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The original EricRedifer.com was never about one subject. It was a map of interests that kept expanding. This reconstruction preserves the old journeys while making room for the work, places, tools, technology, collections, and ideas that define life now.

January 2000 · Stories

Raccoons

June 2011 Raccoon Babies…

Lindsey called me one day in the spring of 2011 and said “there’s a big animal screaming in the attic” - it’s hurt, and we have to save it. Well, we crawled up there - it was hotter than blazes and we found a little baby raccoon nearly dead of exhaustion almost passed out in the main part of the attic. She put it in a cage, and carried it downstairs and went to the pet store and got some pet milk and fed it through a syringe. (I could see this going bad quickly…, but Lindsey refuses to give up on any living thing) Then later that day Lindsey says, “there’s more - I heard them” - back to the attic we go. But we can’t get to them, because they are apparently in the wall behind one of the closets. The one we got first had apparently crawled out of the wall.. We get a pole with a basket on the end - we try everything - they are way down in the wall!

January 2000 · Motorcycles

Motorcycles

I’ve owned several motorcycles over the years. My first taste was getting to ride on my uncle Joe’s Honda 350 when I was about six years old. I loved riding on it with him, and probably hounded him nearly to death for a ride every time we saw him. (More about this later) Shortly after that I bought a used minibike from a neighbor kid for $35 when I was about nine years old. It was pretty worn out when I bought it, but I learned to fix it and it ran pretty good for most of the time I owned it.

January 2000 · Family archive

Congressional Art Competition

June 2011 - Lindsey was announced as winner of the US Congressional Art Competition.-

June 2012 - She won it again!

Our daughter Lindsey has always excelled at arts and crafts. This past year her high school art teacher asked her to take a painting class, and well, it turns out she’s pretty good at it In January she painted her first watercolor and it was good - but she decided to paint a second and try to win the Congressional Art Competition - well she succeeded.

January 2000 · Motorcycles

All About the Ride

All about the ride… On this page: [Why engine size doesn’t matter](#Engine size - It mostly doesn’t matter) [How to buy a motorcycle](#How to choose a motorcycle:) [Cruisers](#You want to cruise around town and on Short trips out of town, you want other people to see you and to show off a bit:) [Touring](#You want to take comfortable long distance tours on a motorcycle) [Adventure Bikes](#You want to ride around the world on an adventure) [Street bikes](#You wanna ride fast on the street) [Off Road](#You want to play off road)

January 2000 · Flying

Airplanes

I love to fly airplanes. I don’t get to do it enough. When I was young, my Dad and my uncle told stories of flying in the air force. They came from a family of flyers. Their older brother was a B-17 pilot in WWII and even their older sister was a WAC (Women’s Air Corps) in WWII. They were twin brothers and both were “radio operators” on cargo planes in the Korean War. I always thought that was funny, because they couldn’t find their way around the block without getting lost.