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More pictures of Russia trip and our remodeling

Pictures from Russia showing Mom enjoying sushi and a picture of our team. Also there are pictures of our bedroom which we are living in and a picture of Bubba while recovering from pneumonia.

House Demolished

We decided to remodel. Here are some pictures of the destruction.

This is the kitchen after everything has been removed. We are confined to one bedroom with our sons. In the upper left is a picture of Snuggles and me enjoying a salad together. He likes blue cheese. In the upper right is some of the flooring after installed.

Off to Russia

In October of 2006 we were part of a trip with a group from Clarksville which went to Novosibirsk, Russia to do business lectures and meet with Rotary Groups. Here is Mom with Carol and me with some of the attendees at our lectures

Eva in her Africa Period

Eva recently posed in her studio apartment with the tools of her trade so that her adoring fans could have a glimpse at the master on a typical day spent in creativity. Eva is currently experiencing her Africa period. Her illustrations are of everyday life in Africa. Animals, children and the bucolic life of the countryside are faithfully rendered for awe struck fans.

She hopes you will visit her blog and see the richness of life in the sub Sahara and visit her art exhibit in Barecelona where you may find her providing critiques of Dali or Picasso or perhaps you might cathch a glimps or her at the Three Cats enjoying a gellato.

Sarah's Birthday and moving into college

Here are some nice pictures of Mom and Sarah posing with her birthday cake. We froze the cake and Sarah really enjoyed frozen cake. She ate the rest of it and told Mom and me to keep our mits off of it.

Sarah also moved back in and I decided to load her up with stuff to carry into her new home. Sarah has some great roommates and she immediately ingratiated herself by bringing over some fresh baked cookies and another refrigerator. I wish she would bake some for me.

There is also a picture of Sarah with one of her roomies, Emily. Of course this year was different for Sarah as an aspiring junior. She did not show up with the common plebs who wasted their weekend casting computers down flights of stairs and losing refrigerators down elevator shafts. She arrived in style a day or two after fretting parents dropped off the freshmen to their fate.

Sarah says "There is no need to waste time with the common herd. They will soon be ground up by the professors and begging for their parents. As for me I have reached a degree of sophistication and erudition that has no patience with the antics of the unschooled."

Sarah takes Chicago

Sarah came home from Thailand and demanded an all expense paid trip to Chicago so that she could be properly attired for college. No really I was on a business trip and Mom and Sarah taged along. It made the business trip much better. However I was a little worried about their choice of friends. I think the conversations they had were a little one sided. But that is the way most conversations go with Mom and Sarah, I do all the listening and they do all the talking. The fact that I react like a bronze statue to their demands doesn't stop them from chatting non stop.

Mom and Sarah's main mission was to attack Michigan Ave, eat cheese flaovered popcorn from Garret's and trudge up and down Navy Pier with ten thousand other people.

A Birthday Party with no birthday girls

Its July 25th and it is Jo and Eva's birthday. Eva is in Barcelona and Jo left yesterday for Barcelona and then to Mozambique. Its seems extreme for them to go to the other side of the world to escape from home but what are we supposed to believe. I know they are saving the world but this blog post is for self pity so we are going to enjoy being miserable.

We went ahead and had a party without them complete with a cake and some party goers who thought they were at a board meeting for Parents Reaching Out. Little did they know that they were at a party. It was a pretty good pretend party.

Happy Birthday.

I also put a picture of Snuggles hiding under the bed. He hates parties.