Pictures!

We've got so many pictures to show off.  Going all the way back to this spring.

Bob & Leeann came up at some point.  Becky took them out for pictures.  Fonferrek maybe?  Somewhere with rocks & trees & water.

Sam graduated from High School!  Yay Sam!  About a week later he was in Milwaukee.  St Francis, to be precise.  Quickly got himself a job stocking shelves at Target and started figuring out the whole living on your own thing before school started in the fall.  He's attending Milwaukee Area Technical College to get a degree in Audio Production.

Ben graduated to 11th grade!

One weekend Becky, Tabby & I went to visit Sam at his place.  He lives, like, a five minute walk from a great beach with a beautiful view of the Milwaukee skyline.

We took a weekend to go to Michigan.  Spent a night in St. Joe with Becky's Grandma & Grandpa Chadderdon.  Their last week in St. Joe, in fact.  They have now moved to Nebraska.

Went to Sherry's place while we were there.

Becky has been giving herself photoshop assignments so she doesn't lose what she learned this spring in a class she took. We spent a whole afternoon at the botanical gardens getting good flower shots so she could turn pictures like this:

into this:

Plus she's taken us out just to snap pictures for fun.

Becky took some friends of hers from here in Green Bay along with Tabby & Ben and met Mikey's family at Eau Claire Dells.

On July 30th we went out and got pictures of the blue moon .. just like it was the evening before Tabby was born.

Becky traded family photos with a woman she knows from church for a spectacular birthday cake.

Summer fun at the water pad!

In August we all went up to Marquette, MI for the Ore to Shore bike race.  I mean, I guess the bike race happened.  We actually went there for fun on the lakes.  Tabby learned to fish with Grandpa Chadderdon.

Per tradition we hit Lake Superior after the bike race.

With exhausted bikers.

With a side trip to Black Rocks Beach

And more fun on the lake at the cabin.

We went to Alton, IL to visit Judy.  She took us to a park on the Mississippi River with an awesome fountain.

And took us into St. Louis to see the Arch.

Down to the School of Dentistry campus where they have a statue of Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in the world, who was from Alton.

A new year of school has started.  We have quite a group at the bus stop in our neighborhood.

Jack got his own place in Sheboygan and is working at Jimmy Johns again.

Just this last weekend we went up north of Cable, WI for the Chequamagon Fat Tire Fest.  Becky thought she'd try a "star trails" picture.

We relaxed on Lake Delta.

Tabby went fishing.

We hiked to St. Peter's Dome.

And Morgan's Falls.

Tabby got to be, literally, happy as a kid in a candy shop.

The race happened.

Ben & Ryan found some fresh water jellyfish. They're tiny. About the size of a penny.

And finally, just a cool picture took fooling around with some new tools she got with her camera for a wedding photo shoot this coming weekend.

Scott Walker Doesn't Care

If the Supreme Court agrees that in states using the Federal Exchange their citizens aren't eligible to receive federal subsidies, nearly 170,000 Wisconsinites will lose their subsidies.  Scott Walker doesn't care.  It is so tempting to point to that and say, "Wow, what an absolute ass."  But let's face it, that's what I think about the guy regardless of his opinion on this case.

No, the more important point is that he's right.  He doesn't have to care because the case is an absurd one to begin with.  It's just Republicans grasping at straws to damage the Affordable Care Act and he knows it.  Providing subsidies to all citizens to help purchase insurance which they are mandated to buy was a very basic assumption back when the ACA was being debated.  It is a cornerstone of the individual mandate.  It was back in the 90s when Republicans proposed it as the loyal opposition to the Clintons' health care proposals and that did not change when Obama coopted the idea from Mitt Romney.

So Walker doesn't have to care about what if the Supreme Court ends those subsidies.  That isn't going to happen.

Pictures!

I found a whole bunch of pictures I've been meaning to post and never got around to.  Starting back before Jack even went to Basic Training.

Then when he came back for a few days at Christmastime.

Becky got some cool winter shots at Bayshore park ...

And Baird Creek.

Becky and Tabby spent New Years in Michigan with Sherry's family.

Feeding the ducks at Bayshore Wildlife Sanctuary is like a spring ritual now.

Tabby needed a picture of her fish for class.

Selfie!  Kinda' ... Becky set it up, anyway.  I think Sam hit the button.

On a cold, cold valentines day Becky and I drove out to door county looking for a park she had heard of where she could get sunset pictures.  We didn't find the park, but found a boat launch at sunset.  After about two minutes taking pictures in -30 F temperatures, we called it good enough.

Winter's last gasp.

Breaking out the spring weather gear ...

Even though there's still ice on the water.  Becky got this one published in the Green Bay Press Gazette.

One evening Becky was out driving in the country, looking for photo ops and found a flooded field.  The guy that owned it was, like, "you really want to take pictures of my field?  Whatever trips your trigger, lady."  Trigger tripped.

Just this past week Becky did a fun photo session with some friends from church.  Made the red hooded cloak and the wolf costume herself and thought of the perfect little out of the way building in the woods.  It's actually a religious shrine out behind UWGB.

Tabby in our neighbors' back yard.  He also was like, "I guess you if you really see something worth photographing, go ahead."  Becky has a real eye for finding places to frame the right shots.

Finally, Jack came up for Mother's Day yesterday.