We're of Springfield, VA.

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20060628  Cody wants to share recipes	Like Chicken Makhani and Hoisin Chicken in Lettuce Leaves
	20060602  T2761 attends the 2006 encampment.
20060212  First persistent snowfall of 2005/2006 winter.  Cassandra decides to enlist Dad's help in constructing a snowperson she calls "Grandma".
	20050619   Cassandra makes cinnamon-bread for her teachers.
20040822   While working in the backyard, I find we have an expectant mother.
	20040815   Cassandra's Hermione has 4 piglets, two are naked!!
20040807   While Holly and Cassandra are on vacation, the guys harvest 7 kilos of grapes off the Vitis rotundifolia vine attacking the deck (the Scuppernong grape grows like kudzu during warm, moist weather).
	20040410   Cassandra and Dad spend the day at the Festival of Origami Architecture at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C.
20040301   Cassandra discovers she'd purchased a pregnant Guinea pig. She took some pictures of the babies.
	20031231-20040101   We host our club's New Year's eve dinner and partake of some excellent food and wine. Here's the wine (the red's accompanied the Boef en croutè)
20031029   Eagle Scout Career Day at the Tysons Corner Hilton	Click on image to enlarge
	20031026   Reformation Sunday. Cassandra plays chimes in church and we (belatedly) celebrate Tyler's birthday with the cake he asked for, CHEESECAKE!
20030912   Cassandra has a few friends over for her birthday party sleepover.
	20030720   Cassandra helps Dad replace the brake pads on the van.
20030718   Cassandra attended a riding camp. Here are pictures of the "graduation" ceremony from her web site.
	20030703-20030706  Cody's got a summer job...at Lenhok'Sin Scout Camp...as a BLACKSMITH!
20030619   Pictures from Cody's graduation from West Springfield High School and his reception.
	20030604-11 My sister and brother-in-law come for a visit...and one of our trees notices their departure.

You may have noted the rather odd user name, magi. It's a play on words. You see, on our last tour with the Air Force we were the three Waisanens (wise' - nuns) from the East traveling west. The pun stuck.
In case you were wondering, there are perhaps three reasons for returning to the DC area after retiring from the Air Force:

1. Church: We love our church family at the Lutheran Church of the Abiding Presence . We really enjoy sharing in the traditions we've helped initiate like Advent Friends, the annual scale model of the church in gingerbread (front and back )* complete with edible stained glass windows, and baking "praygels" (pretzel-shaped bagels) for Reformation Sunday (if we're not camping).
2. Education: Dad sometimes teaches for the ISSE department at the George Mason University .
3. Job opportunities: Dad was a consultant at Concert through our company, MAGI, Inc. but now is an employee of Computer Sciences Corp in support of British Telecom. Hasn’t changed jobs or location but was made to understand that CSC was not interested in keeping contractors.
4. Scouting: Dad and son are active in Scouting, particularly backpacking . Son is especially fond of creating seemingly impossible-to-cook meals (for example, chicken cordon bleu over a campstove).
5. Nature: The woods and wildlife of Virginia are full of life like the Junco that comes to our bird feeder.
6. History: We're close to our Nation's capitol.

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