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For Christmas 2005 we
went to Jen's Aunt and Uncle's house.
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We're doing a little
remodeling the week of Dec. 19, 2005 before we move into our new
house. Here I took
a 4' open doorway and made it 6'. The
deconstruction was easy. Now I have to put up drywall and make
it look nice again.
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Ah the joys of home
ownership. Jen and I took posession of our new house on Friday Dec.
9th, 2005. So
far it's been everything renting isn't
without the benefit of equity.
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Friday, December 9th, 2005,
Jen and I close on our house. It's been an interesting adventure so
far and
the 9th is really only the
beginning.
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For Thanksgiving 05
Jen and I went to Alderson, Wv to hang out with my parents. They
recently bought
the house across the street from the house
they currently own (the new one is bigger), so we helped with
some improvements around the new place.
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Starting Thursday morning Nov. 18,
2005 CJ was having trouble walking. By Thursday night he
wasn't
walking at all,so we got him to the Vet Friday
morning. Turns out he has Lyme Disease. Within a
few
hours of putting him on anti-biotic and
anti-inflammatory, he was walking again and more himself.
Unfortunately some of the medicine makes
him nauseous and most of our carpet is now a yellower
shade
of white.
Thanks to Ryan and Missy for
letting us borrow their steam cleaner. The carpets are actually back
to
white. And CJ is back to lounging around. FYI this
photo was not staged. Somehow he did this to
himself.
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Victory Brewing Company
unleashes their Hop Wallop every year at this time. Ben, Mark and I
had a few
Nov. 12, 2005 when we were building Ben's workbench at his new house.
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I resurrected the truck out
of storage Saturday November 5, 2005. Two years of Jeff sanding on
his Impala
got it a little
dusty.
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We went car camping up in Jim
Thorpe the weekend of Oct 15-16, 2005. It's a great area and really
close
to home. I highly recommend it for family
camping and pocono adventures.
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I don't even know what to say.
Jeff claims he got my cold. I guess in an effort to make me
feel guilty he
went to the lengths of using some whacky
steam machine to clear his sinuses.
Not feeling any guilt, I decided to take a
picture. Jeff wasn't too happy with that. Oct. 9, 2005.
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I've had this weight
bench I've wanted to get rid of
for some time. I haven't used it in five years and it's been
taking up space. Unfortunately weight benches aren't the kind of
thing I want to try and sell on ebay (pack
and ship nightmare).
I was so desperate to get rid of it, I was offering it free to
friends and acquaintances.
Then Jen suggests Freecycle.org.
It's an online free market place. You log into local market places
and
offer or take free stuff people have. It's great. There's no
haggleling or shipping to deal with. Check out a
freecycle market place in your area to
unload some of your unwanted goods. Oct. 2, 2005.
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Jen and I bought this car
Sept. 25, 2005. It's a 1999 Subaru Legacy - Outback. We
don't actually have
the car yet. There's
some business to take care of, but it will be ours soon
enough.
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My team, Bean's Bikes, won
third place in the large team division of the Mid-Atlantic Super
Series. I got
second in the Sport Single Speed category. Sept.
18, 2005.
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I've had this collection of
photos of my father sitting around for a while. what a better way to
display them,
then build a filmstrip
function to flip through them here on our home page. Just sit back
and enjoy.
Sept. 4 - 18,
2005.
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Sunday August 14th 2005 - I
finally got to ride Wissahickon park in Philadelphia, and I did it
on my new
Gary Fisher Rig. The rig is a 29inch wheeled single
speed. 29inch wheels are amazing. They smooth
everything out and
roll like crazy. It's taken me a few rides to get used to and
there's still some
adjustments, but it should be good and ready
for the Single Speed
World Championships in State
College
PA
August 21, 2005.
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Sunday August 7th,
2005 had another race today and got second again. The cool part
was I got another
bike - well it's sort of
cool. That puts me at eight bikes. Not a
number I'm really proud of. One has to be
sold to make way
for the new one and one is a total beater that should be thrown
out. The others have
purposes and get used regularly
(mostly). The new one is a 29inch wheeled single
speed. It's huge. It's
really big.
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Saturday July 30,
2005 Jen and I drove to Chesapeak City, MD to get crabs at the
Tap Room. The place
is a total dive, but they've got great
Chesapeak Bay Blue Crabs. Afterwords we wandered around town
and
enjoyed the scenary.
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This is the start of
the cross country race at Marysville on July 9, 2005. That's me
chasing Dan from the
start and dropping the rest of
the pack. Dan finished six minutes ahead of me and I finished eight
minutes
ahead of third place. It was a brutally hot weekend, but
lots of fun.
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June 25, 2005 Jen
and I did some house cleaning. We vaccumed and shampood the
downstairs carpet
and cleaned/polished all the furniture in the
dining room. We've been running the air conditioner more
and the lack of rain has
kept the mold growth down this year.
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Ben putting on his game face
before the Elite Single Speed race at Hershey June 18, 2005. In
years past
Hershey has been a mudfest. It's usually really
slick and very painful to ride through. This year it was dry,
dusty and super fast. I finished second place in the Single
Speed Sport class (Sport did two seven mile
laps, Elite did
three).
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June 11th was a busy Saturday
for Jen and I. We started by sleeping in to catch up with all the
sleep
we missed during the week, then went for a ride at Ridley
Creek State Park, had lunch, went to Ben's
baseball game
(until he got hit with a line drive and went to the hospital),
met him later at the West
Chester Iron Hill Brewery Twightlight
Crit (hence the picture) and finally to a team members house for
a bbq/party. Yeah, and Sunday I got up at 6:30am for
a three hour quick tempo road ride with the
team.
Out of breath? Run-on sentence? That was
our weekend.
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June 4th, 2005 was the
Tour de Tykes race, #6 of the Mid Atlantic Super Series (MASS). It's
a benefit for
the Children's Miracle Network. It was a
long grueling race. Lots of walking up hills then bombing back
down to the botton - only to walk back up again. I was as
high as second place, but lost all my steam in
the last
mile.
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Kekul and Rachana had a little barbeque
at their new house with their new grill and new little girl
Saturday
May 28. It was a good time with good friends and
great food.
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Another picture from our trip
to San
Diego
the weekend of April 22, 2005. This was an orchid in
the
Botanical building at Balboa park.
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The weekend of April 22,
2005 we flew to San Diego
to visit Jen's Dad for the weekend.
This picture was
taken at the Prado in
Balboa park.
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The week of April 17 was a
week of flying for me. Fist I went to Midland, Mi for work, flew
home, then went
to San Diego with Jen to visit her
Dad.
This picture didn't come out as well as I would
have liked. It's a 747 parked 20 ft. from the window.
It was
huge. It looked like it was rolling right through the
terminal.
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To mark the start of the
mountain bike race season for Bean's Bikes, Mark had a
spaghetti dinner and
bonfire for the
members of the team and their families April 8, 05. While the
adults were inside
carbo-loading on the pasta, the youngsters had a different idea
in mind when it came to carbs.
Though the guy in
the middle looks as if he's had a few, we can assure you all beer
dispatched by this
crew was wasted on the ice and grass around
the keg.
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This month (4/05) five
years ago I began racing motorcycles in an amateur series up and
down the east
coast. In 2001 I got a little serious with it and went
after the D-Superbike and Formula 2 regional
championships.
At the time I had a website following my adventures. Since
we've got all this new space
for our site, I've rebuilt that
website and put it up.
You can
access my motorcycle race site one of two ways. You can
find it under the 2001 photos in the
photo section of
our site, or you can click here.
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I got a new backpack for winter
camping this week (3/21/05). My other pack was a little small for
all the
gear we need in winter. This pack holds
6500 cu ins of stuff. It could probably hold Jen.
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Jeff and I went backpacking
in the Adirondacks
this weekend 3/5-7/05. I had gotten back from
Midland,
Mi Friday night, then left for the Adirondacks Sat.
morning at 4:30am. This picture was taken Sunday
afternoon
after we hiked up Mt. Colden in a storm. I woke up sick that morning
and was feeling pretty
miserable by the time this picture was
taken. Though I was sick, we had a really good time in
the woods
in the snow.
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We went
skiiing/snowboarding in West Virginia
the weekend of Feb. 12 - 13,
05. Unfortunatey Dave had
a wreck at the end of the day and hurt
his shoulder. Here's Ben helping him with some ice to keep the
swelling down.
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Over the weekend (1/22-23/05) we got about
12" of snow. With all that snow and the bitter temperatures,
CJs
paws were freezing when we took him for walks, so we got him some
booties. Inside the house he
hates them. Out in the snow he's happy.
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Jen's birthday (Jan. 18) was
this week. She started her day off with breakfast in
bed. She was a little
sick that week
too...
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The first few weeks of
January 2005 kind of sucked. It rained and was in the 50s most
of the
time. CJ basically sums up all we
did.
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