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Schoharie Indians Basketball 1970 -71

SCS Junior Varsity Team picture from 1968, my freshman year in high school.  #21 before his growth spurt.

I found some articles online that documented basketball games from my junior and senior years at Schoharie Central School (SCS).

Schoharie ‘5’ Outscores Rich’ville

SCHOHARIE _ Schoharie defeated Richmondville 60-49 in a Schoharie County League basketball [...]

Odyssey Soccer

Eric has been attending soccer practices at the Odyssey Sports Club in Sherrill.  While they field a team to compete in the U10 indoor league at Rising Stars he is just attending the 2x week practices to learn new ball handling skills.  Below Eric, #16, is the 1st to practice a new skill demonstrated by [...]

DIY Tyvek Bivy

I had a couple of pieces of 9′ Tyvek left over from the home remodeling that I wanted to experiment with for camping applications.  I took a piece to use as a ground cloth in my megamid tipi when we winter camped on Peaked Mountain.

The piece had been left over when the patio [...]

Septic Tank

We only have a little bit of snow covering the grass on our lawn.  The wet areas of the lawn (and our septic tank) are showing green grass.

I’m Open!

Sawyer, Trevor and Eric all call for the ball.

Ice Skating On The Driveway

With all the warm weather we have experienced a number of freeze and thaw actions that left a sizeable area of ice in our driveway.  Thursday morning  Kathryn and Eric were waiting for the school bus and sliding around.  Thursday evening they cleared off a small patch and did a little ice skating.

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3rd-4th Grade Basketball

Eric is playing on one of the two HP basketball teams in the Stan Evan’s Basketball League.  Practices are on Tuesday and Thursday nights with games on Saturday mornings.  There are eight kids on the team so everyone gets to play a lot.  The games consist of 5 7 minute quarters and they are generally [...]

Eric’s Birthday – 7 January & 9 Years Old

Our New Year Eve celebration was quiet.  We had Crane and Bochniaks at our house for games.  Since everyone had kids they left by 10pm.

The following weekend we celebrated Eric’s birthday with family. Below Eric opens a present as Kathryn, Steve, Joel, Stone and Dakota look on.

Jenifer, Mike Billie Jo, Barbara and [...]

Christmas 2011

Christmas preparations: Jim’s wrapping.  All the presents by the tree

 

Eric left out reindeer food and a snack for Santa.

Eric woke up early and came into our room by 5:19am.

Jim got camping items: a new water filter for the Basecamp filter, long underwear, a canoe portage pack, camp soap, a [...]

Christmas Tree 2011

We picked up our Christmas tree on Friday afternoon.  We picked up Eric after school and went to the cut-your-own place on Fox Road – our 1st time there.  The owner was very organized and had nice trimmed trees.

I cut and Eric steadied the tree.  We loaded it on the tarp and Eric dragged [...]