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Saturday family day with Daniel

Andrew’s brother Daniel was in town for a week. … and during that time ALL the Schuberts were able to get together Saturday night.

Just for laughs, and dinner, and hanging out

And photos, of course ….

Daniel visiting from Chicago!

Daniel has lived in Chicago since January 2011 … and has only been able to come home to visit a couple times. And NEVER since Joey was born!

Bad uncle.

But he came home in January (2013) for a week!

Andrew was so happy

I mean all of the family was happy, but [...]

Sunday night dinner party

…. although, can you really call it a dinner party when we have to eat in shifts because the grill won’t hold all 9 steaks and we only have 5 dining room chairs…. ?

…. and if Andrew and I have to quickly do dishes after dinner so we have enough clean forks for [...]

Sunday with Daniel and Jenae

Daniel came back in town for a couple weeks …

He took the train from Chicago to L.A. over a couple days (sounds like fun!), so we’ve been trying to hang out with him as much as possible (obviously, since he’s awesome).

The Sunday afternoon/evening before Memorial Day we had Daniel and Jenae over [...]

Great Dane Pub, WI

After a visit to the Capital and singing some protest songs, Liz, Harvey, Daniel and I headed down the street to the Great Dane Pub & Brewery to sample some of their delicious brews. We drank beer that was brewed downstairs from the bar and played a game of shuffleboard. Daniel and I won [...]

Holga images: Andrew in Chicago

I made Andrew take a camera to Chicago with him …. so he took my Holga.

The white, plastic, kind of toy camera …. And unfortunately I haven’t really been thinking straight and the film he took was not so hot. I’m not sure the extreme blurriness of these images is Andrew’s fault.

Here [...]

Lake Mendota, WI

Here is a video of frozen Lake Mendota, one of two lakes that define the isthmus which Madison, WI was built upon. The other is Lake Menona (which I did not visit). I don’t recall ever looking out onto a frozen lake before….and it was so cold (at least for me, and I [...]

Tour of The Spot, Chicago IL

Here is a tour of Daniel’s apartment. Art Ensemble of Chicago playing on the turntable in the background. I’ll post a couple more videos in the next few days.

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Farewell breakfast with Daniel

So, Andrew’s brother Daniel now lives in Chicago.

Because he is awesome.

He moved to Chicago to go to school. Left mid-January.

We miss him a lot …. Andrew has already started selecting things to mail in a care package …

A couple days before Daniel left for Chicago, we headed up to Santa [...]

NYE with Daniel and Jenae

I love staying in on New Year’s Eve.

In general, I think the holiday itself is a bit overrated and I’d much rather have friends over to my place so I don’t have to drive anywhere with all those crazies late at night.

So – New Year’s Eve – we were kind of surprised [...]

Tonight. Daniel is in town.

tonight Andrew and Daniel (brother in law) and I are heading out to the Paper Heart … it sounds like it should be a scrapbooking store, but it’s not … to see one of my favoritest bands play — Obadiah Parker … check out their website … if you live in the area, come [...]