This page, and the DDT Thanksgiving parody of this page.
Email Quote of Note
From Galesburg Dan writes, "I am working at home today and Tomoko is studying pain management."
Coincidence? We don't think so.
Site Seeing
Without a doubt our favorite Web link recently has been the dog that gets "high" by licking
toads. Really.
Listen!
Thanks for clicking on our page. Check it out. After you look at our latest news, send us email and tell us your news. As you probably know, our address is: snydder -- that's with two d's, one for Dan and one for Dave -- @earthlink.net. Of course, the stuff in italics isn't part of the email address, it's just in there to fool email address scavengers.
Welcome!
Seattle is a sophisticated city. True, there are all of the professional sports teams like the Mariners, SeaHawks and Super Sonics, but mostly people go to the opera, the symphony, the art museums, one of the dozen theaters, two of which are Tony Award winners, or any of the other high brow entertainments. So, what are these people doing? 
They are playing Whirly Ball. It's basketball played in bumper cars. A bumper car is an electric car designed to hit other bumper cars. They get their power from those silver strips on the floor. The game doesn't use a basketball. It uses a wiffle ball (see player in car 25); you catch and throw the ball with the basket. Scoring is like basketball: 2 points when close to the basket, 3 points farther back. In the picture (from left) is our niece Stephanie Paradee, Larry (car 12), Jim Shadle (car 24), Stephanie's daughter, Anna Paradee, and our nephew Eric Shadle (car 25).
News and Notes
Dave spent the first two weeks of October in a writing residency in Hudson, New York. If you are like us, you probably wonder, what is a "writing residency"? It's a quiet place to hang out and write. Dave hung out in this gate keeper's house in the woods.
Hudson was apparently a great place to focus-in: He reports writing sheets and sheets.
Earlier this month we reported the birth of our new grandnephew, Cole Harrison Shadle. (That's his dad in car 25, above; his mom, Jolene, also played for the yellow team.) Here is Cole asleep on his brother's (Calvin) lap and guarded by the family dog.
This beautiful scene of domestic tranquility is probably not typical of how the brothers will spend the next 15 years together.
- Tomoko and Dan have settled into the small town life in Galesburg IL. Tomoko took and passed her nursing exams (of course!), and Dan took his students on a field trip to the sewerage treatment facility.
Directory of Pages
| Recent Pages ... | |
| Wedding | Tomoko & Dan Celebrate Their Marriage, 1 page |
| Fishing + Fire | When the fish don't bite, we watch the fire, 1 page |
| Cutting Trees | Our family meets in MT on US Thanksgiving, 1 page |
| Tee Shirts | Help us fill out our World Tour tee shirt archive, 1 page |
| Garden Tour | Join the tour with Takashi Kawamoto, 1 long page |
| Solid Gold ... | |
| Shanghai | The most populous country's most populous city, 4 pages |
| Antipasti | Julie & Shelley reveal their recipe, 1 page |
| Garden News | Moss, compost & building the garden paths, 1 page |
| The Gates | A quick trip to NYC to see Christo's Gates, 1 page |
| Haida Gwaii | Exploring Canada's Queen Charlottes Is, 4 pages |
| Freedom Trail | Tour of Western US in our red Jeep, 5 pages |
| 'Round the World | The 2001/2002 sabbatical, 43 pages |