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		<title>Sledding, Skiing, and the Super Bowl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a great weekend. As I type, we&#8217;re in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl, Patriots are up by two. It feels like the Pats will win which will make for a very happy Ski Boy. Tyge is very pleased by this year&#8217;s commercials, lots of dogs!
UPDATE: As I type, two minutes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owling and Skiing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a remarkable winter for birds in Anchorage. A Dusky Thrush was blown in from Asia and has spent the winter hanging out with a large flock of Robins in an Anchorage Neighborhood. The Dusky Thrush is the kind of bird that bird watchers go mad for. It&#8217;s an accidental in North America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sledding on a Cold but Brilliant Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alaska in the winter is very special - particularly this year when we&#8217;re in the midst of an absolutely epic winter. We&#8217;ve broken the all time record for accumulated snowfall up to this date. Week after week of snow. And when it&#8217;s not snowing, it&#8217;s 10 to 20 below zero. Except for in December when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegas Baby!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, Peter&#8217;s son, Seth has tried to lure Peter to Las Vegas. Finally, the perfect confluence of events occurred: Peter&#8217;s 65th birthday and the Las Vegas RocknRoll Half Marathon - a Vegas birthday weekend and a race!
Alix, Seth, Maia, Peter and I all flew in on Friday. It was quite the weekend: fine food [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slatrat.com/index.php/2011/12/05/vegas-baby/</link>
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		<title>Legoland = Nirvana!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego), a trip to Legoland is more than a visit; it&#8217;s a pilgrimage. A second Legoland opened up in the US in October, Legoland Florida. Perfect timing for our November Florida excursion.
Legoland Florida is pretty darn nifty. It&#8217;s certainly not on the scale of Disney World, but it&#8217;s big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home on the Range</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on my annual trip to Kansas - I serve on the Science Advisory Committee of Southwestern College. In addition to my alumni duties, I always use this trip to visit our old family haunts - Grenola, our Ranch, various cemeteries and graves, etc.
I say this during every visit, but this part of Kansas is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slatrat.com/index.php/2011/11/11/home-on-the-range/</link>
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		<title>Our Very Own Herd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September is the month to observe what would normally be odd moose behavior the other 11 months of the year. It&#8217;s rutting season. All the bulls are on edge, the cows have the harried look of the constantly wooed and pursued, and the calves are just plain baffled. They also tend to congregate in lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slatrat.com/index.php/2011/10/01/our-very-own-herd/</link>
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		<title>Autumn Guests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we played host to a very nice neighborhood family: a cow moose and her two calves. They&#8217;ve been in and around the neighborhood for most of the summer. But today was the first day that they actually spent time with us. They arrived this morning at 8:00 AM as I peddled off to work. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slatrat.com/index.php/2011/09/20/autumn-guests/</link>
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		<title>A Glorious Fall Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow it seems fitting to have spent this day hiking in the mountains. Tyge, Echo, and I reveled in the glorious Arctic Valley Fall. We climbed up to Clementine&#8217;s Geocache which was placed 6 years ago this month. After visiting the cache, we continued up to the Saddle, further up to Rendezvous Peak, and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://slatrat.com/index.php/2011/09/11/a-glorious-fall-hike/</link>
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		<title>A Noble Avian Building Inspector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our house remodel project was inspected this afternoon by a very noble neighborhood official - a large immature bald eagle. When the dogs and I drove up, I didn&#8217;t even notice him. But then I looked up and there he was. He was so still, I briefly wondered if our builders had installed a stuffed [...]]]></description>
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