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Daughter played in a school band concert tonight. She played an awesome solo. More photos in the gallery.

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Daughter performs two numbers in her recital last night; the first one is a group dance to “I want candy”; the second is her solo “We used to be friends”. Click for the whole gallery.

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Today we had our first big snowfall of the year. Daughter took the dog for a walk.

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Daughter has been taking up the flute. She practices regularly, and she’s getting pretty good. She knows some good Xmas tunes, and tonight we sat together and sang and played. Son has taken guitar and drum lessons in the past, but he hasn’t stuck with it. However, here he picked up the mandolin and pretended [...]

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This Thanksgiving my sister and her husband came to visit, and we moved dad’s stuff out of his apartment in his assisted living center, in preparation for his move to a nursing home. We took the kids over to his new place to say hi.

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From Darth Vader and Cindy Lauper. And Son and Daughter and Abby.

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We picked our pumpkins today.

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We returned once again (our fifth visit?) to one of our favorite spots, Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, this time with a friend of daughter’s to keep us company. It was our guest’s first hike, and she was duly impressed. Purgatory Chasm is a great little hike, quite challenging in spots and it involves a lot [...]

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