tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54378047370857327482024-03-05T22:26:24.975-06:00Best Day of the YearJournal: Running, Spirituality, Encouragement, Myeloma, Survival, BlessingsSunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.comBlogger474125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-18057554227950814902015-11-24T08:46:00.002-06:002015-11-24T08:46:37.190-06:00New Beginning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Happy New Beginning</div>
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<br />Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-3775492939850504742014-07-26T18:44:00.000-05:002014-08-24T21:03:51.076-05:00Vote For Don!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtUBVoaVQXpeGMd_I-ubtzrb0bquardTjJ4djAZ94eWgvdC-xGTAPpyhqtza0BdeVCyfCHh4Yq3VIPypjkJzejYfRiVJwosl6SrXxE_hl8p8xzOoClYCHaLWO7CaZ3fpMXvvA5306fH8D/s1600/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtUBVoaVQXpeGMd_I-ubtzrb0bquardTjJ4djAZ94eWgvdC-xGTAPpyhqtza0BdeVCyfCHh4Yq3VIPypjkJzejYfRiVJwosl6SrXxE_hl8p8xzOoClYCHaLWO7CaZ3fpMXvvA5306fH8D/s1600/photo.jpg" height="200" width="184" /></a><br />
VOTING IS OVER.... THANKS MUCH!!<br />
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Don has entered a contest by Runner's World Magazine to determine who will be on their December cover. I hope you will click <a href="http://covercontest.runnersworld.com/entry/655/">HERE</a> and vote for him. You can vote every day, and that would be marvelous. The contest goes until mid-August.<br />
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You can help even more by spreading the word on your own facebook or twitter page - let's make it viral! Be sure to include the magic hashtag <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rwcovercontest">#RWCoverContest</a>.<br />
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Thanks!Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-37807831532785422582014-07-16T08:37:00.000-05:002014-07-16T08:37:36.663-05:00We Miss Caroline Shallman<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kxdlYZGejggM_OmYOqgP_w_uK1_bcVtpiKM1TtUY28fG1LDYGsqV-EPL93_ZXyXAdFymlrHeOq-39c3qaVz6F0FEQP98LXPhHJexxeDI7t7AGaLvEOzj-JaLUuzY0QQ2qEIvOE_ND28/s1600/Caroline2+2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kxdlYZGejggM_OmYOqgP_w_uK1_bcVtpiKM1TtUY28fG1LDYGsqV-EPL93_ZXyXAdFymlrHeOq-39c3qaVz6F0FEQP98LXPhHJexxeDI7t7AGaLvEOzj-JaLUuzY0QQ2qEIvOE_ND28/s1600/Caroline2+2002.jpg" height="200" width="153" /></a>After a courageous three year battle with ovarian cancer, our sweet daughter-in-law Caroline died Saturday evening, July 12, 2014. Here is a link to her husband David's heartfelt goodbye message on caringBridge: <a href="http://goo.gl/SsKFF4">http://goo.gl/SsKFF4</a><br />
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Information about the memorial service is listed here: <a href="http://goo.gl/Khg6bo">http://goo.gl/Khg6bo</a><br />
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When her obituary comes online a link to that will also be posted here.Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-46414128858991213852014-06-09T10:02:00.000-05:002014-06-09T10:02:18.154-05:00ASCO - My Life is Worth It - Chicago 2014"My Life is Worth It": patient advocacy booth at the ASCO Conference in Chicago<br />
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The massages on the booth tell our story. <br />
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Please tell doctors not to stop the war on cancer. <br />
Cancer drugs are not what is threatening the health care system.<br />
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We are grateful every day for the drug that has extended Don's life by another 6 years.Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-76167016589015826132014-05-23T20:08:00.000-05:002014-05-23T20:08:25.670-05:00Fargo Marathon - May 10, 2014Starting line on the interstate bridge between North Dakota and Minnesota<br />
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Norwegian accordian band (note the troll standing guard along the curb)<br />
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Course was well marked, except we half marathoners were directed (repeatedly) into the lane marked for elete runners<br />
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Breakfast on the run was provided by our motel, another evidence of wholehearted community support.<br />
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Porta-potties were plentiful.<br />
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Start of the races<br />
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Many bands cheered runners on the way.<br />
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Half marathon course took runners through residential neighborhoods.<br />
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Haven't seen so many children in a very long time.<br />
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Families and friends gathered to celebrate the event and the passing runners.<br />
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spectators lined the streets.<br />
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Oh JOY!<br />
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Crossing the grand Red River of the north<br />
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Families and families<br />
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Finish line right downtown Fargo<br />
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We three all finished in hoped-for time.<br />
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The campanile on the campus of Concordia College, the Minnesota portion of the races<br />
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Orchestra and choirs, American Sing Language interpreted.<br />
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Ice finally went out on the lake on Easter Sunday.<br />
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Mallards (and egrets) were swimming in the park when we went for our hour run after church.<br />
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We appreciated seeing three precious grandnieces and a nephew today.<br />
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PS The odometer on our Saturn read 100,000 miles as we drove into the church parking lot on Easter Sunday morning.<br />
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The sun was shining all day and the snow is actually almost gone!<br />
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And CHRIST is risen indeed!Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-86248039736026645512014-03-30T18:51:00.000-05:002014-03-30T19:11:59.676-05:00Images of Ann Arbor Marathon & Half<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVYWkGKtcLSckb014lhvlRV6-jTrjh4bW8iRGvj3P7FQZAEUQBWSu-gaW2l8aVrUZuhheSkUTnvLLdtqbTQnZykQCcXbdOxYSmxGSBFF1qPCH9duALeEfW-qcsFnkymZ6aDlGfv4nPWA/s1600/IMG_2282.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVYWkGKtcLSckb014lhvlRV6-jTrjh4bW8iRGvj3P7FQZAEUQBWSu-gaW2l8aVrUZuhheSkUTnvLLdtqbTQnZykQCcXbdOxYSmxGSBFF1qPCH9duALeEfW-qcsFnkymZ6aDlGfv4nPWA/s320/IMG_2282.JPG" /></a><br />
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Temperature after the race<br />
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Beer glasses for age group awards<br />
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Half marathon finisher's medal<br />
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<br />Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-15108500367154241422014-03-18T16:40:00.000-05:002014-03-18T16:40:27.793-05:00HOPEGeese standing on the ice: <br />
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. . . . . HOPING FOR SPRING!<br />
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Tuesday, actual temperature -13 (that's 13 below zero) hearty Minnesota walkers braved the winds and low temps to turn up at the athletic club dome to walk. On our way into the building we were passed by a cute little seven-year-old toting her skates and gear in a wheeled crate. At 7:30am, she had ICE TIME! Even in January, life goes on in Minnesota.<br />
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PS. The high for tomorrow is minus 2. Friday it will get up to 29 and snow again. Got to love Minnesota.<br />
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<br />Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-81364843099431144102014-01-13T10:05:00.000-06:002014-01-13T10:05:02.433-06:00Christmas 2013Wild turkeys<br />
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Roses for Christmas<br />
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Flowers from Trader Joes<br />
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Uncle Don<br />
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Uncle Bob, self-decorated<br />
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Kity in a gift box<br />
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"Whose woods are these... I think I know... fill up with snow" Robert Frost<br />
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"You're never to old to learn," she said, when I shared a new idea. It might be about the way she was doing something that she had done a certain way all her life, but she was receptive to ideas, even from a young granddaughter.<br />
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She learned to speak perfect English when she came to America as a young adult with her family.<br />
She even attended college, and yet, all her life she subscribed to and read a newspaper in her native Norwegian.<br />
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The "Judge" (I knew him as Grandpa), an elected county judge for thirty-five years, was certainly a life-long learner too.<br />
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On October 18, her birthday, I especially celebrate the heritage of my grandparents and my parents who were "never to old to learn."<br />
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The three-year-old in the photo below is me. Now, seventy-some years later, not too old to keep on learning new things, new ideas, new ways of doing and thinking.<br />
I have been blessed.<br />
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Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-86158044620178062392013-10-15T20:52:00.000-05:002013-10-15T21:14:14.813-05:00Half Moon Bay Marathon & Half / Part 2Scenes, Spectators, Volunteers<br />
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Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-82180892272165222962013-10-12T20:17:00.000-05:002013-10-12T20:31:02.425-05:00Half Moon Bay Marathon & HalfSeptember 29, 2013<br />
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Pre-Race<br />
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Magnificent Marathon and Half Marathon Course<br />
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Delightful volunteer medal presenters<br />
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Almost finished<br />
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Finished!<br />
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See also Don's blog on the Half Moon Bay Marathon: <a href="http://minnesotadon.blogspot.com/2013/10/half-moon-bay-international-marathon.html">http://minnesotadon.blogspot.com</a>Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-3462740866240109312013-09-06T15:37:00.003-05:002013-09-06T15:40:34.458-05:00New Trail Shoes by Sweet Pea<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ3Iyu3LcD1XaCOv7qKr90lYxHMY_rRVnInKjyMOiDwnRe2eOqMVAElfRRDQF1yd9GzNxMWQhAUpPXb2O6eYkSROpzFVF1H04n2ggwcg6yIpEOw_py6JD7nM4J4_9gz_x6dcP4vTuahc/s1600/IMG_9148.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ3Iyu3LcD1XaCOv7qKr90lYxHMY_rRVnInKjyMOiDwnRe2eOqMVAElfRRDQF1yd9GzNxMWQhAUpPXb2O6eYkSROpzFVF1H04n2ggwcg6yIpEOw_py6JD7nM4J4_9gz_x6dcP4vTuahc/s320/IMG_9148.JPG" /></a><br />
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No pork farmers can assure the co-op that the corn fed to their pigs is free of genetically modified corn.<br />
Even when farmers raise their own corn for feed they cannot protect it from cross-pollination from Monsanto neighboring fields.<br />
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Frankenfood is here.Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-76652665537783871082013-08-20T11:03:00.000-05:002013-08-20T11:21:19.265-05:00Three hours on Grass TrailsThe spring wash out in the corner of the corn field is dry as a bone now, as we hope for rain to come soon.<br />
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The poison ivy is a danger even in late summer.<br />
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And, well, Sweet Pea and I got lost. What was to be a one-hour hike turned out to be TWO.<br />
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Early in the morning a spry fawn came prancing toward us, but then stopped and reconsidered its course.<br />
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You can click on the sign to read the details of the prairie restoration burn.<br />
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Life is persistent. On the edge of the burn, wild flowers flourish.<br />
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It was a day made for KITES!<br />
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Families of campers enjoyed the dry weekend. These small children rode their bikes down the grassy hill, below the soaring kite.<br />
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Sumac is already forecasting autumn.<br />
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Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-20414463329282315922013-08-05T09:05:00.000-05:002013-08-05T09:14:03.947-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWh0uDXXrM2X3p1qFvCtbvM48ggOYDWhROoeee5HjwBGqs_m_ARSMlp1tUZaro-FxFvFMzoJH7D6VLPgE6yi_FL1bol-ctGQTdYIYvo-ClRhCNf1rTqP4T3beqFPxHGzBwscs3QVAh6i8/s1600/100_5468.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWh0uDXXrM2X3p1qFvCtbvM48ggOYDWhROoeee5HjwBGqs_m_ARSMlp1tUZaro-FxFvFMzoJH7D6VLPgE6yi_FL1bol-ctGQTdYIYvo-ClRhCNf1rTqP4T3beqFPxHGzBwscs3QVAh6i8/s320/100_5468.JPG" /></a><br />
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Our son and daughter-in-law lost their entire house to a fire early on the morning of June 21.<br />
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Lightning struck the electrical entrance box in the garage of our son David's house. The natural gas entrance to the house was fifteen feet away, but the lightning nevertheless found a way to burst the corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) that was used at the entrance and throughout the house. <br />
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It turns out that this is a national issue, with new homes built with CSST going up in flames when lightning strikes nearby. The lightning pokes a hole in the tubing, ignites the gas, and the result is a gas-powered blowtorch inside the home's wall or basement.<br />
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Here is a short Channel 11 story about our son's situation that aired Friday night: <br />
<a href="http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1034149/391/Cause-of-Maplewood-fire-serves-warning-to-others">www.kare11.com/news/article/1034149/391/Cause-of-Maplewood-fire-serves-warning-to-others</a>.<br />
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David and Caroline are going to rebuild, but the gas lines will be good old black iron pipe!Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-22769470942778086182013-07-31T15:34:00.000-05:002013-07-31T16:00:54.001-05:00Remembering June 2013Don's Dad died. We made many many trips to Duluth in the preceding weeks. His death leaves a big void and great memories in many lives.<br />
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Our son and daughter-in-law lost their new house (in Maplewood) and everything in it (including cars and tools in the garage) due to a lightning strike in the night and the resulting fire. And then it rained for two days on the ashes. They escaped without injury.<br />
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Our daughter-in-law continues to endure chemo for ovarian cancer.<br />
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You can read about all of those events on Don's blogs: Make it a Masterpiece and Myeloma Hope.<br />
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"Grief upon grief," they say.<br />
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We are running, often and regularly, in the park.<br />
Unusually cool weather, highs around 80, this week makes for pleasant morning runs.<br />
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Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-60498657064345052142013-07-25T20:00:00.000-05:002013-07-26T21:08:04.711-05:00A Week in JulyHouse of Hope in St. Paul: celebration of life for a dear man who had been in our myeloma support group<br />
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Long-time friends from Texas visited us. At our encouragement they made a quick appointment at Mayo Clinic and got a definite diagnosis of myeloma!<br />
They had their dog with them. Do you know of a good kennel they asked, and we said, Right here.<br />
Sweet Pea was a major care-taker for the sweet dog.<br />
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This is tiger lily season in Minnesota.<br />
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So much has happened in the past 2 months that we are back at blogging..... gradually....Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-28268879251806374222013-05-02T19:56:00.000-05:002013-05-02T19:58:17.976-05:00Rochester MN: final FINAL snowfall ?An egret catching breakfast in the park on the morning of April 30.<br />
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The following morning (yesterday, May 1st), Don watched the weather reports, made a decision, reserved a hotel room in Rochester, rented a car. We left in mid-afternoon for Don's myeloma appointment which was the following morning at Mayo Clinic.<br />
This was the amazing scene out our hotel window at six o'clock this morning. Don had already left, through the tunnels for his 6am blood draw at the clinic.<br />
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Rochester is in Olmsted County. All of the medical people Don was scheduled to see had made it in, some taking as much as an hour and a quarter for the usual 15 minute commute.<br />
If we had waited until this morning to drive to Rochester, we wouldn't have made it. For a while this morning the highway between the Twin Cities and Rochester was closed.<br />
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Mid-morning view from the 10th floor, where we see the doctor.<br />
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Footprints in the snow greeted us as we waded our way to our car on the top of the parking ramp.<br />
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Immediately we were met by a man with a snow shovel, waving directions to the front end loader operator.<br />
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The city street in Rochester at around 1:00 this afternoon<br />
Tonight they are reporting total snow fall at about 14 inches of "wet cement".<br />
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Picture: newly ordained pastor!<br />
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Saturday morning we ran the Get in Gear "Rite of Spring" 10K<br />
A moment of silence for Boston was observed before the race.<br />
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License plate... and how long is a marathon?<br />
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After the races, Minnehaha Park was alive with runners, kids, dogs, bicycles.<br />
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A celebration of spring...at last!<br />
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This afternoon there were still old dirty piles of snow here and there, but we are celebrating SPRING!<br />
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Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-38116071732792964482013-04-23T20:08:00.000-05:002013-04-23T20:12:13.662-05:00Snowing morning: April 23, 2013<br />
Another SEVEN inches of heavy wet beautiful snow......<br />
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Even the plants in our sunroom are confused. This one thinks it's Christmas.<br />
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Geese, knee deep in heavy white wet stuff: Isn't this where we nested last year??<br />
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<br />Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-7811987491199462252013-04-15T18:46:00.000-05:002013-04-16T05:42:05.522-05:00We are NOT in Boston today.News of the bombing at the Boston Marathon has raised concern of people who know Don is a marathon runner.<br />
We appreciate the caring.<br />
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We are home and we are fine (and lucky).<br />
We just returned from Duluth where we attended a big birthday party for Don's Dad's 100th birthday.<br />
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Being in sight of the finish, having run 26 miles, and witnessing the explosions must have been an electrifying experience. Hard to even imagine the disappointment of training, running, and not finishing <br />
the Boston Marathon.<br />
We grieve .... our hearts go out for the children, for the injured, for the runners, for families, for security and law enforcement, for supporters, organizers, volunteers...<br />
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....And for people everywhere who are involved in road racing... for it will never be quite the same again.<br />
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Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437804737085732748.post-33054085558914266072013-04-02T20:45:00.000-05:002013-04-02T20:58:25.956-05:00Shamrock Marathon / Half - Virginia Beach - March 17Sweet Pea and Sunshine finished their runs in 50 states, with 13 marathons and the remainder half marathons.<br />
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Some swell stuff about Virginia Beach and the races:<br />
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The huge 10K ran right past our hotel on Saturday morning. <br />
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In all the races many runners were celebrating "the wearing of the green".<br />
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Spring had arrived there.<br />
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Kites flew on the beach.<br />
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Generous water stops, lots of cute kid volunteers<br />
No stingy "single" porta-potties at this race, meant never having to stand in line.<br />
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Sand sculpture at the finish.<br />
Hot beef and carrot soup in the finishers' tent....<br />
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Finishers' hat<br />
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Finishers' blankets were not mylar... but polar fleece.<br />
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Definitely a "green" choice: a take home reusable blanket!<br />
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Yes, spring was in Virginia, even though following soon behind the snows.<br />
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Bags, and yes, well we weren't short of bags, but nice to get these at the expo and the finish.<br />
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Long sleeved technical shirt for marathon finishers<br />
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Short sleeves for half marathon finishers<br />
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Very nice finishers' medals<br />
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And oh! the breathtaking surf.....<br />
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Here is my Sweetie's account of his marathon race: <a href="http://minnesotadon.blogspot.com/2013/03/yuengling-shamrock-marathon-virginia.html">http://minnesotadon.blogspot.com/2013/03/yuengling-shamrock-marathon-virginia.html</a>Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12381269071684742007noreply@blogger.com0