Above, terrific photo of a wood carving in CDA's City Park by Family Phil. And you can find more of the same by following his Tall Trees link here.

*Everyone put your hands together for Kristin Hoppe/Not So Fast, who celebrated her second anniversary as a blogger yesterday, with a cake graphic here. In the blogosphere, two years is an eternity. Way to go, girl.
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*I've been meaning to link to the terrific post that Family Phil ran for Father's Day because it presents the other side -- when father isn't so great -- and mebbe serves as a warning to some Dads out there to get their act together here.
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*As CDADave lingers between life and his miserable head cold, he had time to jump in his Wayback Machine and visit Lake City, circa 1910, here.
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*Bill McCrory/Whitecaps isn't impressed with snake-oil gadgetry to keep track of registered sex offenders here.
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*Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind is fighting the urge to put the air conditioner in the window of her house "cave" here.
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*Big John Rook posts a poem to "Mr. Record Man" who kept the turnstiles turning back in the days when Wolfman Jack was king here.
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*Sleeping still doesn't come easy for Mom/Journalism Instructor Emeritus/Retiree Marianne Love/Slight Detour here.

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