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.

So some may ask, what is the purpose of a random bird eating a morning worm? Well to me this indicates that birds have migrated north from their winter retreat and they are back here for the spring and summer. What could be more spring like than a portion of wildlife looking for food in the early morning?

Today is the First day of Spring 2025. It is the start of my favorite season of the year. It's a rebirth after a cold winters nap, when you can open the doors up and let the fresh air into the house (of course in my case they are building a new bridge right in front of the house, but I'll take it. It's BBQing and Blackstone season!!!!!!

Have yourselves a great day

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Happy Birthday Amy Dalton

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my wonderful niece Amy a very Happy Birthday today. 

One thing I can't figure out is where did the 39 years go as today is her 18th anniversary of her 21st Birthday. 

Amy is amazing and inspiring to all, she is one who sets out goals and goes out and accomplishes them, no matter how big or how small. Whether it be raising a family, career path or simply building and paying for a new house for her and her family. She is always focused and goal-driven. 

Amy is also a very creative photographer. She has that photographer's eye on how to create a great shot that I wish I had but do not. It takes a certain level of creativity that she exhibits and I don't have.

She's an amazing mother with two kids with all the tools and guidance to accomplish anything they choose and that starts in the home that Amy and Ralph have created.

If you happen to see this amazing young woman today, make sure you wish her a Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday, Amy.

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* It has been 22,363 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,616 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. 

* 6,203 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. That's 17 years and 3 days ago. 

* 5,414 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 5,452 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 2,589 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 1,247 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,106 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,513 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.

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

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

* There are 281 more shopping days left until Christmas 2025.

* There are 260 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 190 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* There are 141 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are 94 days to go until summer. 

* There are only 2 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

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

* I have written 7,877 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!!!!

* I had a Doctors appointment last week and did a good bit of blood work since it had been two years. My A1C went from 11.8 to 5.5. That's a reduction of 6.3 in 2 years, what happened? I gave up diet soda. I still have one on the occasion when by blood sugar drops too low to raise it a little, but that is me completely eliminating diet soda and especially aspertame from my diet. Unsweetened Iced Tea (that I brew) and water from my Cirkul I would say is the biggest contributing factor. Yeah Me. All of my test results are within normal range of every test I took (about 40 or so of them). 

* 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. Gary Oldman (a great and underappreciated actor) on Stephen Colbert. 

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy St Patrick's Day

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 you can tell Kiwi and Peanut are already in the St Patricks Day Spirit. Kiwi believes he is Irish simply because he is green, and Peanut is up for a party anytime. 

Michelle ordered a green St Patricks Day shirt from Amazon especially for today that she is planning on wearing to work and to visit her Mom this evening. I'm not sure if I even own a green short anymore, but I'm not planning on going anywhere today so I won't get pinched. 

I know Mom has two different Doctor appointments today with her Cardiologist. They wanted to schedule them on Friday, but it would have been way too much on her getting out of rehab, getting situated at home and going to two different appointments. Today however she will have her appointments. I believe today will be the last day for Gerald's rehab and he will be coming home tomorrow (or today) I believe. Either way Mom, Gerald and Lucy are or will be all back together at Unity Manor by tomorrow at the latest.

Have yourselves a great day.

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Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Peanut and Kiwi and still sleeping after wearing themselves out with their Badmitten Tournament they held outside yesterday. They wanted me to make them a pitcher of lime Koolaide to drink as they spent the day frolicking around in the fresh air yesterday. I'm not sure who won, but they were both laughing and having a really good time it looked like. Did I mention that they are both really in the St Patrick's Day Spirit? lol

Yesterday Michelle once again got the weekly menu planned and all of our shopping done. She also reviewed all of our taxes before I file them, so it was a pretty busy day ass the two others were outside playing badmitten. 

A couple of weeks ago I bought a pair of  these electric scissors on Amazon. I have to tell you these things are amazing, especially for things like Cardboard boxes that you may need to cut up. I saw it on the tictok shop, but decided to buy a pair off of Amazon. 

So what are our plans for the day? As soon as someone tells me then we will all know. It might just simply be relaxing around the house to be honest with you. It is selection Sunday, meaning the teams for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will be chosen this evening. That means we can all fill out our tournament brackets and compete in our office pools. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Rambling

Here I sit in a much quieter household, Lucy went home yesterday as Mom was released from Encompass, of course Kiwi and Peanut were there to see her off. I'm sure Mom is happy to be home after nearly two weeks and Peanut is reminding me that it is getting warmer outside, or should I say Meoutside, meaning open the door and let me frolic. 

In reality we took and dropped off Mom's car with a lot of her stuff back off at her apartment on Thursday evening. Her car was parked in the normal parking space, although Lucy did drive it home as she insisted that she knows the way. It was going to be a big task getting everything back to the apartment so we got the bulk of it Thursday and then grabbed Mom and the essentials yesterday. 

So what are our plans for the day? Shopping and doing a few other things around the house, especially with the Spring type weather that has been bestowed upon us. I guess this means we officially won the AC in the window war with Winter. It stayed there all winter, whereas I usually take it out and put it in the garage for the winter. 

We are probably going to finalize and submit our taxes this weekend. I've got them done and thought I was going to owe the state, until I got to use the county taxes paid form that I got then my owing turned into a refund somehow. Not complaining. 

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.

Not sure of the plans for the weekend, as of presstime Lucy I may still be here and Mom should be going home tomorrow. That is one big disadvantage of pre-writing blogs so far in advance, sometimes you are having to guess what will be happening like in this case. 

I do just have a few days to work, they are pulling funding for our contract or specifically my task and will re-evaluate at the beginning of May, so my task to which I bill to will have a stop work order put ion it temporarily, which means I'm looking for new employment. I'm still employed by Parsons, it's just I don;'t have any billable hours and things are a little slow right now in Geospatial work with the change in administrations. That's just the nature of the game. 

Have a great day

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