Author: rcragun

  • Toren eating like a pig

    Did I mention Toren likes to pretend to be animals?  Here he is imitating a pig:

  • Toren the monkey

    Toren regularly imitates animals now.  The most common one is a dog, which involves him putting something in his mouth and crawling around.  In this one he found a bike rack in Plant Park (at my school) and pretended to be a monkey climbing it:

  • Toren and Debi running in the park

    We picked up dinner and took it to the park at my school one evening for a change of pace.  Here’s a little clip of Toren and Debi running in the park toward the river:

  • Toren roaring

    Toren occasionally decides to roar.  The object at which he roars varies.  One day, during a walk down the street to our nearby Walgreens, he roared at every car that passed.  Just the other day he roared at one of the neighbor’s dogs (the small one, not the big one, of course).  In this video…

  • Toren playing in the water at Busch Gardens

    Here’s a short clip of Toren playing in one of the splash pools at Busch Gardens: We’ve made pretty good use of our season passes, visiting the park almost once a week.  Even so, we have yet to explore the whole park.  We did, however, find out that one of the log rides allows kids…

  • “To Infinity and Beyond”

    I have a new batch of short videos to post.  In this first one Toren is diving on his bed while he tries to say “To Infinity and Beyond” from Toy Story: Toren diving on and off things has become a regular activity here.

  • Mark: apocryphal stories

    This is the last post I have for now of stories with or about Mark.  More will likely come back to me over time.  These stories are stories I did not personally observe but were recounted to me in some detail, either by Mark or others. Mark and some of his friends put a sheep…

  • Mark: staying at the Liston’s

    Mark and I worked in the cherry orchard (mentioned previously) owned and run by my Uncle Al when we were young.  Harvesting cherries is pretty demanding.  Sweet cherries have to be picked by hand because they need the stem to stay fresh.  And they need to be harvested early in the morning to maintain their…

  • Mark: late night canasta

    One thing my family loves to do when we get together is play Canasta.  We have our own version with our own rules. We used to play Canasta with our friends when we were teenagers as well.  We often had Mitch Johnson and one or two other friends over for late night games of Canasta…

  • Mark: on the soccer field

    We were close enough in age that Mark and I did get to play on the same soccer teams, though not all the time (Mark played other sports too; I was a soccer-only guy).  I played goalkeeper from about under-12 through high school.  Mark was a blazing fast forward.  Sadly, I don’t have many photos of…