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I know it has been a while since posting here. [yeah, understatement] I am finally getting my computer affairs in order, and still need to get the other half of the mail server back online.
I will be back-filling the content as the weeks go on, so stay tuned.
For now, I’d like to share some pictures of our last weekend at the NorCal Renaissance Faire in Casa de Fruta. We sure had fun, and the end of the run is always sad, especially since they have scaled back to only 5 weekends instead of 8 or 9 like it used to be.
Q: How many faire folk does it take to pour an ale (or do anything for that matter)?
A: 1 to pour the ale and at least 20 to complain about how much better Black Point was.
Without further delay I present some pictures of Darrien, Juliet and Maria (along with special guests, and sights from faire). You’ll see birds (or at least 1) and kids and cute; oh my!
Hello Everyone! I have put up some new videos. These are all UN-edited so sorry if they drag on! I will be doing some more fun stuff with these soon, so stay tuned!
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Darrien and I went to the store this evening. Among the many things that we wanted to grab off of the shelves, was a box a macaroni noodles (for that one-of-a-kind shakability, no doubt). While he was happily shaking away at his box-o-pasta I suddenly heard what sounded like a choir of angels from above. As I looked up and the drop-ceiling tiles parted, a bright light shone down from the sky, and a 2 lb brick of creamy, delicious Velveeta floated gently down into my cart! …or maybe I turned down the next aisle and saw it on the shelf.
In any case, this was surely a sign! So when we got home, I immediately took to making some macaroni and cheese. As you can see below, it received the Darrien mouthful-of-approval!
Ending up the round of photos is a shot of Darrien wearing his “One-derful” hat and playing with a popgun 🙂
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As we were unpacking,we had the idea to take one of the empty boxes, and cut a door and some windows in it. We thought that Darrien would have a lot of fun getting in it and peering out through the windows. We put some toy inside to encourage him to get in, but the box as a little too short for him. Well as it turns out he actually enjoyed chasing us around the box even more!
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Darrien’s website is finally back after some technical diffuculties… Now running on his very own server 🙂
Well no parks actually, but here some photos that I took during some of our walks and meals throughout the month of October.
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We had a really nice time with all of our Halloween activities this year. We went to the pumpkin patch in Lathrop, got and hollowed out 5 pumpkins, made 4 Jack-O-Lanterns (do the math), made a really cute little ghost costume for Darrien, went Trick or Treating near downtown, and even got back in time to hand out some candy to the local kids. It was quite the success when it was all over. And there there was that special moment that everyone has been waiting for. The CADNY! (ah yes, there was candy). Though I expected that Darrien would shove the whole thing in his mouth like a starved monkey, he actually savored and inspected his candy. For the first bite anyways… After that, his mouth was stuffed with that one morsel of candy until his cheeks looked like a chipmunk with a winter’s worth of nuts to hide. Take a look for yourself 
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We took some new pictures of Darrien with a new, and much more powerful camera. I’ve scaled these images down a bit; as the originals are 14MP. Here’s a small selection of the best of the lastest pictures.
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