Monday

All good things must come to an end, but this is an exciting day to end the weekend on. Now we have to take our collective noses and stick them back onto that grindstone known as life and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living to make this a better rock to live on.

This year has went by rather quickly to say the least. Christmas is in a few days, I do have the Hot Sausage purchased and will have it ready to go by Tomorrow night. It's just something that I do every year that is pretty popular. Nick's Prime Rib has the edge, but my Hot Sausage has the longer Hall Tradition and the need for Christmas Morning Breakfast. Although I think it's Pam, Michelle and I who hold that tradition more than anyone else. 

I am going to post all of my Christmas Videos from years past tomorrow at sometime. I've done a number of them and am hoping to do another one this year. I did one last year, but I was sick and wasn't there, so Michelle grabbed all of my images from the evening. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, we were exposed to a little bit of football overload yesterday and Friday with the first round of the college football playoffs plus the Steelers played yesterday. It was a football filled Saturday and both Kiwi and Peanut loved it. Although I think Kiwi is trying to trick Peanut and make her feel comfortable, he's planning on playing her in Chess once again next weekend and may have something up his wing. 

I also worked yesterday, I was up and at em before most of you were even out of bed yesterday morning. I was actually off on Friday as they moved the electric poles from one side of the street to this side in anticipation of the new bridge being built. So we were without power for about 6 1/2 hours on Friday to say the least. It was over 1,100 families affected from the move, but we made it through to the other side. 

Michelle's company had their Company Christmas Party and it was a big success. She was a little nervous at first as she was overwhelmed, but she's putting together a plan of action to get everything done and is settling in just fine. 

Our day, grocery shopping and chores around the house. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up talking about a strategy that he could implement to beat Peanut in Chess, but like I tried to tell him she is a Cat Grand Master at Chess and will be tough to beat. He's bound and determined much like Charlie Brown was in kicking that football that Lucy was holding. 

So what is on our agenda for today? I'll actually be working to make up for the Christmas Holiday. I was off yesterday due to the planned power interruption, and I'll be working today to make up for the Christmas Holiday this upcoming week. I'm sitting in my living room, so it's not so bad to be honest. 

The Steelers play the Ravens this afternoon at 4:30. This game will be played in Baltimore. Pittsburgh plays the defending Super Bowl Champs Kansas City Chiefs on Christmas Day. Talk about a tough stretch of games. 

I'll be doing some blogging this afternoon, I've started to do my Goodbye 2024 Blog, so I have a lot of entries and reviewing the past year so I can relive the year according to my blog. It's the funniest blog of the year for me to write and it consumes the most time to write.

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes, it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

It's going to be a strange day here, they have the power poles up to move the lines in front of the house and they have the lines run, we will probably be losing power all day today as they are switching power from the old poles to the new poles. They were doing some things last Friday that caused me to lose power temporarily, but that was short term. This is going to be a much bigger process. They Already have the framework up (beams) up across the road for the temporary bridge as they begin to widen the road and the bridge on our side of the road. So I really have no idea what is on my agenda for today to be honest. 

I don't think we have anything scheduled for this weekend, but that can always change. 

Anyways, have a great day and a great weekend.

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned or just stole from someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a lot of fun.

This weeks photo goes back to the 90's and a place that I used to spend 60-70 hours a week at for 6 full years. The two things in the foreground with the A's are Ladles, we would put anywhere between 2200 and 4400 lbs of molten steel in them (depending on the available molds) and take molten metal from the furnace (it is open right behind the ladles) and pull it out around 3000° F to begin our pour. 

I think this picture was actually taken in the last days of operation for the Helmick Foundry (which now the entire Helmick Corporation is out of business), as it's just me and I don't see anyone else working. Meaning I was a one man crew in the melt shop that day where it was usually three of us. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,272 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,525 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working on my field. 

* 6,112 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. 10,000 BC, I was telling Peanut howlusy of a movie it was this weekend. 

* 5,323 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. I've been the luckiest guy since that fateful day. 

* It was 5,361 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, it was a great day with friends and family. 

* I have now lived 2,498 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 1,156 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,015 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,604 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows though, doing what I do I may never retire.

* There are 350 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 271 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* There are 232 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 83 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 48 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. He and French Creek Freddie agreed on their predictions this year,  now let's just wait to see if they come true.  

* 13 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Hopefully, I can put some better content together this year. 

* There are 8 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* It has been ∞ (infinity symbol) days that I have hated both Pitt and Penn State.

* I have written 7,790 blogs in what is now 20 years since I started blogging. Two decades ago.   

* Older Drone still needs to be sent out for repairs, not a big priority at this time. My little drone is awesome and I really like it....when I take time out to fly it.   

* Yes the Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, it's going to be coming out soon...I promise I am going to get that out.

* It's December, Yes UI have started to format my end of the year blog finally. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. 

* Kiwi is looking for a new skill to master,  

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This weeks Tiktok, it is pretty self explanatory. 

* Hi ho hi ho