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Our New House in Southern Oregon

Mike — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:26:44 +0000

As I said in the last post, we’ve just acquired a house in Southern Oregon. At the moment we have a contractor doing some repairs before we move in. We’re planning on moving sometime during the first couple of weeks in June.

We set out to buy a house in Ashland, which is a small university town [...]

Bragging about the kid

Mike — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:21:59 +0000

Just a quick note to brag about Andy’s work at UCI, where he’s majoring in music. You can see and hear his end-of-class [...]

The Roseate Gets Some Press

Mike — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:11:08 +0000

The November issue of PassageMaker magazine has a very nice article on the Roseate. It even made it onto the cover. If somebody (Charlie?) can get permission from the magazine, I’ll post the article online. Otherwise, I’ll put it on ballfam.net as soon as I get the current bug in my installation worked out so [...]

The end of the year at UC Irvine

Mike — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:29:43 +0000

It’s the end of the year at UC Irvine, and we made a couple of trips up there to see and hear Andy perform. I missed a couple of them when I was in the Bahamas, so I had to go to these, even if one of them seemed awfully short for a lot of driving.

The [...]

News of a boat trip to Egmont Key

Mike — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:38:58 +0000

I just got a call from my brother’s house. The whole family (except for those of us unlucky enough to be too far away) went on a trip on our new boat. They went to Egmont Key, which is in the mouth of Tampa Bay, and evidently got a wonderful tour. I really wish I [...]