Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once again completed, you know what that means. Time for a Tidbits

* It has been 22,461 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, new, and improved 1,069-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,714 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working in my field. 

* 6,308 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Life has been much better since then. 

* 5,512  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 5,550 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 2,687 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 1,341 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,204 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,415 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.

* 223 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day.    

* 197 more days to go until my Goodbye 2025 Blog is posted. Hopefully, I can put some better content together this year.

* There are 183 more shopping days left until Christmas 2025.

* There are 162 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 85 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* In 67 Days, Rich Rod leads the Mountaineers back onto the field to finish some unfinished business. 

* There are 43 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

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

* I have written 7,980 blogs in what is now 20 3/4 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.   

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying, Ryleigh would appreciate it. They are really doing well and it benefits their troop. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 3rd place among friends and family, still going strong. 

* This is my favorite Tiktok for this week. NSFW but hilarious as hell. 

* Progress on my Selfie in Space, right here

* Pearl is running great after being in the shop, but brakes all around it and the funny thing is, the front brakes were still factory brakes from when we bought it 14 years ago. 

* Have yourselves a great day

Monday

All good things must come to an end—but if you’ve got to wrap up the weekend, today’s a pretty exciting way to do it. Now it’s time to take our collective noses and press them firmly back onto the grindstone of life. Back to work, back to the hustle, back to doing our part to make this spinning rock a better place. 

Kiwi and Peanut are ready to tackle the week. They have Animal Planet on the TV, and they got a late-night, early morning pizza delivery. Peanut wanted Pepperoni and Kiwi said he wanted seeds. I think they gave him the wrong part of the green pepper, as there are no seeds. He is upset, to say the least. 

So week ahead, I have an interview scheduled on Wednesday for an office job here in Morgantown. I still work for Parsons, and work is a little slow at this time, so I have to find something to fill in the gaps when I don't have any funded tasks. Doesn't pay what I usually make but keeps me in practice and expands my resume just a little bit more. It's through a temp agency, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Sunday

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are making plans to go out and lay out in the sun today with the expected temperatures supposed to be topping 90° F today and pretty much all week. They both said they want to get their summer tans on, I don't know how to tell Kiwi he has feathers and won't be able to tan. They have a big blanket they want to lay down outside, but it may be us hoomans as they call us that end up doing that. 

Got some yard work done yesterday, it was a nice day and when Michelle went grocery shopping I jumped on the tractor and started cutting grass. It was a wet week to say the least, so I just want to stay well ahead of the lawn and prevent it from getting too high. We cut up the old apple tree that fell last week and that think was just full of termites. We were going to bring the wood down to burn it until we saw them, so up in the woods the logs went. 

So what is on our agenda for the day? Other than the chores we do every Sunday, not too much. Peanut wants her watering bowl filled up with some ice cubes and change her filter. Clean her litter box and of course clean Kiwi's bedding. In other words, we'll be cleaning up their literal shit as they go out and lay in the sun. Life of a spoiled pet. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household once again, or should I say as quiet as a household can be with a rambunctious bird and cat running around demanding so much attention. Michelle mentioned that she wanted a chicken coop in the back yard and Kiwi and Peanut went to Lowes and got the wood and are building her a Chicken Coop. She said she wants fluffy butts running around in the back yard, me not so much. 

We had a tree fall from last weeks storms that we finally got cut up. I bought a battery-powered chainsaw from Lowe's last yearand I attached my 4 ah battery rather than one of the 2 aH batteries that I have, and it did a great job with plenty of power. I highly recommend this is you have a small job, you can throw a larger battery on for more power and battery life. I've got a number of Lowe's V20 Battery Powered tools, so it makes sit nice that they all have interchangeable battery packs. We did get that Sumac Tree cut out that was invading the back flower bed. 

So what is on today's agenda? Probably grocery shopping and possibly cutting grass, weather permitting. Maybe I can talk Kiwi and Peanut into running the lawnmower, but my guess after building Mom's fluffy butt hut in the back yard that they are going to take it east and watch animal planet. 

Have yourselves a great and memorable day. 

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Kiwi and Peanut

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!!!

Are you looking for a little bit of cheap entertainment this evening, and by cheap I mean free? Well head on down to the Hazel Ruby McQuain Ampitheatre this evening and see a free show by Chase Matthew with none other than Morgantown's own Huey Mack  and another Huey Mack. He's a big talent who is local and writes from the heart and from here. I know Val mentioned that she wanted to go see Chase Matthew, Peanut and Kiwi already have their seats as they are big Huey Mack fans. 

What is going on other than that? Not too much really, Michelle is going to be doing the grocery shopping for the week tomorrow and I'll be doing the Sam's Club shopping today. I may even take Kiwi and Peanut with me, they like to get out of the house and do things, of course that is where they get these wild ideas as well. I guess that is the gamble you take when you have two innovative pets. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Happy Birthday Erica Nicholson

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my great niece Erica a very Happy Birthday today. If my math serves me correctly, she should be turning 21 years old today.

 
Seems like it was just yesterday when we were all at the Hospital awaiting her arrival and here we are 20 years later with her already grown up, working and building her own life.

 
Not sure what if any plans there are for her today, and I don't even know what she has planned, but if you happen to see this young lady, wish her the Happiest of Birthdays.

 
Happy Birthday, Erica.

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 somewhere 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 pic is one that took about 42 years to complete. The top one is the first time a picture was taken of the five of us (minus Jonathan who we didn't even know of at the time). I'm thinking it was the summer of 1978 at Grandma Hall's. 

The bottom picture was when we tried to replicate the above photo, although we were all dressed differently, now the good news was we all got a chance to speak to Jonathan (Gary's only conversation with him) just before this picture was taken. 

I have always loved these types of pictures where we are all together at the same time and same place. The older I get, the more precious these moments are. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Wednesday