tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74771072983544267132024-02-20T01:37:44.436-05:00CommonplaceA home for random thoughts and musingswclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-67400929329993367152014-08-04T11:38:00.001-04:002014-08-04T11:38:15.832-04:00Western TroutI've had a rare and wonderful opportunity in the past week to fish for trout in two different regions of the western United States. For a guy who doesn't get much time on the water, this was quite a treat. <br />
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First up was central Idaho. A friend from an online fly fishing group I've been a part of for quite a few years invited us to his property along Loving Creek, a spring creek tributary to Silver Creek, near Picabo, Idaho. (And yes, Picabo is pronounced as if you were saying it to an infant.) Steve has been taunting the group with photos of the landscape of his ranch and of trout from his stream, so I combined a trip to visit family in Seattle with three days of Idaho fishing.<br />
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We also fished the Big Lost river in the Copper Basin area above Ketchum, rushing mountain streams with different feel (and with cutthroat trout as well as rainbow) from the spring creeks. Fishing the spring creeks was difficult but enjoyable and rewarding, as was the companionship.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early morning on Loving Creek</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silver Creek from above</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floating Loving Creek</td></tr>
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Since I had gear in tow, I decided to find a trout stream near my in-law's home of Bremerton, Washington. With a few suggestions and some web searching, I settled on the mountain reaches of the Dungeness River, whose headwaters is in the Olympic Mountains. In many ways the Dungeness is the opposite of the wide-open Idaho spring creeks, sight lines in the verdant Olympics being limited by the giant fir and bushy alder and hemlock trees. In Idaho, I could see the truck from a mile or more away as I hiked back to it. In the Olympics, I couldn't see more than 30 feet ahead of us as we drove the dirt roads. The Dungeness plunges steeply as well, with fast rapids punctuated by occasional pools. Father-in-law Doug, a native of these parts, joined me.<br />
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I was on the water early and had little success to start with, but eventually caught a few small trout. One large pool beckoned with its overhanging trees. I got myself into position downstream and cast a brushy red "Humpy" fly- one that doesn't resemble any particular insect but looks buggy to hungry trout- upstream. After a few drifts, a trout took the fly and I assumed it was yet another small one. After a much stronger tug and a good bit of line pulled off my reel, I got the fish closer to me and saw it was quite a healthy one. It was tricky to get a photo of it, but measured against my fly rod it was 16" long and plenty fat. My day was made!<br />
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After a sandwich lunch, we drove further upstream to a popular trailhead where the road crosses the Dungeness. Apparently all hikers, I had the river to myself, and again worked the plunge pools with a bushy Stimulator fly. Here the fish were eager but not particularly large. I took one or two brook or rainbow trout from most of the pools, none larger than 10 or 12 inches.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dungeness River, in a hurry to get to the Pacific</td></tr>
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It was a great day! And I feel fortunate to have had these two opportunities to indulge my love of spending time in the great outdoors.wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-48893478348089921052014-06-09T18:05:00.000-04:002014-06-29T09:08:47.603-04:00Time in SaxonyI recently had an opportunity I couldn't refuse: an invitation to travel to Dresden, Germany. My friend Jay was invited by the watch manufacturer <a href="http://www.alange-soehne.com/home" target="_blank">A. Lange & Söhne</a> to tour their production facilities in Glashütte, just south of Dresden. I was Jay's "plus one". And the trip was a watch-nerd's dream.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Along the shore of the Elbe River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 7:15am view from my hotel window: the clock shown here chimed at 7am, a pleasant way to wake! It is in the tower of the <a href="http://www.hdk-dkk.de/" target="_blank">Dreikönigskirche</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love German hotel breakfasts with cured meats, strong coffee, Müsli, and best of all the soft-boiled egg or Frühstücksei. At this hotel, the egg came capped with this cute gnome hat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dresden Frauenkirche. Until just 10 or fewer years ago, the church and buildings on this square were still ruins from the February, 1945 bombing of Dresden. The dark stones are from the rubble: the light colored stones are new.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dreikönigskirche during the daytime hours.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jay and Matt waiting for our tour of the <a href="http://www.skd.museum/" target="_blank">Grünes Gewölbe</a>, the Green Vault of the jewels of the Saxon kings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We also toured the famed <a href="http://www.semperoper.de/" target="_blank">Semperoper</a>, Semper Opera house, where, for us, the highlight was the Five Minute Clock, which you can see here near the bottom of the photo, showing 3:45.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tower of the Schloß Weesenstein, where we lunched before touring the Lange factory.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fleet of chauffeured black Audis that carried us from place to place. The drivers angled to get Jay and me as passengers- seemingly few members of the group spoke German and the drivers spoke only rudimentary English.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the factory tour with the president of Lange's North American office, Gaetan.</td></tr>
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wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-6114451108138498042013-09-04T14:00:00.000-04:002013-09-04T14:00:03.339-04:00BerlinToday I'm doing a "how to use the library" session for a group of students who are learning about the history of Berlin. Since it happens to be nearly exactly 30 years since I was in that great metropolis, I dug out some of the photographs from that trip to remind myself of my visit. It was a long weekend visit during a longer exchange visit I made to Germany that summer. My host family had aunt/cousins in West Berlin, so off we went.<br />
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I can only imagine how different it is today, and I look forward to seeing it again at some point. These are a few of the shots that I thought would be most representative of showing what Berlin was like in 1983 from a young man's point of view.<br />
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Mostly I remember a vague feeling of being scared. We drove to the city through East Germany, and the border crossings were tense- for me at least.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yours truly, taking a photo of the Berlin Wall and Brandenburg Gate, from the western side. The Reichstag is directly behind me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And for a meta-moment, here is the photo I was taking when the one above was taken by my host mother.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another memory of that day- and the importance of paying attention in history class- my host Aunt spent a good hour quizzing me on the history of the American Civil War. Which I had to explain. In German.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brandenburg Gate from the East Berlin side, Unter den Linden. Me looking nervous.</td></tr>
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<br />wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-45650208964444459362013-07-25T10:43:00.000-04:002013-07-25T10:43:46.497-04:00Campus Legacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No, that's not Sam. That's the humble author with his grandfather, William Searl Hoffman, in 1969.<br />
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A week or so ago, I was looking through a collection of books I have at home. I call this particular section of the library the Hoffman Memorial Collection- books that belonged to my mother and her parents and are inscribed with their names. Most of Mom's are from her college years. There are several that belonged to my grandfather, and one- his copy of Don Quixote- has in pencil, below his name, "Carnegie Technical Inst". I had a vague memory that he'd gone there for schooling. Part of what now is Carnegie Mellon University, it was a trade school and was where he went after graduating from West Tech High School in Cleveland to learn to be a printer.<br />
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I did some Googling to see if I could find anything about his time at Carnegie Tech. Nothing came up, but I *did* find his name in a document housed at CWRU's own digital repository, <a href="http://library.case.edu/digitalcase" target="_blank">Digital Case</a>. Not once but three times does his name appear in commencement bulletins for Western Reserve University: in 1932 when he was awarded a certificate for teaching industrial arts, in 1936 when he earned a B.S. in education and again in 1942 when he earned a M.A. in Education- all of these while he was employed as a teacher in the Cleveland Public School system as an instructor of printing. And all of them occurred after he became a family man.<br />
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Why his education at WRU wasn't celebrated family lore is beyond me. My sister Jane has a memory of Grandpa's graduate degree, but nothing beyond the fact of it.<br />
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I'd always dated my family's connection with CWRU (and all of its past incarnations) with my mother's graduate education in Library Science in 1957-58. Dad came to campus almost exactly a decade later and completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics in 1970. A decade and a half after that, I arrived as an undergraduate on campus earning my B.A. in English in 1988 and M.A. in English in 1993. But it turns out our connection goes back a further 25 years with my grandfather's education. So not a bad set of sheepskins for one family from one university.<br />
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Kim and I carried this completed book case out of the workshop and into the bedroom yesterday. It's the first large piece of furniture I've finished in some time. Sure, I've done plenty of other smaller projects, but this one has been simmering and slowly coming along for quite some time. In fact, the drawings I made for it are dated 2008. Kim reminds me that since then I've created a few other things outside of the workshop, but still. Five years on a case piece is a long time!<br />
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I've written about this project before here on Commonplace. There was a post about <a href="http://wclaspy.blogspot.com/2012/06/big-pieces-smaller.html" target="_blank">making dowel pegs</a> from firewood. I talked about <a href="http://wclaspy.blogspot.com/2010/11/making-wood-smaller.html" target="_blank">preparing the lumber in this post</a>, which also shows the inspiration for the project- an article written by Shaker furniture expert <a href="http://www.chbecksvoort.com/" target="_blank">Christian Becksvoort</a>. His version <a href="http://www.chbecksvoort.com/cases.html" target="_blank">can be seen on his site</a>- boy howdy, I saved $4,500! And yes, I adjusted the measurements from his example- my version is about 6" wider. <a href="http://wclaspy.blogspot.com/2011/05/weekend-update.html" target="_blank">This post</a> is mostly about Memorial Day, but there is <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYBN0b1zVV62bY5Cbj59FgzaiC_jSL8MtJO0Xy1bUfxK1-G1Z0NOO_-OiSfFAVmCrfDe-yZWfmmV4nNdROWmppkJ1XDngReHbIjWQgsvsA9N7dTZCfCk8uIErgDVAciuQVsy1VsJE-R1t/s1600/IMG_0466.jpg" target="_blank">a picture of the dovetails</a>, freshly cut, that hold the case sides together. <a href="http://wclaspy.blogspot.com/2010/12/from-shop.html" target="_blank">And in this post</a>, the shelves were but a drawing taped to the wall and a pile of lumber.<br />
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Here is the case with the doors closed, empty of books. It is made from solid black cherry. The wide lumber (the top and sides are 12" wide boards) comes from a memorable snowy day, probably 15 years ago, when I acquired it from a barn in western Geauga county- the personal stash of an octogenarian woodworker who could no longer make use of it. I think of him and his kindness often when I'm working in the shop. The small table in front is one of a pair that I built about 8 years ago. The bed frame was built with the same lumber.<br />
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Dovetails are a mechanical joint, and here they connect the top of the case to the sides. The shelves are also connected to the case sides with sliding dovetail joints.</div>
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I'm particularly proud of the perfectly matched door knobs I turned on the lathe.</div>
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Here's the case, doors open, loaded with trout and fly fishing books.<br />
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<br />wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-18656705297845880242012-11-30T16:06:00.000-05:002018-01-22T21:30:34.854-05:001869 Carpenters' ShopEarlier this week Joel Moskowitz, proprietor at <a href="http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/index.php">Tools for Working Wood</a>, posted a <a href="http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/blog/478/title/A%20Mortise%20Bench%20And%20A%20New%20Found%20Resource">photo to his blog</a> of a wonderful engraving he found while at the public library on the day after Thanksgiving.<br />
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The engraving, from the June 26, 1869 London Illustrated News, shows the interior of a "carpenters' shop"- really a cabinetmaker's shop if you ask me. The men are building furniture here, not houses.<br />
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The <a href="http://library.case.edu/">library where I work</a> owns a fairly complete run of this periodical, so I located the image in question and scanned it at high resolution to get a better look at it. Here it is.<br />
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The level of detail in the image is wonderful. In the foreground, two men work at low benches: one at a saw bench ripping a plank of lumber, the other sitting astride the stile of a panel frame while mortising it with a mallet and chisel. As it so happens, I was working in just the same fashion just a short time ago, chopping mortises in the stile of the frame for the back panel of a book case I'm building.<br />
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Other delights abound in the image. The man on the foreground left is working on a large glued up panel, perhaps a table top. There are completed tables with lovely cabriole legs on the right.<br />
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I did a very small amount of manipulation of the image in Photoshop to clean up the image. I removed some wording from the bottom of the image: after the title, on the original it says "-see page 641", a reference to the article in which the image is mentioned. The article tells that the shop is part of a facility built on Vauxhall Bridge Road by the Guards, where soldiers could socialize and- in this shop- "learn the trade of carpentry."<br />
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If you'd like a print of the engraving to hang on your shop or office wall, <a href="http://wclaspy.imagekind.com/CarpentersShop">I've uploaded the image to imagekind.com</a> at full resolution (600dpi). From Imagekind you can select from a large number of sizes, paper types, mounting, matting and framing options. For $16 you can get a 16"x10.5" print on enhanced matte paper.<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TOErroMDe0J_bsxWzNvQiSc4lKPvW7kJ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Here is the full size scan</a> if you'd like to download and print it on your own. It is 6175x4048 pixels and about 25MB in size.<br />
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I hope you enjoy this image as much as I do!<br />
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<br />wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-51603823878259571282012-11-05T20:55:00.000-05:002012-11-05T20:55:30.813-05:00Family weekend and Halloween<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Two weekends ago was Family Weekend at the College of Wooster. Maggie went down Friday afternoon to stay overnight in the dorm with her big sister Anna. The rest of us followed on Saturday afternoon. It was rainy and cold, but we managed to time our walks between rain showers. </div>
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Here, we even caught the halftime show at the football game: marching band, pipes and drums, and Scottish highland dancers.</div>
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In the art building, they had crayons. Made in the shape of cows. I kid you not.</div>
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Siblings seeing the sights.<br />
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Monday following, the remnants of hurricane Sandy swept through, amplified by a nor'easter. The combined effect was a mess in Cleveland as with many parts east of here. Our home was spared the worst, but with power out and wires down in much of the city, Halloween trick-or-treating was postponed to Sunday.<br />
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Our little goblin didn't seem to mind. This year, Grandma sent TWO costumes. Here's Black Bart.<br />
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And for going out on a cold and rainy evening, the Fireman outfit was just the ticket!</div>
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We recently had the great opportunity to spend a weekend in New York City for the commissioning of the <a href="http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg112/">U.S.S. Michael Murphy</a>, a brand new Navy destroyer. Kim's brother-in-law Tom is the commanding officer of the ship, so we got a great up close experience of the ceremony and the ship itself.</div>
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But first, some sight seeing! We enjoyed the enormous museum of natural history on the upper west side. Here Grandma tells Sam what a good boy he is.</div>
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RAWR! Says T-Rex. Or did Mommy say that?<br />
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Bill found his way to Carnegie Hall ("practice, practice, practice!") to get a good look at the brand-new Breguet clock in the lobby. Mesmerizing!</div>
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Maggie, inexplicably to her dad, absolutely <i>loved</i> Times Square.</div>
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She and her dad visited Greenwich Village- the Strand bookshop and a campus tour of New York University.</div>
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Washington Square park on a sunny Friday afternoon.</div>
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The main event was the commissioning ceremony. We sat so close to the ship, it was hard to get a picture of the whole thing!<br />
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Tom gave us the official CO's tour, a fascinating look at the Navy's newest ship.<br />
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The ship's first commanding officer!<br />
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It wasn't exactly our homecoming at Wooster this weekend, but big sister/aunt Jane couldn't make it. And we got a request late in the week to come visit Anna, so... why not? The promise of a parade with bagpipes was too hard to deny. So we drove down this morning for a little quality time on campus (and off, it turns out!) with Anna.</div>
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After the parade we took her out to lunch at the ever-yummy Broken Rocks Cafe in downtown Wooster, then a little drive to nearby Kidron for a visit to the massive general store Lehman's and a scoop of ice cream. Here are a few pictures:</div>
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With the fighting Scot mascot at the end of the parade!</div>
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Anna and Sam in front of her dormitory- the same one that housed Aunt Jane in her freshman year, just a few years ago!<br />
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Sammy getting a piggy back!<br />
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We've been working on an inventory project at <a href="http://library.case.edu/">work</a>, identifying books that were not added to our catalog when we transitioned from cards-in-drawers to records-in-computers about 30 years ago. We've come across some real gems, and here are just two that struck a chord with the woodworker in me.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Both are academic, but completely fascinating to anyone who has an interest in period work. Here are two illustrations from the books- on the left are two photographs of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging">bodgers</a> (the term for chairmakers), one installing legs to a seat, the other bending what will become the back of a Windsor chair. On the right is a reproduction of an image of an early gang saw mill.</span><br />
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From <i>The Early Sawmills of New Jersey</i>:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sawmills, unlike gristmills, were not places of romantic interest. Although the early sawmills were run by wooden machinery, the water wheel vibrated the building, there was no odor of ground meal, no millstones to rumble, no dusty miller drawing in fat bags of grist, and no miller's daughter to enhance the surroundings. Instead of gently descending mealy showers, the air was full of sawdust, bad language of the men struggling with logs, and the noise and screeching of the saw. Sawmills were places for work and not for idle gossip or the exchange of neighborhood happenings.</span></blockquote>wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-45909201973727623832012-08-05T14:10:00.001-04:002012-08-05T14:10:38.473-04:00Camp Grandma<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
At the end of July we left the sweltering heat in Cleveland and traveled to the beautiful and delightfully cool Pacific northwest for a week at what we lovingly refer to as Camp Grandma.</div>
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Walking the beach at low tide in the morning, when the water is smooth as glass.</div>
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Sam and Dad made a rhubarb pie. This is how they grow it on Tanda Ave., so how could we NOT whip up a pie? (No we didn't eat the leaves!)</div>
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Each room seems to have its own collection of toys. This take-apart truck is a favorite.</div>
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At Uncle Roger and Aunt Kathy's house, cracking fresh crab under the tutelage of Roger.</div>
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We enjoyed taking the kayaks out several times. This time Sam had a short ride with Daddy.</div>
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Sam had plenty of fun on the beach. "ooooh, that's cold!"</div>
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A couple of ol' salts launching Mommy and Sam.</div>
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On a charity walk along Silverdale's lovely <a href="http://www.clearcreektrail.org/index.htm">Clear Creek Trail.</a> </div>
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We had plenty of rides on Grandpa's tractor too. Here's Sam with some Lamberg cousins.</div>
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Maggie got a few turns behind the wheel. Don't drive it into the drink!</div>
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HEY! SAMMY'S TURN!</div>
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Sam and Mom taking a spin.</div>
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The lad's an Emmons boy, sitting on the counter helping out Grandpa.</div>
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From atop the Space Needle, a beautiful view from above the Emerald City.</div>
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Here are a handful of photos from our recent trip to beautiful Colorado. We had two aims for this trip: a few days in Boulder with my friend Dennis, and then a few days at the YMCA of the Rockies for a Claspy Clan family reunion. We had great success in both!</div>
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First up was Boulder. Sam enjoyed the kid-friendly Pearl Street pedestrian mall, which has several play areas for small ones. Here he is with big sister Anna and a great big bunny.</div>
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Right across the street from the historic Hotel Boulderado (where we were fortunate to stay) was a rank of rental bicycles, very reminiscent of Paris Velib stations. Boulder is a bike-friendly city!</div>
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Bill and Dennis, catching up over brunch at the restaurant Snooze.<br />
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Dennis explaining the fine points of pea gravel to Sammy. Not for eating, for concrete sublayers!</div>
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Day two we took a short hike in one of the many Boulder green space parks, this time the Chautauqua park.</div>
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The Veseys arrived on Thursday and stayed in Boulder overnight. We initiated Gabi to the playground and ate delicious pizza at Pizzaria Locale.<br />
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Friday found us in Estes Park at the YMCA of the Rockies. It is directly adjacent to the Rocky Mountain National Park and couldn't be in a more beautiful setting.</div>
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Sammy gets his first popsicle.<br />
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The Claspy Clan!<br />
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We found refuge in the shade where and when we could- here in the evening on the patio above the dining hall.<br />
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Sunday we headed into Rocky Mountain National Park. This lobo greeted us shortly after we entered the park.<br />
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At- or near- the summit of Trail Ridge Road, we stopped for a break at the Alpine visitor center.<br />
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At about 11,000 feet, these elk could relax in the cool mountain air.<br />
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It was a great trip!wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-45877466633004884052012-06-18T09:23:00.001-04:002012-06-18T09:23:25.529-04:00Big pieces smaller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The wag refers to woodworking as the process of making big pieces of wood smaller, and as I was spending a small amount of time in the shop messing about on a project over the weekend, the aphorism seemed particularly apt.<br />
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The procedure in question is making dowel pegs. In cabinetry, these are traditionally used to pin mortise and tenon joints. The joint is actually drawn together and held by the dowel pin. The pins are best made when the wood is still green. Straight grained wood is a must, and usually wood like oak is used. In this case, the pins are for a piece I'm building using cherry.<br />
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Flash back two weeks, when I took down a small decorative cherry tree for a neighbor. The tree had died so I offered to remove it. I sawed the six-inch diameter trunk pieces into firewood lengths and tossed them on my pile. The other day I stood at our kitchen window, just above the firewood stack, admiring the yard. I looked down and noticed that one of the pieces of cherry I'd cut was straight as a rod and didn't have any knots in it. Dowel stock!<br />
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The process is to split (rather than saw) the still-green wood to allow the length of the piece to carry the strength inherent in the grain of the wood. So, I work from the back of the above picture to the front. It begins with the froe and maul. The froe is that L-shaped tool in the top right. This cleaves the wood in half, in successively smaller pieces. Next is the drawknife- the blade with two handles right in the middle of the picture, which I use to get the stock roughly round and roughly 1/2" in diameter. The finishing tool in the process is the dowel plate in the lower right of the picture. This is a piece of tool steel in which I've drilled successively smaller diameter holes. The stick of green wood is beveled at the end to get it started in the hole, then pounded down through, peeling it like a banana to that diameter. Those three next to the dowel plate are just about finished. Once done, they'll be allowed to dry completely before being used to pin the 14 or so mortise and tenon joints on my bookcase project.wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-91609026211541558702012-06-11T07:16:00.000-04:002012-06-11T07:16:16.104-04:00Commencing and Parading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It has been a busy early June here at Chez Claspy, with all kinds of festivities and end-of-school celebrations.</div>
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First up was the senior award ceremony at the <a href="http://www.chuh.org/schools/chhs" target="_blank">high school</a>. Anna graced the stage a few times- as a National Merit <a href="http://www.nationalmerit.org/nmsp.php#commended" target="_blank">commended</a> student, as a graduate with honors, as a <a href="http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=519&ContentID=2460&Content=121084" target="_blank">Ohio Department of Education Award of Merit</a> student, and as a recipient of the <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/programs/presedaward/index.html" target="_blank">President's Award for Educational Excellence</a>.</div>
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Next up, Senior Prom! Our graduating scholar and her date Peter looked happy to celebrate!</div>
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Then graduation itself. Held in the historic downtown State Theater, the 480+ graduates in their robes and mortar boards queued up to cross the stage, shake a hand, and get their diplomas. Here is Anna getting hers.</div>
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After, here is the scene in the opulent theater's lobby.</div>
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On our way home, a beautiful rainbow showed Anna that her dreams are RIGHT OVER THERE. (Does it seem to be pointing to France?)</div>
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Later in the week, 8th grade promotion and farewell to middle school for Maggie. She was also recognized during the event as outstanding instrumental musician (no surprise to those who've heard her play!) and honor roll student.</div>
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This past Saturday we enjoyed one of Cleveland's best arts events, the wonderful and colorful <a href="http://www.universitycircle.org/events/2012/06/23rd-parade-the-circle-and-circle-village" target="_blank">Parade the Circle</a>. We made the trek with friends along for Maggie and Anna. Sam, of course, makes friends wherever he goes.</div>
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One hallmark of this parade is that it is all people-powered. No motorized floats. Also, there are usually excellent musicians in the parade, including steel drums. Sammy's reaction to the music can only best be captured on video.</div>
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Anna's big news is her selection of a college to attend in the fall: the College of Wooster. We're all very excited by her choice. She'll attend a registration event in June, then student orientation just before classes start at the end of August.<br />
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Warming up for Mother's Day, Sam and Kim had a good time playing at our faculty-parents group picnic at CWRU's farm.<br />
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Sam has been out cruising the driveway in his new convertible. He has to know how to get to his Princeton eating club, after all.</div>
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Anna performed in her final piano recital. She has studied with her teacher Sara Smith since she was 7. Here are student and teacher before the performance.<br />
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Maggie had both a concert with the Cleveland Institute of Music Prep Orchestra, and her own solo recital. Here she is performing her solo piece:</div>
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There were an even dozen in all that Mr. Hippity Hoppity secreted away in the yard.<br />
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They contained sweet goodies as well as a few Matchbox cars. Later in the day we enjoyed watching the professional bicycle racers ride from Paris to Roubaix, took a somewhat shorter ride ourselves, and had a yummy dinner and rhubarb pie for dessert. Hooray for Easter!</div>
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We had some crazy warm weather at the end of March. Sam usually doesn't care for hats unless they are strictly necessary (why hide that beautiful mane of hair, after all?) but decided that a cap with a brim, like a ball cap, can be useful on a sunny day.<br />
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Maggie and Sam enjoy story time.</div>
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Maggie rehearsed for seven weeks with the Cleveland Heights-University Heights middle school honor's orchestra, and they had their performance at the end of March. Another stellar performance!</div>
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My birthday landed on a Sunday this year, so we had a great day together celebrating. French toast and bacon in the morning, and an early dinner out with friends at the Market Garden Brewery. They even gave us a private dining area in their basement pub room.</div>
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Maggie and Anna deciding what to order for dinner.</div>
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Here's Princeton-boy getting ready to help with presents.</div>
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Can I help, Mommy?</div>
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Making a wish. What a great day! Thanks to the family and friends who helped out, and I'll see you all again next year.</div>
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We had a wonderful weekend visit with big sister/aunt Jane this weekend. She recently had a big birthday and decided to come for a Cleveland visit as part of the celebration. Fine by us! We talked about past birthday trip celebrations, so it must be a sort of a tradition, right?</div>
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Friday Sam and I took Aunt Jane to the special Rembrandt exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the evening the nieces and nephew took her out to dinner.</div>
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Pizza at Deweys!</div>
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And a birthday celebration wouldn't be complete without some cake and singing.</div>
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Today we continued the celebration with a trip to the new Cleveland Aquarium. Our campus parents group had arranged the visit, so it was perfect that Jane was in town to join us. We enjoyed seeing all of the fish, especially the tank of lobsters which one views from below (where's the butter?) and the walk-through hallway in which sharks and rays swim around and above. Cool! Another fine meal out for lunch rounded out the weekend. Thanks for coming, Jane!</div>
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<br />wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-63927651476225737762012-01-04T23:59:00.000-05:002012-01-05T00:01:59.577-05:00Seattle getaway<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just a couple of photos from our 36 hour long date night in Seattle this week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sadly it was lashing rain on Monday night, so I did not get photos of our supper meal at </span><a href="http://lepichetseattle.com/home/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Le Pichet</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The bourguinonne sauce on the root vegetable main dish Kim had was life changingly good. I had a super tasty selection of charcuterie as a starter and ling cod main dish with pistou sauce that was very tasty. And wine, most notably a chewy red from Bergerac. Super dinner. No pictures.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our lunch at </span><a href="http://tomdouglas.com/index.php?page=serious-pie" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Serious Pie</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was a no brainer. Their yukon gold/rosemary pizza is to die for. That's a 3.14 Ale next to it, a joint project between Serious Pie and </span><a href="http://www.elliottbaybrewing.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Elliot Bay Brewery</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. 3.14? Pie? Get it?</span><br />
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Here's a photo-dump of what we've been up to since Christmas on our Pacific Northwest holiday.</div>
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Kim and I enjoyed a nice kayak outing. Just above the trees you can see the snow-capped Olympic mountains peeking out.</div>
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Sam and I had a vehicular outing as well, on Grandpa Doug's tractor.</div>
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Yet another vehicle: ferry boat! Sam enjoyed spotting the gulls.</div>
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At the Experience Music Project in Seattle. A Gehry designed building, Space Needle behind.<br />
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Inside, marveling at the massive guitar fountain.</div>
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A clear view of the Olympic mountains, from Seabeck, across the Hood Canal.</div>
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Morning sunrise across Dyes Inlet, Rainier peeking out. Fire on the mountain!</div>
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We are celebrating our holidays in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Above is the tree and the gifts before bedlam ensued on Christmas morning.</div>
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Anna and Sam were ready to celebrate!</div>
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On Christmas Eve, Mount Rainier came out of hiding, and was bathed in late afternoon sunshine.</div>
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Maggie helped her little brother with his stocking on Christmas morning.</div>
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Christmas morning there was a beautiful red sunrise (which happened well after the gift unwrapping began.)</div>
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Number One gift this year was a die-cast Kubota tractor for Sam, just like Grandpa Doug's full sized one. After opening this one, all else was mere gravy.</div>
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Lad and Grandpa comparing gifts.</div>
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This present was nearly bigger than Aunt Dorothy.</div>
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Anna loves Christmas!</div>
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A group photo with matching t-shirts.</div>
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Followed by obligatory FUNNY FACE!</div>
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<br />wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-25306635239807027872011-12-21T08:31:00.001-05:002011-12-21T08:31:27.039-05:00Holidays are here!I've been terribly lazy in updating the blog, so I thought the best excuse to post would be to share a few holiday pictures.<br />
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First, our holiday family portrait. We took this in the lobby of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where Maggie performed her end-of-semester prep orchestra concert just over a week ago.<br />
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Here are the three kids- Anna, Sam, and Maggie.<br />
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We had birthdays this month too. Here are the three birthday girls!<br />
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And there was another holiday just about a month ago too! We shared a wonderful Thanksgiving with my sisters and their families in sunny and warm Smyrna, Georgia. Sam loved having the attention of cousins, uncles, and definitely aunties.<br />
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All our best wishes to friends and family for a wonderful holiday season, be it Solstice, Hanukkah, or Christmas.wclaspyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218802241077426548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7477107298354426713.post-55125306443754519722011-10-31T19:30:00.000-04:002011-10-31T19:30:46.632-04:00Super Halloween<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We had a pretty Super Halloween here this year.</div>
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Grandma was in town for one thing, and that's ALWAYS super. She also made Sam a very sweet Superman costume for Sam. He's been eyeing it for two weeks now, smiling every time we said "SUPER SAM!"</div>
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However, I don't think Superman had to endure the shame of having his mother and grandmother get him into his suit. Sadly no phone booth was handy.</div>
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Much happier once he's got his suit of invincibility, here's the Super lad and his Super mom.</div>
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He really enjoyed seeing the kids come to the door, bending bars of steel, and getting into his jammies.<br />
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We've had a wonderful visit with Grandma Pam the last two weeks. We even got some glorious sunny and warm northeast Ohio autumn weather! She and Sam had a wonderful time, especially on the swings.</div>
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Mommy makes sure Sam gets plenty of energy food.<br />
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Anna gave a presentation to the local AFS group about her six months in France. With her were the two other students from Heights High who also were away last year (Finland and France.)<br />
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A senior this year, Anna has been busy thinking about where she would like to go to college next year. It's not an easy decision to make! Sam has done his best to help out. First he suggested the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, home of the Nanooks (great hockey!)<br />
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How about Boston? I hear Harvard is a pretty good place to get an education.<br />
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Of course, both Kim and Sam think you can't get much better than Princeton. Go, Tigers!<br />
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