This morning I went out to check on the garden since it had been almost a week since either of us had done anything more than glance it from the cool comfort of our air conditioned house. I was shocked (ok, not really) to find several oversized zucchini. I brought them inside and weighed [...]

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I got to go diving yesterday for the first time since mid-April when I participated in the Disney Dive Quest program at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center. My last cold water dive was way back at the end of February!
Anyway, yesterday my dive buddy Jason and I headed over to Florence and dove at the [...]

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All of the pages under our old Adventure Pages hierarchy are now being automatically redirected to either our new Adventure Gallery or, in a couple special cases, to pages on our Adventure Blog.

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On Sunday, we packed up Evan and Gauss, piled into the Highlander, and headed East on our first official excursion out of Eugene with baby in tow. The four of us went up to the Willamette Pass ski area in order to ride an Oregon Skyway gondola to the summit of Eagle Peak. We [...]

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For the first time ever, I’m going to claim “jungle” status for our garden. Almost everything is doing great this year now that we’ve eradicated the invading tree roots and the soil has had a chance to balance out. So, here’s an update on where things stand . . . .
The peppers are doing [...]

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Evan is officially 1 month old today! Unlike a month ago, at 6:45am this morning, the three of us were all soundly sleeping. And while the hours and days that followed Evan’s birth were somewhat emotionally traumatic, all of that is now starting to fade as we enjoy watching our little guy change from day [...]

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Just wanted to wish our American friends and family a happy 4th of July. We had a pretty low-key weekend at home with Evan. Our friends Tim & Kim came over for dinner on the 3rd and brought with them a feast of smoked ribs, corn salad, and fruit salad. We provided potato salad, [...]

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Our garden is by no means prolific, but we are enjoying our best gardening success ever. The past couple years have been plagued by various problems (wrong kind of dirt was used initially, root invasions, etc.), but this year, despite a late start, we are finally achieving a little long-anticipated success. We’ve already harvested [...]

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A 646-pound catfish is possibly the world’s largest freshwater fish ever recorded. It’s a shame they killed it.
Check out the photos: National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Giant Catfish May Be World’s Largest Freshwater Fish

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