otrops: jeff van campen’s personal blog

Joanne and I are going to be running again in the Trees for Cities Tree-Althlon.
You may remember that we did it last year and actually managed to finish, despite the fact that neither of us had ever run before.
We’re going to do it again. We’re going to run to raise money to support Trees [...]

About a month and a half ago, we did the Tree-althlon 5k. Thanks to everyone who supported us by donating some money. The money we brought in allowed us to gift a tree to somebody. Joanne decided to gift it to me (have I mentioned I like trees?).
Last night, I came home [...]

I probably should have seen this one coming, but I didn’t I decided to stop eating junk food the week of Halloween. Not the best planning, I’ll admit.
Joanne, who loves Halloween, had a huge bowl of candy for the trick or treaters. Only two showed up. And there was no way I was [...]

Hot on the heel of the announcement, covered by both Mike and me, that Ingrid is blogging about the adventures of young Jude and Squiggly McGee, I’m pleased to announce that Joanne has started blogging, as well. The blog is called bonbah. She’ll be blogging about all the things she loves, such [...]

My sister has decided to join me and Mike in the blogosphere. Her blog is called The Adventures of Jude and Squiggly McGee, which I think is possibly one of the best names for a blog, ever. Of course, I might be prejudiced in this. You can read why in her first post. [...]