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Uncle Mark planted lettuce in the garden. Did you ever see such a happy gardener?
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Dad mixed composted soil into the garden. Dad has accomplished a lot of work this week on his vacation, most signicantly clearing a tremendous amount of field brush that had been deposited after this winter's icestorm.
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Jacob (see him in the back right window?) cleaned the Honda Pilot with his heavy duty shop vacuum. Oh, and Jacob (kindly) took me on a date to Foster's in Rhinebeck!
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A number of us (girls in picture with Elizabeth) attended the 23rd annual CareNet Banquet Friday evening where B.J. Weber, the former chaplain of the Yankees, gave a hilarious and powerful keynote address. I had my best run in a couple of weeks with Hannah this morning. My lingering cold had made it really hard to run recently but I was so pleased to run 3.5 miles (walked the last 0.5 miles) of our morning running route to Middlevale. I also read Khalid Hosseini's
A Thousand Splendid Suns today which was a sobering reminder of the immense and unimaginable evils that exist in the world, but also (as with the
The Kite Runner) the possibility of finding both self-sacrifice and love in the darkest pits of earthly hells.