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Visiting Brie at a RPI Women's tennis match against Mount Holyoke
University, located about half way between home and RPI. Brie went
on to play at Clark University as well, while we headed home. A
few hours of driving for a hour and a half of tennis, but it was worth
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| Kate's sister Anne came out for a week long visit. While she
was here she painted a mural over the kitchen windows. |
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| Below, the owl house Dave put up almost three years ago was finally
occupied... after a fashion. After several days of an Owl sitting
in the openning, they seemed to vanish for a few days, only to be
replaced by a male wood duck. The wood duck was gone the next
day... and the owls were back, but only later at night. A few days
later, no owls, but then one day a female wood duck was sitting in the
openning. After that, the owl house went dormant. But we did
have a family of
Great Crested Flycatchers move into a bird house just off the
deck... they were feeding chicks round the clock for at least a week.
Kids are SO much work! |
The owl house observation post, using the Bushnell spotting
scope to take pictures of the owls... but they always seemed to
know that we were there, looking at them. |
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What The Duck? On the right... the Great
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Heading out for a wine tasting dinner at Sprig's |
One of ate's college roommates, Caroline, visits (while out
setting up her daughter Ariel for a coop job and next semester
at Boston University) |
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| Below, Will plays in MIAA Individuals, where the top players from
Division 1 High School Tennis compete for personal titles. Will
made it to the quarter finals after a 4 hour long match with the number
4 seed (and ranked 45 in New England) player. The match literally
finished just as it was getting so dark you couldn't see the ball. |
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| Below, Brie returns from RPI with enough stuff to fill a complete
room... not counting everything she moved into her bedroom. Where
she kept it all in her dorm at RPI is a mystery. |
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| Below, the Senior Prom; Will and his date (and long time girlfriend)
Diana Du. |
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| Below left, Will gets a scholarship for his two year single
captaincy on the Tennis team. Right, and bottom right and
left, Will graduates from Acton Boxbourgh Regional High School despite
his best efforts not to; ready to move on to RPI next semester. |
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| Below, the ABHRS tennis team makes the post-season but only advanced
a couple of rounds; competition was tough this year! |
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| Below, "rolling thunder" day at Dave's gun club... offering an
opportunity to fire a 50 Caliber BMG sniper rifle. These guns can
hit targets a mile and half away and fire a round that can punch
straight through armor plate. The muzzle blast is enough to set
ammo boxes jumping (see red circle in the second picture) and blow
pieces of wood and debris off the firing platform. |
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| Below, father's day, with home made whoopie pies ... best Father's
day ever! |
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| Below, the annual (and final, for us) tennis banquet. Kate
organized this one (like the last four years). Next year, the
torch passes to someone else. Will did his spiel as the team
captain. |
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Left, Diana; Middle, Coach Kevin Curly |
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Closing out June, we took a trip up to RPI to start settling Brie into
her new appartment at the corner of Burdett and Tibbets Avenue.
She's sharing it with three other women (just the bottom floor).
This weekend was painting. First week of July, we move in
furniture. |
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And, as a reward for our labor, a dinner at 74 State Street's
Marche restaurant in Albany, New York. |
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| And a couple of links:
The Photo Gallery
for April-June and
Kate's
Caring Bridge Blog |
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