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We missed a week again, however, given our current rate or posting, posting twice in three weeks is pretty good, so I am not going to complain.  Last week I don't remember anything interesting happening except for us all being sick in various degrees. Being sick sucks. I found a picture Alison took last week - here it is. This week the kids had off of school for spring break. They mostly played games and visited with people. Timmy, Mike, Logan, and Dustin have been playing multiple games of D&D recently in their campaign. Dustin's character (Vlad) just got turned into a werewolf (he wanted to, since it is a character concept for him). Timmy has been building a big skeleton mech unit to carry Skipper around. Skipper is a NPC party member who mostly just exists so that Mike has an easier time doing the math, since all of the math in the game is made for a team of 4 party members. On Saturday the kids were invited over to grandpa Mike and grandma Sheila's house for a ...

Timmy attempted to voice to text this blog post, since we have not posted in so long. Here is what he produced:  "This week was saltcon week I don't remember where was also I can play I Believe. And so when we got to so can we painted minis and people finding and I got to Nuke toothless and then we had to go back home and that's how we can there you go." So now, we haven't posted since mid February and it's now March so we are deeply behind on our blog posting. I don't think it would be reasonable to attempt to remember everything that happened in that time period, so I'm just going to give a few highlights.  It has been unusually warm, so we have been going canoeing in the Jordan River. We also got a big pile of wood chips for our front yard, and we have spread those around a lot. Hopefully this will prevent our yard from growing lots of weeds.  Mike has been sick with covid or something for about a month, and everyone else is also sort of feeling sic...