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Puppies of Jenkintown: Soon to be ripped off by Disney edition

I shouldn’t be doling these out so softly, but I must admit that we are behind in our puppy-hunting.
The same walk to the town square as the last two entries yielded Kimba, named after Kimba the White Lion. Also known as the the cartoon Disney ripped off to create the Lion King, which happens [...]

Puppies of Jenkintown: Rocket

Last week — or maybe two weeks ago, it all has become very hazy really, that immediate passage of time thing — Julia and I walked up the hill to see an open house jointly hosted by Jenkintown’s fire companies.
(Yes, a town exactly one square mile in area has two fire companies because, as [...]

Puppies of Jenkintown Part VI: Ah, that’s where the camera was, edition

Yes, I admit, it has been a while since the last Puppies of Jenkintown entry, a full month in fact. I don’t want you, dear reader, to suspect that I haven’t been walking my daughter or I haven’t been allowing her to shoot puppies or, heaven forfend, we ran out of puppies. We haven’t, of [...]

Puppies of Jenkintown, Part V: Catching up

I’m catching up with last week’s photos, so I’m afraid I don’t have time for individual entries this time around.
However, I wised up just a bit and I’m now using Flickr. Let’s see how that goes…
(stuff happens)
…ok, it doesn’t go great…the Flickr gallery maker I use stopped functioning after I upgraded to Wordpress 2.8. [...]

Puppies of Jenkintown, part IV: Dogs, SNAKES, Dogs!

The ratio of days we remember the camera to days that are rainy have not been in favor of puppy snapshots in Jenkintown. Still, the sun must come out eventually, even during monsoon season.
And when it does, we are sure to see the two sun-worshiping ladies from the apartment down the street, as was the [...]

The Puppies of Jenkintown, part III

Through a combination of illness (Julia’s, better now, thanks) and forgetfulness (you need the camera to take pictures) we missed a week or two in our quest to document the puppies of Jenkintown. Last night we made it out with a healthy kid and camera (although a sick dad), and harvested a bumper crop of [...]

The Puppies of Jenkintown, part II

As I mentioned last time, Julia received a shiny purpley-pink camera for her fourth birthday and we have commenced, at her request, documenting the local puppylife on our nightly walks (when we remember to take along the camera).
Unfortunately, we had something of a dry spell over the last week. Despite the town’s preponderance of [...]

The Puppies of Jenkintown

My lovely daughter Julia got a new camera for her fourth birthday. It replaces the camera we had given her previously, a lovely Nikon point-and-shoot whose shutter never completely opens. (It created arty little Lomo-esque shots, mostly of her feet, her brother and various toy animals.)

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Grammy wisely eschewed the bulky cameras-for-kids that V-Tech and Fisher [...]

That’s not a crossover, that’s an honest-to-Crom wagon

About three point five years back, my wife and I reluctantly bought a Saturn Vue. Well, I was reluctant. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with the Vue. Its a nice car that gets decent mileage. I’m pleased.
But it wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted an honest-to-Betsy station wagon. Aside from the Ford Focus [...]

New art project, sheet metal antennae for the wall

Antennas? Antennae? Whatever.
Anyway, with the upcoming digital conversion, I’ve been thinking a bit about the home TV setup. We’ve always had rabbit ears around Stinkbug Manor — and I only scratched my cornea once by walking into on — but this video has inspired me to try something else.
I plan to do what the guy [...]

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