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Clayton began wrestling last year, and this year Camden has joined him. Can you imagine 30 or so K-3 graders on a mat learning how to wrestle? It's all fun though. The kids begin with 30 minutes of warm ups and coordination exercises. Next they get 30 minutes of wrestling instruction then another 15 minutes of games and fun. Mix in a few water breaks and the kids get a good bit of fun combined with some wrestling.

It gets annoying living in New Hampshire during presidential election season, especially as a house with regular voters unenrolled in a political party. Four years ago I took our phone off the hook and kept our dog tied outside to keep the election calls and canvassers away. This year I may not do that if the canvassers are as amusing as yesterdays.

Saturday two canvassers came to my door attempting to get me to vote for their candidate. After sending them on their way I watched as they walked back down my driveway, got into their Mercedes sedan with out of state license plates and drove 100 feet down the street to the next house. Now ask yourself which presidential candidates supporters would be most likely to canvass an out of state neighborhood while driving an upper class status symbol vehicle in such an environmentally unsound manner? If you said Barack Obama you are right! What a great way to show that you really believe in Obama's message.

Or at least that's what Clay and Cam kept saying. I love the fact that their favorite TV show is Dirty Jobs and not Spongebob or Pokemon or some similar show. They are outside kids through and through. It doesn't matter if it's too hot or too cold or too rainy. They want to play outside. They'll ride their bikes, play with toy trucks, build dirt/sand structures, swim if they can get wet, anything as long as they are outside.

Merrimack's Dam on the Souhegan River is in the first stages of being torn down. You can check out the progress on the Dam Cam.

No metaphors here. We had a robins nest in one of our bushes. Heather has been tracking their development with pictures and yesterday when we checked on the nest there was initially only one baby (of four) in the nest. A few minutes later we spotted a robin fledgling hopping across the yard attempting to fly and sure enough it was the last baby. Then we spotted the mother robin and another baby perched in another bush and watched them fly, mother leading as the baby bobbed and weaved.

Pictures are up on flickr.
http://flickr.com/photos/natfairbanks/sets/72157605395321753/