Happy Independence Day! To start the holiday I met Mike and Harold for the annual 4th of July Linden ride. It was perfect weather, not hot at all and just a little wind. Once we got back to Lodi I headed home for a quick pit stop before riding out to Manteca. After 80 miles I couldn’t wait to jump in pool!

The kids swam most of the day while I repeatedly got my butt kicked in ping pong (well, except for the game I played against Bruce). After some hackey sack and then a great dinner of hot dogs, beer brats and hot links we drove to watch the fireworks. Even though we were only a mile or so away from the Field of Dreams, the fireworks were a dud, too low to really see so we went back and blew up the arsenal we bought from the local fireworks stand earlier in the day.

Shortly after 11 PM, I jumped back on my bike for the 23 mile ride back home. Ok, I didn’t really ride home last night, but everything else really happened!

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Oops, we’ve not posted in a while. The Christmas season was great. Here are some recent pics.

The Nutcracker

Gingerbread house

Various recent Stockton Thunder games

Christmas

Deal or No Deal DVD (plus on YouTube)

What a hot day in Stockton… I think it hit 100 degrees by 10 am! No worries though… that’s why we had super soakers for the kids. Sure, a pool would be better but the Havens were out of town.

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and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?

Happy New Year! We all rang in the new year at F&F’s (although not as much confetti as the last couple of years). As we always do when we celebrate at F&F’s, we did a shrimp-boil (with crab, too). And by “we” I mean a lot of people except for me ate the shrimp and crab; I picked around it to the saugages, potatoes and pearl onions. Santa brought Fred a new drum set so I brought the guitar and bass and everyone took turns rockin’ out.

Pictures are up, check ‘em out.