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Kids on the Lawn

July 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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After the Camp Fukuda photos, Uncle Neil went to the shed to get out his riding lawn mower. Not to mow the lawn, but to give the kids – Mitch, Ben, Kate, Hideto, Derek & Tommy – a in the ride in the trailer that was attached.

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The kids loved it!

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I think Uncle Neil may have liked it more!

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Caroline & Mitch :: Brighton, MI

Dallas and I spotted these familiar tubes in Aunty Peggy & Uncle Neil’s garage. It was the same ladder golf game that my dad made for us. Aunty Peggy said that someone made it and gave them the game but they never played it before. Dallas and Mitch, who’d played at our house before, set the game up and we showed everyone how to play. Aunty Peggy and I won 5 games in a row before she purposely lost so that she could go refill her wine!

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Chris & Dallas :: Brighton, MI

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2009 Camp Fukuda

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments

After golfing we headed over to Aunty Peggy and Uncle Neil’s house. For the last two July Fourth holidays Dallas’s family has gotten Camp Fukuda tshirts made and then taken family photographs in them.

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Trying to assemble 25+ people can be maddening. People walk off.

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Other people pose together.

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Kids run around.

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Finally. Only Heather and I are missing. Heather was setting up her camera on a tripod so I took that time to make my own photo. There’s a photo floating around somewhere that has all of us.

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Back: Caroline, Aunty Glenna, Uncle BB, Jeff, Cory, Chris, Caroline, Danny, Aunty Gail, Naoko, Kenji, Doug, Tommy, Derek, Krystyn, Hideto, Scotty, Peggy, Neil. Front: Adam, Chris, Dallas, Kathy, Laura, Mitch, Kyle, Kate, Winnie, Ben.

Aunty Laura’s Family -

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Cory, Chris, Danny, Caroline, Aunty Laura, Krystyn, Hideto, Scotty

Kathy’s Family -

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Kathy, Caroline, Dallas, Rachelle

Shaka!

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Caroline, Dallas

Aunty Peggy & Uncle Neil’s Family –

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Aunty Peggy, Derek, Uncle Neil, Kyle, Kate, Ben, Winnie

Dallas & his sister, still goofing-

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Caroline, Dallas

Aunty Gail’s Family -

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Jeff, Heather, Chris, Mitch, Auny Gail, Tommy, Doug, Kenji, Naoko

Aunty Glenna & Uncle BB’s (sort of) family-

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Uncle BB & Aunty Glenna’s kids didn’t arrive til later in the night so they got Adam, a family friend, in their photo.

These are the people that won the 2009 Fukuda Cup earlier in the day. Notice that they changed into their winning shirts.

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Kyle, Jeff, Adam, Chris, Aunty Gail, Danny

I poured my beer into the award cup and each winning team member had to drink from the cup. Notice that Chris’s shirt is all wet. Doug, a sore loser, sprayed the hose all over the winners while they were posing for photos.

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Chris, Aunty Gail

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Adam, Jeff

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These are the people who lost the 2009 Fukuda Cup. Dallas was giving “the finger” in some of the photos. He told his mom to do it and she gave thumbs up… wrong finger.. and everyone started laughing.

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Dallas, Doug, Kathy, Uncle BB, Uncle Neil, Scotty

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After photos we spent the afternoon and evening eating delicious gumbo that Danny made, drinking, and visiting in the yard. Or inside. The mosquitoes were kind of brutal in Michigan.

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2009 Fukuda Cup

July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

For the Fourth of July holiday Dallas and I went to Michigan with his family. In many years past only people who golfed went. Last year many more people who didn’t golf went on the trip, but I was vacationing in Cape Cod so I missed it. This year I decided to go to Michigan and see what it was all about. I’d never been to Michigan before, except a brief visit to the Upper Peninsula. It reminded me a lot of Wisconsin.

Dallas’s Uncle Neil and Aunty Peggy live in Brighton, MI, which is just north of Ann Arbor and just south of Flint. Most people who were visiting stayed in a dirt-cheap hotel nearby their house. Room rates were only $35-$65/night. The first day we were there Dallas went golfing in a family tournament. Cory, Caroline and I went to Uncle Neil and Aunty Peggy’s house to visit and for breakfast, but then we were off to the Tanger Outlet mall.

Later in the afternoon we met up with the people who were golfing as they came into the 18th hole at Timber Trace Golf Club. This was a made up tournament they were holding called the Fukuda Cup. (Fukuda is a family name.) Danny made a trophy and shirts were ordered. Bragging rights were on the line.

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Aunty Gail, Kyle, Uncle Neil, Scotty :: Timber Trace Golf Club, Pickney, MI

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Danny, Dallas, Jeff :: Timber Trace Golf Club, Pickney, MI

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Danny, Dallas, Jeff, & Uncle BB posing by the 18th hole.

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Danny, Dallas, Uncle BB, Jeff :: Timber Trace Golf Club, Pickney, MI

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Dallas, Aunty Gail, Kyle & Scotty resting after a long day of golfing.

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I think Dallas, Aunty Gail & Kyle were wearing the brightest shirts they own.

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Dallas’s Mom, Kathy :: Timber Trace Golf Club, Pickney, MI

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Doug, Kathy, & Adam finished up.

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Uncle Neil ready to go in the golf cart.

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2009 Fukuda Cup Golf Shirts :: Timber Trace Golf Club, Pickney, MI

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2009 Fukuda Cup Winning Team: Kyle, Adam, Jeff, Aunty Gail, Chris, Danny

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Dallas was a sore loser, but drunk & smiling.

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Cory & Chris’s Wedding Reception

July 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Cory and Chris’s wedding reception was held at Maxim’s de Paris in the Gold Coast. It’s a unique venue, decorated in the stylin’ art deco style. Cory wrote a bit about Maxim’s here if you’re interested.

After busting open the sake and cutting the cake we all had dinner and drank and ate and drank and drank and danced and danced and drank and danced and danced. It was a super fun time. You can tell from everyone’s huge smiles in the photos below.

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Lesson Learned

November 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments

When you’re laying around all lazy on a Sunday watching the Packers get killed and you get an email from your host saying that they renamed your mt-comments.cgi file because you’re getting too much spam and using up too many resources, it probably isn’t a good time to say “oh, to hell with it! I’m upgrading my MT!” Because that’s what I did and I totally screwed my shit up so much that I couldn’t even log into MT. I monkeyed around for hours last night and didn’t accomplish anything except freaking myself out.

Luckily, Neil came to my rescue. That guy rocks. And he has a cute baby.

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