Category Archives: extended family

Best garden, great trip, and a short update.

It has been a great summer!  Super busy, but super Rich.  The kids are growing like weeds.  (The good kind of weeds  😉 Work is good, about to be great (new announcement coming soon!).  And Wendy is learning and applying so much about homesteading.  I’ve been lax in posting because that paper I mentioned in April, well, I was convinced by my co-authors to do a complete re-framing, which led to a complete revision.  Many late nights and weekend hours over the summer, and now, it is much, much better, and is now off my desk again.  Phew!  It is no longer consuming all my spare time at the computer.  It will be back soon, for me to make small changes, and send out again.

More pics coming soon, but for now, here are a few from facebook that double as also giving more of an update.

garden

One of the summer highlights was attending a conference in my field of work:

conferenceGreat part of the trip was being able to see extended family!  This is such an important circle of the neo-community venn diagram I wrote about before.

huebners

The above is some of Wendy’s fam, on her Mom’s side, and below are some of the Docs (Dougherty’s), my Mom’s side.

docs

There is so much more to write about, both in the theme of life, and also regarding homesteading etc.  For instance, Wendy bucked the odds and successfully cured our best goat of an “uncurable” Staph. infection in her udder, using mostly herbal remedies and a few udder infusions.  More on both of these soon.  If you are curious about one now contact us or comment below.

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Treasures in the Attic

Came across some fantastic photos last weekend that I took when I was 10 yrs old.  (THis post falls on the biology circle of the neo-community.)   Here are some of those pics from the “Dougherty Olympics” circa, 1983 or so:

Uncle Mike, Uncle Patrick, and Uncle Jeff (Left to right on top picture). One of my all time favorite sequences.

Also fantastic because of the pictures of our beloved Uncle Patrick.  He has Lewy Body disease, and might not be with us for much longer.  It is really sad.  But it has been amazing to see how he and the family take it, how we are all growing with it.  Aunt Susan has maintained a great blog, and Team Patrick makes showings all over the world.  Side note: new research is showing that what you do in your life, like drinking, might affect your chances of getting dementia, as is your family history of dementia…

Here is another classic from that roll that everyone in the pic will appreciate:

Good times!

That is Cuz Maria and Cuz Michael right? I love his grin.

I want to post all of them, but time for shut-eye.  Click on the pics to go to the download page.  More of the pics over in Flickr.  It is really fun seeing all the cousins as little kids again!

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