Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi has reminded me that I screwed up royally last week and forgot to write my Saturday Morning Blog until Michelle reminded me later that morning that I didn't do one. He has a memory like an elephant and won't let me forget. Such an intelligent bird. 

I am off today, the Parsons work hit its time frame and funding is no longer there for the time being. That can and has always seemed to be the case, the extra money is always nice but so are the breaks. 

If the weather permits I'm going to try and cut the grass either today or tomorrow depending on how cooperative the weather is. It's been wet and the grass has grown, they have the yard marked off with right-off-way markers because they have been moving the water line for the past couple of weeks. They are expanding Van Voorhis and building a new bridge across the creek, and I'm smack dab in the middle of all of it. 

I did have a little bit of a health scare this past Monday night, all I can attribute it to is vertigo. I woke up in the middle of the night Monday (twice) with the room spinning like I had never seen it spin before and was violently nauseous with the dry heaves. It sounds like a drunken binge from my early 20's on a Saturday Night, but that was not the case. Up until last night I was sleeping in the chair as it frightened me to that degree. I have not experienced it since fortunately, but I'm still a little gun shy. No worries, I am alright.

Have yourselves a great day. 

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 was the first round of the NFL Draft, everyone made their First Round Selections, today starts the rest of the draft. This is where Championship teams are built, first rounders are just the high-profile guys, now it's about building depth and strengthening weak parts of the team. 

Weekend plans, Hatley and Tyler close today on their new place and take ownership of it, so Michelle is going to go up and do a makeover. Paint, scrape the textured ceiling, I imagine scrub carpets, etc. I know there are a number of things Hayley wants to do before they actually physically move in and this is that short window of opportunity. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

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 is a picture of my brother Gary's LIttle League Baseball team. If memory serves me correct he played for Lions and I think they won the championship that year. Gary is standing in the back row, 3rd one from the left. 

I think I went to every one of Gary's games, I never missed them. I'm thinking this was around 1979 or 1980 and I was still living with Grandma Hall and used to ride my bike to the pool all the time. Krepps field is right in front of Krepps Park Pool, so it made it easy to get there. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, let's face this tuesday like we own it. Time for a Tidbits. 

* It has been 22,027 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,287 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I do love what I do and I can see me doing this into my retirement years. 

* 5,875 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Seems like it was just yesterday and it was the third best decision I ever made in my life. Horrible movie that I picked though. 

* 5,085 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. She knew it was coming, and it is still the best decision I ever made in my life. 

* It was 5,123 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, married by a chiropractor and feasted on food Jeanie made. 

* I have now lived 2,260 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. I am recovering though. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 919 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 777 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,827 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.

* 285 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 lets just wait to see if they come true.  

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

* There are 246 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 230 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 179 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 148 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 139 more days to go until the Mountaineers will try to get some revenge here in Morgantown for last weekend when Penn State comes to Morgantown. 

* There are 111 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 58 days to go until the start of summer, my second favorite season. We are in my Favorite Season. 

*  In 39 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

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

* I have written 7,530 blogs in the now  over 19 1/2 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* 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.  

* I think I know where I want to do my next drone flight, out by the old county graveyard whenever I get to it. Weather is getting nicer, what is my excuse. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. Several family members are playing and I am back to 6th place overall among all my friends and family and I have a couple friends right on my heels. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? Looking for an entertaining TicToker to follow, check out this weeks Tiktok. Making Homemade Mayonaise, something I might try. 

* 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.

Looking at our week ahead, the stop lights in front of our house are still there, or should be there for at least another week. They are supposed to replace a water line and they have the lines laying out there, but there hasn't been any digging as of  yet. I anticipate them starting to dig up the yard this week to move the water line. I might be temporarily inconvenienced but we'll survive. 

I'll be working both jobs this week, up until Friday when that should be the last of the Parsons work. The funding is cut of after that, but there could be other work that some along with it. It's the perfect situation for me, it's at my schedule, remote and it pays well. Alipro pays pretty well too, so it's good to draw two paychecks if even only temporarily. 

Michelle is back in the office again this week, she got her new business cards on Friday. This one actually has her her offices address on them. She was happy to be back at it and it was a welcomed break for her. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, not making the same mistake I made yesterday. Kiwi kept reminding me about how I screwed up and he still wants his contractual allotment of seeds even though he was not mentioned in yesterday's blog. As a matter of fact, I think he wants to renegotiate his deal for a higher payout. Greedy little shit. 

Same plans for the day, I'll be doing what needs to be done around here as Michelle takes her weekly trip to Krogers to pick up whatever else we may need for the week to come. It works out the best for us as I don't slow her down and everything we would have done after we would have got back would be done. 

No major news or excitement coming up this week, I know my life has gotten kind of boring and uneventful. I need to find myself a project to do to take up some of my down time. Now that we have the mancave 2.0 up and running, it just may be something in there. Not sure what I want to do, but something that would be fun and enjoyable. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it special and memorable.