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 Visiting the family up in Lansing, the boys with cousins Samantha and Ethan  Adding Aunt Debbie, Mama and Grandma into the mix  Samantha and Devin squaring off for a race  Here's Ethana nd Jared running one way while Samantha and Devin take off elsewhere  Back home, this year we added in some new birch trees to the backyard. Some nice new river birches - Daddy's favorite  That whole area will be covered in woodchips next year and we'll have our own little tranquility copse. Also, we planted some raspberries which actually turned in a pretty good crop this year  And here we have new hosueguests, a family of robins, their baby here is just learning to fly  Mama and Daddy robin look on, watching that guy with the camera very carefully  Here I go with another try!  Oops, diodn't quite make that one  So close yet so far  Now we switch over to farm night at Paddock Elementary, and Jared saying hi to a nice goat  They do this every year, bringing in a local petting zoo for the kids to experience the animals  Jared petting a nice fawn  Devin wanted to hang back a bit from the animals. He needs a few more pounds on him before he'll be comfortable I think  Hmm, I don't know about this Mama  Jared feeding the nice pony some yummy corn  Flanders Elementary you say? Well, this was Daddy's grade school back in Farmington. Unfortunately, and quite stupidly (it's been beautiful refurbished), it's being closed due to funding problems and whatnot. They had an alumni night which we visited and met some folks I haven't seen for decades. Very sad actually  Here's my boy, sitting outside Daddy's school, which is no more  Now we move to Tecumseh's Memorial Day parade, with my patriotic little D leading the charge  Both my boys love their flags  We always love Tecumseh's parade because they have lots of flyovers  Whee!  The local marching bank  The fife and drum corps out of Plymouth  And the mounted sherrif brigade  Crowd control!  And of course, the awesomely huge fire engines get the boys' engines running  Oh no, are they gonna blow their horns Daddy?  More fire engines  Like I said, cool flyovers  This time a couple of A-10 Thunderbolts. Now those things can provide some crowd control!  And some old timey bicycles close out 2010's parade. Happy memorial day! |
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