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The church pageant, some scenics at -52 F, but strangely, no Christmas present photos.

Some nice peppers and corn this year.

We visit Leanne in North Carolina and Isa has her 50th birthday.

Joe makes his very first dinner with king salmon, and the garden is doing well.

Logging up the Nowitna, page one

Logging up the Nowitna, page two

Phil and Ben invite us to fell some logs and float down the Yukon River on a raft.

We see a golden plover, bears, moose, and Siberian arnica.

We go down to the Yukon River to look at the ice floes, and Joe decides it is summer.

Snowmachines go skipping across a pond, the ground shows itself, and Joe takes part in the junior carnival.

Isa experiences a bout of MS ("Martha Stewart") and organizes a treasure hunt in the snow and an elaborate party game for the kids - along with cake written in a Star Wars* language.*

Joe's first year in organized sports.

Scenics around town from March and April 2007.

Santa does his American thing and gets JoJo his own personal firearm. Grandma visits from Florida.

This year's church Nativity pageant was organized by Isabella, who did a great job. JoJo was one of the wise men.

The elementary school Christmas pageant, in which JoJo portrays a holiday moose.

JoJo went to his first reconcilliation on 19 December 2006 at the Catholic church here in Galena.

Africa photos

Here are some of the photos from our trip to Africa during the summer of 2006.

During our first days in Africa, JoJo went back to school for two days at Parkview Junior School in Johannesburg with his cousin Blake.

We drove out to Kruger with Blake and JoJo in the back seat of Robbie's Audi.

Storks, elephants, baboons, and a chocolate-colored giraffe.

A beautiful sunrise along the river and a pride of lions basking in the sun.

We start with a herd of Cape buffalo and the day gets better and better.

We accidentially see a serval.

An elephant charges the car and scares Isabella.

One final morning in the park.

A gallery of family photos taken while we were in Johannesburg in mid-June.

Photos from the Durban branch of the family.

Our friend Jane and a beautiful view of Durban from Mario and Clara's apartment.

We watched whole herds of hippos at St. Lucia.

Some photos from our visit to St. Lucia.

The landforms in Hluhluwe and the homes in Zululand.

Nice animals, including an Alaskan tree monkey.

Photos from JoJo's eighth birthday, which included homemade pizza and snowshoeing.

Family gathering at Leslie's house

Leslie and Ron hosted the family at her house in New Jersey. It was a blast.

We spent a few days in New York over the holidays. JoJo got to ride Balto!

Grandma got to indulge her grandson, and we went walking through the canopy of a subtropical jungle.

Proof that 2005 was one of the best garden years ever.

Cleaning fish and hanging strips

Isa wanted people to see how we prepare fish strips. Here you go!

Gardens from the summer of 2005

Some nice stuff from the first real summer that we had to spend at our new home.

Including the fabulous video showing JoJo dancing on an ice floe singing to his aunties in South Africa.

JoJo's seventh birthday, attended by his friends and his grandma from Florida.

Some nice scenics of Galena, photos of Mom and Leanne visiting cold, cold Galena, and JoJo opening his Christmas presents.

A heaping helping of garden shots from the new house, taken during August and September 2004. See Isa with a giant cabbage!

JoJo was baptised on 19 June 2004 at the Catholic church in Galena. His godparents are Tim Bedony and Karen Lehmkuhl, a couple who atttend the church. Afterwards, we planted a tree in the front of the church and watered it with his baptismal water.

Church pageant 2004
JoJo in the school play

Here are some photos of JoJo playing the role of the shepherd in the church pageant at St. John Berchman's Catholic Church here in Galena. We also have the usual doting photos of JoJo during the elementary school Christmas pageant, and since we are a fair distance from the oppressive apparatchik at the ACLU, we actually use the word "Christmas." Are we not intolerant slobs or what?

The sisters on vacation
The sisters at Universal Studios
The sisters at the Atlantic Ocean
The sisters playing with JoJo
Isabella's birthday party
Carla's paintings

Isa's sisters Carla, Clara and Elena came to Florida during the summer of 2004 to visit the American side of the family in July. They all stayed courtesy of my mom, who had a home ready for them when they arrived. Everyone had a good time.

Some photos of the new house taken in the summer of 2004

JoJo's first day of kindergarten.

Our trip to Disney World in July 2003.

Winter scenes and JoJo's 5th birthday

JoJo playing in the snow, and JoJo's fifth birthday party.

Many pictures from all over, starting with California and then showing us in Florida, in Galena and during break-up.

Four examples of JoJo's first writing.

A potpourri of pictures from the summer of 2002, including the fabulous photo of JoJo asleep at the kitchen table.

Here are some photos of JoJo's fourth birthday, as well as a photo of JoJo stuck in the snow at the dog sled races.

JoJo's first Christmas pageant, and some odds and sods in the winter.

When the snow arrived in October, JoJo was thrilled. We went out and pulled him around on the sled in the snow near our house.

We arrived in Galena in July 2001. We immediately set about exploring the community.

These are a series of photos taken by Ron Dalby on 4 April 1998, when JoJo was about 3 weeks old and JoJo's parents were more svelte. Grandma and Grandpa were also there to be with JoJo.

Videos of the 2005 breakup are here!

Here's some words of warning about the videos. These were made from my old Nikon Coolpix 5200 camera, which recorded the videos as Quicktime images. I spent two days trying to code those onto the webpage before discovering that I could convert the files to .mpegs or Windows Media files and show them here. Unfortunately, I lost some quality when converting the files.

One more word: these files range from 1.1 MB to 5 MB, which means that you may have to wait for a considerable amount of time if you're downloading the file with a slow connection. Sorry about that. If you have a slow connection, select the Windows Media file.

Video one - JoJo says hello to the aunties in Africa
Movie file - 2.2 MB
Windows Media - 1.1 MB
Video two - JoJo dances on the ice
Movie file - 2.2 MB
Windows Media - 1.1 MB
Video three - ice moving on the river
Movie file - 2.2 MB
Windows Media - 1.1 MB
Video four - massive ice floes on the river
Windows Media - 5.0 MB

Breakup 2005 - videos of Joe dancing on the ice floe