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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:23:00 -0700 Squirrels http://weddles.posterous.com/squirrels http://weddles.posterous.com/squirrels
I do, however, frequently see squirrels when I have a camera. Which is good, cuz when I get mauled by a squirrel, I'm thinking it would be cool to have pictures.

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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:22:20 -0700 No Bears http://weddles.posterous.com/no-bears http://weddles.posterous.com/no-bears I went out this afternoon to trespass on one of my favorite pieces of property to trespass on. I had several motives. The main was to have my camera when I see bears. However, when I have my camera I never see bears. Which is a bummer, cuz when I get mauled by a bear, I'm thinking it would be cool to have pictures.   Alas, no bears. This picture is prime bear territory, but no bears.

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:29:00 -0700 Spooky! http://weddles.posterous.com/spooky http://weddles.posterous.com/spooky
Last Friday the Weddle children carved a pumpkin. Jacob did the nose, Belinda did the eyes and Elizabeth did the mouth. It was a very well carved pumpkin and lit up very nicely. They even ate roasted pumpkin seeds later that night.

But then something tragical happened. This morning, as the kids were going out to get in the car for school, they noticed that the face of their jackolantern was missing! Something ate its face! Educated guesses tell us it is deer, who eat pretty much everything except anything that's in the woods. More fun guesses tell us it was probably a monster who ate its face. Ooooo, spooooooky!

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:08:19 -0700 Jacob's Love Song http://weddles.posterous.com/jacobs-love-song http://weddles.posterous.com/jacobs-love-song Dear Jacob came home from school the other day singing a song he learned about love. He has hand motions and everything. It melts your heart. Here it is for your listening enjoyment. Feel the love.   http://www.loudio.com/Music/A-Capella/Jacobs-Love-Song.292429

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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:51:11 -0700 Daily Rituals http://weddles.posterous.com/daily-rituals-1 http://weddles.posterous.com/daily-rituals-1 Every single day when the children arrive home from school, each child does the exact same thing for the first half hour. Every day. I do not make this up. Every single day since school started. Every one. Without fail. For half an hour. Each day.   Jacob will stand on his head on various pieces of furniture. Belinda will do very weird looking cartwheels. Elizabeth will lay on someone.   Every day. Half an hour.

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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:40:58 -0700 The Cutest Thing You'll Ever Hear http://weddles.posterous.com/the-cutest-thing-youll-ever-he http://weddles.posterous.com/the-cutest-thing-youll-ever-he This, my friends, is the cutest thing ever recorded in the history of recording.

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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:35:39 -0700 O Happy Day! http://weddles.posterous.com/o-happy-day http://weddles.posterous.com/o-happy-day What a day! The first day of school dawned sunny, humid and warm. The kids were up at 6:45 and ready to go by 7:08. They got to school and dropped Jacob off, who departed with little fanfare and the typical Weddle-male "can do until I realize how much this stinks by second grade" attitude. Jacob is now going all day to school and coming home on the bus with his sisters.   Elizabeth, who put her backpack and supplies in her locker last Thursday at orientation, was rudely greeted by her backpack being gone. Which produced the following lecture from her father, "I told you! I told you last Thursday not to leave your backpack. But no, you knew din'tchya. Just a harmless little locker." They eat stuff I tellsya. The backpack was later found in another locker as someone went around switching people's stuff.   Belinda was also rudely greeted by finding out she was in the wrong class, causing her to get into her new class pretty much as the last kid. However, this was a thrilling moment for Belinda's father because Belinda's new teacher is Mr. Ashbrenner. That's right, a Mr! Down with excessive femininity in public schools!
 
Mom and Dad high-fived in the car and enjoyed their day. Kids made it home on the bus. Only mishap of the day is that Jacob decided to have hot lunch with the typical Weddle-male "Hey, if it looks good; eat it" attitude.

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:38:33 -0700 Tree Monster http://weddles.posterous.com/tree-monster http://weddles.posterous.com/tree-monster Dad has seen this tree several times and has been amazed by its total coolness! This tree has character, it might have even eaten a character.   While the family was on their treasure hunt, dad finally had the camera with him as they walked past the tree. Spooky!

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:43:00 -0700 Pileated Woodpeckers http://weddles.posterous.com/pileated-woodpeckers http://weddles.posterous.com/pileated-woodpeckers
Pileated woodpeckers are huge loud woodpeckers that are not the easiest birds to find. However, the Weddle's have a few living around them, some of which nest in their yard.

The last few days there have been two flying around being noisy. Today, one would go to the suet feeder and get some suet, fly over to another Pileated and shove the suet down its throat! Not something you see every day.

The photo is not very good because it is taken through the window and the flash went off. But those two black blobs on the small tree leaning to the left are a Pileated woodpecker feeding another one!

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:38:59 -0700 1 Turkey and 1 Chicken http://weddles.posterous.com/1-turkey-and-1-chicken http://weddles.posterous.com/1-turkey-and-1-chicken Here's the part of the treasure hunt taking place in the chicken coup.   Can you tell which is the turkey?

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:36:13 -0700 Treasure Hunting http://weddles.posterous.com/treasure-hunting http://weddles.posterous.com/treasure-hunting Today the Weddle Family did the annual summer treasure hunt. Mom does the clue hiding, the kids do the finding, dad does the jokes and sometimes accidentally finds the clues and ruins the whole thing, but the treasure is always something good to eat.   This year, clues were hidden on a neighbor's deck, another neighbor's backyard, another neighbor's chicken coup, a tree, a cashier at Menards and ended with the wonderful treasure of McFlurry's at McDonalds.

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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:54:08 -0700 The Man http://weddles.posterous.com/the-man http://weddles.posterous.com/the-man The Man of the family had a real cool day back in July. One of the guys from church grows hay and needed some help. Hey, no problem!   The Man got to stack hay on the wagon and then got an opportunity to drive the tractor. Too cool. Maybe, when he grows up, he'll be a farmer.

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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:33:12 -0700 On Razor's Edge http://weddles.posterous.com/on-razors-edge http://weddles.posterous.com/on-razors-edge About fifteen minutes after Belinda's fall off the swing, the family began packing up the tents. While mom and dad were busy folding tents, Belinda found a knife. Ah yes, I fear you see what is coming. Knives are not the sort of thing a girl on 8 hours sleep who is falling all over the place should be holding.   However, neither mom nor dad had any idea this was taking place until. "Oh! I cut my finger." Whine, pout, walk funny, cry, etc. Unfortunately, Mom could not get the bleeding to stop so they had to go visit the campground hosts, who were quite nice and helped out greatly.   Here is the final profiteering of the trip. The campground hosts gave us three coupons for free happy meals at Burger King (approximate value $12). They also gave us coupons for three free ice cream cones at the local ice cream joint (approximate value $5.50).   In all, the kids made $22.50 on the camp trip! We all agreed that Belinda cutting her finger was totally worth it.

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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:26:16 -0700 Dear Belinda http://weddles.posterous.com/dear-belinda http://weddles.posterous.com/dear-belinda After limping back to the campsite, Belinda decided to go swing on a tire swing with her brother and sister. Although the brother and sister managed just fine to stay on the swing, Belinda fell off, scraping up her other shin.   Ah, but we still have not yet met the full demise of Belinda.

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:10:55 -0700 The Decline and Fall of Belinda http://weddles.posterous.com/the-decline-and-fall-of-belind http://weddles.posterous.com/the-decline-and-fall-of-belind Dad got out of the tent around 6:15 after getting approximately 5 minutes of sleep due to the noise of 1.4 million tractor trailers going down highway 35 between Escanaba and Stupid Green Bay. At about 6:30 Belinda popped out (keep in mind they went to bed after 10) declaring that she was wide awake. So awake she'd been up since five, even though she has no concept of time.   This is not a good start. The first activity of the day, after breakfast, was to go on a walk down a trial along the shore of Michigan Lake. We found a large rock, which Jacob got up somehow. Here is a shot of Belinda attempting to be cool like her brother.   Long story short: she is not quite like her brother. She fell off, scraping her shin all up. This, however, was just a warm up in the saga of Belinda's morning.

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:04:04 -0700 Campfire http://weddles.posterous.com/campfire http://weddles.posterous.com/campfire The funniest part of the entire trip was the campfire. From about 9-10 we sat around the campfire and each person got a turn to tell a story or sing a song or something. Jacob really got into it. He told many stories, which were long and rather involved.   Each story revolved around the theme of a monster coming into the campground and eating us. You could sort of tell what was on his mind. The other highlight was dad standing up in front of the fire and singing "Tomorrow" from Annie. It's beyond description really.

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:36:38 -0700 Swimming In Michigan Lake http://weddles.posterous.com/swimming-in-michigan-lake http://weddles.posterous.com/swimming-in-michigan-lake I know, most people call it Lake Michigan, but not the Weddle children.   The beach was initially disappointing as it was not near our campsite. Although our site was on the water it was on a weedy, marshy piece of shore. The beach had green stuff floating in it and rocks. But we discovered that if you went out about 10 feet the green stuff and the rocks went away.   About 100 yards out there was a sandbar, the water was barely up to dad's knees. Quite nice. While swimming, the Weddle children made $5 off a Green Bay Packer fan woman who dared the kids to go splash this guy in her group who was celebrating his 35th wedding anniversary.   Weddle children, being related to their father, were excited about the opportunity to make some easy cash. They splashed the guy and got their $5. This will not be the last time the Weddle children will profit on this outing.

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:31:02 -0700 Biffy's B-Day Adventure http://weddles.posterous.com/biffys-b-day-adventure http://weddles.posterous.com/biffys-b-day-adventure Although it might have looked like we were going to a meatloaf factory in a rocky canyon, we were actually going to go camping. The cake was a campfire, silly Uncle Roger. Campfires are what you have when you camp.   We drove three hours, due to excessive construction, to Cedar River, Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan. We got a lovely campsite and put up our two tents with little difficulty. Then we began a whirlwind of activity.

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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:26:55 -0700 Biffy's Birthday Presents http://weddles.posterous.com/biffys-birthday-presents http://weddles.posterous.com/biffys-birthday-presents After eating her cake, Biffy tore into her pile of presents. She got lots of good stuff, including polo shirts, which her dad just loves to see her wear. A good time was had by all.   Until everything was opened and the battling with the siblings over who got to play with what started. There was particular dispute over who got to wear the polo shirts. Oh the humanity.

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