Here are a few random images from our first couple of weeks in Danbury.
Danbury Wisconsin
Disney!
We’ve been back for almost two weeks now and I’m just getting around to posting photos of the Disney trip. It was a hoot and the kids had fun riding the monorail every day. Enjoy the pictures.
And it wasn’t Winnie the Pooh
Yesterday we had a big family get together with Aunt Lea Ann and cousin Nina as well as both sets of Grandparents. As the evening drew to a close and Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs were heading home to feed their dogs they saw a bear just off our our driveway. The came back and as many as could fit piled into the car for a closer look. It was a big one (maybe 300 pounds) and was perhaps after our compost pile. The pictures below were taken by Grandma Ellen who thankfully had a camera handy. Eventually it came close enough to the house to see it from there and was finally driven off by the neighbors dogs. We knew that bear were in the area since the steel post of the bird feeder was bent to the ground a few nights ago and squirrels can rarely manage that even when working as a team.
Kai’s Preschool Graduation
We had another uneventful trip back to the USA where we are hanging out in chilly Northern Wisconsin. Just before we left, Kai’s preschool class “graduated” with a very cute ceremony where the kids sang. We were seated with the setting sun behind the children which accounts for the glare in the pictures. We also took the video and I’ll see if I can get some posted here at some point.
The next day was kindergarten visit day where the recent graduates got to tour the campus of the Elementary school. Ben was on hand to lend moral support and take what grainy photos he could with his cell phone camera.
Black and White
After the recent trek to the desert I took some of the images and sat down with Photoshop. I thought the very bright images might work well in a black and white (or sepia) format. Here’s what I came up with.
A Trip to Ellen and Alan’s
While Crystal was still out in the states, our good friends Ellen and Alan Alquist invited us over to lunch and their house just a few blocks away. We decided to make it a bike trip so we packed up and headed off.
A Desert Trip
When Crystal was in the US for a wedding recently the kids and I packed up some water and headed out to the desert perimeter. We parked at the end of the soccer field across from the Hills fire station ((though it was cricket, not soccer that was being played that day)) and hiked a ways down a wadi. Small hills became mountains and Kai slipped into mountain climbing mode. Nora did her best to keep up.
About half way through the hike I realized I forgot to bring wipes but figured that we would be OK. However, during a rest under the palm tree I was trying to explain cricket to Kai (we had a view of the game about 500 meters away) and Nora came up with a double scooped handful of horse manure ((the hobby farm is not too far away and I think people sometimes ride horses in the area)). “Dad, what is this stuff?” Sure did miss those wipes. Once Nora realized it was “icky” she was eager to clean them off. We used grape halves and old receipts from Dad’s wallet to get the bigger pieces off and Nora walked back to the car with her hands stuck out straight from her sides so she wouldn’t touch anything.
