Random Snapshots

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The Big Climb 2013, A Sea of Pink, and April.

It’s odd sometimes how life connects you with things.  When you least expect it, something comes around, seemingly by chance, but was clearly guided by something.  Fate?  Karma?  God?  You decide, but this past week has been an emotional roller coaster of epic proportions for me. I can tell now, as I sit here, at [...]

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St. Patrick’s At The Wilde Rover

Saturday afternoon, March the 16th.  I’m sitting at the computer working on some photos, and my wife is sitting in her favorite chair, iPad in hand, doing whatever she does on her iPad.  I presume at the moment my heart jumped, she was on Facebook as she suddenly exclaimed “Let’s go to the Wilde Rover!”.  [...]

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The Side Project – 70′s Liner Style

The wife and I FINALLY got out for a little date night tonight!  Yay!  Bonus was getting to see ‘The Side Project‘ play live, who also played our wedding.  Let me tell you:  They were AWESOME!!  Not only on our wedding day, but tonight as well.  Hell, they’re awesome EVERY day!  We love these guys, [...]

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Go Team Kellie!

A Community Gathers for Support

This afternoon, the wife and I met some friends at our local butcher’s where they were holding a fundraiser for Team Kellie.  Tasty hot dogs, frosted cookies and sodas were the topic of the afternoon as friends and community gathered to support Kellie Watson, and her two girls.  Kellie is the mother of two daughters, [...]

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Big Climb 2013 : MHP Sponsors the “Fighting Flamingos”

69 flights of stairs. 1,311 steps. 788 feet of vertical elevation. I’m excited and pleased to be a sponsoring donor to the Fighting Flamingo team as they take on ‘The Big Climb” this year.  On March 24, the Fighting Flamingos will climb 69 flights of stairs, with an increase of 788 feet in vertical elevation [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day? NOT!

Let me preface this post (rant?) with the statement that I am NOT anti-love or anti-romance.  Quite the opposite actually.  In fact, I’ve been with my wife now for nearly 11 years, and even today we are as romantic and googly as the day we met.  We’re silly in love, and not afraid to show [...]

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