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October 2007 - Posts
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Check this out: Space Weather News for Oct. 29, 2007 Last week, Comet 17P/Holmes shocked sky watchers around the world with a sudden million-fold increase in brightness. It literally exploded into view, rapidly becoming a naked eye "star" in Read More...
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My goal every year is to have all the Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving. That way I can enjoy all the festivities in December at a slower pace. Plus, if you're going to visit relatives at Thanksgiving, you can hand them their wrapped Christmas Read More...
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I was working on the morning fire, and had it almost going, when Sean came and helped me along. The pine needles really do the trick! I cooked bacon with sliced apples. The bacon took a long time to cook, so the kids ate the rest of the dinner rolls. Read More...
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Shannon in Middle Earth I must have dozed again. At one point I noticed how bright the night was—I could even see the clouds. I thought it must be dawn approaching. But several hours later I had to concede that it was just a bright night. I had Read More...
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Sean and I each slept on an end, with all the kids in between. So he and I took the brunt of the cold, wind and rain. The first half of the night it rained pretty steadily, on and off again, coming straight down. I noticed at one point I was getting rained Read More...
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Probably around 5:00 or so, the rain did stop, and we decided to build a fire so that I could cook the sausages. Sean and I struggled with the fire for a long time, for the wind kept blowing out the matches and it wouldn’t catch onto any of the Read More...
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After lunch we struggled on, across the side of the second hill. Again, the kids complained and cried, and fell down a bit. Shannon later told us she actually enjoyed falling down on the trek—it was dramatic and adventurous for her. Sean and I were Read More...
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The kids complained and cried pretty much the whole way. There were a couple of paths to walk on, here and there, but mostly we were trekking through tall brush, almost as tall as Justin. So it was a bit hard going, down the first hill, through the woods Read More...
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September 3, 2007: Well, we finally did it! We went on the LOTR hike, and got back yesterday afternoon. It was a good thing we put it off a week, because I needed the extra time to finish up the sewing. I finished the sewing, ran the last of the errands Read More...
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