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Cup Plants Flowering
Cup Plants Flowering, originally uploaded by thingles.
The cup plants have decided to pop open their flowers. In a week there
will be a couple hundred of these yellow flowers in the yard, along
with a fleet of bees harvesting pollen.
Winnipeg Folk Festival 2008 Albums
We just returned from the 2008 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Every year we pick up around 20 albums from performers this year. We’ve gone entirely digital for our music now so this year I just did it all online after we got home. It’s nice to not have to rip everything. We got 19 albums this [...]
Driveway Paved
A few days ago the driveway was removed and prepared for a brand new asphalt driveway. I had charged my camera to get a good time-elapsed movie of the asphalt being put in. It’s a pretty cool thing to watch. Okay, the video is a bit long…
Driveway Paving from Jamie Thingelstad on Vimeo.
Driveway Removal
This past Thursday the contractor got started with our driveway removal. I was watching, and realized it was a great time-lapse opportunity! The music for this one may not be to everyone’s taste — but the theme seemed spot on!
Driveway Removal from Jamie Thingelstad on Vimeo.
Tiny Tonka T-Ball
Mazie and I had our very first Tiny Tonka T-Ball game last night. Sorry, no pictures or video from it. Tammy had plans, and I’m one of the coaches! Next week we’ll get some media coverage.
Of course Mazie just turned 3 a couple of weeks ago and you may be asking how exactly t-ball works [...]
My Haircut
“#1 on the sides, high, to a #2 finished with a #3 on the top.”
Horse Run
We are having a great time here at C-Lazy-U. Every evening they send the horses out to the pasture for the night, and the wranglers get up early to go get them back in for the day. Sometimes they send them down the main road to a pasture across the way, and it makes for [...]
Road Trip So Long You Need An Oil Change
Yesterday we passed a milestone on the Summer of Love. After 29 days on the road and driving 4,541 miles the Honda Odyssey kindly let us know that it was due for an oil change.
Before we left on our trip my friend Kent had the revelation that our trip was so long that even with [...]
Summer of Love Index - Updated
Number of days on the road so far: 29
Mileage on the 2006 Honda Odyssey at the
beginning of the trip: 48,139
Mileage on the minivan at the end of the day, June 2nd: 52,680
Total miles driven during Summer of Love: 4,541
The average number of miles driven per day: 156.59
Cost of fuel for the trip thus far: $921.78
Cost [...]
Take a Lap in the Lazy River
Have a couple of minutes? Join us on the Summer of Love for a trip around the Lazy River at Mandalay Bay. Mazie’s very first time in a lazy river.
Lazy River from Jamie Thingelstad on Vimeo.
