My new lawn mower
We had several fawns hang out in our backyard last year, but this is the first one I have seen in 2012.

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We had several fawns hang out in our backyard last year, but this is the first one I have seen in 2012.
While the parade was going on this past week, a couple of Ashland’s police officers were standing in front of me. A lady ran over to them and said something. They followed her and moments later they had Wesley Hoseclaw in handcuffs. Since this was right in the middle of the parade route the parade marshals held things up farther up Siskiyou Blvd. A fuller story of why this arrest took place can now be found in the Ashland Daily Tidings.
I had only been to one of the four prior Ashland 4th of July parades until today.
Before that I don’t think I had missed more than one during the first eight years we lived in Ashland.
The Macaroni’s band is still in the parade.
I’ll post some more photos from this event over the next week.
Over the past month the most popular search term that landed people here was “graduation cap decoration ideas” because of this post I made of SOU’s 2011 Commencement. So, while a graduation ceremony can be boring at times (see above picture), I entertained myself this year by taking photos of decorated graduation caps. Enjoy.
When Emile Amarotico was introduced as the representative of SOU’s Alumni Association welcoming new grads as freshly minted alumni, it was mentioned that when he and his wife walked at commencement a couple decades before, they did so with their baby girl. On this day, their daughter was graduating from SOU so it was an extra special day for the family.
Ellie started playing softball again for the first time in four years. Yesterday they had their first scrimmage, and next week they have their first real game and tournament.