Three shots of the Auckland Sky Tower nearing completion, from 1998. #ThrowbackThursday
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Continuing my Throwback Thursday series on the house we had built in NZ in 1998, an old map of Albany that doesn’t have the subdivision (house location marked with an X near the center) or other developments, plus a news article and aerial shot of the area. #ThrowbackThursday
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Some more low-res pictures of the house we had built in NZ: driveway and patio construction from 1998. #ThrowbackThursday
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I haven’t posted a school photo in a while. Here’s one from 1985, when I was about 16. I’m the one with glasses in the back row, second from right (and my best friend at school, Donald, is on the left of that row). #ThrowbackThursday
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For day 11 of @macgenie’s photo challenge, and Throwback Thursday: gratitude for the beauty of nature. Here’s Crater Lake in southern Oregon from 2009. The bluest blue you’ll ever see. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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For day 4 of @macgenie’s photo challenge, and Throwback Thursday: our NZ family, from shortly before Jenn and I moved to the US in 2001. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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Some more low-res pictures of the house we had built in NZ: kitchen stuff. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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Some more low-res pictures of the house we had built in NZ: bathroom stuff. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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Three more low-res camera captures, and one better photo featuring me, from the construction of our New Zealand house in 1998. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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Construction of our NZ house begins, from 1998. (Sorry about the low quality of the pictures; they’re from low-res captures of an old video camera tape.) #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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Happy Independence Day! To mark the occasion, a throwback photo of the top of a Disneyland riverboat festooned with flags, from when Jenn and I moved to the US in 2001. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday 🇺🇸
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For last week’s throwback I showed the house plans; this week, here’s me standing on the empty lot where our NZ house would be built, when we got possession of it in 1998. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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In 1997 we purchased an empty lot in Albany, Auckland, New Zealand, and started planning to get a house built. These are the faxed plans of a base layout with many customizations (as indicated on the third image). #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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It’s been a while since I did a throwback post. Here’s the Auckland skyline, with the Sky Tower under construction, from 1996. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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A trip to Wellington, NZ back in 1996. Photos of the cable car, Beehive parliament building, the city from a hill, and me and Jenn dressed up in Grandma’s house. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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It’s been a while since I posted a school photo. Here’s my third-form class picture from 1983; my first year at Long Bay College in NZ; what is called high school in the US. I’m in the top-right. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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In 1995, while renting our second flat in NZ, the owners let us put in a little garden. And so began our decades of gardening projects. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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Happy 2nd birthday to Paladin. Here are a couple of pictures from when we adopted him from the Cat Adoption Team shelter in 2017. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday 🐈
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Jenn with our first car, “Katie” (1995 - 1998). #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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A few months after we got married, Jenn and I moved to a new flat (in July 1995). A little larger, but still very basic. #dejus365 #ThrowbackThursday
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