Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, let's face this tuesday like we own it. Time for a Tidbits. 

* It has been 22,034 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,294 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I do love what I do and I can see me doing this into my retirement years. 

* 5,882 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Seems like it was just yesterday and it was the third best decision I ever made in my life. Horrible movie that I picked though. 

* 5,092 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. She knew it was coming, and it is still the best decision I ever made in my life. 

* It was 5,130 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, married by a chiropractor and feasted on food Jeanie made. 

* I have now lived 2,267 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. I am recovering though. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 926 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 784 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,820 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.

* 278 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. He and French Creek Freddie agreed on their predictions this year,  now lets just wait to see if they come true.  

* 253 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Hopefully I can put some better content together this year. 

* There are 239 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 223 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 172 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 141 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 132 more days to go until the Mountaineers will try to get some revenge here in Morgantown for last weekend when Penn State comes to Morgantown. 

* There are 104 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 51 days to go until the start of summer, my second favorite season. We are in my Favorite Season. 

*  In 32 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

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

* I have written 7,537 blogs in the now  over 19 1/2 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.  

* I think I know where I want to do my next drone flight, out by the old county graveyard whenever I get to it. Weather is getting nicer, what is my excuse. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. Several family members are playing and I am back to 6th place overall among all my friends and family and I have a couple friends right on my heels. 

* I was talking to Amy over the weekend, she has used up her space on the google drive (Free Account) and I told her I have Google One which is just $20 a year and you get up to 100 GB of storage. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? Looking for an entertaining TicToker to follow, check out this weeks Tiktok. 

* 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.

Looking at the week ahead nothing out of the ordinary, I'll only be working my regular job for a while, the funding for the Parsons job is over with and we don't know what will come of that. Other than that it's just going to be a normal week, nothing really on the agenda out of the ordinary. Sometimes consistency is good. 

Hayley and Tyler didn't close on their new place on Friday, it was delayed for a week for some reason and they will probably be closing this week and redecorating over the weekend. It kind of closes the window of things they want to do before they move in, but they are young and motivated. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi is up reminding me that he is happy with the way the Pittsburgh Steelers draft went. Personally, I just think he is a Zack Frazier fan and is happy that he is going to the Steelers. We both know that Steelers Centers has a long legacy of long careers that many end up in Canton. It will be nice to cheer for him as he starts his career. Kiwi is really happy. That and Kiwi doesn't quite understand the human concept of sleeping in on their days off. 

Topping off the extended draft weekend was when WVU played the Spring Game yesterday. A couple of legendary Pat's were the honorary coaches. Pat White and Pat McAfee were both in town to coach the split squads. I really think we are going to have a very good team this year if we can stay healthy. We have both talent and depth and that is a nice combination. It was a vanilla game so to speak, Quarterbacks really couldn't use their biggest asset of running and a lot of the playmakers took a back seat and let the younger players play. 

Plans for the day, Michelle will be heading to Krogers and I'll be doing the house chores. I think they are done with the construction that was going to be done in the yard for now, the stop light has been removed and anything they dug up has been grassed over. With that said, it was nice yesterday afternoon and Michelle and I knocked the grass out. I was talking to Amy earlier in the morning and that is what they were planning on doing yesterday. Weather was just too nice. 

Have a great day, make some memories. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi has reminded me that I screwed up royally last week and forgot to write my Saturday Morning Blog until Michelle reminded me later that morning that I didn't do one. He has a memory like an elephant and won't let me forget. Such an intelligent bird. 

I am off today, the Parsons work hit its time frame and funding is no longer there for the time being. That can and has always seemed to be the case, the extra money is always nice but so are the breaks. 

If the weather permits I'm going to try and cut the grass either today or tomorrow depending on how cooperative the weather is. It's been wet and the grass has grown, they have the yard marked off with right-off-way markers because they have been moving the water line for the past couple of weeks. They are expanding Van Voorhis and building a new bridge across the creek, and I'm smack dab in the middle of all of it. 

I did have a little bit of a health scare this past Monday night, all I can attribute it to is vertigo. I woke up in the middle of the night Monday (twice) with the room spinning like I had never seen it spin before and was violently nauseous with the dry heaves. It sounds like a drunken binge from my early 20's on a Saturday Night, but that was not the case. Up until last night I was sleeping in the chair as it frightened me to that degree. I have not experienced it since fortunately, but I'm still a little gun shy. No worries, I am alright.

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!

Yesterday was the first round of the NFL Draft, everyone made their First Round Selections, today starts the rest of the draft. This is where Championship teams are built, first rounders are just the high-profile guys, now it's about building depth and strengthening weak parts of the team. 

Weekend plans, Hatley and Tyler close today on their new place and take ownership of it, so Michelle is going to go up and do a makeover. Paint, scrape the textured ceiling, I imagine scrub carpets, etc. I know there are a number of things Hayley wants to do before they actually physically move in and this is that short window of opportunity. 

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 is a picture of my brother Gary's LIttle League Baseball team. If memory serves me correct he played for Lions and I think they won the championship that year. Gary is standing in the back row, 3rd one from the left. 

I think I went to every one of Gary's games, I never missed them. I'm thinking this was around 1979 or 1980 and I was still living with Grandma Hall and used to ride my bike to the pool all the time. Krepps field is right in front of Krepps Park Pool, so it made it easy to get there. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, let's face this tuesday like we own it. Time for a Tidbits. 

* It has been 22,027 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,287 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I do love what I do and I can see me doing this into my retirement years. 

* 5,875 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Seems like it was just yesterday and it was the third best decision I ever made in my life. Horrible movie that I picked though. 

* 5,085 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. She knew it was coming, and it is still the best decision I ever made in my life. 

* It was 5,123 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, married by a chiropractor and feasted on food Jeanie made. 

* I have now lived 2,260 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. I am recovering though. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 919 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 777 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,827 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.

* 285 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. He and French Creek Freddie agreed on their predictions this year,  now lets just wait to see if they come true.  

* 260 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Hopefully I can put some better content together this year. 

* There are 246 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 230 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 179 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 148 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 139 more days to go until the Mountaineers will try to get some revenge here in Morgantown for last weekend when Penn State comes to Morgantown. 

* There are 111 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 58 days to go until the start of summer, my second favorite season. We are in my Favorite Season. 

*  In 39 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

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

* I have written 7,530 blogs in the now  over 19 1/2 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.  

* I think I know where I want to do my next drone flight, out by the old county graveyard whenever I get to it. Weather is getting nicer, what is my excuse. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. Several family members are playing and I am back to 6th place overall among all my friends and family and I have a couple friends right on my heels. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? Looking for an entertaining TicToker to follow, check out this weeks Tiktok. Making Homemade Mayonaise, something I might try. 

* 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.

Looking at our week ahead, the stop lights in front of our house are still there, or should be there for at least another week. They are supposed to replace a water line and they have the lines laying out there, but there hasn't been any digging as of  yet. I anticipate them starting to dig up the yard this week to move the water line. I might be temporarily inconvenienced but we'll survive. 

I'll be working both jobs this week, up until Friday when that should be the last of the Parsons work. The funding is cut of after that, but there could be other work that some along with it. It's the perfect situation for me, it's at my schedule, remote and it pays well. Alipro pays pretty well too, so it's good to draw two paychecks if even only temporarily. 

Michelle is back in the office again this week, she got her new business cards on Friday. This one actually has her her offices address on them. She was happy to be back at it and it was a welcomed break for her. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, not making the same mistake I made yesterday. Kiwi kept reminding me about how I screwed up and he still wants his contractual allotment of seeds even though he was not mentioned in yesterday's blog. As a matter of fact, I think he wants to renegotiate his deal for a higher payout. Greedy little shit. 

Same plans for the day, I'll be doing what needs to be done around here as Michelle takes her weekly trip to Krogers to pick up whatever else we may need for the week to come. It works out the best for us as I don't slow her down and everything we would have done after we would have got back would be done. 

No major news or excitement coming up this week, I know my life has gotten kind of boring and uneventful. I need to find myself a project to do to take up some of my down time. Now that we have the mancave 2.0 up and running, it just may be something in there. Not sure what I want to do, but something that would be fun and enjoyable. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it special and memorable. 

Saturday Morning Live Blog

My wonderful wife just looked at me and said, let's see what my husband wrote for his blog this morning. AS someone who pre-writes them and sets them to post in the early morning I made a fatal mistake. I forgot. 

So on this Saturday Morning I'll tell you Kiwi has been up for hours (I'm actually working for Parsons this morning and he's been working with me) and I was completely oblivious to the fact that I did not write anything to post today. In short, I phunkinated up to put it nicely. 

I received word this week that we have a temporary go this week for work with Parsons, so I am taking full advantage of it while I can. I woke up and started work around 4:30 this morning and I'm siting here watching the clock waiting for 7:00 so I can run to Tudors and get some breakfast. The Thundering Herd Biscuit is calling my name and Michelle wants to try the Mountaineer. 

Agenda for the day, Michelle is going to take a trip to Aldi's to do a little grocery shopping and I'll be working. Our grass looks like it needs cut, but the weather isn't going to be cooperative today, so there is that. 

One nice thing is we don't have to run to the laundromat, it's all washed and dried and put away. Michelle has been up for a while as well, so we have had a productive morning. 

I would say Hi ho hi ho, but I've already been at it. You can still have 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!

It's going to be a weird one for me, as I will have to run to Sam's Club either this evening after work or tomorrow morning. Michelle has been taking care of  all the Friday shopping since she has been off, but now she's back to work and it's back to us doing it together again, or at least the Sam's stuff. 

No advance plans for us this weekend, but then again when do we ever have our weekend activities as we just tend to wing it. The NFL Draft is this coming week and weekend, but those are events coming up rather than what's happening this weekend. 

Have yourselves a great day and let's get this day over with. 

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 to 2016. We had taken a day trip to Smokehole Caverns and I grabbed this pic as Michelle was getting ready to walk into the gift shop. Yes we took the tour and went into the caverns and had a great time, it's a highly recommended thing to do if you have never done it before. No spelunking needed as it is a fairy easy tour to do if anyone is considering it. 

Hard to believe this was eight years ago, Michelle did back up our small portable grill and we pulled over at a picnic table and had our own little lunch. We used to do that a lot. 

Have a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, the Solar eclipse has passed, it's Tuesday and a good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,020 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,280 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I do love what I do and I can see me doing this into my retirement years. 

* 5,868 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Seems like it was just yesterday and it was the third best decision I ever made in my life. Horrible movie that I picked though. 

* 5,078 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. She knew it was coming, and it is still the best decision I ever made in my life. 

* It was 5,116 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, married by a chiropractor and feasted on food Jeanie made. 

* I have now lived 2,253 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. I am recovering though. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 912 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 770 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,834 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.

* 292 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. He and French Creek Freddie agreed on their predictions this year,  now lets just wait to see if they come true.  

* 267 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Hopefully I can put some better content together this year. 

* There are 253 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 237 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 186 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 155 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 146 more days to go until the Mountaineers will try to get some revenge here in Morgantown for last weekend when Penn State comes to Morgantown. 

* There are 118 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 65 days to go until the start of summer, my second favorite season. We are in my Favorite Season. 

*  In 46 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

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

* I have written 7,523 blogs in the now  over 19 1/2 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.  

* I think I know where I want to do my next drone flight, out by the old county graveyard whenever I get to it. Weather is getting nicer, what is my excuse. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. Several family members are playing and I am back to 9th place overall among all my friends and family and I have a couple friends right on my heels. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? Looking for an entertaining TicToker to follow, check out this weeks Tiktok, I really got a kick out of this. BTW, it's real. Know anyone who needs a visit? lol

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end, and that includes those fun-filled things referred to as weekends. Now it is time to take our collective noses and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living and make this a better rock for us all to live on. 

Michelle returns to the office today after being off the last two months as they adjusted her medications. She went in the office last week to stop by and everyone was so happy to see her and they can't wait to get her back. She needed the break and she is revitalized and ready to go. 

Me, I have a long commute to the other side of the living room to head to work today. We're trying to wrap up a project that was much more complicated that they anticipated. There was a lot of missing information that had to be accounted for that we just did not have locational information for. I really enjoy the people I work with and am happy to be back working on electric rather than gas lines. 

Don't forget if you haven't already done them, today is Tax day. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi is still up surfing his little bird computer, says he is looking for engineering drawings for his enclosure as he wants to add an addition. Something about installing a two car garage, but I don't know why as he doesn't drive. Silly bird. 

Michelle and I had a pretty good day together yesterday, we started by going to Apple Annies for Breakfast, would you believe we did NOT walk out with any baked goods. That's pretty rare for us when we go there. 

A trip to lowes followed, I got a real nice sawhorse/workbench for the garage and she bought an extended curtain rod for the back door. She had bought one that was 84" and we needed the 100" one and she bought another panel to add to it. It's sheer and lets us look out, but it makes it hard to look in. We also managed to get our breaker box labeled for everything that we would need to know. 

Other than that it was a pretty relaxing day. Today Michelle will be doing the grocery shopping as I  do a few chores around the house and that's pretty much it. We find that splitting up makes everything get done much quicker allowing more time for quality naps. 

Have a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household, Kiwi is up and working his little computer, I think he is in there looking for seed recipes. I don't have the heart to tell him seeds come from plants, I hope he's not in there planning on frying up his seeds. Such an innovative little bird. 

Michelle is ready to return to work on Monday. She has been off for a while as to adjust some of her meds that she takes. She switched back to her doctor she likes and left the place she was at, and they have got her back to her old self, but with a lot more energy as she has to be doing something. 

We finally got our new washer and drying delivered and installed. I was talking to George and Calvin and told them that Michael had the old one directly wired into the dryer, I was going to do that again until I got talked out of it for safety reasons. So Calvin came over and put a 220 plus in and hooked up the pigtail to the dryer and got everything hooked up. We've been running to Millers Laundry at least once a week for 4-5 years because the dryer was shot. I was told it would be cheaper to buy a new one than get the parts and replace the old one. So now we don't have to run to the laundromat every weekend, fight for dryers and crowds and we can do all of it here. 

So what is on today's agenda, I think Michelle and I are going to go through the breaker box and identify what each breaker goes to and label it. It was never really done properly and now we are going to do it. 

I've joked that I need a stoplight sometimes to get out of my driveway. Well that happens Monday. The Utility Board is going to put temporary lights up to make it a one lane street in front of our house for two weeks as they move utilities. They are widening the road in front of the house and building a new bridge to cross the creek, and they have to move some of the utilities before they do that, so starting Monday if you travel Van Voorhis, you might want to consider an alternate route for a couple of weeks. 

Have yourselves a great day and enjoy your weekend. 

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!

So what is going on this weekend? As of right now, very little that I know of. Things always can and do change, however. Just because I don't have something planned out, doesn't mean nothing is happening. I'm just so removed from the pulse around town that I don't know what is happening in and around town. 

Maybe if the weather is nice I'll take the drone out and give it it's first flight of 2024. I bought it and flew it in the yard after I bought it and that was the last time I flew it. I know I keep saying that I want to get out and fly, but I'm such a procrastinator that I never actually take the time and go and actually do it.

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 picture goes all the way back to 2008, when Brittany was on the homecoming court at Clay Battelle High School. There was a parade before the game that ran through Blacksville and we stopped at an old school or library and positioned ourselves there to get a picture or two of her in the parade. 

The parade was the same night as the homecoming parade so Michelle and I went to the game as well to watch her partake in the homecoming festivities. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho