Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned, or just stole from someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a whole lot of fun.

This weeks pic was from the last time Bonita came into town. Uncle Robert had traveled from Ohio to meet her and Mom and this was one of the last pics of the three of them together that was ever taken. 

Bonita lived in Alaska, so getting back to West Virginia was something that only happened every few years. This was her last trip here. 

That night the Koon family organized a meal at the church that we all attended and that is where this picture was taken. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wenesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is over with, the week has started and I'm off to a good start. Good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,523 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,783 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,368 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,590 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,133 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. How many people keep track of hoa many days they have been married 11+ years later? 

* I have now lived 1,755 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 278 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,403 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows though, doing what I do I may never retire. 

* There are 360 days until I hit the age of 60. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 283 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. I think we are ready to roll now. 

* There are 271 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 241 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 111 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? 

* 71 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, hopefully Phil does me a solid this year.

* 27 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. I need to start my formatting for that post. 

* There are 18 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* I have written 7,002 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. Yeah, I've topped 7,000 posts

* Older Drone still needs to be sent out for repairs, not a big priority at this time. My little drone is awesome and I really like it....when I take time out to fly it. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm still working 20 hours a week of Overtime making it 12 hour days. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, I love this guys tic toks he is hilarious. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday

All good things must end, including those fun-filled things that we refer to as weekends. Now it is time that we put our collective noses back onto that grindstone for another fun-filled week of doing what we do for a living. 

Had a good productive day yesterday. We had this cat tree that was behind my work desk that we purchased a few years back. It was huge, but the cats never got on it. Danni and Roy left their back home so gave them the one that cats don't use for their cats. All should be good in the universe now as her cats have a place to frolic. 

Looking at my week ahead, I have a normal week ahead work-wise. After a couple of weeks that I had to work altered schedules because of an event that was during the week I can return to normal this week. 

I know that we are going to Waynesburg next Sunday so as to have the Ohio family Christmas in a more neutral area. We are all going to meet at a Chinese restaurant (fa ra ra ra ra ra ra) so that Michelle's Mom can spend some time with her sister. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi is still insisting he if going to get a trillion Twitter followers. I keep telling him there are only 8 Billion Humans on earth, but he keeps insisting world bird domination and that he will be their self-appointed leader. He's got some crazy dreams. 

Michelle woke up yesterday morning with a terrible migraine headache. We had some plans yesterday to pick up her Mom and attend a niece's first birthday party, but none of that came to fruition. A day of a long nap in a cool dark area was what was on her agenda. 

I'm off once again today, do you believe that, two days off in a row for me. It's some much-needed rest to say the least. 

We have our menu planned out for the week, today we are making a poor mans stubbed cabbage and stuffed peppers. You cut them up and put it in with the stuffing mix and make them all together. 

Have yourselves a great Sunday. 

Happy Birthday Kim Sanjulian

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my Sister Kim SanJulian a very Happy Birthday today. We started out in life where I was one year older than her, but since I am only 21 years old, she has passed me up by a couple of years by now.

 
Kim is an amazing sister, one that I have had numerous arguments through the years, but there has always been a great deal of respect for her and her viewpoint even though I would never let her know that.

 
Not sure what Kim and Robert have planned for the day, but I'm sure it will either be a nice dinner or something along those lines that will be memorable. 

 
If you see Kim today, take a little bit of time out and wish her a very Happy Birthday today.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household. Kiwi and I are up discussing some of the ins and outs of tweeting. He claims he is going to be the first twitterer with a Trillion followers. I tried to tell him there are only 8 Billion people on the planet, but he said watch me. I think he is planning on recruiting an army of birds to flood twitter. 

I am off work today, I finally get a two day weekend after the past few weekends have been busy making up time for time off of work for Thanksgiving and a Funeral. Our VPN is down today, so there is no working for me. 

What that does mean is that I will be heading to the laundromat this morning to dry clothes. Michelle has stepped up the past few weeks and done it for me, but I'll be heading over there this morning to get the clothes dried. I'm an early riser so I don't mind getting out early and doing it. 

WVU is entering dead week. That is the week before finals where there are no tests or anything, but there are semester projects that are due. I can see a few partiers around town tonight as the last blast before the Semester ends and they go on Christmas Break between Semesters. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes, it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Black Friday!

It is a true Friday for me, my weekend starts this evening even though I was planning on working tomorrow, our VPN is being taken down for some upgrades so I am off tomorrow and Sunday. First two-day weekend in some time to be honest with you, and I'm kind of happy about that. 

So what do I do with a two-day weekend? Michelle and I have a birthday party tomorrow afternoon at her niece Amanda's house. Her daughter is celebrating her first Birthday. Personally, I think she waited one day too long to be born, but I have a biased opinion on that if you know what I mean. 

We did travel to East Liverpool on Wednesday for Tom's funeral. it was a pretty touching service and Michelle's nephew Jon gave a brief speech when they were reflecting on the times he has shared with Pap (what they called him). People were remembering the good times, the way we should say goodbye to people. The good times and the sad. 

WVU did name their new Athletic Director a couple of days ago. Wren Baker was chosen to take Shane Lyon's place. I am hearing some good things about the guy, but personally, I'm a little hesitant as I prefer someone with ties to the school and who understands the culture. I wish him the best. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned, or just stole from someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a whole lot of fun.

Don't ask me what year this is from, my guess is the early or mid 1950's. That basketball Superstar that you see there playing for Van Voorhis School, none other than my Dad. 

Van Voorhis School has been closed for as long as I can remember, but the remnants of the old school were still there in the early 1980's. It was just a little run down and dilapidated building. 

Now as far as the basketball future of this budding young star? He decided to forgo the NBA and work in the Coal Mines..lol

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is over with, hopefully there are a lot less deer available for you to hit with your car this week. Sounds like a good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,516 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,776 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,361 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,583 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,126 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. How many people keep track of hoa many days they have been married 11+ years later? 

* I have now lived 1,748 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 271 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,410 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows though, doing what I do I may never retire. 

* There are 367 days until I hit the age of 60. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 290 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. I think we are ready to roll now. 

* There are 278 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 248 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 111 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? 

* 78 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, hopefully Phil does me a solid this year.

* 34 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 25 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 14 more days. 

* I have written 6,994 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* Older Drone still needs to be sent out for repairs, not a big priority at this time. My little drone is awesome and I really like it....when I take time out to fly it. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm now working 20 hours a week of Overtime making it 12 hour days. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, would you believe the real life mean coach is a friend of Michelle's? It's former marshall coach Bob Pruett. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday

All good things must come to an end, I'm not sure what that is for me because I worked both Saturday to help make up for Thanksgiving and yesterday to make up for time when I will be traveling to East Liverpool for Tom's funeral. However for all you people who enjoyed some time off, it's time to take our collective butts and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living and making this a better planet to live on. 

Michelle is off today, she has a Doctors appointment this morning. She's been having some trouble with her neck and has been going to a Chiropractor and has a follow up this morning with him. Either that or her Mom has an appointment this morning, not sure which one it is. She also has something she is doing this afternoon, so keep your fingers crossed. 

Looking at my week ahead, Michelle and I as well as her entire clan will be traveling to East Liverpool on Wednesday. It's going to be a one day event and everything will be done at the Funderal Home as well as a dinner afterwards across the parking lot. 

Other than that I will once again have a busy week, I will have next Sunday off which will be nice after working both days this past weekend. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

RIP Thomas Andrews

It is with a heavy heart this morning that I have to announce that Michelle's other-father of 45+ years has passed away. Thomas Andrews who has been in a nursing home since early this spring, around the time of Suzanne's fall. 

He has had deteriorating health for a while and has been on Oxygen the last couple of years. Earlier this week they put him in the hospital and they turned right around and sent him back to the nursing home under hospice care. 

Friday morning the word was sent out that his health was failing and it may be time to pay the final respects. Michelle was on her way to her Sister Chris's but only made it about a mile and a half down the word when she received the word that Tom had passed. 

Yesterday Michelle, Chris, and Danni went up to their family Funeral Home to make arrangements for Tom's Funeral. Jim, Chris's husband, will be officiating the funeral service which will be held on Wednesday. 

Happy Birthday Valarie Jo

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my lovely Niece Valarie Jo a very Happy Birthday. She is always there in times of need for whoever needs it and is an amazing young woman with a lot of fight. 

Not sure what She or Aaron has planned for the day, but if I know Val she will have something on the agenda if it didn't already happen yesterday evening and into this morning if the opportunity is available. Not sure of Aarons's Schedule, but something tells me he has something in store. 

Val is a remarkable young lady who is an inspiration to those around her whether she realizes it or not, her actions are seen by all and she is influencing the next generation whether this is her intention or not. 

If you happen to see Val today, make sure that you wish her a very Happy Birthday in addition to recovering from Thursday's overdosing of tryptophan. 

Happy Birthday, Val you are an inspiration to all. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a non-quiet household, Kiwi is once again bragging and claiming that he is the first and only bird to have a twitter account. Yes it is True, Kiwi does in fact have his very own Twitter Account. He is in fact an amazing little bird and he thinks he should be the most famous bird on twitter. I'm just waiting for him to talk Elon Musk into giving him his own spaceship. 

So what is up today you might ask? I'm working once again and am determined to get my 60 hours in this week as well as taking Thanksgiving Day off and all that had to be done with that. Michelle is going to run to the laundromat this morning to dry clothes and I''ll be working until noon. 

Why Noon you ask? The Mountaineers will be playing their final game of the 2022 football season today when they travel to Oklahoma State to take on the Cowboys at Noon. I have next to no faith in this years team at this point, but I live and die with the Mountaineers so I'll be watching it. The game will be on ESPN 2 (channel 36 here in Morgantown) starting at noon. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Big Ole Hairy Black Friday

Yes, it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Black Friday!

I hope everyone had a good Turkey day yesterday, I know we had a pretty good time for our first Cassville Firehall Thanksgiving since COVID. Smaller crowd than I anticipated, but this is the first year back and it should grow a little bit by next year. It was good to see everyone at the gathering. 

Today, or last night when it all started, is the busiest shopping day of the year. It's what has been known as Black Friday where stores supposedly put their best deals of the year out and people line up for the stores to open to see if they can grab one of those magical deals. It's been a long time since I went Black Friday shopping, I did it once with Jean trying to buy her a TV and it was a total nightmare. It kind of soured the day a little bit for me to the point I have never gone Black Friday shopping again. I think most people do it all online anymore, to be honest, just too easy and less of a headache. 

I am working both today and tomorrow to make up for yesterday, I'm trying to get all the hours available to me while I can, if you know what I mean. 

Have a great day whatever it is you are doing. 

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned, or just stole from someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a whole lot of fun.

This weeks pic is from bowling Thanksgiving eve a few years ago. I think it was 2019 and we had all met up at Suburban Lanes as it has been a tradition amongst us since the early 1980's. It's one that Terri wants to see continue and it should. 

This weeks picture, it's my niece Val giving me her general opinion, or as we refer to it as the Hall Salute. I did a video years ago of a bunch of pictures I had taken and people were flipping me off, and would you believe that video got some play around the world? 

Anyways, Happy Turkey Day, Gobble till you wobble. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is over with, hopefully there are a lot less deer available for you to hit with your car this week. Sounds like a good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,509 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,769 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,354 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,576 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,119 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. How many people keep track of hoa many days they have been married 11+ years later? 

* I have now lived 1,741 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 264 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,417 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows though, doing what I do I may never retire. 

* There are 374 days until I hit the age of 60. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 297 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. I think we are ready to roll now. 

* There are 285 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 255 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 118 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? 

* 85 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, hopefully Phil does me a solid this year.

* 41 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 32 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 14 more days. 

* I have written 6,986 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* Older Drone still needs to be sent out for repairs, not a big priority at this time. My little drone is awesome and I really like it....when I take time out to fly it. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm now working 20 hours a week of Overtime making it 12 hour days. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, I just grabbed a funny animal one. 

* Today would have been Michelle's Dad's Birthday. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday and the start of Buck Season

All good things must come to an end, and yes that does include those fun-filled things we refer to as weekends. Now it is time for some of us who are not on vacation this week to stick our collective noses back onto the grindstone for another fun-filled week of doing what it is that we do for a living making this a much better planet to live on. 

In West Virginia today is the start of deer rifle season. It is arguably the most hunted day of the year in West Virginia and a season many men in West Virginia schedule vacations around. It's the day when basically the entire hunting population heads out into to woods seeking that trophy buck that they covet so much, or just simply to feed one's family. With that being said, let's hope for a safe hunt for all hunters everywhere, may they have the pleasure of returning home to their family safe and uninjured, and as icing on the cake with a nice trophy buck in tow. 

Me, I'm still working 12's for Duquense Light this week with the exception of Thursday. I'm going to make up for Thursday between yesterday and this coming Saturday. That way I can get all my time in and be as productive as possible when the deadline is fast approaching and not have it hurt me because Thanksgiving is not a Holiday. 

Michelle is also working most of this week, her office is shut down on Thursday, but I'm pretty sure that they will be open on Black Friday. 

Have yourselves a great day and the start of a great week. 

Hi ho hi ho