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Last night we went bowling. My oldest daughter has a high school P.E. class, and for her grade she has to bowl two games with an average score higher than 100.

We spent $70 on bowling, but didn’t manage to get the required score. I disapprove of that grading system, but I enjoyed bowling with my [...]

My dad, Allen Thrower, died yesterday peacefully at home in his sleep. He was 73 years old.

He wrote many stories about his life, which I have begun to post on his posthumous blog at allenthrower.com. There’s also a page about Allen Thrower for anyone interested.

I took these photos on a walk with my kids today.

My instructions for this photo were "go stand by that fence." (No, he’s not actually beating her with a bottle of water in a sock, but that was the effect he was going for.)

Mum’s the word (because I can’t spell chrysanthemum).

Eureka! Eureka! Eureka! Eureka! Eureka! [...]

We went to Lagoon (an amusement park) on Thursday. Here’s my favorite picture from the day:

Other photos from the day (and from at least one other trip) are in my Lagoon photoset on Flickr.

On Saturday I got to spend three hours at my parents’ house, visiting them with my son. Their 44th wedding anniversary was Friday.
At one point during our visit, we were outside and it started raining, so we stood on the covered porch. I took pictures. Here’s one of my son:

Here’s another. A water droplet that [...]

I took some photos in the front yard Saturday. I’m biased, but I think they’re worth clicking through to view at higher resolution.

I sent my youngest daughter outside today with my pocket camera. Here are a few of the pictures she took.

This Easter the kids opened the egg dying kit and lost the instructions, so my wife just did what she remembered doing in the past, and put vinegar in the dyes.
That mostly worked out, but it seems that the magenta dye reacted badly and wouldn’t stick to the eggs. As a result, any eggs we [...]