The kids celebrate Robbie’s 65th birthday

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The kids came over yesterday to celebrate Robbie’s 65th. They cooked up a storm. Yum!

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A trip to Target Field

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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

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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

Graham Wigley, Gillian Wigley, Griff Wigley, Tyson Wigley, Robbie Wigley, Graham Wigley, Gilly Wigley, Griff, Graham, Gilly

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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

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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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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:

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