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So, today I was looking up an address here in Sandy, and my son comes walking in and sits on my lap. He says, “Dad, I want to see our house.” So, I zoom in and then click on the street view available in Google Maps, and the image above comes popping up. [...]

On Friday, I got to drive bus for a Naas Elementary field trip. It was a very cool trip to the Evergreen Air Museum outside McMinville, Oregon. The EAM is the current home of Howard Hughes legendary Flying Boat (aka The Spruce Goose). Completed in 1947, and flown only once a little [...]

So, today we had snow!  April 19th, and the neighbor kids are trying to scrape as much wet snow as they can off of cars and things to make snowballs to throw at me (I may have started such trends, but would deny it if pressed).  APRIL 19TH!!!!! Crazy weather – we even [...]

For those who are voting in November to “punish George Bush” (as if he is even a candidate on the ticket), who somehow have come to magically believe that our Democratic leaders will (and should) miraculously pull us out of Iraq (they won’t), I offer you a compelling opinion piece from a journalist who has [...]

For the last two years we’ve kept two phone numbers – our old one in Vancouver, and our new one in Sandy.  As of today we only have our Sandy number.  If you don’t have our phone info drop me an email at “gchastain at grassstains dot net”.