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(last updated 12/29/2004)
This page started out as a way to introduce our friends to our (Jeanine, Lee, Lilah and Molly Hinde's) new home in the Laguna West subdivision in Elk Grove, California. Lee Hinde is your guide.
As mentioned above, this site was originally meant to show our web-hip friends what our new house in Elk Grove was like. Since then I've used it as an ongoing virutal Chrismas letter. As such, I've decided to leave the Christmas lights up permanently.
This is the last post to this site. I'd always intended to write a system to let me more easily manage this site, but never got around to it. And, in the interim, someone else (a bunch of folks actually) has created software to make this sort of thing easier.
Because I hate link rot, I'm not taking this site down. But all future updates will happen here, at http://www.hinde.net/lee/blog/
Thanks very much for visiting. It's been an interesting exercise in community. Or narcissim; I'm not sure which.
A list of towns we've lived in individually and together.
Places Jeanine has lived.
Places Lee has lived.
Places Lee & Jeanine have lived.
Places Lee, Jeanine, Lilah & Molly have lived
Places Lilah has lived
Molly is 15!
From a Bottling session at Matt's
Click an image to get the fat version.
Some of us were dreading this moment. :-)
No, it wasn't all a dream. It really did happen.
Christmas Eve with the Grand (and Great-Grand) parents.
Ahh, the Amazon wish list...
Molly has her first speaking part in a play, a one-act, as the Elder Sister in
a Cinderella spoof.
Jeanine and Molly after opening night.
Emily makes a great Pippi Longstocking. |
Molly (who is now 5'6 3/4") went to homecoming this year. |
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We went to Mendocino last summer. This scene never happened in real life. Dad made it happen. |
Two more from the Mendocino trip. I think Molly is the photographer. | |
We moved Lilah to UCSC yesterday. Give me a call if you need the definition of ambivalence.
I've been blogging here since 1996. Now I'm doing it using software developed just for the purpose.
I'd posted these pictures a few months ago, but hadn't linked to them (doh!).
Lilah
graduated from high school. Molly promoted out of eighth grade.
Recent Picts
At the Folks for Easter.
Dad and his Uncle Ray, early May, 2003.
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The Choices Are:
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Trying to organize logical arguments?
It was a great day to go for a walk.
Everyone has a bad hair day.
The Hinde family and 350,000 of our closest friends went for a walk up Market Street in San Francisco today. More information and better pictures at the Chronicle. A Google News Search for "Anti-War Rally In San Francisco January 18".
A Christmas Tale
Way back in 1973, newly moved from Ohio, a young Lee Hinde tied an empty vintage WWII cartridge casing to a tree limb in the back yard of his new home. Left from among the belongings of his cousin Lee Grimm, it had now, for the family's first Christmas in California, become A Cartridge in a Bare Tree. (Of course, what else.)
Several times in past years his father had, while mowing the yard, noticed the the cartridge was missing from the tree. As a result of decaying string that held it, it had fallen to the ground. New string always replaced the old and the cartridge hung again, remaining there Christmas after Christmas.
In November of 2002, 29 years from it's first Christmas, it once again fell to the ground. This time, instead of being noted as missing from the tree, it lay on the ground covered with the Fall leaves. The cartridge was found there by the lawnmower, and first noticed by Lee's father as the mower hurled it 50 feet through the home's window and down the length of the family room. It was later found resting by father's easy chair. Unfortunately the fine old cartridge was cut, sliced and badly nicked. Having survived 60 years and World War II, it was now time to retire.
Not incidentally, Lee's dear old mother (poetic license) was watching TV in the family Room at the time the projectile came flying through. Luckily it missed her! And luckily also, while being sprayed with flying window glass she was uncut. To say she was startled and concerned would however be an understatement.
Glass covered much of the Family Room, and small pieces may well be found in odd places for months to come. On the positive side, other than the broken window, no actual harm was done.
Now the broken glass has been cleaned up, the yard mowed by father while mom a trip to the glazier made, the window replaced and the window screen left with it's hole as a reminder of the day the Cartridge in a Bare Tree made an early Christmas visit.
Happy Thanksgiving
This happened over a year ago; it's just taken me this long to update this page. I had a scheduled get-together with Carolee and we met at Coffee Tree. While we were talking Carrie stopped by for a coffee kick on her way to Sacramento. You can't make this stuff up.
I attended this year's 4D conference in Vancouver. Vancouver was great, but even more fun was that the Queen and I stayed at the same hotel. I got some pictures of her departure.
We tried to go to Buca di Beppo for dinner and had lousy luck, but we got a good picture! (We ended up bailing and going to Macaroni Grill!)
Shoot; I've been blogging before blogging was king!
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