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Visiting the family up in Lansing, the boys with cousins Samantha and Ethan
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Adding Aunt Debbie, Mama and Grandma into the mix
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Samantha and Devin squaring off for a race
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Here's Ethana nd Jared running one way while Samantha and Devin take off elsewhere
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Back home, this year we added in some new birch trees to the backyard. Some nice new river birches - Daddy's favorite
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That whole area will be covered in woodchips next year and we'll have our own little tranquility copse. Also, we planted some raspberries
which actually turned in a pretty good crop this year
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And here we have new hosueguests, a family of robins, their baby here is just learning to fly
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Mama and Daddy robin look on, watching that guy with the camera very carefully
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Here I go with another try!
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Oops, diodn't quite make that one
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So close yet so far
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Now we switch over to farm night at Paddock Elementary, and Jared saying hi to a nice goat
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They do this every year, bringing in a local petting zoo for the kids to experience the animals
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Jared petting a nice fawn
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Devin wanted to hang back a bit from the animals. He needs a few more pounds on him before he'll be comfortable I think
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Hmm, I don't know about this Mama
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Jared feeding the nice pony some yummy corn
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Flanders Elementary you say? Well, this was Daddy's grade school back in Farmington. Unfortunately,
and quite stupidly (it's been beautiful refurbished), it's being closed due to funding problems and whatnot.
They had an alumni night which we visited and met some folks I haven't seen for decades. Very sad actually
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Here's my boy, sitting outside Daddy's school, which is no more
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Now we move to Tecumseh's Memorial Day parade, with my patriotic little D leading the charge
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Both my boys love their flags
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We always love Tecumseh's parade because they have lots of flyovers
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Whee!
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The local marching bank
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The fife and drum corps out of Plymouth
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And the mounted sherrif brigade
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Crowd control!
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And of course, the awesomely huge fire engines get the boys' engines running
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Oh no, are they gonna blow their horns Daddy?
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More fire engines
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Like I said, cool flyovers
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This time a couple of A-10 Thunderbolts. Now those things can provide some crowd control!
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And some old timey bicycles close out 2010's parade.
Happy memorial day!
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