Another Guess-The-Date

I'm getting close to the end of my scanning of old photos, and I've saved the worst for last - the photos where I'm not at all sure what year they were photographed. Here's a batch I'm hoping someone can help me with.


Judging by the ages of the kids I was guessing these photos were taken the summer of 1989 to 1990


But on the back of one of the photos mom wrote "Steve is 40!" That would mean August of 1986.



Here are photos that I am pretty sure are of Heidi and Ryan in 1986. So I'm thinking the photos can't be from 1986 right?

Alone in the Wilderness

By the way, Mt. Redoubt is only 38 miles from the cabin of Richard Proenneke made famous in the book One Man's Wilderness and the PBS show Alone in the Wilderness.

If you don't know what I'm talking about don't feel bad cuz I didn't know either until this summer. Mark and Lois Ann sent us his book as a thanks for lodging at our house. When I read it and liked it and tried to recommend it to others everybody seemed to have heard of it except me.

I thought Steve would enjoy the book, but he casually says, "Oh yeah that's one of my all time favorites." You can read about it here .

Blues

JaNae's (Roseau's) one act play was awarded first place last Saturday at sections in Stephen MN. This means they go to State - they'll be performing at the College of St Catherine in St Paul this coming Friday morning - more specifically, at the O'Shaughnessy.

The play they'll be performing is called Blues. It's an incredibly relevant play dealing with homelessness and poverty. Yeah, it's pretty depressing, but they do depressing well. If any of you would like to join us on Friday, please call or email and we'll give you all the details.

Bigger, Better

JaNae is hoping to fly to Greece in June with 9 classmates from her English class. It's going to cost a few bucks. I'm trying to help her...

Did you hear about that guy a couple years ago who started with one red paper clip and after 14 trades was a proud owner of a house? We'll I'm trying to do something similar. I started with a book...

Now, after just a couple days, I've been able to trade up to a Johan Santana Bobblehead!

Let's see how far we can go with this. Come on over to Plato's Republic and let's see if we can make a deal.