I’ve finally posted some photos from Ellie and Kelsey’s wedding. Click on the link in the previous sentence, or on the “Photos” link above. So far I’ve posted photos from the preparations, right up to the ceremony itself, and from our reception out in Minnesota several weeks later.
I still have another thousand to sort through of the ceremony itself. This includes dozens of donations from family and friends. It also includes the trove taken by their two professional wedding photographer friends, Erin Chapman and Hillary Harvey, who provided hundreds of top-quality photos. I almost had things sorted before Kelsey and Ellie appeared with a dozen or so CDs chock full of more images.
Arlene Schultz (may God rest her soul) took care of our kids when they were younger and was an honorary grandmother. She was smart and hard working, and she was the pillar of an extensive family of good-hearted and capable children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. We lost her to cancer several years ago, and her youngest daughter is in that fight today. Surprisingly, Arlene’s mother outlived her.
Anyway, Arlene liked to make a traditional apple pie on a cookie sheet. It had a crust and a bit of glazed frosting. We ended up with several other of Arlene’s recipes, which are posted here. I’m still looking for her Chicken Pie recipe, which we probably have around somewhere.
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This salad is made with spinach, strawberries, brie, and a raspberry vinaigrette dressing. It is wonderful at Easter.
We had a salad like this at the St. Paul Hotel many years ago, and Lesley created her own version at home. She has substituted fat free Rasberry dressing nicely.
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Hacked chicken is generally served as a cold appetizer. If prepared correctly, the marinade makes it a spicy dish
This originated with our friend Joanne Luciano. We’ve modified it a bit over the years and it’s now one of Lesley’s signature dishes.
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This isn’t a major change – it’s something I’ve been adjusting for a while – but I am again trying SSL on logins. This is supposed to work in WordPress, but I’ve had trouble making it work with OpenID. In my own experiments, it now works for both.
If you have any trouble logging in, drop me an e-mail.
The only bad part is that all admin activities are SSL protected. That makes it a bit slower to actually post or update a page. The WordPress implementation is supposed to allow me to only protect passwords, but that doesn’t seem to work with OpenID.
Kelsey has been doing roller derby with Ellie for several months and finally (!) I have photos!
Their league, Providence Roller Derby, had their season opener over Easter weekend while we were conveniently visiting the Boston area. It was a real clash of the titans: the Rhode Island Riveters versus HARD’s Nuclear Knockouts. The Riveters is the ‘all star’ team for the Providence league. Ellie is a regular on the Riveters and Kelsey is an alternate. Continue reading 'Roller Derby!'»
Here are links to our 2008 photo albums for family and friends. If you click on a photo on an “index” page, you get a large version of that photo. You can browse through the pages by clicking the tiny arrows on the page headers.
I’ve migrated everything else to a “photo gallery” site. Our site uses an open source web server called Gallery2, that stores and organizes our photos. Before this, I relied on the web page-building feature of Apple’s Aperture program. Now I’ve found an Aperture add-on that loads photos directly from Aperture to our Gallery2 web site.
Continue reading 'Our 2008 and Older Photo Galleries'»
Biscuit was doing an on-line recertification quiz late last night. It was one of those things where they ask you the question, immediately tell you if you’re wrong, and if so, they give you references to the right answer.
She got one wrong and looked at the reference. It was a paper she had co-authored herself. Oops.
Well, it was pretty late.
Several members of the medical staff at Regina Medical Center were at a medical staff training seminar in San Francisco earlier this fall. Various family members tagged along, including me. The physicians and such learned about the fine points of managing staff privileges and of investigating problems. I sat in long enough to hear a little about managing ‘hearings’ for misbehaving staffers – those guys give a really good seminar. Aside from that, the rest of us got to wander around San Francisco.
I wandered around our hotel and took photos of various SF architectural details, visited the waterfront, and got out to the Palace of the Legion of Honor. After the seminar was over, we all went on a bus tour of Muir Woods and the Golden Gate. This yielded some nice pics of San Francisco cityscapes and of the Regina staff and families. Continue reading 'San Francisco Pics'»
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