Strawbridgy Fields

:::new blog in town:::

2008-08-05T07:35:00.000-07:00

i am contributing on a new blog tackle review site. big fish outfitters review. you may want to check it out and add it to your favorites. its a bit different than most review blogs that there are three contributers with strong opinions that rarely match up so you get a balanced review of the product and the banter is usually pretty comical.

:::henry daddy doodie:::

2008-08-03T05:15:00.000-07:00

a good day was had by...

:::soaking the hig:::

2008-06-17T20:04:00.001-07:00

i went fishing with hig today, and we did well... notice that his clothes are wet. that's right, after he set the hook his pole was jerked from his hands. he hesitated for a bit watching his pole sink, and dove in, phone and all. handed the pole to me, and i held the pole till we got him back in the boat, and he reeled him the rest of the way.

:::a great day on the water:::

2008-06-17T20:00:00.001-07:00

a couple of months ago i took the 4 kids fishing... thanks to hig for the pics!

:::meeting the cousins:::

2008-04-25T14:54:00.000-07:00

hair

"where is georgie?"

"tiny baby"

:::georgie in light:::

2008-03-18T05:53:00.000-07:00

i took the four over to see a friend weigh in at the bassmaster tournament in kissimmee and georgie got her picture on the espn website.

:::arrietta outings:::

2008-03-03T04:29:00.000-08:00

we have been running over to lake arrietta and found some deep brush piles and shell beds with some good fish on them, most of them fattening up to get ready to spawn.

best on the water quote, "wow girls, do you know how much fun this is for your dad!" june responds in a cheery voice, "But not for us!"

:::mommin:::

2008-02-29T15:37:00.000-08:00

our camera is broked, sorry for the slack, but here's a picture of monica mommin it, with one extra.

:::two week mile stone: the rolling of the eyes:::

2007-12-29T18:32:00.000-08:00

the social development of a two week old is sufficient to acknowledge that it is not okay to be unwilling dressed in a bear suit.

:::biblical babe:::

2007-12-17T18:55:00.000-08:00

eli silas in a "baby moses" carrier

:::tent city:::

2007-12-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

camping out for three nights... total tent time logged: 45 minutes.

im thinking they are not yet ready to brave the wilds.

:::sliding with...?:::

2007-12-17T16:13:00.000-08:00

who is that masked woman?

:::our first one:::

2007-12-17T08:25:00.000-08:00

eli silas is beginning his fifth day. here he is at three days old checking out his dad and his new home. he has his dad's chin and his mother's skin quality. he has his grandpa's (strawbridge) hands and feet.

:::our last one:::

2007-12-09T14:51:00.001-08:00

our last one is one. georgie had a big time with everyone gathered, we arent sure she knew what it was all about.

:::uncle lee and the dogs:::

2007-12-09T14:47:00.000-08:00

lee played fetch w/ the dogs or the kids im not sure for the afternoon.

:::tree hunt:::

2007-12-09T14:39:00.000-08:00

a few photos of our trip to the tree lot.

:::i love him so much:::

2007-12-03T19:29:00.000-08:00

we hadn't been married more than a few months before we realized that there was just too much love and beauty for the two of us...so we are making ready for uno to join.

:::june jumps:::

2007-11-29T09:53:00.001-08:00

this is not the cause of junes wounded face...

:::chachki:::

2007-11-28T22:01:00.000-08:00

on vacation in north carolina, georgie found the bowl full of wine corks and followed them everywhere they went...

:::cowgirls, cowboys:::

2007-11-28T21:39:00.001-08:00

thanksgiving with monica's family...

:::crash landing:::

2007-11-28T21:27:00.000-08:00

june had a spill from the top of monica's car... unfortunately, the other guy was made of concrete...

:::scrooge:::

2007-11-22T05:40:00.000-08:00

:::elves:::

2007-11-20T21:02:00.000-08:00

click on the pictures...

:::nyc marathon:::

2007-11-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

monica ran her second marathon...

she beat her first time by 3 minutes for a 3:58; this time she ran with my cousin (who ran as me) who finished w/ a 3:56, but dont worry luchrysta we are taking you down next time...

lyle wins round one, but there will be a double or nothing rematch... girls, chicago? washington? name it...

looks almost like someone isn't having a good time doesn't it?

:::pumpkins:::

2007-11-08T19:30:00.001-08:00

:::halloween:::

2007-11-01T13:15:00.001-07:00

snow white's attitude dwarfs the competition!

:::north carolina!:::

2007-08-23T16:27:00.001-07:00

wait a minute we did go to north carolina...

thanks stephen - for more nc pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/sp.strawbridge/NorthCarolinaAug2007

:::henry frederick:::

2007-08-22T20:28:00.001-07:00

hilarious moment in the life of...

:::north carolina?:::

2007-08-22T20:05:00.000-07:00

we used to say that if you dont have a picture you didnt do it because my mom would take so many pictures on vacation... according to that we didnt do north carolina, because this is the only picture we have...

we didnt run with knox and spookie in the morning

we didnt play scatagories

we didnt play lots of cards

we didnt go hiking

we didnt have a relay race up the mountain

and on...

:::bob and illaria:::

2007-08-22T19:46:00.000-07:00

bob and illaria turned an atlanta wedding into a southern swing and spent a couple days w/ us in the 'dale (auburndale)... there was much skiing and fishing...

:::arietta fishin':::

2007-08-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

just may have figured a little something out on lake arietta - uncle david caught an 8lber (sadly no camera), there were a couple 6's and several in the 4 range...

bob and i with a few of the fish...

:::goodbye old friends:::

2007-08-01T20:31:00.000-07:00

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"The breath goes now," and some say, "No,"

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

:::my mole:::

2007-08-01T20:20:00.000-07:00

"my wife, Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn... will recover..."

word from the dr. is that my mole-anoma has been completely removed...

statements, such as, " you know, i'll likely be dead in 80 days are you sure i should spend my time changing these diapers" have less play than they did before the report...

i have shifted to blame shifting, e.g. "listen, monica, its your own fault. if you hadnt saved my life spotting that cancerous mole, you wouldnt have to deal w/ me."

this proud nose-picking, freaky looking, 1/2 naked bunch will still have a father...

:::the devil:::

2007-08-01T07:25:00.000-07:00

:::san diego zoo:::

2007-07-28T11:29:00.000-07:00

day 2 for aiden, she got to feed a giraffe!

:::aiden is in san diego:::

2007-07-27T14:15:00.000-07:00

aiden is in san diego visiting some friends chad and melanie...

check out the video from day one:
aiden swimming

and just for the fun an old video they sent us to celebrate her birthday:
happy birthday aiden

:::malignant whosi whatsi?:::

2007-07-16T21:04:00.001-07:00

so, monica spotted an irregular mole and the biopsy concurred... they spotted it early so we expect a good report, and maybe its just me, but im thinking he took a little extra just to be sure...

moles, if you cant live w/ em, cut about 4 inches around them just to be sure...

:::stop the paparazzi:::

2007-07-16T21:02:00.000-07:00

enough!

:::three,four,sixteen:::

2007-07-16T20:55:00.000-07:00

uhoh, here we go...

:::aiden's first haircut:::

2007-06-19T21:34:00.000-07:00

on june!

after aiden it was business in the front...

party in the back.

aunt susan rushed over at 9:30 pm to help us recover... (monica called for reinforcements immediately)

to something not so yikes.

:::the chef is in the house:::

2007-06-19T21:30:00.001-07:00

whats on the menu kid?

:::Henry is 2:::

2007-06-15T19:42:00.000-07:00

Henry having a great time on his second birthday. Playing "my ball" and "stoppit" in the pool with Uncle Benny was a highlight.

:::Henry's 2nd Birthday Party:::

2007-06-15T19:18:00.001-07:00

Some local (family) color as observed at Henry's 2nd birthday party. Thomas the Train? Elmo? oh no. We've got lewd gestures and children shooting their elders with water guns.

:::georgie and grammy:::

2007-06-15T19:15:00.001-07:00

georgiana and grammy hanging out at henry's birthday party, trying to keep from getting wet...

:::can you believe this man is 2!:::

2007-06-15T09:23:00.000-07:00

happy birthday henry.

:::creation:::

2007-06-12T04:04:00.001-07:00

photo by june

:::lunch:::

2007-06-12T04:02:00.003-07:00

photo by june

:::flexibility:::

2007-06-12T04:02:00.001-07:00

photo by june

:::disappointment:::

2007-06-12T03:55:00.000-07:00

photo by june

:::fertile strawbridgy fields in denver:::

2007-06-06T20:47:00.001-07:00

Little Uno took his (or her) first picture for us last week. This is the black and white version...but here in Denver we have advanced technologies that enabled us to take a 3D, enlarged, and color version as well.

:::offroadin' granmommy:::

2007-06-05T14:33:00.001-07:00

emmie went offroadin' and she did ride! uhuh... uhuh!

a little stuck there gran'mommy?

:::pre-fishing outperform:::

2007-06-03T07:57:00.000-07:00

when cannon and i got to toho to pre-fish for the tournament this weekend the water was LOW... all the land on the left that you see was 1 foot under water the last time we were there, only two weeks ago... all of our "spots" were too shallow, so we had to try to find fish somewhere else...

we found some fish, and i really wish i hadn't found this one till the tournament... as it stood the bite was a bit off, and i caught only 11 pounds worth of fish that day... good enough to be in the top 30 or so of 100, but not good enough to win anything...

:::aiden's fishing tournament:::

2007-05-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

aiden and i went to a thursday night fishing tournament, her first ever... for awhile she was fishing, but then she found the camera... and that was that...

the photographer laughing at mommy's phone message:

self portrait:

the last fisherman standing (on our boat anyway):

a view from the rod locker (it got "chilly" so aiden found an open compartment):

:::a visit:::

2007-05-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

michelle and lauren came over for a visit...

the 5 month old and the 6 month old...

the mothers with the appropriate babies (according to hair color).

a fight ensues...

:::mad monica:::

2007-05-14T21:39:00.000-07:00

happy mothers day!

my girl monica got such a wonderful mothers day card from aiden... it said, and i quote: "i love my mother because she is always happy!"... now how do i love thee, i cannot count the ways, but how aiden brought that little gem into the top three i do not know...

here's some monica pictures... oddly enough, she was on the phone with illaria who was complaining about how there are no monica pictures on the blog.

and, i might add, she certainly looks happy.

:::car ride:::

2007-05-14T21:35:00.000-07:00

a ride in the car with dad... why do i have problems w/ getting good insurance rates?

henry my man, pain is temporary, wounds heal, and chics dig scars (forehead, cheek, and chin)...

i have no response to that june...

:::kissimmee gator:::

2007-05-14T21:24:00.000-07:00

lake kissimmee gator... its that time of year, this gator came straight to the boat and turned about 20ft from the boat to move away...

:::field trippin':::

2007-05-03T11:40:00.000-07:00

i went along on aiden's field trip to dinosaur world recently... we had pringles and pizza and asked every guy digging new irrigation lines, "has encontrado huesos del dinosaurio?" well, thats how we would have asked it if we knew spanish... as it was the question "have you found any dinosaur bones?" was never answered...

however, i did issue my first rejection to a boy asking to marry aiden...

:::easter redheads:::

2007-05-02T03:36:00.000-07:00

okay, a flurry of posts over 2 days to feed janie and erynn's addictions will appropriately end with a picture of janie and giana...

the redheads of easter!

:::flashback flower girls:::

2007-05-02T03:25:00.000-07:00

i was looking at some pictures from uncle stephen and aunt elena's wedding and thought id throw up a picture from the wedding...

are these flower girls serious about their job or what?

elena, were you nervous? if the concern was related to the flower girls it was justified... aiden spread the flowers like a flower girl should and june followed and picked them all up so she could have them for her basket...

(photo published without permission)

:::cammie cake:::

2007-05-02T03:05:00.000-07:00

cousin cameron had a birthday cake that consumed the kids involved...

cameron and henry:

june and steven:

:::aiden photographs:::

2007-05-01T14:24:00.000-07:00

a couple snaps aiden took waiting on me in the fishing shop today... i thought they were worth looking at... most interesting to me, the five year old rearranging the picture for the best angle and composition, really there were 50 pictures...

:::old dade city road:::

2007-05-01T14:07:00.000-07:00

i have started a blog for investors and addicts alike where i will post some of the ongoing projects for team strawbridge...

http://strawbridgyprojects.blogspot.com

:::cute-in it up:::

2007-04-30T05:18:00.000-07:00

gee dad, i wish i were cute...

:::matching moods:::

2007-04-30T05:14:00.000-07:00

june and georgiana matching moods...

:::helping or hurting?:::

2007-04-30T05:08:00.000-07:00

aiden in skates and henry nearby, is that a push or a prop... im not sure, but i bet you can guess...

you guessed it...

:::shy for the camera:::

2007-04-30T05:04:00.000-07:00

monica and i dressed up for the ball (or palace restaurant with some gift certificates in hand, oops they close at 9 better head for gosh!), and we needed to wrestle the camera from june... 1 way to do that: get her in a picture...

:::grapefruit a la june:::

2007-04-20T18:09:00.000-07:00

after june's nap this afternoon she thought she'd enjoy a lovely grapefruit, and who wants a whole grapefruit... so she grabbed a cutco knife and cut her grapefruit and her finger about a third of the way through...

the bleeding never stopped until the stitches were in...

she was a brave patient...

so brave and fully recovered that she ripped the skin near the stitches defending a toy from henry's theiving hands... a half hour of elmo elevated and wrapped and the new cut stopped bleeding... she is asleep with the finger bandaged and immobilized...

best june moment: i'm carrying june out the door holding a towel tight around her finger and tell aiden to pick june's dress up so we can put it on her in the car... june says through tears, "no, not that dress. that dress dirty. aiden, get new dress."

runner-up best june moment: i tell june to thank the doctor as he's putting the stitches in her finger. she says, "thank you for tying it up."

:::haircut - for dellynne:::

2007-04-20T17:26:00.000-07:00

a picture of junes haircut for you dellynne as requested...

:::henry's new hobby:::

2007-04-20T17:14:00.000-07:00

this morning with joy henry threw his frisbee, and threw his frisbee, and...

then after his nap henry threw his frisbee, and threw his frisbee, and...

:::redneck bassin:::

2007-04-19T13:56:00.001-07:00

:::mon's garden, and "help":::

2007-04-17T19:02:00.000-07:00

:::popciclin':::

2007-04-17T18:54:00.000-07:00

a popcicle day is a happy day...

:::laziness thy name is dad:::

2007-04-17T18:44:00.000-07:00

when your faced with a dirty diaper,
and your standin right there in the yard
with a hose in your hand full of water
it makes it so much less hard...

just to spray the boys backside all clean...
and carry him quick to the bath
than to deal with a dirty diaper
and all of that aftermath...

:::thy kingdom come:::

2007-04-12T01:35:00.000-07:00

just wow... a theology of "the kingdom" that allows a stuffy pca-er like me to have a theology of the holy spirit, gives me hope in this world for this world, and a purpose to bringing justice in this world, and on...

enjoy...

wow...

n.t. wright
jesus and the worlds true light

and wow...

richard pratt
advancing the kingdom

:::soccer aiden:::

2007-04-10T17:40:00.000-07:00

here are some pictures of last years soccer team... im sure you can use these to start recruiting her uncle ben...

offense...

defense...

:::giana in the shade:::

2007-04-08T15:29:00.000-07:00

georgiana spent saturday afternoon in the shade of the front porch, the weather was great, the temperature right, and she was happy...

:::gardening:::

2007-04-08T15:25:00.000-07:00

monica and the kids spent saturday afternoon, getting the flowerbed near the porch ready for planting...

aiden gardens in style, henry looks guilty,

and monica wants to know who put the dirt on the window sill...

:::haircuts:::

2007-04-08T15:24:00.000-07:00

aunt susan gave the girls some new haircuts...

:::june in flowers:::

2007-04-04T12:44:00.000-07:00

:::pink and revitalized:::

2007-04-01T15:10:00.000-07:00

its amazing what the changed color of a fishing pole will do for aiden's fishing... look to the bottom right of the picture to see aiden's freshly repainted fishing pole...

this morning before church aiden and i wandered down to the lake where the water lettuce has blown in to the south end of the lake... the bass wait there to feed on the freshly hatched shad... aiden and i found ourselves rooting for our imitation frog to make it across the water lettuce... sadly our fish are not very good at catching a frog, they were unsuccessful far more than they were successful... but aiden did catch a 3 1/2 to 4 lber... heres the proof...

:::henry, roughing it on toho:::

2007-03-31T07:22:00.001-07:00

wow, the life of a not-so-nearly two year old... laying back in the shade and enjoying the ride...

:::bird in the hizzouse:::

2007-03-31T07:19:00.000-07:00

a bird on the loose in the house... henry and june get in for a closer look...

:::who wants a flats boat?:::

2007-03-20T19:31:00.000-07:00

well i shouldn't own it so if you know anybody who wants it let me know...

:::big day on the south chain:::

2007-03-20T19:23:00.000-07:00

cannon already posted these pictures at his blog, but hey, im proud of these fish too... so here we go again...

i got a 7lber and cannon got a couple of 5lbers, and we sure thought we were big stuff until the next morning turned out to be a cold one (the bass feed before a cold front)...

:::bono @ naacp awards:::

2007-03-20T18:05:00.001-07:00

fun finish to this acceptance speech...

:::dad and giana:::

2007-03-07T20:32:00.000-08:00

:::startin' the trip:::

2007-02-27T06:47:00.000-08:00

henry and i headed out a day ahead of the girls to mosquito lagoon to get everything set up before the invasion...

i really liked this photo:

:::around the camp:::

2007-02-27T06:37:00.000-08:00

there was a lot of searching for shells, gathering firewood, and general "helpfulness"... (im omitting the whining, fighting, and direct defiance so that i can talk monica into coming next time.)

:::the girls fish - the girl's fish:::

2007-02-27T06:20:00.000-08:00

the girls caught some small fish on some small shrimp on our small camping trip over to mosquito lagoon...

:::the camping crew:::

2007-02-27T06:10:00.000-08:00

three girls under 5 (mary fran is hiding behind david) and me until ian parker showed up w/ two of his u.f. friends...

believe it or not it is not easy to run around in the flats with 7 people in the boat, no matter how small...

but a good time was had by all...

:::xtreme prediction:::

2007-02-19T19:30:00.000-08:00

for the last two years cannon and i have been fishing in a tournament that runs on thursday nights on local lakes between the time changes... they are great fun and we have gotten progressively more competitive...

this year we are going to participate in a fishing series that is a little different format... the tournaments will be on the weekend, safe light to 3pm, 5 fish between the two of us, and at the end of the year, there will be a classic on the south chain of winter haven (one of our local lakes)...

it should be fun, and we will win the classic... apparently the grand prize is a $40k bass boat, so that'll be nice to have...

at this point it looks like our main sponsor is "big fish outfitters"... hopefully, he wont find out how bad we really are as fisherman, and revoke our sponsorship... if any other sucker wants to get some cheap promotion from the future xtreme bass series 2007 winners, let me know...

they say the new website is coming soon... this one is not the most impressive...

:::henry's night:::

2007-02-14T03:46:00.000-08:00

it was henry's night to stay up... 30 minutes after the girls, it was all henry...

"Henry what do you want to do tonight on your big night? Do you want to kick the ball with daddy? How about we go for a walk?"

"Okay, you don't want to do that... So, what do you want to do?"

"Are you sure you want to play with the stroller on your night up?"

"I guess you're sure."

:::rub-a-dub:::

2007-02-13T17:26:00.000-08:00

rub

a-dub

dub

three in a tub

:::the camping fishing:::

2007-02-05T06:01:00.000-08:00

this is the way the fishing went on the camping trip... a front was in and the bite was slow, unless you wanted to catch stingray or crab... michael led the stingray competition with 2... congrats to michael..

p.s. cannon (in fairness) caught his limit of trout during the one window of "bite", and a keeper red later... michael and i each caught a rat red... we caught some catfish... most interesting, michael snapped off on a fish and about half an our later we spotted his cork bouncing along i snagged the line and had a brief fight with his lost fish...

:::camping 101:::

2007-02-05T05:39:00.000-08:00

well... we went camping this last week, the whole family for the first time... packed up the boat and drove to mosquito lagoon with cousin michael in the mix, and joined the cannon kirby family with their two kids...

it rained and the wind blew... thats the recipe for camping disaster... our clothes were wet, everything was damp... there was one big tarp that served for a dry place to sit, well... after we dug a trench to keep the water from standing two inches high underneath it... and then it got cold...

most painful (to me) was the fact that my inverter got wet and quit working, so no nice christmas lights at night...

but...

we all had fun, and i think that is the recipe for a family that is going to have fun camping generally... cause when the elements are bad it can spoil everything, but they did great...

a picture of the boat ride over... the island we reserved is to the left over michaels shoulder...

who would know from the look on giana's face that this was anything but perfect camping weather, and to be sure she got the royal treatment, so she may not have known... henry eating some beach sand... june with fern, and june the baitgirl... aiden eating some lovely cheese... and me, pulling the boat off of another sand bar i managed to find...

:::henry loves birds:::

2007-02-04T13:26:00.000-08:00

a couple more pictures from mosquito lagoon...

henry was very excited to see this large a bird at such a close distance...

so he decided to sneak in for a closer look...

and almost made it...

:::june is beautiful:::

2007-02-04T13:07:00.000-08:00

:::cold boat ride:::

2007-01-28T22:07:00.000-08:00

Henry and I took a cold, afternoon boat ride... he really loves to watch birds, so we spent most of our time chasing birds around...

:::aiden @ arietta:::

2007-01-21T16:51:00.000-08:00

a sunday afternoon run to auburndale produced aidens first bass of 2007... florida in january at dusk = short sleeves...