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I love reading even when I was a baby.

Last one is the earliest picture I could find of my tie club destiny!!!! :P Pretty Sweet.


State ranked junior high cross country team. I'm the tall one.
I think everything after this is from JH/fresh/soph years.


My dad is the 4-H archery adviser so he teaches archery classes, safety and such. We have a range in my backyard and I practiced quite a bit. I ended up placing 2nd in the state 4-H archery competition in 1999 I think it was. The second pic is again me and my sis bonding. The deer is Bob, one of the archery practice targets. I must have really liked that shirt.


Next hobby in junior high and high school was music. My dad was a big time trumpet player so I started with that, played tuba in the orchestra, and then finally bass guitar in a jazz band. Only still can play the bass though, specialty is jazz but I can dabble. Apparently I like to be in duos alot. Two with my sis and one with my grandpa in Minnesota.


Freshman year went to Longs Peak in Colorado with some of my teachers and track teammates. Love it. Wanna go out there again so bad!!!

Most of my extended family lives in Minnesota so I go visit alot. There is a family cabin on Rush Lake in the center of the state. Basically loads of fun in the summer and then freezes over for snowmobile racing across it in the winter. My cousin who went to state every year in the 500yd freestyle used to swim across it regularly. I think the short side is just over a mile.

I think I saw a really big fish or something.

So I think I told you that I took a ton of woodworking classes in high school because we had to pick a vocational focus and mine was woodworking and welding. Naturally I built alot of things. I'm handy. Here I am starting to build a shed.


And now finishing it!

And actually finished. This is my sis and I painting our soccer goal. Note the soccer ball painted on the back of the shed!!




I also tried some woodworking business ventures. Since I have a Norwegian heritage, I started making runic carvings of quotes. This is the first one I believe so its definitely rather rough.
Quote is "Time is the steam I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is." By Thoreau.


The most successful enterprise I took on was making Adirondack chairs. I think everyone in my extended family has at least one and profit payed for a lot of my first car. My dad is inspecting this one with me. I think there was a weird glitch on it. Woodworking is one of his favorite hobbies so he was a good resource. I can reopen the shop if you want one but shipping will cost you.....


Delivering pizza to my parents house. So professional.


I made a toga at one point freshman year. For a speech or something.

Gotta include running photos. I did the 1600, 3200, and 4X800 freshman year.

3200


My relay....the 4X8. Team this year went to state. I believe we are far ahead in this pic as I was the 3rd leg so there is only a half mile left.


AND now for something ridiculous/sweet that I ran across.....