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Family Vacation in Maine.
We’re midway through the week and our vacation in Maine has been excellent so far! The resort is very nice with all the amenities. On Sunday morning, MJ and I walked to the top of Jordan Mountain. It took us … Continue reading
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Get Ready, Get Set for St Lawrence
We had the group meeting for the dive trip to the St. Lawrence River this past Monday night. Before then I wasn’t really getting excited about the trip. It was still a week away and I still had a lot … Continue reading
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Manasquan Wreck Dive
We tried to dive the Manasquan wreck today. It is an unidentified wooden shipwreck that became grounded and the surf broke it up. The wreck is about 1000 feet off the coast in front of Pompano Ave in Manasquan, NJ. … Continue reading
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Diving with your Blackberry
I picked up my Dry Suit with all the new seals. Of course, I couldn’t wait for the next dive. So I spent an hour getting the seals cut to fit me perfectly and eagerly put the Dry Suit on. I … Continue reading
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Melissa’s Cake
One of the primary reasons for starting this blog was to display the family photos. Well, it took awhile, but I been loading photos up into the Gallery. This is great, because I can share with the world photos like … Continue reading
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MJ’s Off to Summer Camp with the Scouts
MJ is off to Ten Mile River Scout camp with his Troop. This is the second week this summer that he is away from us. I’m a bit anxious to hear how this coming week turns out for him. He … Continue reading
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Spell Checker – Whoopie!
I got the spell checker plug-in working for this blog. Hopefully it will minimize my spelling errors! For fun I ran it against a few of my earlier posts. Ouch – I have bad spelling. Fortunately for me, I’m no … Continue reading
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MJ took his First Solo Flight!!
MJ is growing up fast! Today I took him to the airport. He is going to southern California to stay with friends for a week. He had to fly out from Newark to LAX by himself, and what a bummer … Continue reading
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Another L Street Beach Dive!
I have to say, I am getting my buoyancy down to near perfect with the dry suit and no thermals! I dropped a set of 2 lb ankle weights to keep my fins from dragging into the bottom. I now … Continue reading
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Setting up this Site
I finally got this site running close to where I wanted to get it. I managed to get wordpress 2.2 with gallery2 v2.2.2. I’ve settled on the K2 theme that is optimized with the WPG2 plug-in. This theme nicely displays … Continue reading
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