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Robot voice: "Do you want to play a game?"

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I can't wait for Halloween!!

Day 39

Join Team Lindsay and help raise awareness of childhood leukemia!

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This is one of my favorite shots. I can crop different sections of it and it becomes a pretty amazing sight.

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Lindsay's Lemonade Stand!!

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You might not ever get rich, but let me tell ya, it's better than diggin' a ditch!

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MOTO

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From our day at the park yesterday.

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Cooling off after working at the lemonade stand.

Day 9

Orchard Spider

Day 8

FB answer is in the comments.
You're gonna be mad.

Day 7

At the zoo

Day 6

FB Guessing Game Answer is in the comments.

Day 5

What is it? FB Guessing Game answer is in the comments

Day 4

FB answer - find it in the comments

Day 3 (or the official one-upper)

There's something about expressions on dogs' faces that are just as interesting as peoples'. I'm pretty sure I know what's going on in his head. It's a complicated mingle of emotions. Disgust, boredom, a dash of sadness and fear of the camera lying on the floor and refusing to make eye-contact with it....... Or maybe he just likes looking out the window.

Day 2

Yesterday, after about 7 years, I went for a run. It only amounted to 1.5 miles, but it still counts. I pushed Michael in the jogger and finished in 15-20 minutes. Yes, that is a long time for only 1.5 miles, but believe me, it felt MUCH longer. Next time, I'll pre-med myself with some Advil to save my knees some torment.

Day 1

In an attempt to "one-up" my brother, I'm gonna post 1 new picture every day. Here's today's (actually taken yesterday).

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I had a great day taking pictures in Lindsay's hospital room yesterday. This is my favorite.

More Christmas Fodder

I got a singing Christmas card this year and now cannot get the song out of my head. It's been 4 days....HELP!!!!

Christmas Confession

Up until last year, I never realized that it was the dad dressed as Santa getting kisses from the mommy under the mistletoe. I always thought the mom was a horny Santa freak. What the hell does that say about me as a kid?

In transition

Sorry about not posting too much lately, but as we've been in the hospital in Winston-Salem for most of the past 2 months, there's not much to say about Statesville. Anything going on here at the hospital is being posted about on www.caringbridge.org/visit/lindsaytempleton
So head on over there to get caught up....don't worry, it's not a really depressing blog. We try to keep it entertaining. Also, check out www.lindsaybeans.net
It's a website that a friend of ours from back in Madison, WI set up for Lindsay.
See you in the funny papers.

Do I have to?

Really, I think I do.

This experience with Lindsay's leukemia has really thrown me for a loop, twisted me in a knot, kicked me in the balls, put my head in a vise, got my panties in a wad, etc., etc.....

I've not been a big fan of Statesville since we moved here. Seems like some crazy bad shit happens around every turn. We had the whole Nightmare on Elm St. We had really bad house buying experiences (structural issues, sellers holding ernest money hostage) Now Lindsay's AML. I hate Statesville....or do I?

I know about 12 people in town fairly well. That's it. About 5,000 people know us now and have shown an amazing amount of support for us. It is pretty unbelievable. People we don't know, and will probably not ever know, are giving donations to help us. There are fundraisers all over the place. I just read a comment someone made about an upcoming fundraiser for Lindsay. I had no idea what she was talking about. What fundraiser??

Ginger's work has supplied us with a pretty bad-ass laptop. Lindsay gets to video chat with uncles, aunts, and cousins now and is having a blast doing it.

A certain group of NC at home dad's (whether they all know it or not) donated some Whole Foods Gift cards. I've only met these guys once!!!

We get constant letters from people that heard about Lindsay from a friend of a friend of a cousin of the mother of a kid whose dog walked by our house once.

So, do I have to like Statesville now? I think I do, whether I want to or not.

Art Crawl

In case you didn't know, I take photographs. I just started in June of this year (with a good camera), so I'm very much a novice. I filled out an application to show at the Statesville Art Crawl and got accepted. Now came the hard work. I had to pick which shots to use, get them printed, get them matted/framed, figure out how to display them, come up with price tags, get business cards made.....
Just before I got my notice that I'd been accepted in the Art Crawl, we found out that our 3 year old daughter has Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). If you want details and updates about that, please visit www.caringbridge.org/visit/lindsaytempleton
So when I saw the email saying I'd been accepted, I almost immediately replied that I'd have to bow out, because there was no way I could get all this stuff done with the emotional state that we all were in. But I didn't reply. I told my wife about it and she said that I had to do it. A very good friend and her daughter stepped up and said they'd take care of the printing and matting/framing. My father-in-law took care of the business cards. All I had to do was pick which shots and get them to my friends.
The Art Crawl was last night and it was pretty cool. I actually sold some pictures (I came up with prices as we were hanging the shots) and had a great time!

Olympic Gold

We can only pray for a repeat.

Wal-Mart gets everyone's stimulus packages.

Ew, nasty. Wal-Mart. What a nasty place to shop. I hate it. Never mind the evils of Wal-Mart driving out small local businesses, it's plain and simple a nasty place to go. I get physically ill just walking in and seeing the people that live/shop there. You all know what I mean. Physically repulsive people smacking their kids, waddling down the entire width of each isle in stained spandex pajamas, and t-shirts sporting confederate flags or an iron-on picture of Mickey Mouse.
I waste precious gas and money to drive an extra 15 miles to go elsewhere when I HAVE to. That said, their business strategy of marketing the lowest prices has made them even richer. This time they can thank the government.
I've never been to Costco, so I can't comment on them.
Great. I love capitalism, but damn, some shit you just don't need to spend your money on. I'm not even sure why I'm so irritated about this. It's not that Wal-Mart greatly benefited from the stimulus packages. I think it's because something so aesthetically displeasing did. If Target had made headlines, I wouldn't have had a second thought about it.
If you gotta buy it, buy it local.

No fatties please!

I saw this big guy on a morning walk today.