Family

Tessa Danielle Kautz

Here is the latest addition to the Kautz family. I present Tessa Danielle Kautz, 1.5 hours old, 7lb. 9oz., 20 inches, born 5:57 PM May 27th.. As you can see, grandmas, mother, father and Tessa are doing fine. Grandpa Dan is OK enough to take pictures. Thanks to Aunt Shelly for pix of me and of Tessa’s hand!

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V-Carve Engraving

This is some more photo engraving work done with the VECTRIC software and the Taig Micro-Mill. The mill working area is only 5.5″ x 12″ but that is good for making these 5″x7″ engravings. The first picture is Shopdog VAC “Bingo”. You can see he looks better here than in the top down view farther down the page. The second picture is daughter Shelley who sometimes makes comments here in the RamblinDan Blog. These are...

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Something Exciting

Son Steven and my favorite daughter-in-law Danielle are about to take on several exciting new ventures in their lives. Steve was married to Danielle a year ago last October, the same weekend (but not date) as his papa and mama. The newest event of that year old union was publicly revealed last Wednesday when a Halloween costume displayed a new “Muffin” under production. Steve is supposed to be the “Operation Game” but I kind of suspect he was also indicating...

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Brother James (fresh) Air

This is my brother Jim Kautz when I visited with him at his home in Flat Rock, NC last week. He is going to celebrate (?) age 60 on October 28th. I hit age 61 December 10. Yeah, go figure the math.  🙂 I drove nine hours and $90 in gas to see him and my sister-in-law Patty. No age for her but she is actually MUCH younger, truly! 🙂 Worth the trip as this was...

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