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Our big orange cat Cletus fell ill in October with what was most likely liver cancer. He held on for another two months, until finally, yesterday, December 9, he let me know that his suffering was too great. I took him to an emergency clinic, where I met Dr. Deeb, who was [...]

Here’s a route that Daniele and I have used a few times for exercise. It’s a really pretty ride, down along the bosque. As long as you travel when it’s not too hot, you’ll have a really nice ride.

Over the labor day weekend, we drove out to California during an unusually horrible heatwave to spend some time visiting with our friends, the Bramhalls. During our visit, in addition to sweating, we had the opportunity to ride our bikes along the Pacific Coast Highway, which was an absolutely wonderful experience.
You can see our route [...]

On April 9, 2007, Amie and Jason tied the knot in a beautiful (impromptu!) wedding. It was one of the happiest, most fun weddings I’ve ever witnessed!!
Andy performed the ceremony, and I still giggle like a dirty minded 5th grade boy when I say, “Andy married his sister!”
Check out the pics here.

This past weekend, Daniele and I celebrated ten years of marriage by spending the weekend, sans children, in the happiest place on Earth. (Of course, one could argue that a weekend without children could make anywhere the happiest place on Earth, but I digress.) We spent the weekend at the lovely Dolphin hotel within Walt [...]

For the second year in a row, we packed up the green bullet, got the kids situated, and drove out to California while they slept. We spent a week with our good friends the Bramhalls, during which we had a wonderful time with our two families together.
There are (of course) a bunch of photos in [...]

Last weekend, with stomachs still bulging from Daniele’s delicious turkey, we piled into the green bullet and broke the sound barrier all the way to Phoenix, Arizona. We spent the weekend with our good friends and came back refreshed and ready for an exciting holiday season. As always, there are some photos in the gallery.

After some considerable delay, we finally got Amie’s surprise to her (a lovely multi-photo frame), and so can now post pictures of the trip to Denver to see my beautiful little neice, Olviia. Enjoy!

We have some very, very good pics of Olivia and our visit to Denver that we are planning on sharing here on miesem.com. Before we do that, however, we have something else planned for the pics. Look for miesem.com premiere of Olivia’s pics in a week or so!!
With love and cackling [...]

Last Sunday, to celebrate eleven years of being together, Daniele and I took the tram up to Sandia Crest. The crest was covered in clouds, and it was nice and cool up there. As was to be expected, we had our cameras in hand, and we took some pretty spectacular photographs. Feel free to check [...]