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For my birthday, Diana took me to an indoor skydiving place at the beach. You get a few minutes of training on the position you'll try to maintain--chin up, arms and legs half extended--and the h...

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I've finished an introductory art class at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and ink, sketch and wash. Main thing I learned was that I don't (or didn't) put use enough ...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/03/art.html

As her gift for our 29th anniversary, Diana got a professional photographer to take several portraits of her--looking quite adorable--and print them on canvas. We'll send one each to Willa, Mom &...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/02/anniversary-pics.html

Valentine's presents for Diana: card, roses, salted caramel chocolate, dinner, and the kitchen sink. Literally. Kohler K-5832-5U-0 to go with the impending new countertop.

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/02/valentines-presents-for-diana-card.html

Monday, shovelling snow at 12°. Today, walking on the beach, 70°.

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/01/virginia-beach-weather.html

It was predicted we'd get up to 14 inches of snow, but what we actually got was about five, although there was a nice bout of freezing rain first to get a layer of ice under the snow.

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/01/snow.html

I unexpectedly found myself overseeing a 10yr old and 6yr old, and their mother asked if I'd take them go-karting. There is a kart place on the outer ring of Lynnhaven, so we went; and the minimu...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/01/go-karting.html

Diana recovered from knee replacement. Birthday party for Eunhye Dominion removed the power line across the river behind our house.  Went to Australia to see all the inlaws and outlaws, with an...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2017/01/year-in-review-2016-edition.html

Nobody — remember this — neither Hitler, nor Lenin, nor any despot you could name, ever came forward with a proposal that read, ‘Now, let’s create a really oppressive and evil society.’...

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“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” --Richard Feynman

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/12/beautiful-theories.html

Josh and Gwen were married at St George's, Metis Beach, Quebec, with about fifty guests from the US, Canada, Australia, and England. The celebrant was Rev Malcom Evans, assisted by Dr James DeBoe...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/09/wedding.html

Josh and I took the opportunity to go to the American Armored Foundation tank museum in Danville on Run Day, which is when they have a couple of vehicles power up and drive around the display ar...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/08/tank-museum.html

Diana wanted to see Tangier Island, so we drove across the Bay Bridge Tunnel and up the Eastern Shore to Onancock, a tiny little village on the Bay. We took the ferry, which is a converted oyster...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/07/tangier-island.html

J oshua, Diana and I went to the Great Dismal Swamp today. The auto tour road is closed on Sundays, so we walked a mile or so to the Underground Railroad Pavilion and back. ("Underground" is not ...

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"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." --Samuel Johnson

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-writers-time.html

Several members of the Conversation Group -- Kathy, Sangjae, Eunhye and her husband Chowan, Gulcerin, and I--took a trip to the Fort Story lighthouse, and climbed to the top. Steep spiral stairs,...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/05/lighthouse.html

The strawberry plants froze at 15° this winter, then drowned this spring, but didn't seem bothered by it. That tulip-eating squirrel nearly got the first ripe strawberry this morning, but I arme...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/05/first-strawberry.html

First day out with the kayak, as the weather this spring has cooler than usual. Just north of us, where the river widens out, there were a dozen or so little terns. Every now and again I'd hear a...

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"Publish and be damned!" --the Duke of Wellington, to a blackmailer

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/03/publish.html

Josh and Gwen called to say "I asked her, and she said yes!"

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/03/engaged.html

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H L Mencken

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Sometimes your plans change abruptly. We became aware on Friday of a homeless woman with a two week old infant and nowhere to stay--other than "in a storage pod with fourteen people", which is wh...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/03/plans-change.html

Now reading the Elder Edda. Seems appropriate as we're watching Doom Snow approach from the west.

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/02/norse.html

In January 2014, we had a night or two at 16°F and had a pipe pull away from a fitting, but not actually freeze. This year we had a night or two around 10° . The weather started warming this mo...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/02/frozen-pipe.html

11°F this morning and the Lynnhaven is River is frozen from shore to shore. On the ground, the top layer of snow has melted and refrozen into a 3" thick layer of ice. Once you break out a few bl...

http://cdeboe.blogspot.com/2015/02/ice-and-snow.html