Fox Reunion

This past Saturday we were invited to attend the Annual Fox Family Reunion in Clear Lake, Iowa.

This is Sue's Mom's side of the family. It was well attended and we even have a few snapshots to post for you.

Yours truly with Aunt Nancy


Uncle Jim, His daughter Liz and Sue's brother Bob's son John.....


And....Bob, The Harv and Jack....


Man, you talk about food....these people know how to cook!

After the event we went through Forest City, Iowa and visited the graves of Molly's folks and then headed home.

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Deer In Garden

While I was on a business trip to Washington,DC last week some deer decided to make themselves at home in the yard and garden.
This one apparentlty felt right at home while Sue snapped it's picture through the kitchen window.


Of course, where there is one deer, there are always more.....


I do enjoy looking at deer, but not in the garden!

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Family Visit

The July 4th weekend we were blessed with family from Des Moines coming up for a visit.
Mom, Dad, my brother Paul, his wife Margaret, their daughter Emily, her husband David and their daughter Halie made the trek north. Son Ben and his wife Anna also spent the better part of the weekend here also.
I do have a few pictures for you. This is one of my mom and Halie cuddled up after a busy day.


While everyone was here we went to the children's petting zoo at Sibley park. They had everything from cows to ponies. They even had a few alpaca.


Needless to say, we had lots of good food and cold beer. Somewhere on my camera I have more pictures. As soon as I find them I will post a few more.

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It Has Been A While!

I can't believe that it has been over two weeks since I posted to the blog. I will be making up for lost time with a few pictures and words.
The will be no particular order to the events, just random events and my usual blabbering.

Recently we broke away for a few hours to go geocaching in some areas where we had never been before. We looked for six and came up with four of them.

This one was cleverly hidden in a tree.


We found another very small cache (film canister) hidden at the base of a sign on a bike trail.


One of the best parts about geocaching is the scenery that one discovers along the way.

How about these flowers?



Another great day in the the wonderful Minnesota summer weather.

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The Kids and the Twins

Ben, Anna and Andy (the baseball addict) went to a Minnesota Twins baseball game Sunday afternoon. Andy wanted to take in a game while he was in town because it was his last opportunity to see his favorite team play in the Metrodome. The Twins will be moving to their new stadium next year.

Of course, we have a "self" photo from his iPhone.


Hang tight for more photos as we attended the wedding of our niece Jaime this past weekend.

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Busy and More Busy!

WOW, what a week!
Our youngest son, Andy, has been visiting from Seattle since Wednesday. We picked him up at the Minneapolis airport at 11:40 Wednesday night and we have been going ever since. It has been GREAT!

We talked and got caught up on his life until 4AM Thursday then I was up at 7:30 to get my emails and other "work stuff" completed via remote control. Six hours later, My work was finished and we were off and running for shopping and visiting.

We met Ben and Anna for pizza and 25 cent beer pitchers at Pag's in Mankato. More chatting found us hitting our respective racks at about 2AM the next morning.

Friday found me working on my business emails and getting travel arrangements made for a business trip to Washington, DC in early July.

A trip to the grocery store netted us the proper supplies to build some wonderful food creations to make on the BBQ grill.


The food you see included cucumbers, shrimp, pork. onions, mushrooms, tomatoes and more. Not pictured was the sweet corn that we also grilled. Combine that with some beer, wine and a healthy amount of bourbon.....oh man, what a feast.

Lest I forget, we also had fresh green beans. They were out of this world! I will get the recipe from Sue and post it later.


To wrap up the night, we started a big campfire and exchanged lies for a couple of hours.



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Camping and Geocaching

This past weekend we loaded up the camper and headed to Camden State Park near Marshall,MN. This is a great park with very private campsites and beautiful scenery.

We backed the rig in and hooked up the electric....pretty smooth so far, huh?

After a bit, I discovered the microwave clock was not on. I tried the TV to no avail, yet the lights worked as did the stereo-CD player. Hmmmmm, must be an electrical problem.

I checked the 30 amp plug outside and discovered the breaker was tripped. I also learned that the plug on the end of the RV card was broken and probably was causing the system to short out. But it worked fine when I first plugged it in.

One may panic at the thought of no electricity, but we took that as a challenge to "boondock".....that is using no outside utilities and being totally self sufficient.

We have a 12 volt on board system that will power our lights, stereo and on board water system. No problem....we did not need the air conditioning or TV so we were all set.

Our hot water heater is gas as is our fridge and freezer. They operate on gas or electric. The oven and stove are also gas.

To make a long story short, we did just fine and when we left, after two days, our 12 volt system still was 3/4 charged.

Once some free time arrives, I will cut the plug off the umbilical cord and wire a new one on. I am 90 per cent sure that is the problem.

We spent most of Saturday geocaching and will have pictures soon.

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