Category: Life
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Weekly Photo Challenge: New
All around the world, students were exposed to something new this morning … the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition challenge was unveiled through a live webcast. FIRST Robotics is a global competition for 9th through 12th graders (14 through 18 year old students). The vision of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is: To…
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Christmas Tree of Memories
It is Christmas Eve. We have a beautiful live Christmas tree in our living room, a tall Fraser fir … with nothing more than star at the top and lights this year. With cats in the house, we’ve always been careful to put the breakable ornaments near the top, out of reach of playful paws.…
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Christmas City of the North Parade
Holidays are steeped in tradition. For 56 years on the Friday before Thanksgiving, Duluth, Minnesota has kicked off the Christmas season with a parade through downtown, filled with festive floats, marching bands, and dance troupes. Rain or snow, balmy or brisk, the Christmas City of the North Parade brings people out, bundled for whatever the weather brings, filling the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure
Everything is a new adventure in the eyes of a puppy …. a simple walk on the trails turns into an excited gallop, exploring new smells, new sights, new sounds … This bundle of endless energy is only one of many reasons the blog and my blog reading has been neglected the past few months. The daily…
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Taking Time to Enjoy the Sunsets
The blog has been neglected, but summers are not meant for sitting in front of the computer screen. Hope your summer has been full of the things summer is meant for: soaking up the sunshine (although in Duluth, the first 1/3 of summer left us sorely sun-starved), digging in the dirt, playing in the…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 