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 pic is from the last Johnny Koon Light Up Night which did not happen last year due to John and Michelle's daughter (Johnny sister) getting married last year. I have been asked if there is going to be one this year, but I haven't heard anything yet. My sister Pam was asking me a couple of weeks ago, but I don't have the answer. 

Back to this weeks pic, we grabbed this shot of Brittany, Matt and all their Bridesmaids as well as my sister Kim and I even somehow managed to be included in the picture (someone volunteered to take the pic). It was a fun evening. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once again completed; you know what that means. It's time for a Tidbits!!!!

* It has been 22,370 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,623 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. 

* 6,210 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. That's 17 years and 3 days ago. 

* 5,421 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 5,459 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 2,596 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 1,254 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,113 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,506 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.

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

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

* There are 274 more shopping days left until Christmas 2025.

* There are 253 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 183 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* There are 134 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are 87 days to go until summer. 

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

* I have written 7,885 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, now we are thinking about leaving it in for the winter. It's almost time to uncover it. WIN!!!!

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying. I've made my order already. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. It's been a back and forth and I currently sit at 4th place again. 

* This is my favorite Tiktok for this week. Eli Yoder is someone I follow on Tiktok. He is a former Amish who never returned after rumspringa and instead chose to live the life of the world. He has made amends with his Mother and I thought this was heart warming. He's worth a follow. 

* Hi ho hi ho

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.

As many of you have already heard, WVU lost it's Basketball Coach last week when he left for a job at Indiana. WVU has been interviewing potential coaches this past week, with a couple being highly considered. Ben McCollum who took over for our previous coach at Drake and had a better season, and a former WVU assistant who lead Fairmont State to the National Championship game in Jerrod Calhoun. UPDATE: McCollum accepted the Iowa Job. 

There are a couple of surprise Candidates that will be interviewing today, they are both multi-purposeful and make a great team. Kiwi and Peanut have now officially thrown their names into the Coaching search and want Wren Baker to consider them. They'll work for seeds and cat food and a few other demands that they claim they will explain in their contract negotiations. Wish them luck. 

Have a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, I'm not sure what is quite up, Kiwi and Peanut are both trying on different suites and are coming up with some kind of a game plan. I'm not quite sure what it is that they have cooking, maybe we will have to just wait until tomorrow to see. They are going back and forth in their own animal like dialog like they are preparing for something specific. Crazy pets. 

The week of quiet that Morgantown experienced last week is now over with as the University Students slowly return from their Spring Break last week. Traffic around town should start to pick up and be a little bit heavier than it has been the last week. They have six more weeks of classes and a week of finals and then they are out of here for the summer. That just means it gets busy with all the road construction and repair that will be taking place around town and in front of my house. 

So what is on today's agenda? We got all the shopping done yesterday so today is going to be a relax and chill kind of a day. Maybe watch  good movie or something. 

Last week I did watch the final season of Orange is the New Black. I watched the first six seasons with Michelle and then we kind of just did our own thing for the last season. Six years later I get around to actually watching it. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it special. 

Saturday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are playing indoor gold so I am hearing the occasional FOUR! That's to let me know that they are teeing off and driving the ball towards me. They built the golf course where they had the bowling alley a few weeks ago, only they have to do trick shots since it is smaller space. Like drive it to hit the picture, off my head, off the fireplace with 3 bounces and onto the green. They seem to have this really perfected. 

Well it looks like I have a few more hours for Parsons, I was done Thursday and then I was told I have been given a few more hours, and they want a few more things done. There is a lot of work that needs done, it's a financial thing. How much money they have allocated to this task and how much is left for the contract which runs until the first of August. I was supposed to have been done at the end of January, and this will be my third time being extended for hours. Keep your fingers crossed, maybe we'll here more next week. 

Well WVU lost their basketball coach this week, Indiana offered him a huge contract, one that WVU was not going to match and to be honest I think is well above his market value. 

So what is on our agenda for the day, well last Sunday I was planning on finalizing our taxes, but we ended up losing power for 9 hours so that never got done. No worries I'm getting money back from the Federal and the State, it's just I haven't filed yet. 

Have yourselves a great day, make the most of it. 

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.

Yesterday as of press time was the last day for my funding with my project with Parsons (yes I have heard that twice before) until May, so if I am not working I will in all likelihood be doing the Sam's Club Shopping today. Michelle usually does it, but she is going out to dinner with a few people from her office to celebrate a wedding and a birthday of two co-workers. So I'll be handling the duties on this spring day homefront. 

Tomorrow the house will change it's decorations from St Patricks Day to Easter. Can you tell me wife's office is right beside a dollar store? Kiwi and Peanut are ready and willing to assist, they like decorating as they did the St Patricks Day Decorating (with some major assistance from Michelle). 

Morgantown has been quiet this week as the students are on Spring Break. A nice little reminder ofwhat it will be like here in a couple of months. 

Have yourselves a great Day

Hi ho hi ho