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Mr. Poochini and I headed out the door at 6:00 AM for his morning constitutional. It was a whopping one degree above zero, the snow crunched as we made our down the hill, it was dark but the sky was clear and as we reached the lagoon we could see a broad curvilinear band of […]

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Oooh - one of our favorite local athletes made a huge breakthrough yesterday - Kiikkan Randall won a World Cup cross country ski race!!!!!! Kikkan is the first American woman to ever win a world cup x-c race. Bill Koch is the only other American athlete to win a world cup x-c race. This is […]

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Today is Mom’s birthday!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!! Tonight’s birthday festivities include a hockey game. Tomorrow night, Mom and Lowell will come over for birthday bbq ribs and presents.
In honor of Mom’s birthday, Tygey asked me to post his favorite picture of Mom. It’s a pretty wonderful winter shot.

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Tyge was snoozin’ in my home office/yoga den/zen space/Christmas-gift-wrapping-central this morning. He looked so darn cute that pictures just had to be taken!!!!
I’m expecting lots of oohs and ahhhs from Frankie!
Up Close and Personal.

Tyge in Repose.

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Today is Peter’s Birthday!!!!!! Yippeeee!!!!!!!

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Via Bustner Olney’s blog, former major league pitcher, Mark Littell has designed a new protective cup. He demos the cup in the You Tube video below. As Olney states, “No words can do the video justice”. It’s pretty funny.

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We’re still without snow here in Anchorburg. We just finished up the fifth warmest November on record and December seems to be headed down the same path. However, the temperature has dropped just enough to freeze lakes and marshes. This lake freezing sans snow is extremely uncommon. Usually, snow and freezing go together. The upside […]

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This Mutts comic strip ran on November 6th. It’s Tyge’s story to a “T”. We cut it out and taped on the wall above his food dish.

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Hulu, an on-line joint venture (JV) video streaming service, was beta launched in October. I signed up and my beta invitation came through yesterday. The major JV partners include NBC Universal and Fox. The site is of course intended to be the on-line distribution channel for NBC and Fox - as opposed to YouTube.
I’ve done […]

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Talk about Ark weather. We arrived in Seattle late Friday night and it was not precipitating. However, starting Saturday morning it has either been snowing or pouring rain without a break. The inclement weather has not deterred us from shopping and putting tons of miles on our sneakers. However, today we’ve moved into flood weather […]

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