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On the way back from the mechanic just this morning:
Ben: Things that don’t talk don’t have names.
Me: Really? Cassie doesn’t talk, but she has a name.
(Pause)
Ben: Some things that have a mouth don’t talk.
Me: That’s true.
Ben: (Points to a Walgreen’s) See that building? It doesn’t [...]

Cleek for beeg peek.
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“Where’s my echo?” Ben asks as he stops on our front porch and turns to look up at me.
“Walk back this way a little bit,” I say.
He lets out a test shout. It comes back at us from the neighbor’s house across the street.
“Oh, there’s my echo. It was just waiting out there for me.”
Recent [...]

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This is just the beginning of adventure for these guys.
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Subtitle: I’m Fixin’ to Fix That for You
This week’s photo shows that my tomboy cousins knew how to build a snowman, but our grandfather didn’t always empty his camera in a timely manner.
After his death, his old cameras just sat collecting dust. After my grandmother passed away (Thanksgiving Day a few years ago), all us [...]

I first saw this late one night, and my brain refused to accept it. I was just driving into work for a planned hardware upgrade, not expecting earth-shattering kabooms. The next morning I captured the image above, where a truck had barely beat me to the first spot at the red light.
It just couldn’t be. [...]

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I saw a truck bearing a sticker that caught my attention:
Eating Fords.
Shitting Chevys.
Can you guess what brand of truck it was? Do you know anybody who would put such a phrase on their truck? (Lemme guess: See Calvin Peeing post, right?)
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When I open a new loaf of bread, I ignore the heel. I do this [...]

Okay, so usually it’s, “Daddy.” (click for big and sharp)
Above, Ben plays during a friends’ birthday party a couple weeks ago. I cropped it to get rid of the annoying glare from the flash (because I didn’t have an hour to fix that before posting this).
So far, it’s a great Father’s Day. Shannon got up [...]