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Hi, My Dad is a Milwaukee-transplant who moved with his family to Redondo Beach in '63, then to Lakewood outside of Long Beach a few years later. Grandma still has the house off the Paramount exit of the 91 Freeway.
He tells me he'd ride his bike with his buddies over to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park often as a kid. Though I was born up in Santa Rosa near San Francisco, we lived in Santa Ana (Orange County) for a few years in the mid-80s and had easy access to Angels & Dodgers games plus all the amusement parks.
Now I'm an hour south of there but still end up hitting Disneyland, Medieval Times, etc. with my own kiddies :)
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. Lovely family and family activities. I enjoyed seeing your family pics.
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Thx for the great response, would still like to see some more pictures of members.  Happy New Year to all
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Great Topic!

Welcome to My Life :)











Happy Holidays & Happy Figging,
- Dave C. & Family
Southern CA zone 9B

And an 'Old School Fishing Pic' for Bonus Points - Haha!
*Rainbow Trout at Lake Hemet, Ca circa 1991*
Congratulations, Lovely family Dave ;)
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Great Topic!

Welcome to My Life :)











Happy Holidays & Happy Figging,
- Dave C. & Family
Southern CA zone 9B

And an 'Old School Fishing Pic' for Bonus Points - Haha!
*Rainbow Trout at Lake Hemet, Ca circa 1991*
Congratulations, Lovely family Dave ;)
Beautiful family Dave... we hardly ever got to Hemet.. mostly did ocean fishing from golden shores marina.. launched my boat.. but my fondest memories are with my grandfather fishing off the Huntington Beach pier...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS !! This is me,my son Marcus and my little daughter Isabel.
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Marius,

Great photo! Thanks for all of your help!
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w/ wife & "kids"[Family-Picture]
you guys look awesome, It's a beautiful picture. My compliments to the Photographer ;)
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Me yesterday holding my catch, a Paddle Fish caught from bank of Mississippi river.
Was casting lure and the fish tail snagged it.
Fish picture quickly taken then i let set the fish back into water and watched it swim away.

Here is little info on this fish for the curious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddlefish

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Martin, that is one impressive catch, and what's even more impressive that you let it go, very nature-humble of you. Thanks for sharing the info about this wonderful creature.
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Me, Wife & Son @ Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta


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Me getting molested by our baby goat


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Me handing my nephew the Golden Chicken Award


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Me & my nephew in Hawaii
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Excellent pictures Dave, looks like a wonderful life!!
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I NEED to know what is the Golden Chicken award
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Here's me and another picture of me and our turkey who thinks he's a person, Turkleberry.Me and Turkleberry.jpg

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This is me playing "pirate" with my nephew a couple of weeks ago.  The floor in this room was the ocean, but our ship was docked in another room, so we were using a couple of mats as rafts to get across--I'd toss one out in front, we'd hop onto it, then I'd pick up the one we just hopped off of and toss it out front, and so on. 

Pirates - SAM_0924.jpg 


I don't have any fishing pics, but here's a pic of some fish in the pond I built in my garden :)

Pond pic - SAM_8480 resized.jpg

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I NEED to know what is the Golden Chicken award


We had a large family gathering at our little "farm" including a pie eating contest (oops, they were still frozen), goat poop bingo and chicken races. The winning team was awarded the Golden Chicken - actually a rubber chicken painted gold.
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As long as it lays gold eggs. I been looking for one of those to bankroll some figs
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I don't think I've posted to this thread before and took a couple of "selfies" on Saturday.  They seemed popular with some friends so I thought I'd share them here now that I'm feeling better.

I'd rather not go into full details about what happened.  My 16 year old son feels very bad about it and I think he's learned a lesson about giving another person a warning about when you really need to drop your end of a 25' long 200 pound iron pipe.  I did a lot of yelling at the time while in agony but told him later that I was not mad at him which he didn't seem to want to believe.

[IMAG1558]   [IMAG1567] 

Maybe I should have shaved first?
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Holy cow, man, I'm glad it wasn't any worse.
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Definitely shave prior to taking 'selfies'.  ;)
Hope that goose egg goes down quickly, it'll be tender for sure.
Take care.

on a side note, I just went thru this whole thread very cool! 
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But Chuck, no fishing pictures???
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Ouch, Harvey! Not a good way to start the Summer.

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Maybe you should have that pipe guard your figs.  Seems like it knows how to handle itself.
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My wife and I.  We will be together for 34 years this November.

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Nice pic hope it didn’t hurt too much but I see your busted forehead and raise you a black eye, smashed nose and transected upper lip 


http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/KKfromNJ/as3.jpg~original



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Maybe you should have that pipe guard your figs.  Seems like it knows how to handle itself.


There's a chance I may have it play a role in doing that.  My orchard will be one acre when I'm done planting it next year and if bird damage is too significant I may cover the entire orchard with netting, using this pipe and others and cable for the support structure.  There is a not of natural gas drilling done on and around my farm so I grab any old pipe that the drillers want to get rid of.  I used some much larger 6" and 8" pipe for the support structure for my pole barn.
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wish Jon would pin this.
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This pic is at my son's graduation from med school at U. of Cincinnati last month.  Very proud of the hard work he put in to get there!
At graduation for a doctoral student, the grads are 'hooded' - usually one of the faculty places the 'hood' over the graduate's head.  Since my wife and I are both physicians, they allowed us to be guest 'hooders' for him at the grad ceremony.
And I'm just as proud of my daughter standing next to me in the pic, she will graduate from P.T. school next year.

Sorry no fishing pics, I never catch much worth pictures.  Maybe I should post a pic of me holding bait or something :)

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- Harvey, I for a second thought you finally got caught on getting figs and fig cuttings...from your neighbors, LOL

That's a nasty bump, I hope you are feeling better.

- Charlie, you two look great, 34 years....wow.

- Ed, congratulations to your son, a proud parents with a son following his footsteps. Gorgeous family :)
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Nice pic hope it didn’t hurt too much but I see your busted forehead and raise you a black eye, smashed nose and transected upper lip 


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Wow, I missed your post. You got busted up good!

My head looks better now.  Here's a shot taken after a long day (still working more tonight):

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Harvey, that was a scary moment. Cuts to the forehead bleed more than most other cuts.  I am glad you are all better.  Your trees behind you look pretty awesome!

Great pictures being added. It is nice to have an idea what you all look like.
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It's funny, two days before Harvey posted his selfie, I had taken some of me getting a root canal. I was debating whether to post it or not, but then Harvey posted his. There was no way I could compete with a blow to the head.
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Hi! Everyone,

Here are the photos of me, my wife: Sarah, my son: Anlac and my daughter: Dalena.


During Vietnamese New Year 2009:








During Vietnamese New Year 2010:





During Vietnamese New Year 2014:




Anlac and Dalena:





This is my son: Anlac was 10-month old during the Vietnamese New Year 2005:








This is my daughter: Dalena was seven-month old:





Dalena's 2-years old birthday:
 




Dalena's 2-years old birthday cake:




I made the blooming flowers, steamed sponge cakes for her 2-years old birthday:















This is the Vietnamese Mickey-Mouse Flowering Bonsai Tree:





Vietnamese New Year Decorations:
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Harvey: I am glad that you are fine now. Thanks for sharing.

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Tam, you have a gorgeous family! I am impressed with the large yellow flower bonsai... what is it? when in Vietnamese N. Year? 
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Great photos, Tam, and beautiful family.  James, I want to see your mouth, lol
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Tam, you have a gorgeous family! I am impressed with the large yellow flower bonsai... what is it? when in Vietnamese N. Year? 


Hi! Grasa,

How are you? That bonsai tree is the Vietnamese Mickey-Mouse Flowering tree. Thanks for asking.

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Tam you have a great family. 
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Sorry for the OT post but need to ask.... Tam, is the name of that Mickey Mouse tree also called something like Bok Mai or something like that?  One of these words means white, I believe, so maybe just one of those words.  I bought a tree at a nursery recently for a Vietnamese friend.  I had asked the nursery owner if he had a white Mickey Mouse tree and he seemed to know what I was talking about.  This friend had a white flowering quince as it reminded him of the white-flowered Vietnamese tree.  Thanks.
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful pics, Tam.  You've got a great family, and those Vietnamese New Years decorations were really beautiful.  I also liked the blooming flowers steamed sponge cakes that you made; very impressive!
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I workout hard to lift tons of figs!!!

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Beautiful pictures, Tam.  You have a lovely family.  Very cute children.  Stay blessed.
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Tam - too cute.

You too, Frank.
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This pic is at my son's graduation from med school at U. of Cincinnati last month.  Very proud of the hard work he put in to get there!
At graduation for a doctoral student, the grads are 'hooded' - usually one of the faculty places the 'hood' over the graduate's head.  Since my wife and I are both physicians, they allowed us to be guest 'hooders' for him at the grad ceremony.
And I'm just as proud of my daughter standing next to me in the pic, she will graduate from P.T. school next year.

Sorry no fishing pics, I never catch much worth pictures.  Maybe I should post a pic of me holding bait or something :)



Wow! Three medical doctors, congratulations on your family. Thanks for sharing.

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Hi! Everyone, thank you very much for the nice comments.

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Hi! Frank,

You look very cool like Paul Teutul, Sr. from the Orange County Choppers on the Discovery Channel. Are you related to him? Thanks for sharing.

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This me and my husband with our kids after an Ironkids race

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Very lovely family, thanks for sharing.

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Tam,
What a beautiful family you have, congratulations.
Your home setup is heavenly, seems like all your plants have the positive energy flowing in the bright room...Something what you do in the forum :)

Simon,
Keep up the good wort bro, figs get VERY heavy, you are going to need a lot of power!

Frank, 
My kids wouldn't leave you alone, my 3 year old would wrestle you non stop and my doughtier would call you Summer Santa and keep pulling your mustache....well, I think I would steal your bike for a day ...(I love that bike!)
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Me and my kids.  Momma's taking the pic.


Nice family, thanks for sharing.

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Sorry for the OT post but need to ask.... Tam, is the name of that Mickey Mouse tree also called something like Bok Mai or something like that?  One of these words means white, I believe, so maybe just one of those words.  I bought a tree at a nursery recently for a Vietnamese friend.  I had asked the nursery owner if he had a white Mickey Mouse tree and he seemed to know what I was talking about.  This friend had a white flowering quince as it reminded him of the white-flowered Vietnamese tree.  Thanks.


Hi! Harvey,

How are you? Yes, Mickey Mouse Flowering tree is called bong mai in Vietnamese. This tree has many yellow flowers. The white flowers which you mentioned here is called wrightia religiosa (water jasmine). The flowers are beautiful, they have fruity scented and they are very fragrant.In warm climates, this water jasmine blooms year round with many white flowers. The water jasmine is called mai chieu thuy which means its flowers are always facing down onto a river. Thanks for sharing.

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Tam
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Tam,
What a beautiful family you have, congratulations.
Your home setup is heavenly, seems like all your plants have the positive energy flowing in the bright room...Something what you do in the forum :)

Simon,
Keep up the good wort bro, figs get VERY heavy, you are going to need a lot of power!

Frank, 
My kids wouldn't leave you alone, my 3 year old would wrestle you non stop and my doughtier would call you Summer Santa and keep pulling your mustache....well, I think I would steal your bike for a day ...(I love that bike!)


Thanks for your nice comments.

Best,
Tam
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