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Nope, doesn’t sound good for the bunny. Our dogs went the same way. They didn’t each and were lackadaisical, then they legs went. The first went in his sleep, had a vet come to the house for the second. The kids buried them in the backyard. When we moved my son came and dug up the boxes and reburied them at his place.

Well, the rain has started. We had a very rare electrical storm Saturday night. Apparently 1150 lightning strikes, very unusual. It was fairly mild in view of the storms we saw in MN when we lived there from 94-01. Those were some crazy storms. Anyway, we received 0.95 inches in our area. A lot of water came down. It is raining again…[Read more]

Yeah, Grandparents are no match for the energy contained in a little body. I may miss blackberries here this year. Blue berries are taking all the time plus all the other things going on. We have wild blackberries everywhere in the PNW. They are an invasive species and just thrive here. Tough to tame. But every August, they are…[Read more]

As these GKs get older and more active it gets harder and harder to keep with their pace. As they outgrow their bikes, we take them use here. Yesterday we had 6 down and 5 wanted to go for a ride. 2 just learned without training wheels so all 5 were street ready. They were all over the place. After about 30 mins the 2 oldest decided to have a…[Read more]

Can’t beat wild blackberries. My father taught how they blackberry butter in Germany. It’s a really smooth blackberry jelly. All of the worthwhile blackberry patches out here are gone, lost to housing development. We used to fill every pot mom had in the cupboard.

My son in law brought over some black tomatoes, cherry size. We had never seen…[Read more]

Yes, he did look a bit sluggish. I’m fairly happy with the results from our team. 4 medals in 6 weights. Pretty good.

On another note, we have 5 blueberry bushes that are overwhelming us. We have copious jalapenos. A few Habaneros. Gotta go down the road to pick blackberries. We have some squash and tomatoes as well. My wife…[Read more]

I think it was Albania that was awarded their first Olympic medal ever, but it was a Russian wrestling for them.

I’ve never seen Dake as gassed as he was in the 2nd period of his 20-12 loss. He was ridiculously slow fending off those exposed ankles picks. He was totally outside his normal defense in that bout.

Yep, that’s the deal word.

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How did all of those Russian wrestlers find a slot on the team of another country? I know Mecic and Rivera, and a couple of others from the US have qualified because of parent citizenship, but how does a Russian end up wrestling for Bahrain ? It seemed like everyone of the mens medal matches had a Russian wrestling under the flag of another country.

Hey, great post. I think the mens FS team did underperform. Everyone figured Snyder would be Bronze or possibly Silver with Taz in there. But losing the Bronze medal match without much offensive effort to show for it, I think he needs to hang it up. He is not aggressive on his offense. Very offensive in hand fighting. But half efforts…[Read more]

Men’s freestyle went bust. OMG Dade let up 20 points. He’s a brick wall on defense. I haven’t watched it yet. His brain must have been in some kinda fog.

Spent most of the time watching womens basketball and volleyball. I’ ev never watched that much bball before but those gals were shooting the lights out with 3’s. Also enjoyed watching the…[Read more]

That is crazy. She couldn’t face Hildebeest. I watched the match last night. She did pretty good.

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Freestyle starts tomorrow. 5 AM EST, 12 for the semis. I hope Peacock has the replays up early.

Highway robbery I say!! It’s been fun to watch the Olympics. But starting to tire of it. Saw a little wrestling last night, and then beach volleyball. Will watch a little wrestling tonight as well. We have been mostly dry except for one day last week. Today it is cooler but it will get warmer again word.

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50KG gal from Japan, undefeated in 82 bouts, 4x World Champ and Olympic Champ got beat 3-2 by a gal from India in her opening bout. 2 point TD with less 10 secs left + 1 for scoring last. You just never know who will pull that big upset, but someone always manages to pull it off.

Mens Pole Vault final was a good watch. Downside, its almost 3…[Read more]

Tri was a water disaster I hear. Seine horrible place to swim. They should have held this part of the olympics in Nice. Lots of open water there. I bought Peacock for the olympics and have to wade through all sorts of ads. Not happy about that. But I am seeing a lot of stuff so that is not so bad. Wrestling this week, even better…[Read more]

Daughter in law stopped in with the kids. She signed us into her Peacock account so we have access there. Not bad, you can sort sports and individual events.

Swedish Tri athlete has been hospitalized. They pulled the men from their event.

I agree. They should have used the olympic pool or practice pool. Or move it to the ocean. These Olympics are crazy. Each event starts with a guy pounding a stick on the floor. It is supposed to make a big sound. It does not. They have the big sound pre-recorded and there is no synchronization so the guy doing the pounding has no idea…[Read more]

Insane Olympics. Paris OC designed the triathlon swim in the Seine River. Are they the biggest idiots on the planet? E.coli levels and other contaminants have been above the acceptable since before the games opened. The race was postponed on the day scheduled because the E.coli was too high. But astoundingly, it was okay the next day after…[Read more]

We had about 0.5 inches of rain this week. But our lawn has not changed. We need more rain. I complain about rain during the fall, winter, and spring. But we need some in the summer word.

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