Posted on November 30, 2009 by Evan
I wonder what the first map looked like. I don’t mean the first piece of parchment with the ‘here be dragons’ written in the unknown areas, but the first how-to-get-from-here-to-there drawing. Was it a drawing of a group of mounted knights, clustered in a circle, with a seething horde of heathens all around and a [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2009 by Evan
This past weekend, Jenn, Hunter and I were invited to go see some little show called “Ovo”. It was put on by a troupe of acrobats called “Cirque du Soleil” or something – ever heard of them? No? Me either. Even still, they managed to pack the performance tent with close to four thousand people and they [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2009 by Evan
Sheesh! It’s already November and I haven’t yet posted anything about running our dogs. What’s the matter with me?
Well, part of it is that Jenn and I had decided in the late summer that we were going to downsize some of our animals and try to get some work done on our house. We only [...]
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