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Margaret’s Lost Tooth

Margaret's Lost Tooth

Margaret lost her first tooth today. She is very excited, most of her friends have already lost teeth.

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Katy’s Birthday Party

Katy's Birthday Party

Today we had 15 or so 11 year old girls at the house. Man can they be loud. They jumped in the bouncy house, painted the windows, sung karaoke, and ate (a lot).

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Admin Family Margaret

Easter Egg Hunt

Egg Hunt

The family as well as some friends walked around the corner for a Easter Egg Hunt today. The Easter Bunny was there to entertain everyone.

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Pokie

Latest Construction Update

April's Update

We were in Tahoe this week to check on the construction (and to do a bit ourselves). Since the last time up, they have tiled 2 of the bathrooms and gotten most of the wood on the ceilings. Elizabeth painted ceilings in some of the rooms. I installed the vanity that Daniel and I made out of Ikea cabinets.

Update: Just added a few more pictures from Elizabeth’s last trip up. A little more trim done, the bathroom door hung.

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Katy’s 11!

Katy's Birthday

We celebrated Katy’s 11th birthday with the family. She will have her party with her friends sometime after spring break this week.

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Family Margaret

Rick’s Plane

Rick's Plane

Rick stopped by while my parents were out here visiting. So, we took the whole family out to see his plane. It was the first time my parents have seen the plane he is flying these days. Rick, here are the full size images.

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Brownies

Margaret as a Brownie

Margaret got her brownie pin today in a ceremony where they all became official brownies. Luckily for me, there were lots of cupcakes there.

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rusty

Bees

Swarm of Bees

I am getting into beekeeping. Bruce convinced me to make a few “top bar” or Kenya hives. We built the hives a couple of weeks ago and then I got on a swarm list. Today I got a call that there was a swarm near me. None of us had ever tried this, but it went perfectly. Now I have a few thousand bees installed in my hive. Hopefully, they will set up shop and start making honey and more bees. Here is a short video of us getting the swarm into a box so we can bring it home. After that we sealed up the box and put the buzzing box in the car and drove it home. Here is a longer video of us getting the swarm from the box into the hive.

Now I have 2 hives. One of them has a window in the side. Here are some pictures.