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I went for a short hike in the desert this morning with my friend Les. Hiking along a wash, we saw an old mine shaft up on the hill and decided to check it out.
We climbed up to it, and it looked like it went back in for a ways, at a slight downward […]

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Next week Dale, Karen and I are going backpacking in the east somewhere, probably western Pennsylvania. We should be gone 4 days/3 nights.
This will be my first experience backpacking back in the east, but I understand it is nothing but non-stop rain, mud, chiggers and leeches. I’ll humor my back-east relatives by pretending […]

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I’ve posted before about Apollo having occasional seizures. These are full-blown grand mal seizures, lasting a minute or so, then taking 5 - 10 minutes to fully recover.
The vet diagnosed epilepsy, not uncommon for huskies. He averaged maybe one seizure every two or three months, and the vet said as long as they […]

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Devon is part of a big ad campaign for “Peacock Cookies” in Taiwan right now. Here’s his face on the side of a bus:

And here’s an ad. This first shows a Flash application. You can click the various links at the bottom (all in Chinese) and see a couple of scenes […]

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