Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through some of the pictures that I have either taken, scanned or stolen off of the internet through the years and find one special picture that stands out. Little lost moments in time from yesterday caught with a Cameras lens and relived right here in my blog. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that one special picture and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it consistently is however is a whole lot of fun.

This weeks pic goes back a few years, all of the way back to 2010 and the Chicken Wing Cookoff that we used to have here in Morgantown. It's when all the local restaurants would come together at a venue and compete against each other for who had the best local chicken wings.

This picture is from one of the events held at Mylan Park, Jean and Michelle were at chowing down on some chicken wings. True Story, Jean at well all day and ended up with more tickets than she started with. She was such a cunning shyster that she would get her wings and never give any of the vendors their tickets to get paid out. it was always a game with Jean and she was the master of it.

Memories of yesteryear are priceless.

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

Happy Friday Eve, Eve!!!! Two days down, two more ahead and now all we have to do is get up and over this noon time hump and it will be all downhill working towards another fun filled weekend.

Well West Virginians, Happy West Virginia Day. It was on this day in 1863, or 155 years if you are using the traditional calendar, that West Virginia said see ya later Virginia, we out of here. See no longer want to be ya and adopted the name West Virginia (I think they should have to be called East Virginia).

This is also the last day of my personal favorite season, Spring Officially ends tonight and tomorrow will be the longest day of the year as we start summer. This is the point where days change direction once again and days start getting shorter instead of longer.

I am going to send a "care package" so to speak to Jonathan. Mainly print outs of pictures and little descriptions of each sibling plus Dad and our Grandparents on the Hall side. This will give him a little bit of a background as he works to develop his knowledge base of us. Could there be a Florida Trip sometime within the next year? Michelle and I are discussing it.

Have yourselves a great day, live it to the max.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

*  Monday is once again behind us as we have a new week started, time for a Tidbits.

* It has been 19,925 days since my reported birth, by my calculation and using my patented 938 day calendar, that should make me 21 years old by my calculations or 54 by these old antiquated calendar's.

* It has been 5,140 days since I graduated from West Virginia University, I am still doing what I was trained to do in college and I'm taking it into a whole different direction. I'm a trendsetter.

* 3,755 days ago Michelle and I went out for dinner and a movie, it was our first date together and the starting point for the rest of our lives.

* 2,972 days ago I proposed to Michelle, she new it was coming and she knew the day I was going to propose, but I still made her wait. I'm thankful she did.

* It was 2,509 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, Michelle and I became Husband and Wife.

* I have now lived 134 days longer than my Dad did, I appreciate each and every one of them.

* I have 4,913 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, or at least start doing something else with my life other than working.

* The next Backyard brawl where we beat Pitt's ass in Football is only 1,551 days away. You can tell it's a deep seeded hatred when you are counting this down for this long.

* 228 more days until Groundhog Day, this is when Phil will tell us about an Early Spring in 2019.

* 195 more days to go until my Goodbye 2018 Blog is posted, the blog that is my last blog of the year and recaps the previous year. There will be some big things discussed this year, that is for sure.

* There are 189 more shopping days left until Christmas, not quite time to start preparing your lists, but it never hurts.

* My next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 165 more days. I think this will be the 34th anniversary of that birthday using the antiquated calendar that most people use.

* There are 55 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Seventh Wedding Anniversary together.

* There are 38 days to go until MountainFest Starts, we already have our tickets and this will be our second year of attending. Alabama, Brett Michaels and Montgomery Gentry will be the featured acts throughout the weekend. Ticket's are now $50 each for the weekend, we bought ours just before Christmas for $40 each for the entire weekend and before all acts were named.

* There are 17 more days until we go and see Jimmy Buffett again in Burgettstown. First time ever on a Saturday Night for me, this should be good. We are taking a Limousine up this year for this years concert. We're going in style this year and I don't have to drive.

* There are 2 more days to go until the start of Summer, this is going by too fast, slow down...lol

* I have written 5,286 blogs in what is now my 13+ years of being a Blogger and working towards 10,000. Only 4,714 more to go until I reach that Milestone.

* Bother Search, yes I found him and I have spoken to him. Search is over now we are starting the next chapter of getting to know each other.

* No Drone flights this weekend, I should have flown but I didn't.

* Chris is teaching Vacation Bible School this week, Jonny and Maddie are here all wee staying with Mamaw while she teaches.

* I'm loving this warm weather, this is my season although my favorite season is about to end. I love Springtime, but Summer comes in Second on that list.

* Michelle is loving both of her jobs and we are now a 4 income family...lol

* This weeks Riddle: When the I answer I give is yes, it is no, and when I give the answer no it is yes. What is the Question?

* I'm STILL converting some old VHS tapes to Digital Format for Trish. I really need to get back on this as I am such a procrastinator.

* Have yourselves a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

* OK, answer to this weeks riddle: Do You Mind?

Happy Birthday Erica Jean Nicholson

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my great niece Erica Jean Nicholson a very Happy Birthday today.

It's hard to believe that this young lady has grown up in the blink of an eye and became a teenager, but that was last year, if my math is correct she should be turning 14 years old today. Where have all the years gone and why did they go by so quickly.

Erica is turning into a beautiful and intelligent young woman and it is a pleasure to be around. She likes fishing and riding dirt bikes.

If you happen to see Erica Jean today, make sure that you take a little bit of time out and wish her a very Happy Birthday today.

Happy Birthday Erica, I hope you have a wonderful Birthday.

Monday

Weekend is over and it's time to get back on it and do what we do for a living for another fun filled week of working.

Looking at this week ahead, it should be a busy one. I've got a Softball game this evening at 7:00, it has been a month since we hit the field and if by chance we would get rained out, it is going to be a couple more weeks before we play again. I would like to play this evening, we are long overdue.

Michelle will be traveling at least once this week. For Xtreme Labor Solutions she is going to a Job Fair on Thursday up by the Meadows Racetrack. They are trying to hire 100 drivers for a few contracts that they have. They are looking for Class A and Class B CDL with Tanker endorsements. She will be offering jobs to a  lot of qualified candidates and helping them through the employment process. She may also travel earlier in the week to Summersville and Charleston, two other locations around the state for their company. Working for MEPCO she has already worked with many of the people she will get to meet face to face possibly this week. She's just part of their team now instead of the person writing the checks to them. She is also working as the book keeper for Morgantown Veterinary Care and she absolutely loves both positions. She's went from being bored, too being being challenged and loving it.

Have yourselves a great day, swing over by the ballpark at 7:00 to watch a bunch of old farts play Softball.

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Fathers Day

A very Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers out there, this is a day that like Mother's Day has it's origins here in North Central West Virginia as the first observance was in Fairmont (Mothers Day was founded in Grafton).

For me there have been two men who have been influential in my life. First was Grandpa Hall, he was the one who instilled the morals and values in me that I have to this day, I completed my education in honor of him.

The second would be my Dad (Pictured here) whom left us way too early at the age of 54. For the record, I'm the good modest good looking guy in the back of the picture.

Our plans for the day are that we are going over to Jim and Chris's fro a cookout this afternoon.

Have yourselves a great day and a great Father's Day

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, I'm up early with the TV playing something on it behind me as I am starting to wake up and contemplate what I am doing today.

Well the answer to that question is firing up the lawn mower and mowing grass. Michelle is going in to work at the Vet's this morning, Chad is going to be working on some tanks and I'll be here firing up the Troy Bilt and taking on the growing abundance of  manicured Cow Chow that some people refer to as their lawn.  I'm up to the task, although it is going to be warm today.

I did get a chance to speak to Jonathan last night, Michelle and I called and spoke to him and Barb for a little while. She is taking all kinds of note for him and I shared the "My Little Home in West Virginia" video with them and walked them through who each one of the people in the pictures were. I have a number of videos like that to share with him, some from picnics, some me just playing around and a number of Christmas videos through the years to play. I don't wan't to bombard him, so I'll share one very so often and let him soak it in.

Have yourselves a great day

Let the cow chow battle begin....when the sun comes up.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

Well it has been an accomplishment filled week. I made contact with my older brother after years of searching, he spoke with his Mother and Michelle started her job at Xtreme Labor Solutions and is still getting her office set up. She's also doing the books for Morgantown Veterinary Care and is juggling doing both jobs. It's not a financial decision, it's more of a challenge decision and if you know my wife she hates being bored.

I would say this has been a great week all around, a memorable one to say the very least.

I think Michelle is going into the Vet tomorrow to try to get that whole situation worked out, she is going to be busy for a while to say the least, so that limits what we may get ourselves into.

Have yourselves a great day and an awesome Friday.

Hi ho hi ho