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For most of the time I’ve known Chris, Katherine was in the picture. I first met her when she and Chris worked together at Banana Republic.

Chris and Katherine at a Pisces Party at Michelle and Joleen’s place in Sunnyvale.

At a New Year’s Eve party we threw.

I’m not sure what party this was taken at.

I didn’t know George Washington went for Scarlet Ho types.

Today is our friend Chris’ birthday. I think we know Chris through mutual friends who met attending DeAnza College after high school. Chris is married to Katherine and has a son, Colin, who’s about a year younger than Porter.

A perfect bullseye.

Playing around with a fisheye lens at a party. That’s Chris on the right, with Shmare behind him. Nikki’s on the other side but I’m not sure who the guy is.

Dave and Chris at the old Smith House.

The other weekend when were at Sarah’s folks’ place, Alice managed to sneak up on Sabbath, the black cat that roams the yard.

“Hello, Sabbath. Can I pet you?”

“Can I press down on you with all my weight, pining you to the grass?”

“What about your spleen? Can I remove your spleen?”

Sarah’s parents have a pint-sized pile of gravel out in their back yard at the end of the side driveway. I don’t really know why. But Alice, who reminds us sometimes of the Peanuts character Pig Pen, loves to get herself dirty and imagined the possibilities upon seeing the gravel.

So naturally she flung herself and rolled around on the gravel.

“I love gravel!”

Then Porter got into the act and began shoveling the gravel.

He brought over a dump truck.

And started loading it up with gravel.

The other morning, Porter decided to rope his pet giraffe, Melman.

Putting the harness on Melman.

With the harness in place, Porter makes sure it’s on properly.

Then tries to coax Melman out of his pen by tugging gently on his lead.