Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out to look through all my pictures and select just one special moment in time that was captured through the lens of a camera and relive that moment in my blog. This is one of my favorite blogs of the week to write as it causes me to take a little bit of time out and reflect on days gone by. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and finding that right picture is simple, sometimes it's not very easy and I struggle with brain farts to find something that I haven't done before and is memorable. One thing it is however, is always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks picture goes back a few years, back to the end of an era in my life. This was the last group of guys that I played softball with. My 26 or 27 seasons at BOPARC had come to an end and my body wasn't able to do what I wanted it to do anymore, so this was my final team. A great group of guys that I still consider part of my extended family even to this day.

We didn't win any Championships nor were we even a playoff caliber team. We were about middle of the pack but had some tremendous talent on the team.This was the final MiHaley's team and the end of my career playing a sport that I had loved so much.

There are days that I wish I could be at the ballpark, at least watching the guys I used to team with or just watching a good game being played. I haven't been back since I retired, but maybe I should go catch a a game or two.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

That's two days down, now if you just take a look up over than noon time hump, just on the other side of a Photo Flashback you can see the dawn of another weekend just off in the distance.

The picture you see is one taken by WVAQ's Lacy Neff, they are starting to set the stage up for the Kenny Chesney concert his weekend. We'll be in section 535 so we'll be looking at it from the other side. I know Michelle is really looking forward to it. We were there last weekend, but we were at Stage AE.

Our backyard garden is really starting to takeoff. The Tomatoes are growing and Michelle's green beans are really growing still. The green beans were all plated from seeds but have just spurted up in no time. I'm waiting to see the squash and zucchini start to take off as well. We'll just have to wait and see which one survives the battle of the creeping plants.

I'm ready for another weekend =)

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Erica Jean Nicholson

I would like to take this opportunity to wish a very special little girl named Erica Jean Nicholson a very Happy Birthday today. Erica is mt Great Niece and is the daughter of my niece Val.

Val and Bobby have a birthday party planned for both Erica an Josh in the very near future, as in in about 11 days from now at her place.

If you get the opportunity to see Erica today, make sure you take a little bit of time out and wish this very special little girl a very Happy Birthday today. I'm not sure what her schedule is today, but I'm sure it probably either involves swimming or spending time at Anmaw's house/

Happy Birthday Erica Jean.

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* 1,922 days ago, I was blessed with the ability to go out on my first date with a woman who would forever change my life. 

* 1,145 days ago I got down on one knee and proposed marriage to this wonderful woman. 

* 682 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, we exchanged our wedding vows. 

* There are only 190 more shopping days until Christmas.

* 82 long days before we depart once again on our cruise, but that number is starting to dwindle noticeably. 

* 30 days until we see Jimmy Buffett in Burgettstown. 

* 4 days until we party down with Kenny Chesney at Heinz Field for our second of three concerts this year. This will be the last weekly countdown entry for this item.

* 3 days until it is Summertime. This also will be the last weekly countdown entry for this item. (Summers here)

* Michelle bought a batch of Grape Tomatoes yesterday, we ended up vacuum sealing six large bags of them and stuck them in the freezer. 

* Something tells me we will be looking for recipes that use Grape Tomatoes in the next few days. Anyone know of any? 

*  We're starting to look for another camera this year to snorkel with. Michelle bought a Kodak last year and it got wet and tanked the first day we were using it under water. 

* Hi ho hi ho

Weekend Wrapup

The weekend is over with, there are a few things that I wanted to touch on that I didn't get a chance to because of Father's Day and the Peter Frampton concert. To say it was a busy eventful weekend is an understatement.

The picture that you see is of my Nephew Calvin's foot. He was cutting firewood with an axe not wearing any shoes much less not wearing the steel toed boots that he had in the house to cut firewood with. It ended up in 13 stitches and if you ask me he was very lucky as it could have been much much worse.

I did get a chance to visit my sister Pam, Calvin and my Nephew Moke (who is also recovering from semi-recent foot surgery. They stopped by and we sat on the back porch BSing and doing a little catching up and joking about Calvin being polish and that being the cause of his foot being injured.

We got a heck of a deal on a rug scrubber. This thing was still basically new in the box and we picked it up for a small fraction of the price. Someone who Michelle worked with bought it new and then installed hard wood floors before she ever really used it. We were contemplating buying that model anyways being that we have a 17 year old dog that sometimes can't control herself. She usually goes in the bathroom where we have tile, but she has her accidents. This will keep the carpets fresh.

We bought a new TV for the bedroom a couple of weeks ago, it replaced the big bulky thing that had the Wii remote put through it a few years ago. It had sat in our bedroom as a dust collector so we recycled it and replaced it. We hung the new TV up high so it could be easily seen, however that started to interfere with the built in WiFi because there is a huge steel I-beam running down the center of the house for support. It was giving us a sporadic signal because of the interference of that I-Beam so I just ran Cat-6 wire to it and wired it up. No problems losing a signal now. Chad had previously ran Cat-5 wire to his computer due to similar issues a few years ago. If there was no I-beam there probably wouldn't have been any problems, but this house was built solid. I also bought a good surge suppressor and mounted it to the wall to hide any and all unsightly wires.

It was a good and memorable weekend, we have another bigger weekend coming up this weekend which includes seeing Kenny Chesney at Heinz Field. We did forget to take our gnome with us this weekend, but we'll get some pictures of his this coming weekend in the Stadium.

Have a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Concert #1 of the year.

Well concert #1 of 3 is now in the books. Michelle and I went to State AE last night and saw Peter Frampton. It's a nice venue right beside Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.

We were able to get into the venue quickly, the concessions were fairly priced and easily accessible. There were plenty of more than adequate rest room facilities and the arena had a good acoustical setup that enhanced your experience.

As night fell you got a beautiful night view of the City of Pittsburgh.

The night started with the Robert Cray Band who came out and did a 45 minute set while the sun was still up. He kept us all entertained for about 45 minutes or so with some of his hits.

Peter Frampton took the stage about 9:15 an d did not disappoint. He demonstrated why he is one of the true guitar gods with an assortment of some of his work through the years. He was joined on stage by Don Felder, one of the men who made up the Eagles who also rocked the stage. For the encore I had a member of the Eagles and Peter Frampton playing the Beatles While my Guitar Gently Sleeps.

Overall it was a great show and I would definitely do it again. We didn't get back home until after 1:00, so it's been a short night of sleep for me.

Funny story though, we went into Jerome Bettis' bar that was across the street to use the restroom. Strangest restroom I have ever used. Upscale bar, the restroom was rather dark and the Urinals were right in front of a two way mirror. So as you were standing there doing your business you are standing right behind one of the bars looking out over the bar. It was just weird, unique but weird.

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad's out there, both living and past. The two men you see posted here in this picture are the two men who were the most influential in my life.

On the left was my Dad, George Hall Sr. This was a man who was loved by all that met him and left a lasting impression on each and every person he met.

On the right was the man who raised me until I was 13 in my Grandpa Hall. A musician and a man who had a very big influence on me and my life.

Both of these men are no longer with us, but the lives that they lived and the things that they did still touch my life each and every passing day.

So on Fathers Day, a holiday that like Mothers Day was founded locally here in Fairmont West Virginia in 1908, despite Spokane Washington getting credit for it two years later. I would like to wish these two men who have lived their lives and have moved on, a very Happy Fathers Day.

Do You Feel Like We Do

It's finally here, a day when I get the chance to see the man whose album I have probably listened to more than any other artist in my life.

Peter Frampton is one of my all time favorite artists, someone who I said I would love to see before I died. Well, the opportunity arose this year and I Jumped on it. I missed one a couple of years ago when he appeared at the Meadows Racetrack and we were right across the street at Tanger Outlets. This year thanks to Groupon making me one heck of an offer to see him, that I could not pass it up. Ticket's went on sale initially for $150.00 each, that was a little rich for my blood. Prices for the lawn dropped to $25.00 plus like $8.00 in fees and I was about ready to pay that for two tickets, but when groupon made them available for $17.00 a pop I could not pass that up. Great timing on their part. =)

I've never been to Stage AE yet, but it is an amphitheater that is in the parking lot of Heinz Field where I will also be in seven days to see Kenny Chesney, but that will be at the stadium.

Have a great day, I plan on it.

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.

I'll be the only one in the office today, seems like everyone else has either went on vacation, taking a weekend trip biking or traveling for the weekend so it'll be just me today. It's going to be a short day anyways, so I should start my weekend in the early afternoon as I do our Sam's Club shopping for the week.

On our agenda this weekend? Concert number one of three at Stage AE when we are going to see one of my all time favorite artists Peter Frampton with Robert Cray, someone else I really like and Don Felder of the Eagles. Should be a fun night if the weather holds up.

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all the pictures that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time captured for a brief instant with a camera so that we can all forever relive them as I write a little blog about one of them. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that one special picture and sometimes it's not so easy, it is however always a whole lot of fun for me.

This weeks pic comes from one of those Marilla Park George Hall family BBQ that we used to have so often. Days gone by that everyone seems to remember and have very fond memories of. Whether it be one of my Sisters or Brother, or anyone else who took part in the events they were days that we all look back on with fond memories.

I think what I remember most, other than all the food my Dad and Jean used to serve, was the epic battles that took place soon afterwards. It always seem to start with an ice cube or a squirt out of a squirt gun and escalate from there. They started slow, but grew to the point where I can remember a large chunk of raw hamburger meat getting thrown. Jello seemed to be the worst, because it stained your clothes.

These are some of my fondest memories of my family growing up. There was never a stranger, no one ever went home hungry and it was always memorable.

Hump Day

Roundabout on Mileground

Well that's two days down, now if you peek up over that noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback you can see the dawn of another weekend off in the distance.

For those of you wondering about the new traffic patterns you will experience on the Mileground later this summer when  all the construction is completed, here is a little information  for you to know about schedules, phases and what is happening up there. It is a major headache right now, but once this is all finished this should greatly help the flow of traffic on 705 and the Mileground.  Hopefully it will make the afternoon less congested and keep the traffic flowing a little better and smoother. I know I've had a number of people ask me lately what was going to happen up there. I would say they are well ahead of schedule and are really kicking butt up there.

If you are looking for things to do this summer (I'm a little late on this), HERE  is BOPARC's calendar of events for the summer. Seems they are only doing three movies this summer and I've already missed the first one of the year.

Have a great day

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well once again that dreaded Monday is once again behind us and we have the week just a rolling along. Can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* 1,915 days ago Michelle and I went out on our first date. The movie was horrible, the pizza was good and the company was a keeper.

* 1,138 days ago I asked that keeper if I could keep her.

* 675 days ago we started our life of wedded bliss together.

* There are only 197 more shopping days left until Christmas. It's never too early to start planning or to start shopping either.

* 89 more days until we set sail once again on our second cruise.

* 37 days away from seeing Jimmy Buffett in concert again. This will be our sixth annual trip to see Jimmy together and my seventh time seeing him.

* We have 11 more days until we see Kenny Chesney at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.

* That means it's only 10 more days until SUMMERTIME!!!!!!

* Peter Frampton, our first concert of this year and the last time he will appear in a Tuesday's Tidbit Count down this year is only 4 days away.

* I ordered another cheap EZ Up. We bought one about three or four years ago and it's starting to become a little weathered. It was hard finding a replacement tarp, so I ordered another one like we already had. I could have bought a much more expensive one, but this one suits our need and is all we really need.

* Our garden is still doing great, the green beans are really surprising me and as a personal note, never sit down on a wet lawn chair when checking your garden.

* We have a couple of house guests for a couple of nights. We have a couple of friends coming in from out of town and staying while one has surgery tomorrow morning early.

* Michelle said she has her first Wrap Party scheduled with WrapwithChelle.

* Hayley came down for dinner last night, we surprised her with some birthday cupcakes.

* Hi ho hi ho

Back To Work

All good things must come to an end, and that even includes that thing we look forward too during the workweek, the weekend. It's time to stick our noses back on the grindstone for another week of doing what it is that we do that allows us to enjoy the things we do.

We did have a nice relaxing day yesterday, we went to Pricketts Fort to feed the ducks all of our old bread that we had. We've saved and froze it for a while just to feed the ducks. Let's just say Michelle and I are friends of the Geese. They promised not to poop on our car and to poop on the cars of our enemies (if we ever really had any).

We did get the TV hung up, but I managed to drop the drill on Michelle's foot and that didn't feel too good. It made me feel pretty bad that I let it slip on my baby's foot. I let her take a nap yesterday afternoon to make up for it, I know I'm a nice guy.

Now it's back to the grindstone, not too sure if I have anything major coming up this week, but I know I'll be going to see our first of three concerts this summer this coming weekend when we go and hear Peter Frampton.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning

OK so much for my morning spiel, I slept in a little bit later and Michelle is already up and about to drink a nice hot cup of coffee. We're watching the end of This is 40, a movie that we both like and I own on Amazon.

Yesterday's baby shower went well from what I hear, Laura got a number of nice things that she was wanting. Michelle, Hayley and Laiah all went up and helped everyone else pull this thing off yesterday.

I went across the street and helped Patty set up a little bit of a virtual network. One machine she can log into and do all of her work on from anywhere, that way there are not multiple copies of files in multiple locations. When this happens, especially with financial records you can have a whole lot of wasted man hours and headaches. Hopefully this will make her life a little easier and will prevent her from crossing the same path time and time again.

It's going to be a relaxing home day for us. We're traveling or have things planned the next few weekends. Maybe try to mount the new TV in the bedroom and doing a little cooking out on the grill. We got our garden planted last weekend and the green beans are starting to come up. My wife has such a green thumb.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Once again here I sit in a quiet household, I'm the first and only one so far to recover from a losing battle with the sandman last night. I'm up early collecting my thoughts and watching American Reunion on the Boob Tube behind me.

I thought Michelle was going home for the baby shower today, but she corrected me and informed me that it's here in Morgantown at the Church up on the Mileground. I guess everyone from up there will be traveling down here for the shower.

In spent part of the day yesterday over at Sherri's trying to pull the pictures off of the hard drive of her laptop  before it was being sent in for repairs. I used Pen Drive Linux which allows me to access anything on the computer as long as it it working. In this case, her computer can't read RAID-0 so there was no way that I could see the file structure or anything else on that drive.

Rumor has it Dunkin Donuts has opened up in Morgantown. I've heard that the lines are ridiculous and it's a wait to get your donuts. I'll wait till all the excitement has passed or I'll go to Rays.

Have a great day.

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 the weather is not going to be as cooperative today as it was last weekend, but that's OK, it's still a weekend.

Michelle will be heading back home tomorrow to help set up for her Nephew and Nieces Baby Shower. Jon and Laura will be having their first child this August and the family is gathering somewhere up there to hold the Shower. Michelle and Hayley will be out early tomorrow so that they can head to decorate before the festivities begin.

I'm off today so it's going to be a Sam's Club kind of day for me.

Have a great day.

Happy Birthday Hayley Dawn Collins

I would like to take this opportunity to wish the best step daughter a man could ask for a very Happy Birthday today.

Hayley Dawn Collins turns 20 today, it seems like just yesterday we were scraping to have a sweet 16th birthday for her here at the house.

Hayley has grown up into a beautiful young woman and is a strong independent woman that both Michelle and I are both proud of.

If you happen to see Hayley Dawn Collins today make sure that you wish her a very Happy Birthday Today.

Happy Birthday Hayley

Photo Flashback Thursaday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all of the pictures that I have stored on my computer and write a little blog about. Lost moments in time that were captured for a brief moment and stored for ever on one of my external hard drives. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and and sometimes it's not so easy, it is however always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks picture goes back a number of years to when I used to work for Vargis/Infotech in Frostburg. This picture was taken at our Company Christmas Dinner when I was awarded the 2005 Employee of the Year. I got my hotel paid for and a nice little cash bonus to go with the award. This is me and Mike Dooley, the Manager of the Frostburg Facility when he presented me with the award.

I rarely if ever stayed in Frostburg, but I did stay up there on that night at the Hotel Gunter, a place where all of our H-1 employees from India were staying as they were here assisting us with all of the compilation. Only bad thing was this was a Sunday night and we all had to work the next day. Fortunately for me that day I only had to drive half a mile instead of 60.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

Well we have got two days in this week, now if you peek your nose over that noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback, you can start to see the dawn of another weekend off in the not to distant future.

Yesterday I did a short blog and today because of my little brother Gary's birthday you are treated to two blogs instead of one. Call it a ROGO (Read One Get One) day for a blog.

Finally got the TV set up last night, all but the mounting that we'll do this weekend, I have it customized to how I want it and have all of my online accounts logged into so all you have to do is select a button or two and select what you want to watch. I did have to take the digital box back to Comcast as the one that I had wasn't working. So I switched them out and got this one working so we can watch the cable channels in the bedroom. I bought it primarily for Netflix and Amazon video.

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Gary Allen Hall

I would like to take this opportunity to wish the best little brother on the face of the planet a Very Happy Birthday today.

I'm one of the few who are lucky enough to call this man little brother, even though he outgrew me years ago. He is by far the best little brother anyone could ever ask for, but I may be just a little bit biased on this one.

So if you see my little brother Gary today, make sure that you take a little bit of time out and wish him a very Happy Birthday. Better yet, remember the times he blew everyones phones up with text messages? Now would be a good time for everyone to get together and give him a couple hundred Happy Birthday wishes!!!!

Happy Birthday Gary.

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* 1,908 days since Michelle and I went out on our first date.

* 1,131 days ago we got engaged.

* 668 days ago we were joined together as husband and wife and have enjoyed marital bliss ever since.

* 204 days left until Christmas, it's creeping up on us quickly.

* 96 days until we set sail on the high seas once again on our second cruise.

* 44 days until Jimmy Buffett

* 18 days until the Kenny Chesney concert.

* 17 days until SUMMER!!!

* 11 days until Peter Frampton.

* I got home a little late last night, my cousin Sherri was having some computer problems and I went over to assist her. A technician got one of her computers going and another one has a fried hard drive, fried as in doesn't even recognize it.

* Michelle got the new TV in the bedroom set up as I was playing with the computers.

* Short but sweet blog.

* Hi ho hi ho

Back To Work

Well now it's time to stop all of the fun that we have been having over the weekend and time to get our noses back on the grindstone to do what it is we do so that we can live the lifestyles we want to live. I really do love my job, so I honestly don't mind going to work. I do however enjoy the weekends and this one is now behind us.

It was a busy but productive weekend where we got a whole lot of chores done around the house. I've ordered a new TV that should arrive in the near future to replace the one that we had in the bedroom for the past few years. That was the one that my lovely wife put the Wii remote through but still worked somewhat, and by somewhat I mean about 2/3 of the picture and fading. I'm getting a smaller smart TV to mount and open up some dresser space as the other one sat there and basically did nothing but collect dust. I've already recycled that one at Best Buy, now it's waiting fore the new one.

We spent yesterday afternoon attending a funeral. A funeral of someone I never had the honor of meeting in my life, but so many around me were on the same circle. It's amazing that this one person was such a centerpiece of many of people in my life. From Trish, Layla and Arron, to her husband Joe being babysit by her as a child, Michelle'e late husband Richard used to give her a ride to work everyday, to being the sister and Aunt of a couple of long time softball team mates, to our friends Paula and Lynn in Maryland. It just makes you realize what a small world it is and it was a common component in so many of my friends lives.

This is the last day officially for school for kids in Monongalia County, but my guess is attendance is not going to be 100% today as most of the kids have either officially or unofficially started their summer vacations.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, so far I am the only one who has recovered from a losing battle last night with that dreaded Sandman. I'm up once again early, as I am every day, and I'm watching the Clint Eastwood movie Trouble with the Curve. We watched it last night and it was a great movie and it's on again, so I'll watch it again.

We actually got a good bit accomplished yesterday. Got a good early start to beat the heat and changed the brakes on the Taurus. I pulled it into the garage and Michelle was a big help to me. I thought with two torn labrums that breaking bolts loose on the tire would have been very painful as it was last fall when I had a flat tire, fortunately it wasn't and my partner Ray (a nickname Michelle earned working with out brother in law Jim years ago) was a huge help.

After we got the brakes down, it was off to Southern States and Lowes to get our starter plants and a few other things. We ripped a small weed/bush out of the planter beside the patio and are managing to us that area for squash, zucchini and Cucumbers. the three creeper type of plants. In our raised garden we have tomatoes, green peppers and banana peppers in one side and Michelle used the other side to plant green beans.

We'll be out grocery shopping this morning, we usually plan our meals out for the week and then shop accordingly based on what we need. The only meal we haven't decided on is todays and we're thinking about grilling out one way or the other weather permitting, although it is calling for rain according to my iPhone's forecast.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the only one here who has recovered from a losing battle with the sandman last night, and of course I was the first to lose that battle as well. I'm up early trying to find something on Netflix, but have been playing around on the computer for most of the morning so far.

We launched a new website last night, wrapwithchelle.com was born and was done to assist Michelle in her new business venture. If the site does not open up for you, and it should, it's the DNS servers setting and should be 100% functional by the end of the weekend. I would imagine that since it is a new domain it is going to be working now. All I did was redirect and mask Michelle's consultant page so it all appears under her domain name. We're going to do everything we can to assist her in getting this wonderful opportunity going.

I've got to work on my brakes on the Taurus this morning and then I think we are going to plant our garden finally this year. I've held off a couple of times due to cold fronts, now it's time to get it into the ground and growing.

Weather is going ton be nice and warm today, get out and enjoy it.

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 the weather looks like it is going to be more than cooperative this weekend, temperatures are going to be in the just right to oh yeah range. That is the 90° F range to everyone else. It was supposed to be sunny but the weather forecast is calling for some showers. I don't mind a little bit of rain, but I would like to get my garden planted and my brakes changed on the Taurus tomorrow morning.

Now for a public service announcement. Want to lose weight, don't want to do all the hard things it takes to do so. All it takes is a couple of easy steps. One, like her page on Facebook right here, this gets her some attention and gives her a chance to get some wrap parties going. Two, shop her product line. Michelle is the first Independent Distributor for ItWorks and is trying to get the word out. She first tried this product last fall when we went to her High School Reunion and a friend of hers from High School was Pittsburgh's distributor  for the product line. She ordered and has been using it for some time and the results really show with the tape measure and how her clothes are fitting her. She has used one of their products and has revitalized her fingernails. The stuff is pretty amazing, people will have to get together for a wrap party and see the results on your own bodies.

Other than that, I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all the pictures that I have stored on my computer. Lost moments in time that were captured with a camera to live on forever. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that one special picture, and sometimes it's not so easy, it is always a a lot of fun however.

This weeks picture goes back a few years, back ton a day of water battles, pic nics and fun times with friends on at  the Rosiak 4th of July Pic Nic.

I grabbed this picture of Trish and my wonderful Wife Michelle early in the day, I think at this point they were both still pretty much sober. There is actually a video of me going down a slip and slide and doing a flip at the end of it as Trish about killed Kenny again. It was a great day and one I look forward to every year.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

OK that is two days down even though one of them was a holiday and now if you look up over than noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback, you can see the dawn of another weekend off in the distance.

Well our house is now back to normal, Shawn safely made it back home yesterday around 5:30. He sent Michelle a message when he got home to let us know that he had made it home safely. Rocki and Lilly are now back home with Ashley and Michael as they have finally returned home from an extended weekend at Myrtle Beach.

I'm, struggling to come up with something creative to write, so I just grabbed some of Michelle's delicious home made potato salad she made this weekend for the pic nic (remember I write this the night before). Not sure if it will give me any inspiration talking about those wonderful chunks of potatoes, peppers and sweet gherkin pickles just swimming in Marzetti's Slaw dressing that my dad got me addicted to in years gone by. Yummmm.

Is it too early to start planning this upcoming weekend? I'm thinking Frank and Pat Rosiak are going to have a graduation cookout for Arron this weekend.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Now that the three day holiday weekend is now behind us and we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday, I still can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* 1,901 days ago Michelle and I went on our first date.

* 1,124 days ago (our 777th day of dating) I proposed marriage.

* 661 days ago in front of our closest friends and family we tied the knot at the Marilla Center.

* There are 211 days left until Christmas.

* Down to 103 days left until our cruise (I think we are about half way there from us booking it)

* 51 Days away from Partying down with Jimmy Buffet and the rest of the Parrot Heads when we all meeting in Pittsburgh.

* Only 25 more days until we see Kenny Chesney at Heinze Field.

* 24 More days to go until Summertime.

* 18 days to go until we got to Pittsburgh's Stage AE to see Peter Frampton.

* Shawn will be leaving today and heading back to the Pittsburgh Airport to make his way back to Nebraska.

* Rocki and Lilly our other house guests will be returning home today as Mommy and Daddy made it back from Myrtle Beach late last night. Gotta love those puppies, they are both a bundle of joy.

* Michelle got her ThirtyOne order Sunday from Amy's party. She loves all of her new bags and we have the beach bag personalized.

* Michelle has had a great deal of success with a product called It Works, she was introduced to it this past fall at her HS Reunion, now she she is going to start selling it. She'll have her website up sometime in the near future.

* Chad's Python that he first bought right after birth is now a little bit over 7' long. Relax, it is hand tamed and the kids lover to play with it.

* Hayley's boyfriend Manny is getting ready to leave for Mexico for a few months to do his internship. He's studying Mechanical Engineering and he wants to follow in both of his parents paths and work for NASA.

* My brother Gary took his Harley down to DC for a ride this past weekend, he kept messaging me all weekend and then late yesterday morning said he was returning home.

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day to everyone. I hope everyone takes a break from their pic nics to take a little bit of time out today to remember why we have this day. It is a day that we honor all fallen veterans who have fought and died for us.

We had our little get together yesterday afternoon and had a great time. It was nice to see a group of close friends reunited for the first time in a number of years. Shawn stayed in Maryland last night at Paul and Lynn's home, but will be back here tonight so he can go out to dinner with Michelle's niece before returning to Nebraska. The man is full of personality and it has been my honor to meet him. In know Paul was trying to convince him into coming back here to work, but he has found a really nice deal on a house in Nebraska.

Our plans today is do a little more BBQing, but smaller scale. If the weather was nicer I would pack up a grill and go somewhere, but I am content just staying here and cooking.

We will be making a couple of trips to a couple of graveyards today. Today is as good as any day to visit my Father and Grandfather.

Have a great day.

Sunday Morning Rambings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the first one to recover from a losing battle with the Sandman and am up early once again watching somethingoranother on the TV (shows you how much I am paying attention).

Shawn made it in from Nebraska and we are going to be having a cookout for him and some friends today, and anyone else who would like to show up. I've got corn soaking for roasting ears and Michelle is going to make Potato Salad and we're probably going to grill just burgers and dogs on the grill. Hopefully the weather will hold up for us today and allow us to have this outside. I don't see any rain in the forecast but it was once again a bit on the chili side last night.

Michelle and I have to get out this morning and do our grocery shopping, mostly shopping for things today and the little things to get us through the week. We have 15 cubic foot and a 56 cubic foot freezers that are pretty well stocked, so our grocery needs are limited.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Rambings

This was the scene last night as Arron Hill Rosiak culminated his scholastic journey with his final walk and received of his High School diploma yesterday evening. He had a large following as you can tell. Trish brought an air horn that they tried to remove from her, but she wouldn't give it up. 

Ok on to today. Michelle's friend Shawn will be arriving from Nebraska sometime this morning. He's coming in for a visit for the Holiday and we're planing on doing  a cookout for him and some of his their friends tomorrow afternoon. Paul and Lynne are coming in from Maryland so it will be nice for Michelle to get back together with a few of her old friends. 

I have to say this is the coldest Memorial Day weekend that I think I have ever seen. I still haven't planted my garden, and was talking to Trish's parents last night and they haven;t planted theirs either. It's supposed to be hot and sunny, not cold and wet. 

Have a great day and stay safe.

Congratulations Arron Hill Rosiak

Tonight it will mine and Michelle's honor to share a very special day in the life of a little boy that I have watched grown up into a 6'7" man as Arron Hill Rosiak gets to listen to Pomp and Circumstance as he walks down the isle once his name is called to culminate his scholastic career at University High School. 

I have had the pleasure of being a part of this young man's life and watching him grown into a man, I have enjoyed every moment of it and consider it an honor.

Last night his Aunt Michelle the great Aunt that she is, made him his favorite cookies, and mine too, the Butterscotch Cookies that he loves son much. It's no surprise as I sent him a picture of them being made and he replied Yumm.

I'll have my camera in tow to grab a few pictures from tonight. I can't believe that you boy who years ago used to refer to me as Ed Hall Dumb Dumb, he just turned four is now Graduating High School.

Congratulations Arron.

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 and it's Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of SUMMERTIME!!!!!!!!

Three day weekend on the agenda, Michelle's friend Shawn will be coming in tomorrow ton visit us. It's a friend of hers who lives in Nebraska that she hasn't seen in a few years, so he's coming in for a visit.

Tonight we'll be going to the WVU Coliseum to see Arron Hill Rosiak graduate from High School. University High's commencement is this evening at 6:00 and neither of us would miss it for the world.

I'm working today, but I'll be boot scooting early so

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to taken a little bit if time out and look through all of the pictures that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments of time that I have stored in some kind of a digital format and safely protected on an exterior drive. I like to select one captured moment in time and write a little blog about it. Sometimes it's pretty easy finding that one special pic, and sometimes it's not so easy. It is however always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks picture I do not know the origin of, other than than it was on an old disposable camera in my Sister Terri's tub of pictures that we had developed last week. She has 13 disposable cameras with pictures from the past 15 or so years that were laying there undeveloped.

This weeks pic is one of those pics, it's a picture of a couple of my nieces that were developed from those pictures. I have no idea of a times frame but I would guess somewhere in the early 2000's but that is about as close as I can come to narrowing it down.

I just thought it was a very nice picture of them.

Hi ho hi I'm off today. =)

Happy Birthday George McClain

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my Brother from Another Mother and Brother in Law George McClain a very Happy Birthday today.

George is a hard guy to get a photograph of so I had to look through some of my Christmas Photos to find one.

George is a brother in law that I still owe a million and three favors to for all of the times through the years he has helped me with any car problems that I may have had.

My sister was lucky to find him and I was luckier that she did, because I gained a first class brother in law.

If you see George today, make sure you take a little bit of time out and wish him a Happy Birthday.

Hump Day

Well here we are once again, couple of days in the work week done and on cruise control. Now if you take a peek up over that noon time hump, just on the  other side of a photo flashback, you can see the dawn of not only a weekend but the Memorial Day Weekend.

If you like the little picture that I'm using in today's blog,  I have to confess I stole it from my mother's Facebook page. I thought it was cute and appropriate.

I know everyone knows about the story of the tornadoes in Oklahoma, there is always a nice human interest story that brings back hope in humanity every time something like this happens. It could be the WVU Baseball team who was arriving in Oklahoma while the F5 was hitting, they volunteered some relief effort to help assist all the residents who had lost everything.

My favorite human interest story was one I came across yesterday morning, it kind of leaves you a little speechless. LINK It was the story of a woman who lost all and was talking on live TV about her lost dog, and that lost dog appears from out of all the rubble during the interview.

I'm sure there are and will be others, but it's getting that time so it's...

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbit

* Well Monday is once again behind us and in our rear view mirrors, we are now staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday and I still can't think of a better reason than that to a tidbits.

* 1,894 days ago a very special lady agreed to go out on a date with me. We did dinner and a movie and she is still brightening up my days.

* 1,117 days ago I got down on one knee and proposed marriage to this special lady.

* 654 days ago Michelle and I entered into a lifetime together of marital bliss. We had a non traditional ceremony in front of our closest friends and family at the Marilla Center.

* There are only 218 days left until Christmas, it's never too early to get a start shopping.

* We're 110 days away from our cruise to the Carribean.

* 58 days until we party down with Jimmy Buffet and the rest of the Pittsburgh area Parrot Heads.

* 32 days away from  seeing Kenny Chesney at Heinz Field.

* 31 more days until Summer.

* 25 more days until we go and see Peter Frampton for the first of our scheduled three concerts this season.

* My niece Amy found a baby turtle yesterday, I don;t have the heart to tell her that is a very dangerous Alligator Snapping Turtle. Chad has one much larger in his room and they need to be handled with extreme caution.

* Speaking of Amy, she won pick your park passes last Friday. My suggestion would be Idlewild Park.  They have Story Book Forest for kids, shows for the adults, attractions for all to see and they have the Soak Zone with the wave pool and the new Lazy River in 2013.

* Graduation is coming up this weekend for the local High Schools, We'll be attending University High's Graduation Friday night to watch Arron get his diploma.

* I've two blogs for today, this is number 3,228. =)

*  Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Pam McClain

I would like to take this opportunity out to wish my beautiful Sister Pamela Sue McClain a very happy birthday today. If my Math serves me correct, she will be celebrating an anniversary of her 21st Birthday today, so we'll call her 21.

Pam is a hard one to get pictures of, at least ones where she is not giving me the Hall Salute with a select finger from  either one of her hands, but I've noticed she favors the right hand when saluting me.

I'm very fortunate to have a Sister like Pam, never any drama and would give you the shirt off of her back to help someone out. She is a rare bread of person.

My guess is she is working today but I could be wrong. If she's scheduled to work she will show up, I'm even convinced that she would not call off work to attend her own funeral.

If you see this special person today, make sure you take a little time out and wish them a very Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday Pam.

Back to Work

Well my long event filled weekend is finally over with. It consisted of a lot of running especially Saturday and Sunday for the Steelers trivia show. I'm not allowed to tell everyone how we did, but I'll say we did tape the maximum number of shows we could have been in. We will be on in week 5 and then a couple weeks after that date.

We did have a good time on the set and it was nice to hook up with some old friends again, but that is now all behind us.

Now it's time to stick our noses back to the grindstone for another fun filled week of work. It's time to get back to doing what we do for a living and earn that living for another week. This coming weekend is a Holiday weekend, so that will make it nice.

We're having a house guest from Nebraska in this weekend as Michelle's friend Shawn is flying in to see everyone. She hasn't seen him in a few years, not since she last went to Myrtle Beach the first year we dated.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I am once again up in the early AM, as I am the only one in the household who has recovered from a losing battle with the sandman from last night. I don't even know what is playing on the TV as I have to get ready and get out of the house early this morning. We did our grocery shopping last night, because of what happened yesterday.

I'm not supposed to say what happened in our trivia round, it's to keep the suspense going and out there. We were not ready missed a whole lot of questions and were way off of our game. There was a lot of things we didn't know unlike last time when we knew anything and everything. I can't say how the first round went, but my name tag and the teams banner are at KDKA studios where I have to be early this morning. We'll see how today goes, but I didn't expect to be there this morning.

Michelle didn't make the trip yesterday due to how she was feeling, she is not going to be with me once again today. I'll be flying solo once again this morning.

Did you guys see that storm yesterday? I didn't, we were taping as it was going on but it was sunny in Pittsburgh. Michelle called me and told me to be safe on my way home and I had no idea what she was even talking about. She took a few pictures on Facebook, but these pictures are from the Monongalia County Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency and some of the pictures they had taken. The first one is Van Voorhis Road and the second one is West Run, both of these close to our home, just depending on which way you turn out of the driveway. I guess you could say that we were right in the middle of the storm damage. The creek in our back yard got higher, but not to our yard. Patty's backyard got hammered. I'm not sure if it got inside the basement or not.

I hope everyone has a great day today, I should be back home in Morgantown by early afternoon at the very latest. Now I get to drive to the heart of Pittsburgh again. There was some kind of a festival going on yesterday at the point, maybe today I can find out what kind of a festival that was.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit early in the AM, so far I'm the only one who has recovered from a losing battle with the sandman and am up early collecting my thoughts for the day. I'm up watching some movie on HBO, I think it is Club Dread.

I got a real good nights sleep and Michelle needing some rest is still in there sleeping. I don't think she got up too many time through the night as her laptop is sitting right where I left it.

This afternoon we'll be at KDKA studios to tape the 2013 edition of Steelers trivia. We played in 2008 and never trailed once the entire series and won the whole thing. In 2007 my team mates set the single show record but didn't win the tournament.

This year was supposed to be 18 returning Champions going at it, but we were the only Champions to enter for this year and we are more or less a fill in so they can get their 18 teams that are needed. With that being said, we have not studied, reviewed old shows or built a database of questions that could be asked. In 2008, it was given that we were walking away with it, this year we really don't have any plans to make it back to the second day of taping but you never know. Randy Page is a walking ball of sports knowledge, and Chris is no slacker. It could very well two trips to KDKA studios this weekend with those guys. We are scheduled to tape at 4:00, so unlike last time when we were the first show taped, we'll be the last show taped today. Meaning this will appear in the sixth week.

Have a great day.

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.

I'm off again today, going to be doing a little running around and shopping as well as a few other things.

Tomorrow we will be taping the Steelers Trivia in Pittsburgh, I hope the other guys are ready because I really haven't studied much of anything, but Randy Page was the man last time for our team. Hopefully he will be up to his normal self and ready. We won this competition the last time, but neither Chris nor I am that confident this time. We'll have to wait and see. We were "Poised to Strike" last time, but I guess we are the only returning Champions so they are changing our name and retiring the Championship name. I think we are the Fat Polamalu's this time around.

Have a great day.

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through the thousands of digital pictures that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments of time captured in an image for eternity. Sometimes it is pretty easy to find that special pic, you know what you're going to use before you even start looking and sometimes it's not so easy. The one thing it always is however is a whole lot of fun for me.

This weeks picture is a picture that hangs in my home to this day. This is my Grandfather on the left, Bill Addis in behind and they made up the Green Mountain Boys. The man to the right of the picture is Steve Shoals, the Hall of Fame Member who signed Elvis Presley to the RCA label, but that is another story.

Today is May 16th. 36 years ago Ellis Hall a man known to me as pappaw passed away. He was a very influential figure in my life, as he took over the role as my Dad and raised me when my own parents were experiencing some tough times.

Nine years ago, 27 years to the day after Grandpa Hall died, I fulfilled his wish for me when I graduated from West Virginian University.

Have a great day.

Hump Day

If you look up over that noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback you can see the dawn of another weekend off in the distance.

Michelle brought work home with her again last night, meaning she was occupied and I had control of the remote. What was I watching? A great movie? No, the food network.

Something I did run across yesterday was a TV shown that really looked like something I could get into. The Blacklist will be coming to NBC on Mondays this fall. It was an ad for another video that I was watching and it really captured my attention. Maybe I'll watch one or two this fall, it's kind of Silence of the Lambs meets 24.

Other than that, just another boring day in our life, no excitement today, which I guess is a good thing.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well Monday is once again in our rear view mirrors and we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday, I still can't think of a better reason than that to do a tidbits.

* Day 1,887 since I first went out on a date with my wife, she hasn't killed me yet so I must be doing something right.

* 1,110 days ago I got down on one knee and proposed marriage, lucky for me she said yes rather than knock me upside the head,

* 647 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, we exchanged our wedding vows.

* There are only 225 more shopping days left until Christmas, get with it.

* 117 more days until the cruise, I'm ready for it and I think Michelle is as well. I'm ready to do some snorkeling.

* 65 more days until we see Jimmy Buffett in Pittsburgh.

* 40 days until we see Kenny Chesney, although we will no where near as close as my niece Amy was years ago when she saw it at Jamboree in the Hills.

* 39 days until SUMMERTIME!!!!

* 32 more days until we head north to see Peter Frampton.

* It was nice to look through old pictures this weekend, I'm suggesting a scanning party when we work as a team to get as many scanned as we can and organized for future generations.

* I have to start studying for Steelers Trivia, we tape our first round match this Saturday afternoon at KDKA studios. We won it the last time we did this, but not as confident this time. I have one team mate that is just a walking ball of knowledge.

* Michelle brought some work home last night and worked from home for a few hours. She's trying to get caught up on a few things.

* What is up with all of this cold weather in mid May? Come on, I want to plant my garden, hurry up and make this cold front pass. I looked at a heat map yesterday and it was in the 80's in North Dakota and in the low 30's in Minnesota. What's up with that?

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday George Hall Sr

It will be 14 years this summer since you left us, a time that was way too early because we did not get enough time to spend with you. You were only 54 years old, when you passed in 1999. Today we would have been celebrating your 68th birthday.

I'm sure that there would have been one of those infamous George Hall cookouts, all while you trying to ignore the fact that is was your birthday.

The cookouts of yesteryear, the ones that are still spoke about 25 years later that you hosted for not only the family but the extended family as well. You just liked being around your family, your kids and your grand kids whose souls you have touched even to this day. I was at Terri's yesterday looking over some old pictures as Amy was scanning them. I remembered your birthday was close to Mothers Day, but Val was the one who reminded us all that your birthday was today. Even more evidence of the people you have touched.

If I could have one with today, it would be to tell you Happy Birthday, Thank You for all you have done for us and we miss you.

Happy Birthday Dad.

Monday Morning

All good things must come to an end, and that includes the fun filled weekends that we have. So it is time to stick our noses back on the grindstone for another week of work.

I stopped over and spent the day with my Mother yesterday as Michelle went back home and spent time with hers. Mom and I drove down to Terri's who was going through a number of pictures with the kids and grandkids. Amy started to put an album up on Facebook  of the scans.

It was a lot of fun to spend some time with a lot of very special people in my life. We were all looking through a tub of pictures and reflecting upon a lot of them. It's memories like yesterday that I think I hold more dear than the actual pictures. It was a chance to relive lost moments in time with the people who were either involved or someone who could explain something about the picture.

That was yesterday, not it's time to get back to work.

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Mothers Day

Here I am up early again, as I am every morning and collecting my thoughts for the day. Michelle woke up about the same time I did, but has went back to once again lay down and go back to sleep. Sandman really got to her I suppose. I'm up watching Head Office  on HBO, a movie I used to love back in the 80's but haven;t seen since.

I would like to take this opportunity out and wish all of the Mothers in the World a very Happy Mother's Day today. Mother's Day  is a very special holiday in North Central West Virginia, since it's origins start here with Anna Jarvis in Grafton West Virginia.

Speaking of Anna Jarvis and her home or birthplace, here is a picture of my wife, a Mother of two, at the home where this entire holiday started. We took a trip to Philipi a few years ago and we stopped by the Anna Jarvis House just outside of Grafton. So we stopped and grabbed a few pictures, this one in particular of the porch and a few of the tools that were used at time when she lived there.

There is also a shrine in downtown Grafton to commemorate that this was the birthplace of this wonderful holiday.

I am fortunate to have a number of people in my life who are either my Mother or Mother figures. One of which was my grandmother who left us in 1980, but will always be remembered. There is my Mom who I will visit sometime today, there is Jean and Nana who we stopped by for a visit yesterday, there is Michelle's Mom and Grandmother who both walked her down the isle on our wedding day. Then I can't forget my wonderful wife as she is a Mother of two herself.

We're going to do our normal grocery shopping here this morning and then we may both go say hello to my Mother, then Michelle is heading up north to visit her family for the day. There will be bouquets of roses to go all around for six wonderful women in my life today.

I would also like to extend a very Happy Mother's Day to my Sisters, wonderful Mother's their own right and to my nieces who are wonderful  Mother's as well. 

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there, it's you that keep us in line.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the only one here who has recovered from a losing battle with the sandman. I'm up early and watching Mallrats (love Kevin Smith movies) in the background as I surf the World Wide Web and collecting my thoughts to write this very blog.

Michelle went to Amy's Thirtyone party  yesterday and helped her out a bit. She ended up buying four things including this bag ton the left that we are going to use on the beach on our cruise, She's going to have our name embroidered on it and this is going to be our beach bag for days we arrive at ports.  If you didn't get time to order, I guess that show is now closed so you are SOL. Michelle said she got a good turnout and people were buying a lot of stuff, giving Amy quite a few things to choose as gifts. I'm glad it turned out pretty good for her.

I did hear from my sister Pam a couple of nights ago, she said she was in another fender bender on my voice-mail as she called after I was already in la-la land (I go to bed early). I'll try touching base with her this weekend and see how she feels.

We gave Chad his birthday Present a little early yesterday, he smashed his phone and AT&T was giving a $100 trade in on all working older smart phones. I had a 3GS that stayed in an otter box from the beginning and was in pristine condition so we traded that in on a new iPhone 5 for him. I got him another otter box for that phone so he is set and good to go again. I think he was amazed with the connection speed capabilities of the 5 since it is 4G LTE enabled where the iPhone 4 was not. He said he sent a picture to his cousin Jon and it was lightning quick. He has an iPad but he mostly uses that here or tethers a connection on his iPhone. We switched over to the family share plan earlier this year allowing all of us to create a personal hot spot. I can think of a few times in the past few years where I considered surrendering my unlimited data plan for a tethering plan, the shared plan allows us to do this and we have plenty of data to share.

I talked to my brother Gary briefly. I gave him my old computer because he quite frankly needed one since he is going out on his own for contracting and really needed something with a little bit of power and was reliable. He hasn't had much time to work on it as he has been busy.

Michelle said my sister Terri is looking real good. Terri said she was a little sore from her surgery still, but is able to get around and still be functional at work. She is a real trooper and like my sister Pam, I think they will both go to work even after they are dead. Hard workers to say the very least.

Not sure what we are getting into today if anything, I'm holding off planting until next week and it's supposed to rain all day.

Hope you have a great day.

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 at 6:00 this evening at the Mountain View Jamboree, my niece Amy is having a thirty-one party . I'm a guy and I'll have to be honest I have little to no clue as to what they are, but I know it's a product that is starting to catch on and the reviews I hear are pretty good. If you can make it, head on out there today at 6:00 or if you can't just click the link. Make sure that you spend lots of money so Amy gets the rewards. I know Michelle is going to be going, so she'll probably buy something off of her and I know she is going to give my Sister Terri a ride up as well. Hopefully this goes well for Amy and she has some sales to help her get some rewards.

I'm off today, so I'll probably do our Sam's Club shopping and running around. We usually go out to dinner on Friday Nights, but I'll be on my own to find something. I'm anticipating a pizza in my future. =)

The weather appears to be less than cooperative this weekend, even calling for it to be below freezing on Monday Morning. I'll be waiting another week before we plant our backyard garden with this cold front coming. This should be the last one and it should be good planting weather after that.

Have a great day.

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through all of the pictures that I have stored on my computer. I like to find one lost moment in time and relive it briefly in my blog. Sometimes this is pretty easy, sometimes it's a little challenging to find one, however it is always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks picture is probably one of if not my absolute favorite picture of Erica Jean. It kind of captures that precious age if innocence that we all used to know some time ago. A  time where you were worry free and living for the moment.

This picture was taken at my Niece Amy's wedding reception. She and Ralph were actually married the day before, but had the wedding reception the next day at their home.

I guess every once in a while you capture a picture that has a life of its own, something that makes you stop and relate and for me I feel this one captures that. I get lucky every once in a while with my picture taking and capture that special moment, this was one of those times.

Have a great day.

Hi ho hi

Hump Day

That's two days down, now if you just look over that noon time hump, just on the other side of a photo flashback, you can see the dawn of another weekend off in the distance. It's the time that we are going up over the hump in the week filled full of work.

I just  wasn't getting used to my keyboard with my new computer, you could almost say that  I was getting a little bit frustrated with it to say the least. I bought the cheap one that came with the computer because I didn't really care for the ones that they had to offer as an alternative. So I decided to go back to an ergonomic keyboard and chose this one  from Office depot. I used to have an ergonomic keyboard when I worked at the NRAC and in college for my home computer, but have gotten away from them in the past six or seven years. I just figured it's time to get a new one since I switched computers, so I got what I wanted.

I also decided to clean up my blog a little bit, the twitter feed that I had hadn't been working in a while so I updated it with a new widget. I still can't seem to get my blog to syndicate to Facebook anymore, but my twitter feed feeds both Facebook and here. My Facebook also feeds my twitter account, so maybe it was time to connect the two again.

Michelle has been under the weather with a some stomach problems. I told her if she is not better by today to head on over to  WVU Urgent Care and see what they have to say about her condition.

Have a great day.