Yesterday, we finally got around to carving the pumpkins we bought at the farm a couple weeks ago. Just in time for Halloween! Evan’s still too young (and goes to bed too early) to participate in the evening’s activities, so we’ll be staying in, handing out candy from Costco, and trying to beat Gauss to [...]

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Spencer ButteA couple friends and co-workers from the East Coast were visiting last weekend, and I felt obligated to give these city slickers a taste of life in Eugene. So, on Saturday morning we headed down to the Saturday Market, and then Tim & Kim joined us for a beautiful afternoon hike up Spencer Butte.
It [...]

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This is the third installment in the ongoing (and well overdue!) description of our 2006 home improvement blog entries.
When last I wrote about our patio and walkway renovation, the project had not yet finished. And technically speaking, it’s still not completed! But it’s close enough for the next entry in our series.

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On Saturday, we had a great time with Steve’s sister, niece, and nephew at the Lone Pine Farms pumpkin patch. The sun was shining, but there was a little crispness in the air. It was a beautiful day!
We decided to take the horse-drawn hay ride out to the pumpkin patch, instead of walking. During [...]

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We’ve been having such beautiful weather lately that we just had to get out for a few hours this past weekend. As I’ve mentioned before, our hiking habits have changed since Evan came along. Lately, we’ve been visiting sites that are closer to Eugene and offer shorter hikes. In the past, we’d passed up many [...]

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The few rose bushes that live in our yard spent most of the summer in black plastic nursery containers while the patio and sideyard were being renovated. We did not tend to the poor plants as we should have. However, once the landscaping work was done, we replanted them in the new raised bed in [...]

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