Business travel is more boring than fun, but Bob does a good job of finding pleasure on the road. This month his travels took him to Chicago, Atlanta, SW Minnesota, and Calgary – December, 2019 ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Bob proves that business and culture most certainly do mix with a visit to […]
In which we spend a few days visiting Emily and Tyler in Colorado, get to know little Nolan and Evie, and revel in the company of family and friends. AT HOME WITH THE WEE ONES Emily and Tyler relaxing at home with two-month-old Evelyn Fox and four-year-old Nolan Trout. EVIE FOX FAN CLUB
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Playing tourist at the North Carolina Aquarium and Salt Marsh at Pine Knoll Shores, and at Fort Macon State Park – September 20 & 21 YES WE DID Yes, we did pay a nice man to take our picture against a green background so they could frame us, digitally, in cute, smiling rays.
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Waves of premium relaxation washed over us for three whole nights at Atlantic Beach, NC – September 19–22, 2019 GROWING OLD IS NO LAUGHING MATTER Er . . . Actually, it is funny. So here we are, on the beach, chuckling over what the salt air is doing to our hair and celebrating Bob’s
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We are spending a lot more time outside now that the weather has backed off – August 25 – 31, 2019 OH? Another trip to Jordan Lake Dam. A BEAM CALLED JIM AND A PILE CALLED HORSE Bob takes a break with his new buddy Jim (Beam) which its own set
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Bob flies to Utah for a series of audits and does a little sightseeing – August 11-14 OH BABY Some flights involve being kicked in the back by rambunctious children. Noise cancelling head phones help. VIEWS FROM ABOVE The Green River oxbows its way across the landscape, as do the meandering roads
Lucky us! After more than two years away, Jason and Haruka returned for a visit – August 7-14 TWO AND A HALF YEARS Two and a half years evaporated—poof—the moment we saw our friends, Jason and Haruka. It was as if they\’d just walked over from next door after we hadn’t seen them for
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Abundance, over-abundance, success, and caterpillars. STILL COMING ON AND JUST COMING ON We’re still harvesting peppers and just beginning to harvest okra. THE PEPPERS AND TOMATOES KEEP ON COMING Every other day, we load a stainless steel bowl with Sweet Jemison, Jupiter, Orange Crush jalapenos, and Corno Di Toro peppers, and Sun
Around and around the country he goes, when he will stop, nobody knows…- July 2019 LUVERNE, MN Bob often runs into cultural oddities, like this patriotic longhorn skull, when visiting a firm that makes jet fuel out of corn in SW Minnesota. On the right is the firm’s corn-to-biobutanol plant. LOUISIANA
From garden and farmer’s market to fork, delectables that survived the varmints – July, 2019 NOT FROM OUR YARD Hannah brought blueberries which found their way into sourdough pancake batter. Bob returned home from Saturday Market with sweet corn, cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, coffee, okra, tomatoes, summer squash, cantaloupe, and sweet red bell peppers.
