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Here are some pix from our traditional Mothers Day visit to the Minnesota Zoo.

Taco feast! We served up tacos with all the trimmings to 17 hungry people for dinner tonight. We also plowed through another 5 pounds of fresh shrimp (thanks, Chris and Hope for peeling them today). Mom Wyant’s brownies closed out the dinner for those who weren’t too stuffed by that point. Great food and great times together.

I really enjoy cooking when I’m on vacation. I travel with my own chef’s knives and the contents of our spice cupboard (no lie).

After supper, most everyone headed over to Mom and Dad’s for a family game night. Chris, Jeni and I stayed at the beach house with Bud the dog and just relaxed. OK, I sat on the deck and smoked a stogie, while marveling at the stars in the night sky over the beach. And updated my blogs and Facebook. And uploaded hundreds of pix to Flickr.

My god, what is up with those shorts? And that haircut? Outside our house at 17 Robinson Street in Houlton, Maine, around 1971. That’s mom, me, Sally, Grandma Rackliff, Jim and Grandpa Rackliff.

If you haven’t already, check out our annual Christmas newsletter online. We went green this year and put the whole thing on the web, rather than printing a paper version to stuff in our Christmas cards. Yeah, I know, a likely story. The truth is, like a lot of print publications, we found that the economics just did not justify keeping the print publication alive. We are embracing a new publishing paradigm. Who knows? Maybe next year we’ll just release a Coulson Times app in the iTunes store.