This summer, we were fortunate to have our California kin visit us. It also gave us a chance to meet our great-nephew Dylan Wolfe.
Dylan gets some help coloring from his mom, Arianne, while cousin Jaylia looks on.
He undoubtedly knows how to get into his work.
Arianne with big brothers, Eliott [center] and Jon
A week later, Jack Kline and I did some camping at Lake Metigoshe in north central North Dakota. One of the lakeside home owners gussied up his garbage dipsy dump with this patriotic theme.
Always on the lookout for objects to photograph, Jack spotted this dilapidated barn north of Dunseith.
In town, the Wee'l Turtle greets motorists traveling north to the Peace Gardens. In the late 80s, our family visited this same site. The photo below of Reed foreshadowed his training as a paratrooper.
Airborne!
Lake Metigoshe at sunset
Meredith was home for mid-term break.
She sports a new cell phone.
Visiting with Firemann at his home.
As for us, Pam is readying herself for a cooking class in our home, "Japanese without the Jitters." And I am experiencing golf withdrawal symptoms with the arrival of four inches of snow today. I am also representing some union employees on strike at the local Ingersoll-Rand Bobcat Company. There has been plenty of media coverage and I was interviewed by one television station.
Time to put away the sticks?
But the biggest news of the week is the best: Reed should be leaving Iraq in a matter of hours. He'll go first to Kuwait, then to Bamberg for a few weeks, but will be home for Christmas.
The lad holds some hot sauce we found for him in Ruidoso, New Mexico.