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Our whole family is readers. Our daughter was always disappointed because they would not let her check out books above her "level" until she refused to read any more of the "stupid, boring books". She finally got special permission to check out any book in the 1-8 grade library. By 4th or 5th she was reading the Ann of Green Gables series and Timothy Zahn.

Our daughter likes the sci-fi/fantasy and our son likes documentaries. I like the pretty much sci-fi and books from Mark Berent and Tom Clancy and pretty much anything aviation related.

I get home last night to a dead racoon in the yard. The night before it got into a fight with our lab but my wife called the lab (the beagle left this one alone, they were equal size) off and the coon ran up the tree. Evidently it died up there. This is the lab that runs from everything under the sun, including ground squirrels. Must not like raccoons. This is the 4th one she treed since summer but the first that died. OK, one was not treed, it went up the play set. I wish the prices were up on hides so they would get thinned out again.