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I just finished reading an excellent book by Edward Kanze- Over the Mountain and Home Again: Journeys of an Adirondack Naturalist. It is a collection of his essays and they are extemely well written. In one of the articles he cites interesting research on the thermodynamics of changing color coats in winter animals. [...] I took my $50k-all-metallic hips in for their annual checkup which consisted of x-rays and flexion tests. All the x-rays came back fine; no movement and no separation. We checked out the ‘ratcheting’ feeling I occasionally experience in my right hip and concluded it might be scar tissue or other soft tissue – [...] Today Eric got invited over to his buddy Trevor’s for an afternoon of snow sledding and playing. A great opportunity for him to burn off some of his cabin fever from being house bound for two days due to a cold and severely cold weather. Kathryn and I took advantage of the free [...] Ed/Kelly/Izzabella and Billie Jo/Billy/Dakota came to our house on Sunday to celebrate a belated birthday party. Izzabella and Dakato enjoyed playing with Eric’s toys. After lunch we all went outside for a little sledding. In the pictures below Kathryn gets all the kids to take turns hammering. I have been taking advantage of two great sources of free software: The OpenCD Project and Software for Starving Students. There is overlap in the tools offered, but you can’t beat the price and the functionality is remarkable. In both cases it helps to be on a broadband connection. I downloaded the CD image (ISO), burned [...] Our house has blooming flowers and fighting dinosaurs. I recently upgraded Wordpress, the software used to maintain TheSwirl, to the latest version. I also decided to undergo a change in the theme of the blog, making it look more “Swirlish”. Previously I was using the default theme which was nice, but looked like all the other generic blogs. Let me know what you [...] Eric has been on a dinosaur kick and received dinosaur puzzles, toys, and a remote control T-Rex for his birthday. BBC’s website has a number of educational dinosaur games. One of his (and my) favorites is Dinosaur World. Dinosaur World 3D can be freely downloaded from BBC’s site. This is a wonderful [...] Kathryn was kind enough to sew my WinterCampers.com patch onto my new fleece lined baseball cap. Styling! We have had unbelievably nice weather lately and the past few mornings have had brilliant red skies – belaying the notion of “red sky in the morning, sailors take warning”. |
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