Those daughters are gonna do it again. Go girls!

They had such a successful first experience with the YWCA Triathlon Sprint a few weeks ago, that they signed up for another this Saturday! Running, swimming, biking machines, I tell you!

Nana will babysit the grandkids. I'll join the dads to watch the race, cheer the daughter-athletes, and shoot some pictures as they swim in the St Croix River and run and bike the Willow River Park trails, near where we used to camp when they were kids.

Who would've seen this coming? I love it!

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scott said…

Who really knows what work the Lord is doing in the lives
of Hillary & Holly ?? I can tell you this ...It's not coinsidence ...this "just happened "..It is ALL part of a wonderful plan that HE has for the both of them...It's not about running harder,faster or beating another team of sisters...It's about love ,compassion,and the fact that they both love JESUS and care for those around them ... they are letting their " LIGHT " shine !!
It is an eternal work they are doing..and all of us support them !

September 3, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Hilary said…

I'm already looking forward to next summer, Dad, when you can come on out and cheer us on again and again! So happy we can share in the experience with you!!!

September 6, 2009 at 9:49 PM

PTCPAPA said…

You have such a great perspective on the important things that are REALLY happening, Scott. What a guy! We need a little of you back here in the lake country! PTCP

September 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM

Spring in a bottle

Sal and I both like tulips, so while winter still has a loose grip on Minnesota, we're enjoying some "bottled freshness". I remember planting tulip bulbs with my Mom when I was a kid growing up in Massachsetts I can still recall the frangrance of the bone meal that we always poured into the hole before pressing the bulb gently into place. I think they might be my favorite flower.

Welcome to the Wisconsin North Woods

Nana and I love going with very long-time friends Steve and Pam to their wonderful old Eagle River, Wisconsin cabin, about 250 miles from our MN home. The four of us generally drive up in one car. My assignment is to bring car snacks for everybody. Fall is great for apples and cheese, and some baked goodie, like cookie or brownie, plus nut-or-snack mix. The in-car visiting is non-stop. We decide when, where, or whether to do Friday night supper. Painted glass piece hanging in the cabin window overlooking loon-populated Bass Lake (Eagle River, WI) The fire, essential to a great northwoods cabin experience most months of the year. The boat and the dock at bottom of the cabin hill. The water level low due to the unusually dry summer in these parts. The driveway up to the main road. Bass Lake

The Gentle Smith Matriarch

We met in 1966 when she was 18 and I was 22. We began dating soon afterward, and as I recall never disagreed on much. Our childhood homes were 3000 miles apart and we loved Minnesota and each other, so we got engaged in July 67, married in December and moved into a house with a teenage foster daughter. This was followed by , Daughter 1 the following September, Daughter 2 three years later, Daughter 3, a year and a half later, ..and eventually Son, 3 years later. There were also about 15 different short-term teen-foster boys in those years. The gentle matriarch has worked her whole life, hard. I went to college nights for a few years, she worked outside the home part-time while the kids were growing. She spent frugally, loved lavishly, and has always cared first and foremost about her family. She is a gentle giant who has brought love, fun, discipline, imagination, good food, and artistic, creative homemaking to our big family....and as I write this she's preparing for Easter Dinner...

PTCPapa

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