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.

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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 year, and there are 3 more that I can’t find digitally and have mailed the artists to see if I can get. Here are our picks for this year.

• The Beautiful Girls - Water, We’re Already Gone and Ziggurats
• Charlie Louvin - Charlie Louvin
• The Fugitives - In Streetlight Communion
• The Infamous Stringdusters - The Infamous Stringdusters
• Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
• Jim White - Drill a Hole In That Substrate and Tell Me What You See, Transnormal Skiperoo
• JP HOE - The Here In Review EP
• Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life
• Little Miss Higgins - Junction City, The West Was Burning
• Martha Scanlon - The West Was Burning
• Ndidi Onukwulu - The Contradictor
• Old Man Luedecke - Hinterland
• The Red Stick Ramblers - Made In the Shade
• Spider John Koerner - Star Geezer
• The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

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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…

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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!

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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 with 3 and 4 year olds. Let me explain a bit.

First, this is for fun and there are no scores, no strikes. In fact, there isn’t much left of the “game” and it’s more just fun for the kids. And fun they had!

The first “inning” the kids were really into it and having a blast. It was funny to watch the different kids. There is only one girl other than Mazie on the team and they became fast friends. They were standing in the infield with their arms around each other. On the other hand, some of the boys didn’t feel like taking turns and were pushing and shoving each other to get at the ball. By the second “inning” our entire team, with one exception, was sitting on the infield with their gloves next to them playing in the dirt.

Our team, the yellow team, now known by unanimous vote as the Yellow Bees has one ringer. One of the kids is a future hall-of-famer. He can hit a line drive right up the middle, has a heck of an arm and can play all bases equally well. He was not playing in the dirt.

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“#1 on the sides, high, to a #2 finished with a #3 on the top.”

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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 an amazing sight, and sound.

Download audio file (20080627-Horse-Run.mp3)

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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 a fresh oil change, which we had done, we would need to have an oil change on the way. This, rightfully so, justified in his mind an entirely new level of road trip. One that exceeds all relevant norms. In fact, after learning of our oil change he reclassified the Summer of Love as an “epic” trip.

There isn’t that much in Sedona, so on our way back from the Grand Canyon yesterday we stopped in Flagstaff to run a number of errands — including getting the oil changed at Flagstaff Honda.

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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.

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