Another picture from our NZ house: me mowing the front lawn for the first time, in 1998. Plus a bonus pic of bringing a tree home, sticking out the sunroof of our car, from 1999. #ThrowbackThursday


Another picture from our NZ house: me mowing the front lawn for the first time, in 1998. Plus a bonus pic of bringing a tree home, sticking out the sunroof of our car, from 1999. #ThrowbackThursday


Some more low-res pictures from our NZ house: landscaping in 1998 and 1999. #ThrowbackThursday







Three shots of the Auckland Sky Tower nearing completion, from 1998. #ThrowbackThursday



Continuing my Throwback Thursday series on the house we had built in NZ in 1998, an old map of Albany that doesn’t have the subdivision (house location marked with an X near the center) or other developments, plus a news article and aerial shot of the area. #ThrowbackThursday




Some more low-res pictures of the house we had built in NZ: driveway and patio construction from 1998. #ThrowbackThursday









I haven’t posted a school photo in a while. Here’s one from 1985, when I was about 16. I’m the one with glasses in the back row, second from right (and my best friend at school, Donald, is on the left of that row). #ThrowbackThursday

For day 11 of @macgenie’s photo challenge, and Throwback Thursday: gratitude for the beauty of nature. Here’s Crater Lake in southern Oregon from 2009. The bluest blue you’ll ever see. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday


For day 4 of @macgenie’s photo challenge, and Throwback Thursday: our NZ family, from shortly before Jenn and I moved to the US in 2001. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday

Some more low-res pictures of the house we had built in NZ: kitchen stuff. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday








Some more low-res pictures of the house we had built in NZ: bathroom stuff. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday



