Happy Birthday Amy Dalton

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Birthday, Amy.

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

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

* It has been 7,616 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working on my field. 

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

* 5,414 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. I've been the luckiest guy since that fateful day. 

* It was 5,452 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, it was a great day with friends and family. 

* I have now lived 2,589 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 1,247 days ago today. 

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

* I have 2,513 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows, though, doing what I do I may never retire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* There are 94 days to go until summer. 

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

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

* I have written 7,877 blogs in what is now 20 years since I started blogging. Two decades ago.   

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

* Yes the Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, now we are thinking about leaving it in for the winter. It's almost time to uncover it. WIN!!!!

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

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying. I've made my order already. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. It's been a back and forth and I currently sit at 4th place again. 

* This is my favorite Tiktok for this week. Gary Oldman (a great and underappreciated actor) on Stephen Colbert. 

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy St Patrick's Day

All good things must come to an end, but this is an exciting day to end the weekend on. Now we have to take our collective noses and stick them back onto that grindstone known as life and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living to make this a better rock to live on.

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

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

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

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

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

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

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

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

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Rambling

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

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

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

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

Have yourselves a great day. 

Big Ole Hairy Friday

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

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

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

Have a great day

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 lot of fun.

This weeks pic comes from our prize reward after we had won the Championship of the KDKA McDonalds Pittsburgh Steelers Trivia Show for the third time, we competed 4 times and came in third place once and won it the other three times. 

One of the prizes are field passes and tickets for a Steelers game, and this is us on the field before the Raiders game in 2015. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* It has been 22,356 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,609 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working on my field. 

* 6,196 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Ironically the theatre we went to see the movie in just closed for business this past weekend. 

* 5,407 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. I've been the luckiest guy since that fateful day. 

* It was 5,445 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, it was a great day with friends and family. 

* I have now lived 2,582 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 1,240 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,099 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,520 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.

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

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

* There are 288 more shopping days left until Christmas 2025.

* There are 267 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 197 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* There are 148 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 9 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

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

* I have written 7,870 blogs in what is now 20 years since I started blogging. Two decades ago.   

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

* Yes the Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, now we are thinking about leaving it in for the winter. It's almost time to uncover it. WIN!!!!

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying. I've made my order already. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. It's been a back and forth and I currently sit at 4th place again. 

* This is my favorite Tiktok for this week. Enjoy it, I did. 

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end, but this is an exciting day to end the weekend on. Now we have to take our collective noses and stick them back onto that grindstone known as life and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living to make this a better rock to live on.

At least today I get a third assistant to help me out, we are going to introduce Lucy to the geospatial world of GIS. It appears like I will have all the help I need today to trace down what I need to trace down. 

I do have a Doctors appointment this morning as well, I'm meeting my new Doctor as I didn't really see eye to eye with my previous physician, that and he is graduating from his residency in a couple of months, so I thought it would be best to move to a see a younger resident. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a once quiet household, we have three pets who are up and wanting me to make sure that I have moved all the manual clocks ahead one hour. It is the official start of Daylight Savings time (meaning we lose an hour of sleep) and it will remain until November 2nd. All three animals are reminding me that not all of our clocks are automatic and they need done. They are all just so regimented and disciplined, moreso than us Humans. 

We did get our shopping done yesterday, so everything that needed to be done is done. Michelle shopped for groceries and I went for animal stuff. 

I did talk to Pam yesterday, she said Eugene's funeral was nice and Junius Lewis gave the sermon. He also married Brittany and Matt last fall. I told Pam when I first stated going to WVU Basketball games, he was my favorite player (along with Lowes Moore) as a kid. 

I went and visited Mom at Encompass Friday, she was now all settled in for her 9 day stay for Rehab. Of course I show up and what is she watching? A show about Midgets. We sat and talked about the Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. I reminded her I broke my leg in 1973 playing touch football about where encompass is located, but I broke it closer to the right side parking lot.

Have yourselves a great day, Mom has her computer with her, so send her a Facebook message. 
 

Saturday

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household. Lucy, Kiwi, and Peanut have kept me up all night playing Gin Rummy and ordering Pizzas. They are just laughing and having a good old time. Kiwi is not doing very well; it's hard for him to conceal his cards without the other two seeing them. Peanut is trying to look at Lucy's cards by distracting her, but Lucy is keeping an eye on the cat as she knows she is a master chess player. 

Lucy has ben visiting with us all week, Mom has been in the hospital and is now at encompass for about a week or so, so we have been and will continue to dog sit Lucy until Mom is released. Encompass is just right up over the hill, so we're close. 

We're both going to be doing a little bit of shopping today, Michelle the grocery and I'm going to run out and pick up more food and treats for Lucy as she will be staying with us this coming week as well.

Before you go to bed tonight, make sure that you set your clocks up an hour as Daylight Savings time begins tonight. We will all lose an hour of sleep, but it will be starting to get dark later in the evening. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

 

Big Ole Hairy Friday

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

Kiwi and Peanut are obviously happy that it is Friday, they like weekends as they get to spend the most time with their two favorite humans. It's a time of celebration in their eyes, or should I say as they look through life with our eyes. 

So what is on the agenda for the weekend coming up? No real plans, don't knock it as once the weather warms up and there is more to do around the house our lives will start to get busier. Maybe those will be the days when I can actually start writing content with some meaning behind them rather than empty words to fill up space and keep the blog active. I swear this is the hardest time of the year to write anything, especially when it comes to Fridays. 

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 lot of fun.

This weeks pic goes back almost 9 whole years. Michelle and I had a cat named Phin who ended up having some complications after a surgery to fix her and she ended up passing away. Michelle was heartbroken, so I had to find something to ease her broken heart. I got on Petfinders (as did she) and wouldn't you know it, we both found one specific cat that garnered each of our attention. 

So who was it? It was none other than the legendary Peanut who has been with us almost 9 years now. We contacted the contact person, paid the adoption fees and the next thing you know this little bundle of joy was coming home with us to stay for a furever home. She was such a cutie and this picture is one of the first ones we took of her on the day we brought her home.

She was the perfect find, we could not have found any cat that could have filled the role that only she could fill. Now she has a brother named Kiwi that she gets into all kinds of hijinx with. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* It has been 22,349 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,602 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working on my field. 

* 6,189 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Ironically the theatre we went to see the movie in just closed for business this past weekend. 

* 5,400 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. I've been the luckiest guy since that fateful day. 

* It was 5,438 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, it was a great day with friends and family. 

* I have now lived 2,575 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 1,233 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,092 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,527 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.

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

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

* There are 295 more shopping days left until Christmas 2025.

* There are 273 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 204 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* There are 155 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 6 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

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

* I have written 7,863 blogs in what is now 20 years since I started blogging. Two decades ago.   

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

* Yes the Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, now we are thinking about leaving it in for the winter. It's almost time to uncover it. WIN!!!!

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying. I've made my order already. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. It's been a back and forth and I currently sit at 4th place again. 

* This is my favorite Tiktok for this week. Gordon Ramsey giving cooking tips.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end, but this is an exciting day to end the weekend on. Now we have to take our collective noses and stick them back onto that grindstone known as life and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living to make this a better rock to live on.

Peanut and Kiwi have their lunches packed and are ready to head off from work, I hate to tell them that we all work from home and Peanut doesn't need to wear a tie around me. We're kind of informal in the home office. I've even been known to fart out loud a few times. They are dedicated workers however so I can't hold that against them. 

Michelle is excited, she got the new phone system installed where they work. It's a strange system where they can put it on Wifi and actually take their office phone home and plug it in and it will ring into that phone even while at home. Makes it real nice for days she may have to work from home, she researched it and found this system and had it installed from I think she said Verizon. 

Me? I'm still at it, we just got our new contract and job numbers last week, so I can at least now bill to the project rather than some holding number and then get a mass email every Friday reminding me that I'm billing to a holding number. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household. Kiwi and Peanut are more than ready for St Patricks Day which they decorated for last weekend, I don't have the heart to tell them that it is over two weeks away yet. Peanut is making some kind of catnip and birdseed drink that the two of them have been drinking all day and laughing their butts off. They are such party animals.

So everyone asks what is on our agenda for the day? Days are getting noticeably longer (I noticed Friday Night it was still light out at 6:30) and the weather has been warming up, although after last night and today that may not be as true as it has been. This coming week temps may actually reach the 70's, so that makes me really happy. Might be getting close to time for me to pretend I'm going to stick the Air Conditioner back in the window (although it has been in all winter). 

I know that yesterday, I looked at the lawn and noticed it was still very short, but I realized that the time is soon coming for me to fire up the mower and mow the grass.  

As a side note, Daylight Savings time begins next Sunday, so get your lazy weekends in before they disappear. 

Have yourselves a great day. 
 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are up and actually working together to compile a shopping list and do us Human's menu for the week. They figured they would give Michelle a break today and they would do the shopping. They work good as a tandem in driving the car too. They are such good pets. 

So what is on today's agenda? Obviously working with the pets to compile our menu and help them do the grocery shopping. They aren't too good at bringing the bags downstairs, so they may need a little bit of help with that. 

The WVU Men's Basketball team is on the road this evening, taking on BYU. The game will be at 10:00 this evening, so something tells me that I'll catch that score tomorrow morning. The Women's team is also on the road at Cincinnati at 2:00 this afternoon. The WVU Men's Baseball team is also on the road this weekend, playing Queen's College in North Carolina. 

It might just be a good weekend to stay in and watch some TV or movies. Those times are starting to wind down for the season as we were flirting with warmer weather this past week. Juts a taste, I'm ready for a full blown spring though. 

Have yourselves a great day.