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This past week, Adam’s Dad and his brother Eric stayed with us for Thanksgiving. We spent the time enjoying good food, conversation, winery tours, and other frivolities. We also stopped by the Cleveland Museum of Art which just reinforced my angst at the fact the construction is still no where near being finished.

I really enjoyed having them both here to visit, we don’t get to see them enough.

As is tradition, we began our Christmas decorating the weekend after Thanksgiving. While we’re almost done with the inside, I still feel like we need something for the front porch outside. Of course owning a home puts all sorts of competing interests into play for your limited budget. Maybe next year.

I created a photo slideshow of the Lakewood 4th of July Parade. Hope you enjoy:

Lakewood 4th of July Parade 

I have all the original photos and more in my Flickr gallery.

Just wanted to take a second to congratulate and give good wishes to a few people:

• Happy birthday to Ryan and Jaime!
• Congrats to Eric for finally being able to choose where to attend med school
• Congrats to my sister for getting engaged

With all the danger of global warming and dwindling energy supplies, it’s good to see a multitude of innovative organizations sprouting up to help individuals and businesses do something about it. This is especially true considering the government seems to be in neutral on the issue.

Carbonfund.org is one such group. You can make a yearly donation which will allow you to offset your personal carbon impact. Of course since Carbonfund.org is also a registered non-profit, your contribution is tax deductible and often eligible for employer matching programs.

I’m proud to say that Adam and I made a contribution to offset our carbon usage for a year and plan to do so going forward. Reducing your impact where possible and offsetting what you can’t is one small step in the long journey against global warming.