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Chicago – 20th Anniversary

We celebrated our 20th anniversary in Chicago. Here’s a video:

John Mayer covers

Here are a couple of recent John Mayer covers. I’m increasingly impressed with him as a songwriter, bad boy personal life aside.

These were recorded a couple of weeks apart and I didn’t realize I wore the same shirt for both. We may not be the Young Ones very long.

A whole lotta Slaughs

All 13 of Owen and Verona Slaugh’s children converged on Utah this week. We had a great reunion with plenty of food. Here are a few photos and a video of the pool party.

The 13

The big group

The 13

Pool party

Exciting times! After about 14 months of beekeeping, we harvested our first frame of honey. It produced about a quart. I’m not sure what to expect for the full season, but it should be somewhere around 10 quarts.

I decided to document the whole process because it’s the sort of thing I would have appreciated knowing going into it. Here’s the 10-minute video:

Amazon links to some of the supplies we used:

Cute little bear bottles
Honey strainer
Honey extractor
Uncapping fork
Honey filter, if you prefer to crush and strain rather than use an extractor

And a few photos –

First jar of honey

First honey harvest

Capitol Reef 2017

This is our new favorite National Park. It’s a little more in the middle of nowhere, but it shares a lot of Zion’s beauty without all the crowds. We were there Memorial Day Weekend — which set a new record for number of visitors — and we still felt like we had the place to ourselves.

On behalf of my son, I apologize to all the lizards who now lack tails.

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