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A trip to Target Field
Robbie, Gilly and I attended our first Twins game at Target Field yesterday, an outing with our friends, the Bensons.
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Robbie turns 65
Robbie and I went out for dinner at Willingers on Thursday to celebrate her 65th. Ain’t she sweet?
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Photos: Father’s Day 2010
We spent Father’s Day this year biking around Crosby Farm Park, followed by some grillin’ in Hidden Falls Park.
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Piano duet: Gilly and Grandma Audre Wigley
I stumbled on this video clip of Gilly and Grandma Audre Wigley doing a piano duet, Xmas 2007.
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Noisy frogs, a full moon, and a fire at Hidden Valley Park
The rains have been plentiful this spring and thus making the frogs around the pond in the middle of Hidden Valley Park very happy. I captured their music while sitting in front of our backyard fireplace last week and again tonight while walking around the park watching the moon rise. Watch/listen to this 38-second video.
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Mother’s Day 2010
Gilly cooked up a marvelous meal for Mother's Day. Robbie let me, Tyson and Graham eat some of it. Yum!
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Graham’s guitar instrumental: Italian movie
Graham composed this.
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Testing formatting via Posterous
I'm experimenting with using Posterous to upload blog posts via email.
I'm assuming it'll handle links fine. How about simple formatting within Gmail like bold or italics or colored text? Different fonts?
Bulleted items?
- like this
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- plus this?
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Big font sizes, centered?
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Ellen’s visit to Northfield, Feb 2010
Our niece Ellen visited us in Northfield this weekend.
See the album of 25 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
And here’s a short video of snowshoe sliding:
36th wedding anniversary for Griff and Robbie
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On New Year’s Eve, Robbie and I celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary in Hudson, Wisconsin. We again stayed at the Phipps Inn Bed and Breakfast, hosted by Mary Ellen and Rich Cox. (See the album from 2005.)
We ate dinner on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at the San Pedro Cafe in downtown Hudson where the food, service, and atmosphere are always fabulous.
Photo album: Xmas 2009
Collin and Amanda brought their new dog Izzy with them from NJ and stayed with us in Northfield for a almost week, as did Grandma Audrey Richard. Gilly, Graham and Tyson camped out with us Xmas eve and Xmas day, too. Our old neighbors, the Kaufman’s, came for Xmas eve, as did our friend, Barbara Burke. And Grandma Audre Wigley held a family party at her condo a couple days after Xmas.
See the album of 114 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
My Google profile
I’ve compiled all my web-based info about me using Google Profile. See it at google.com/profiles/griffinjay. (People who are in my Google Contacts can see more info about me than the general public.)
My griffinjay profile comes up at the bottom of the first page of a Google search on my name, Griff Wigley. The word Griff is currently third in a Google search on the word, linking to my business site, Wigley and Associates.
The word Wigleys, currently 1st in a Google search, links here to the Wigleys of Mendota.
My civic blog site, Locally Grown (aka LoGro and LoGroNo and LGN), is currently 1st in a Google search.
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Wedding photos from Kimberly Reed
Kimberly Reed was the photographer for Collin and Amanda’s wedding last month. She has a blog post up containing a couple dozen photos from the event.
All I can say is WOW.
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