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Empty nest</div>
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twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-7592915593057099432014-02-11T15:23:00.001-08:002014-02-11T15:23:16.547-08:00work in progress...<div style="text-align: center;">
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back atchya...</div>
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2013 has been a good year....so far...</div>
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the V-man ranked top 20 in the nation in his fly for 12-y-o boys</div>
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50 fly ~ tied 14th</div>
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100 fly ~ tied 18th</div>
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and yeah....my baby is now taller than me @ 5'9.5"</div>
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i reached one of my fitness goals:</div>
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weighted pull-ups for reps @ +50 lbs</div>
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i finally have guns</div>
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<br />twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-35678291862239469212012-11-05T10:28:00.000-08:002012-11-05T10:33:00.740-08:00National Rankings: Top 10 Boys<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-40065144289849999392012-07-16T10:43:00.002-07:002012-07-16T10:43:48.598-07:00And She Was...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>photo courtesy of <a href="http://cedarwalls.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Gaz</a></i></span></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-57929602172034620982012-03-26T20:40:00.000-07:002012-03-26T20:40:00.223-07:00goggle-eyed<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Git_pJw1PY/T3E04pmIKDI/AAAAAAAACx8/QUWGhN4hAf0/s1600/stussy%2Bbubbles.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Git_pJw1PY/T3E04pmIKDI/AAAAAAAACx8/QUWGhN4hAf0/s400/stussy%2Bbubbles.JPG" /></a><br />
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Short course season is coming to an end...<br />
The V-man had an excellent State meet (almost a month ago). Best times in everything.<br />
King of Bronze...with one Silver.<br />
Sectionals...on tap for this coming weekend.<br />
Miss Stussy says...Swim Fast V! <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This past weekend was the</div><div style="text-align: center;">final</div><div style="text-align: center;">Noll Long Board Classic</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sweet 16</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bev & Rhyn (Noll) have opted to not continue with the contest.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Perhaps one of the other shops in town will pick it up next year?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Who knows....?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here I am...</div><div style="text-align: center;">trying to cross-step thru the semi-finals</div><div style="text-align: center;">in what can only be described as</div><div style="text-align: center;">craptastic conditions </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">fancy white water twirl...</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shao Bi Fu</div><div style="text-align: center;">(Little White Bat)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We call her</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stussy</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She is Taiwanese Mountain Dog mix (Formosan) and was abandoned with a litter mate on a popular hiking trail in Taiwan at the tender young age of 7 weeks. Her rescuer cleaned her up, got a round of shots in her and brought her back to Oregon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The cute boy & I couldn't resist her ears....and adopted her 2 weeks ago.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">She LOVES the V-man...</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stussy learning the way of Legos...</div><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8gcfkHzuSDU/TgVeHBlfywI/AAAAAAAACp0/nWvm7JJ8wco/s1600/obamabush.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8gcfkHzuSDU/TgVeHBlfywI/AAAAAAAACp0/nWvm7JJ8wco/s400/obamabush.JPG" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-22109479467211611382011-06-08T15:48:00.000-07:002011-06-08T16:00:39.019-07:00green thumb<div style="text-align: center;">I haven't planted a garden since I sold my house over 5 years ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So...this year I'm taking advantage of some unused land at the office.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just a small garden box.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Full of heirloom tomatoes (cherokee purple, black prince, hillbilly & juliette), lemon cucumbers, and sugar snap peas.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>mmm...tomato sandwiches....my absolute favorite</i></div><br />
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Headed south in search of some surf and maybe a springer (or two).<br />
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Stopped at my folks' for a little lunch & to check out all the work they've been doing in the garden.<br />
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This used to be the barn & pasture where we raised cows, chickens, cats, dogs and several ducks.<br />
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My mom's kitty....Annie....in the forgetmenots.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyUbE0wd_NblwObEdD3tT-M1Sk9p-ImBCp4Ih4S-D_EKKWrsYzzmpne-LMZhFEdJ8s8_-Sm6B16aJP5mI5TQt0nOLSLvHeISsAyNnFo5yFp7G884ofzuXdlDp5NyXZazanuqix/s1600/rose+2.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyUbE0wd_NblwObEdD3tT-M1Sk9p-ImBCp4Ih4S-D_EKKWrsYzzmpne-LMZhFEdJ8s8_-Sm6B16aJP5mI5TQt0nOLSLvHeISsAyNnFo5yFp7G884ofzuXdlDp5NyXZazanuqix/s400/rose+2.JPG" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-51948226981537884312011-03-20T20:52:00.000-07:002011-03-20T20:52:38.615-07:00fruit<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">They tell me...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">The V-man clearly demonstrated this...this past weekend.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">North West Age Group Sectionals Swim Meet</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">163 teams representing 6 states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska & Hawaii</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">The V-man qualified for 6 events total. (10 & under)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b>Friday results</b>:</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> 50 free ~ :28.85. Dropped 2 seconds & a personal best. 8th place. (he went into this seeded 22nd)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">He's in lane 7 far side of pool....red cap. (2nd in his heat)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b>Saturday results</b>:</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">50 fly ~ :30.77. Dropped 1 second & a personal best. 2nd place! (he went into this seeded 5th)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">He's in lane 2 far side of pool...red cap. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">50 back ~ :35.02. Dropped 1 second & personal best. 18th place. (seeded 33rd)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b>Sunday results</b>:</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">50 breast ~ :39.58. Dropped 1 second & personal best. 19th place. (seeded 19th)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">100 fly ~ 1:12.63. Dropped 6 seconds & personal best. 9th place. (seeded 18th)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(I have video...won't load) </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">100 IM ~ 1:14.74. Dropped 4 seconds & personal best. 11th place. (seeded 40th...last!)</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">It was an absolutely phenomenal weekend of swimming for the V-man.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">Sweet. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am beyond stoked</span>!</div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-79101124542881467272011-02-17T20:55:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:55:20.146-08:00Harley<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">Harley Frances Bean<br />
Harley Princess<br />
Miss Bean<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I got her from a pet store...18 years ago</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a Siamese mix...chatty & social </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(<i>always on her terms</i>)</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">18 years</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">chatting barfing purring chirping biting bitchiness rubbing scratching playing napping</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">loving</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I held her as her energy slipped away...sighing her last sigh</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">for all my complaining about having to clean up (<i>and step in</i>) barf....I did it daily for 18 years </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">from the time she was a kitten...she would sleep on me</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">on my legs...to be specific</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">she'd climb up onto the bed shortly after I crawled in</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and settle on my legs</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'd move...she'd readjust herself back onto my legs</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">me...move</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">her...right back on</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a dance step that was repeated several times nightly</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">eventually I'd give up & fall asleep with miss bean perched in her happy place purring away</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I crawled into bed last night</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">without my dance partner</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and cried myself to sleep</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bean had the most amazing blue eyes</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Yep...</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">I did a couple plays in college.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">Even though I was an outsider.<br />
Not accepted (at any level) by the theatre majors. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">I was just a stupid athlete.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">A modern american lit shakespeare studying noam chomsky thesis writing stupid all-american athlete.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i>Why don't you go back to what you know? </i><br />
<i>Like... drowning</i>?</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">They all thought I was sleeping with the director.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i>How else did I get roles?</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">Whatever.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
I loved it.<br />
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Learning lines.<br />
Studying dialects.<br />
Character analysis. <br />
Opening up...</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">It's been well over 20 years.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maybe one day I'll get back to it...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TUePpfLGe1I/AAAAAAAACnM/G4Yyncgj_3c/s1600/cloud9c.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TUePpfLGe1I/AAAAAAAACnM/G4Yyncgj_3c/s400/cloud9c.JPG" /></a></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-21863640595398591222011-01-26T21:41:00.000-08:002011-01-26T21:41:35.195-08:00blossom<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br />
early signs of life...<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TUEElLLhsnI/AAAAAAAACmk/mCiLChJFLXQ/s1600/cherry1.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TUEElLLhsnI/AAAAAAAACmk/mCiLChJFLXQ/s400/cherry1.JPG" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-55205574840683718552011-01-25T21:15:00.000-08:002011-01-25T21:15:43.829-08:00cairn<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">find your path...girl<br />
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<a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-89885924927096461432010-12-23T13:52:00.000-08:002010-12-23T13:52:31.679-08:00bah...<div style="text-align: center;">i came across this little guy during my walk today....</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">smaller than my thumb</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>no...i don't have sissy hankshaw thumbs</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">amid the muck & mire of my standard holiday self loathing</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">this little guy...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">found a smile</div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-788825424860290432010-11-20T17:50:00.000-08:002010-11-20T17:50:41.355-08:00stick man II<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TOh6hiE9UTI/AAAAAAAACks/Pf5MIYY8NuU/s1600/IMG_0011.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TOh6hiE9UTI/AAAAAAAACks/Pf5MIYY8NuU/s400/IMG_0011.JPG" /></a> </div><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TOh6lZVXE5I/AAAAAAAAClE/ViWaBo83amE/s1600/IMG_0039.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TOh6lZVXE5I/AAAAAAAAClE/ViWaBo83amE/s400/IMG_0039.JPG" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29631608.post-42679726127244645132010-11-04T21:46:00.000-07:002010-11-04T21:49:35.614-07:00stick man<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TNOMRjrPSXI/AAAAAAAACkI/oxdrh4HElXQ/s1600/stickman2.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TNOMRjrPSXI/AAAAAAAACkI/oxdrh4HElXQ/s400/stickman2.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TNOMSLlfhZI/AAAAAAAACkg/4VnFr3-JTmA/s1600/stickman9.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l7emr2M2DSM/TNOMSLlfhZI/AAAAAAAACkg/4VnFr3-JTmA/s400/stickman9.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>twinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590109276634186944noreply@blogger.com8