of course just for the fun of it.  As far as I know the original launcher is still in my […]

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