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Richard has beat Leukemia and the folks in Alabama are going to celebrate! I wish that we could be there but they will be here soon enough! Congratulations!

We had a great visit with the entire Mayfield clan here this weekend. Z, D, and K came up on Saturday and stayed over night. The kids had a great time playing and getting used to having other kids around. Ryan and Lily even might have learned a few words from Kylie. Unfortunately I think that Lily [...]

We played in the yard today and had blast. The kids ran through the sprinkler and really enjoyed themselves. This is a new thing because getting wet usually ends with tears.

These kids are making oil nets to protect Weeks Bay and all of the rivers that feed it.

We picked the first vegetables off of our plants last night. The kids wanted to play with them instead of eating them although they did try to take a bite out of them. It was a fight trying to teach them that the bell peppers are not balls and that they can throw the tomatoes. [...]

Jessica and I dropped of the kids this weekend and went for some beer. It is the first time since we had the kids that we have had a weekend to ourselves. We spent the weekend in Hampton, VA with some friends that we haven’t seen in a very long time. Too long in fact! [...]

I don’t think that I have ever been as proud of Magnolia Springs and Alabama as I am today! This Oil Spill has everyone flustered including myself. To be honest with you it messes me up every night when I think about all of the things we are going to loose at the cost of [...]

Well, Jessica says that there is nothing interesting to write about. Nothing to us maybe! We have decided to get the kids a fish tank for their birthday. This is a new thing to me. I can remember that my mother always had a fish tank and that the fish never seem to stay alive. [...]

So this is pretty upsetting! I have been writing the Oil Spill off hoping that it wouldn’t hit the Alabama coast. Obviously this was crazy and I should have come to reality a long time ago. There has been a lot of talk saying that maybe it would stay west but today I read that [...]

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