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This is exactly what I saw playing in our back yard this morning! I didn't take this photo - there was no way I could have gotten my camera ready and gotten close enough - but this is just what they looked like until they scampered away. I'm still smiling.

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Nick, my Marine nephew, is home for two weeks so we had one of our traditional Stahlman breakfast gatherings at The Log Cabin on Saturday. His fiance Jill is here for two weeks too, and Simon's friend Gershum went with us. It was also our August birthdays celebration. Paul turned 17 last week, Saturday Mom turned 74 and yesterday Nick turned 20. How these people got to be so old is beyond me.

Steve, Gershum and I rode with Simon in his hot sports car. I suggested it, strictly for comedic effect, mind you. Must have worked because Gretchen said something about a clown car, the way we unfolded ourselves out of the vehicle. Alrighty then - no need to do that again.

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Long-time readers will recall that for several years now Gretchen and I have given Mom the very birthday gift she has requested - a day trip with us. That's what we did Sunday - and had lots of fun. As Dad says, it's a triple whammy gift for Mom: the anticipation, the event and the afterglow. Us too, Mom.

As luck would have it, since I dawdled in telling the tale, Gretchen, the writer in the family, beat me to the punch. She tells it way better anyway. Go read about it here.

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