Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, I'm up early watching Key and Peele on Comedy Central and checking on April on the Giraffe Cam on Youtube as I surf the net and collect my thoughts for the day.

Well the WVU Men's Basketball team beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 83-71 yesterday to be the first team to advance to the Sweet 16. That round will begin on Thursday and we will take on #1 seed and the nations 32 seed Gonzaga. Gonzaga has gotten the better of us the last couple of times we have played, so we have a little added inspiration other than advancing in the NCAA Tournament, if we beat them this will be thr third team that has been ranked #1 this year that we will have beaten. We're going to have our hands full, but it is a task that can be accomplished.

The WVU Women will be trying to make their mark and advance to the Sweet 16 themselves as they take on #3 seed and the #4 team in the country when they take on the University of Maryland this afternoon at 2:30. The Mountaineers have never beaten Maryland, but they have only played twice and haven't played each other since the early 1980's.

For Michelle and I, it'll be a day of doing our grocery shopping and the things that we usually do on every Sunday to prepare for another week of work ahead.

Have yourselves a great day today.

Saturday Morning Rambling

Here I sit on a quiet and cold wintry morning, it's a blazing 18° degrees outside and I am trying to restart the fire in the fireplace that we had burning last night. I'm up early collecting my thoughts for the day with the TV on in the background playing who knows what.

I'll be going out this morning to do some field work, trying to eliminate a few more lines from my roster as the quarter keeps a rolling. I've worked this one down and now it is just a matter of trying to find the people home that just aren't easy to find at home. This is the point of the quarter where there are a lot of redundant visits to people who are just difficult to find at home.

Josh has some time off from work so he has went back to Ohio for the weekend. He's been working his butt off on some very long shifts since he started his new job, and is taking a little time to go back home and visit his Grandfather.

The WVU Men's Basketball team takes on Oklahoma State this evening at 5:00 at the WVU Coliseum. WVU beat them 92-75 at their place earlier this year, so hopefully Coach Huggins and the Mountaineers can bring home their 19th win of the season. Speaking of Coach Huggins, please go and vote for him in the Infinity Coaches Charity Challenge. The higher he places the more money that comes to Morgantown for Cancer Research with money donated to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund. Go vote and bring some research money to Morgantown to battle this ugly disease.

Have yourselves a great day and do your best to stay warm.

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Well here I sit on a quiet Sunday Morning, May is behind me chowing down on a Pig Ear and I'm up watching the Devils Advocate on Amazon and surfing the interwebs checking scores from last night that I may have missed.

Yesterday was cookie day, you can tell Sammy has already broken into one batch and has been chowing down. Michelle busted her butt all day yesterday and is to be commended, she is a remarkable and tireless woman and I was distracted with other things and wasn't much help.

The WVU Women's Soccer team plays for the National Championship today, cheer this special group of ladies on and bring that National Championship Trophy home.

The WVU Men's Basketball team went on the road to #6 Virginia and won 66-57. This is a big win for Coach Huggins and the Press Virginia team, they just wore out the #6 team in the country on their home court.

WVU Football garnered their 10th win of the season yesterday with a 24-21 win over Baylor in what may have been one of the most sluggish performances that we have seen this year. Justin Crawford came back from last weeks injury and rushed for 209 yards in leading the offense. The Defense was pretty much lights out most of the game.

Today is a back to normal day with our grocery shopping in the morning and watching the Mountaineer ladies bring it home this afternoon.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Rambling

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, I'm the first one to recover from a losing battle with the Sandman last night and I'm up collecting my thoughts for the day and watching something on HBO.

I did get a little bit of sad news yesterday morning, we received word that Gussy the African Gray that Jean had had for years, had passed away on Thursday morning. Gussy was a bird with a large vocabulary and perfect timing with some of the things that she said. There were only a few people who could handle her, I was not among that group. I think Gussy has left us all we a few memories of her. RIP Gussy.

Michelle and I attended the WVU vs Mt St Mary's basketball game last night. The Mountaineers managed a 87-59 victory in the season debut. I do have to see this was my first look at the upgrades to the Coliseum and I have to say that I am very impressed with what I have seen. They have completely transformed the look and feel of the WVU Coliseums outer concourse. It will be a pleasant surprise for anyone who sees it and it's only half done.

I'll be heading out this morning to work for RTI, I'll also be out in the field again tomorrow so I'll be following my 26 day stretch up with a weekend off followed by at least another 19 day stretch and today is day 13. It's all about to slow down for the quarter however which I have to say does not bother me. I will welcome the much needed break.

The WVU Football team is in Texas to take on the Longhorns this afternoon, I'll probably miss most of the game but would like to see at least some of it.

Have yourselves a great day today.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again, only me and Phin are up and we are watching Super Troopers on HBO and collecting our thoughts for the day. I haven't fed her yet, but she'll let me know when she is getting hungry.

Michelle, Laiah and Hayley are all heading to Monaca for the day for her Niece Laura's Baby Sprinkle. They were going to stop by the airport to pick up Jon, but he drove home from New Jersey a couple of nights ago so there is no need to do that.

My plans for the day are pretty much WVU Sports related. The WVU Baseball team will play Old Dominion at the Mountaineer Ballpark. I'm thinking about heading over and catching that game. Yesterday's game was pretty much won on a suicide squeeze play and was a very exciting game.

Last night the WVU Men's Basketball team won one of the most exciting games in a long time. The Mountaineers beat #6 Oklahoma 69-67 in one of the most exciting finishes ever to advance to this evening's Big XII Championship game against #1 Kansas.

Last night the Mountaineers held Buddy Hield, the NCAA Player of the year about 20 points below his average in beating the Sooners, but Hield made it exciting as he hit a half court 3 point shot at what appeared to be the end of the game. However referees reviewed the shot and determined that when the clock officially hit 0:00.0 the ball was still in his hand and the shot was too late and did not count. If the clock was started a fraction of a second an 1/10th of 1 second would have been more than ample time, the shot would have been good.

Have yourselves a great day, Phin is telling me something now...lol

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household, Phin woke me up to let me know it was either time for her to eat to it was just time to get up as she wanted to play. I'm up with One Flew Over the Cockcoos Nest playing on HBO and collecting my thoughts for the day.

I picked up Michelle's Apple Watch yesterday, she played around with it a little last night but was basically letting it charge to get its first full charge. It took a while to set it up and to learn where everything was and how to navigate around everything. I did find a pretty good tutorial on how to use it for her, so that will make it a lot easier.

There is a big basketball game here in Morgantown this afternoon with a battle of a couple of top 10 teams. #3 Oklahoma comes into the Coliseum to take on the #10 WV Mountaineers at 4:00 with the game being televised on ESPN. This will be the 5th and probably final regular season match up against a Top 10 team this year for the Mountaineers who are also in the Top 10. We still have 2 more top 25 match up's left, but neither appear that that will be on the top 10. Now Big XII Tournament and NCAA Tournament time we may once again start seeing top teams.

No plans on the agenda for Michelle and I today so far, probably finishing setting up her watch and some chores around the house. Traffic is going to be horrendous this afternoon.

Well with many new stores soon to be coming to Morgantown, it looks like Hobby Lobby will be coming to the Gateway Plaza in the near future. If you have never been to a Hobby lobby, you are really missing something. I call it Michaels on Steroids as there is just so much to choose from. It will definitely be a town favorite. There is also a Peace, Love and Little Donuts that will be opening in the University Towne Center in the very near future.

Have yourselves a great day and enjoy the day to the max.

Saturday Morning Rambling

Here I sit in a semi quiet household, Phin and I are up watching Tosh.O on Comedy Central and we're both collaborating on our thoughts for the day.

Yesterday was an eventful day to say the very least. First of all they pushed the time back to start buying Jimmy Buffett tickets back two hours really screwing with my availability time to be able to purchase them and still get done with my part time job in time to do what I needed to do and get home in time to feed the cats and go out to dinner with Michelle. Michelle stepped up and managed to secure all of our tickets for August. This will be my tenth and Michelle's ninth time of tailgating with fellow Parrot Heads. I was trying to do it from my phone, but it was limiting me in what I needed to do so I had to get Michelle to do it from a PC.

We put Pearl into the garage yesterday morning, it was making a strange sound Thursday, almost as if we were going to have to replace the entire exhaust system. We got lucky and this has been something that the Subaru garage has seen a lot of recently. I guess a lot of ice got up under the exhaust manifold and the axle and sits there and builds up. The mechanic said there has been a lot of this recently for some reason, I'm just thankful that was all it was. We also had a few minor repairs done as well as we had 4 bulbs go out that affected our front parking lights. Thinking it was either a fuse or a short I had no idea, but turns out they all just burned out at the same time.

Last night we went out to Dickies for dinner, Morgantown was becoming absolute gridlock again with the snowfall we were receiving. Strange though that it had nothing to do with any cars being stuck or hung up, just an excess amount of traffic for some reason.

Have yourselves a great Saturday, the WVU Men's Basketball team will take on TCU today at Noon at the WVU Coliseum and the Women travel to Oklahoma State to take on the 20th Ranked OSU Cowboys in a battle of two Top 25 Ranked teams at 6:00.

Have yourselves a great day.

Sunday

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, Fin is once again reminding me that she either wants to be fed or just making sure that I am up.

Well the WVU Men's Basketball team came up a little bit short, as in a 2 point loss to the #2 team in the country on their home court with a last couple second tip in 70-68. If we would have won it would have been the first time since 1990 when Oklahoma did it that a team beat the #1 and #2 teams in the country in consecutive games. Oklahoma should be the #1 team in the country in Monday's Polls. WVU falls to 15-2 on the season.

The WVU Women's Basketball team hosted and beat the Kansas Jayhawks 72-35 at the WVU Coliseum. The Mountaineer Women improve to 15-4 on the season. The win was Coach Mike Carey's 600th of his career. Congratulations Coach.

Are you wanting a little bit of Football? Well the Pittsburgh Steelers without Antonio Brown, Le'Veon Bell, DeAngelo Williams and with a QB with a separated shoulder travel to Denver for the AFC Divisional Playoff game. Pittsburgh is very banged up and missing a lot of key playmakers including Mr Excitement Antonio Brown. The Steelers enter the game as 8 point underdogs because of all the injuries. The Steelers did erase a 17 point deficit a few weeks ago to win 34-27, so there is hope.

Have yourselves a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, Fin just woke me up and let me know that she wanted fed so I'm watching Horrible Bosses 2 and collecting my thoughts for the day.

So much for that thought, Fin woke Michelle up as well so we are both up. She obviously does not want us to sleep too much and acts as if she rules the roost, but then again both humans are now up...lol

Last night we went out to dinner to celebrate both Michelle's and her sister Chris's birthdays which were both yesterday. Chris and Jim wanted to go to Hot Rod's House of BBq in Waynesburg, which was a friend of Jim's whom he actually talked into going into business after he made his first batch of wings in his backyard. I have to say that I loved it, and it is more than worth the trip. Food was at a fair price and excellent.

Today is going to be a big day for WVU Men's Basketball, after beating #1 Kansas on Tuesday night 74-63, they now travel to Norman Oklahoma this afternoon to attempt to do something that has not been done for a long time, and that is beat the #1 and #2 teams in the country in consecutive games. The game is at Oklahoma so we're not the favorites. These two teams each blew the other out last season on their own home floors. The winner of this game should be the #1 team in the Country when Monday's Polls come out. WVU is ranked #11, but many top 10 teams fell this week and if we can pull it off this afternoon we would have a VERY strong resume and argument.

The WVU Women's Basketball team plays Kansas this evening at 7:00 at the WVU Coliseum. It's super hero night and admission is just $1.00. Swing on by for a little cheap entertainment and a good time.

Have yourselves a great day, no real plans for Michelle and I today.

Christmas Tree Day

Well so much for my quiet household, Fin is going nuts running around everywhere and Sammy woke Michelle up making her some fresh coffee this morning. He brewed her up a cup and stirred in her favorite white chocolate and the next thing I know we are both up. We're watching "Freddy Got Fingered" on HBO and relaxing a little bit.

Well today is our day to decorate and put up our 2015 Christmas Tree, someplace for Sammy to hide in and some place for Fin to probably terrorize this year. We'll head out in a few hours to Southern States to select and pick up our 2015 tree to bring home and decorate. We're about ready to make the Hall household look like Santa Claus threw up Christmas all over the place.

Both the Mountaineer Men's Basketball and the Football team play this afternoon. The Basketball team hosts Keenesaw State at noon and the football team is in Manhattan Kansas to take on Kansas State in the final regular season game of the season before the bowl season begins in a few weeks.

I can't believe Michelle is wide awake at 5:00 in the morning on a weekend when she does not have to work and we are not traveling anywhere. Something tells me there will be a nap in her future after all the decorating takes place.

Have yourselves a great day.

Ho Ho Ho Ho I freaking Hate Snow, Merry Christmas.  

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, only me, Fin and Sammy are up. Sammy decided he wants some coffee and has found the white chocolate sauce and wants some in his coffee. Good thing we have more of it, it would be a sad day in this household if Michelle couldn't have her white chocolate when she re-wakes up.

I have seen that a couple of my nieces have already set their Christmas Trees up for the season. This afternoon we are going to take a little bit of time out and set up and decorate Mom and Geralds Tree for the season. This will be the third year that we have put up their tree since they moved to their current residence, the tree gets more life every year. It looks like it's going to be a good turn out this year.

The WVU Basketball team won the Las Vegas Invitational last night with a 72-50 win over San Diego State. Richmond, the team WVU beat in the Semi-Finals beat #14th ranked Cal in the consolation game for 3rd place.

The WVU Seniors get to play one last game at Mylan Puskar Stadium as today is Senior day, the last home game of the season. Today's opponent will be Iowa State but we still have Kansas State to play next weekend and our bowl game, so this is not their last game, it's just the last time they will play in Morgantown. Thank you to all the Seniors for your commitment and helping this team transition into the Big XII.

Have yourselves a great day.

A Busy Saturday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the first one to recover from that losing battle with the Sandman last night and am up collecting my thoughts for the day and watching As Good As It Gets on TV.

Being that tomorrow is Easter Sunday, we are going to have a pretty busy day today. We're going to run out and do our Sunday Grocery shopping today, since most places will be closed tomorrow morning we're going to get those kind of things done today. This will also include a trip to New Day Bakery as we do every Sunday.

We're going to run to Maryland and Amish Country. There are some Amish Made Jellies up there that I have grown quite fond of and we are going to pick up a few and stock up. Best Jellies ever, I can't even stand to eat anything store bought anymore they are that good. When combined with the best breads ever from New Day, absolute perfection.

We will be getting a couple of house guests for the week today. Rocky and Lilly will be coming to stay with us for the week as the kids are on Spring Break. We're going to party down all week with the puppies.

The WVU Women's Basketball team is playing for the NIT Championship this afternoon in Charleston. The game will be held there because the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Regional Championships are being held at the Coliseum today if you are looking for something else to do around town.

Congratulations to WVU Basketball Coach Bob Huggins for being named the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year yesterday in Indianapolis, where the Final 4 Semi-Finals are being held today.

It's going to be a busy day, If you are traveling stay safe.

Have a great day.  

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well that dreadful thing we refer to as Monday is now once again behind us and we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday. I still can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits.

* It was a mere 18,748 days ago that my Mother went into the delivery room and gave birth to this blogger.

* It was 3,971 days ago that I actually fulfilled a lifetime dream and graduated from West Virginia University. I was much older than the average Freshman at age 35, but I've never regretted it.

* 2,572 days ago I took Michelle out on out first date,

* 1,796 days ago I got down on one knee and proposed marriage to this wonderful woman who would later become my wife.

* 1,333 days ago, in front of our closest family and friends, Michelle and I exchanged our wedding vows.

* I have about 6,089 more days to go, give or take a few hundred here or there until I enter into the world of retirement.

* In 275 more days my Goodbye 2015 Blog will post here.

* If you haven't started your Christmas Shopping yet, you still have 269 more shopping days left to go until it's too late.

* I've got 245 days to go until my birthday, or should I say the anniversary of my Birthday. =)

* In 166 more days Michelle and I will be setting sail yet once again on our cruise. I did get lucky enough to get a Faster to the Fun pass again yesterday, we had one last year and it was worth it.

* We have 128 days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourth Wedding Anniversary this Summer.

* The big family picnic is a mere 89 days away. I'm looking forward to celebrating this day once again this year, it was definitely a highlight of last year.

* Summer is only 82 days away. YES!!!!!!!!! (and I STILL Hate Snow)

* There are only 47 more days until Brittany's Graduation, I'm excited to see her do her walk and receive her Degree.

* There are only 16 more days left until Michelle and I leave for Niagara Falls. Neither one of us has ever been there and we are both really excited about this trip.

* This is my 4,006th Blog that I have written for George's Journal in the 10 1/2 years that I have been writing this. I've seen some milestones and life events come and go, that is for sure.

* With this coming weekend being Easter, Michelle and I will have to get our Sunday Chores doen of Saturday. We're planning on doing a small meal at home for the two of us. Her family will be meeting in Monaca, but we are staying home and will be puppy sitting a couple of cute and lovable doggies for the week.

* My niece Amy traveled to Amish Country in Ohio over the weekend, with the pictures that she put she looks like she had a really good time.

* The WVU Women's Basketball team will be playing in the NIT Semi-Finals tomorrow. The game will be held at the WVU Coliseum if you are looking for something to do and need someone to cheer one.

* Michelle will be off today, she has a Doctors Appointment this morning where they are going to check for problems from her surgery and see how everything is flowing. She does appear to be feeling much better, but she has her moments after a meal when she doesn't feel the best.

* Hayley started her new Job yesterday, it's an office job for her and a change of pace from what she was previously used to doing. Hopefully she likes it.

* No news on the Brother search yet, it's we're still waiting on someone to get back to us before we move any further forward.

* The Hall Family Tree sits idle yet once again this week, it's just that time of the year when nothing really gets done to it.

* Have a Great Day

* Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well that dreaded thing called Monday is once again behind us and we are staring once again straight down the barrel of a Tuesday. Can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits.

* 18,741 days ago I was born. That makes me about 21+ years old.

* 3.964 days ago I fulfilled a dream of mine and Graduated from West Virginia University.

* 2,565 days ago I took Michelle out on our first date, she forgave me for the bad movie and all BTW.

* 1,789 days ago I got down on one knee and proposed marriage to Michelle.

* 1,326 days ago at the Marilla Center in front of our closest family and friends we exchanged our wedding vows.

* I only have about 6,096 more days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred here or there.

* 282 more days until my Goodbye 2015 Blog post where I recall the previous year based on my Blog.

* 276 more shopping days left until Christmas. I did ask the question last week about a big family Christmas and only received two replies and they were both preferred other plans. So I'll let that idea die on the vine.

* In 252 more days it will once again be my 21st Birthday.

* There are only 173 more days to go until we set out on our 2015 Cruise. Michelle's sister Dani and her Husband Roy will be joining us this year on our cruise.

* 135 more days to go until mine and Michelle's fourth Wedding Anniversary.

* We only have 96 more days to go until the 2015 Picnic. I'm getting pretty excited about this.

* Only 89 more days to go until Summertime!!!

* In only 54 more days my niece Brittany will get her Degree and Graduate from West Virginia University.

* In only 23 more days, Michelle and I will leave for Niagara Falls.

* This is the 3,999th Blog post I have written for George's Journal in the 10 1/2 years I have been writing it. Tomorrow's blog will achieve a Milestone for me.

* The WVU Men's Basketball Team has once again advanced to the NCAA Basketball Tournament's Sweet 16. We play #1 ranked and the first and only NCAA Basketball team to go 36-0 in a season when we take on the University of Kentucky this Thursday at 9:45 PM on CBS.

* No work this week on the Family Tree, with Springtime upon us this may mean that this project will be shelved again until this fall when the days get shorter. I did make significant progress through the winter months, but unless I hear anything on the Brother Search which I am still actively pursuing there won't be any new content for a while.

* Still no word on if Jimmy Buffett is coming to Pittsburgh in 2015, I still have my fingers crossed but I'm starting to be a little bit doubtful.

* We are still waiting to hear from KDKA about the Steelers Trivia Tournament for this year. All of us on our team are in, now we are just waiting on the official OK from KDKA.

* The local Baseball Park is just about done, I'm ready to go see the Mountaineers and Black Bears play their 2015 Home Schedules here.

* The price of our cruise dropped yesterday and I was on top of it. WE now have $140.00 of onboard credit already.

* What's with all this White Stuff on the ground? It's Springtime so go away. I Hate Snow.

* Have a Great Day

* Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Rambling

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the first one to recover from that losing battle with the Sandman last night and I'm up watching Sin City on one of the TV stations and collecting my thoughts for yet another day.

Well yesterday we ended up taking another road trip, but one not that far this week as we headed up North to Tanger Outlets and then to Sarris Candies to do a little bit of shopping. I did manage to find one of my childhood favorite candies there in a BB Bat. Inflation is killing us, they used to be 2 for 1¢ I was a kid and now they are 20¢ each. Oh the humanity and inflated prices. It's pretty sad when penny candy is now 20¢.

We did book and pay for our Niagara Falls trip yesterday. We're going up for a couple of days next month to see the falls. We have decided to stay in Canada and found a real nice deal on Groupon which really did save us a ton of money compared to what we did almost pay for the trip. About 1/3 of what we were going ton pay. We are doing it economically as we are just looking for a place to lay our heads a couple of nights. I got two nights cheaper than I got one night in DC plus a bunch of meal coupons, so I'm not complaining. Did get a bunch of advice from a few friends on Facebook, I guess Canada is the way to see the Falls and we did have our Passports since we do travel Internationally when we cruise.

Plans for the day are just to do our routine grocery shopping and finish up the laundry for the week. Michelle got most of it done last night, so there is not much more to do. The Mountaineer Basketball team plays the last game this evening when we take on the Maryland Terrapins to advance to the Sweet 16 to take on the Tournament Favorite Kentucky.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Rambling

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, I'm the first to recover from that knockout blow by that dreaded Sandman last night. I'm up watching Two for the Money on HBO and collecting my thoughts for the day.

Yesterday was a great day for WVU Sports. The Basketball survived the 5th seed jinx and were the last 5th seed standing and beat Buffalo 68-62 to move on to the NCAA Tournament's second round against the Maryland Terrapins on Sunday night at 8:40 PM. WVU Freshman Wrestler Zeke Moisey won his semi-final match at the NCAA Tournament by Pin in the 1st period to advance to the NCAA Finals this evening. WVU has not had an NCAA Wrestling Champion since Greg Jones graduated and this is our first All-American in Wrestling in quite a few years as well. I was watching the match on the computer and Michelle must have thought I was nuts when I kept slapping the table calling the pin before the referee did.

As for our plans, maybe a little geocaching, who knows since we really have nothing planned for the day yet. That doesn't mean anything however as we could easily get into something.

I know we are talking about booking our Niagara Falls trip today, we were exploring a few options about where to stay and what to do yesterday, I think we are going to finalize it all today and make our reservations. Groupon is always your friend when you are looking to head out to places like this.

Have a great day.

Daylight Savings Time

Here I sit once again in a quiet household. I'm the first one to recover from a losing battle with that dreaded Sandman late last night. I'm up collecting my thoughts for the day and watching Popeye on the TV. I do have a lot to talk about this morning on a few important subjects, so this is probably going to be a multiple BLOG kind of day for me.

First off, if you have to manually move your clocks ahead and have not done so yet, you're probably an hour behind this morning. Daylight Savings Time starts today, meaning that it will get light later in the morning, but we will have daylight longer into the evening. I consider this the start of saying goodbye to winter and hello to Spring and Summer.

The WVU Men's Basketball team played Oklahoma State yesterday and won 81-72 here in Morgantown. We were playing once again without two of our top players and ironically on Senior Night where we say goodbye to our Seniors, none of the three were healthy enough to play. Kevin Noreen has been out all season, Gary Brown sprained his ankle a couple weeks ago and Juwan Staten is also fighting off knee problems. It was nice to see them go out with a win. Next up the Big XII Tournament and the NCAA Tournament which we are pretty much a lock for right now regardless of what happens after finishing the regular season 23-8 and currently ranked #20.

We're still dog sitting today, Rocky and Lilly are still here but will be heading home today as Ashley and Christopher return from their weekend trip.

Have a Great Day.

Saturday Morning Rambling

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household, me and a couple of my K-9 House guests are up early collecting our thoughts (they are waiting on treats) and surfing around on the net. We are up bright and early watching Private Parts on HBO Go.

I think we are going to book our cruise today, we are just getting tired of waiting and something tells me that there is going to be another contract extension at work since they are running out of time to legally announce it. So we are just going to boon and plan it. This year however we will not be going alone. I've been trying to talk Michelle's Sisters into going, I've kept hitting up my Brother in Law Roy to take Danni and they want to take their first cruise with us this year. Today we book it.

Other than that not too much planned, we have Rocky and Lilly for the weekend as Ashley and Christopher are away for the Weekend, Michael is still home but he has been very busy between working and getting a few things set up at the store, so we are watching the spoiled little fur balls.

The WVU Men's Basketball Team plays their last home game of the season today when they take on Oklahoma State this afternoon at 2:00. This will be the final home game for our Seniors as we enter into the Big XII Tournament this week and the NCAA Tournament starts after that.

Don't forget that we all lose an hour of sleep tonight as it is the start of Daylight Savings Time!!! Days are going to be getting longer, spring is right around the corner, Oh yeah!!!

Have a Great Day

Saturday Morning Rambling

I'll post this blog a little later this morning, I'm up early collecting my thoughts for the day and watching the Faculty on HBO.

Nothing planned for us today, other than Michelle has to go over and do a little bit of blood work later this morning. She has a Doctors appointment later this week, and they are wanting to test her blood to see how she is doing.

Other than that, nothing really planned for the day. It's supposed to be cold, so that may weigh pretty heavily into our plans when we decide what we may or may not do.

The Mountaineer Basketball team plays this afternoon at 4:00 on ESPN 2, so I may watch that if I get a chance to. The Mountaineer Baseball team started the season off yesterday on a high note as they beat #24 Clemson 2-0 to open the 2015 season up. They open up at home on March 17th if the stadium gets completed on time.

Have a great day and stay warm.

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 with the coming storm being one contributing factor and the fact that it's getting towards the end of the month and Michelle works in accounting for a good sized corporation, her time is probably going to be very limited due to getting W-2's and Quarterly Taxes done on time. So this may be a weekend at home for me doing probably not very much. With the snow storms that are due to come and the Super Bowl this weekend, it may be just a good weekend for me to stay home and watch sports.

The Mountaineer Men's Basketball team will take their 17-3 record and try to get number 18 tomorrow at noon against Texas Tech. Hopefully we can pick up the win as we have already beaten them 78-67 on their home court earlier this season. If they win this one we will have topped last seasons win total and it's still only January.

Other than that not a whole lot going on around Morgantown this weekend. Something tells me the weather will dictate what I do this weekend more than anything. If Michelle doesn't work this weekend, there will probably be a trip or two to a clothing place so she can get some new clothes. She's down about 45 pound since surgery and needs some new duds.

Have a great day.

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