RIP Sophie, May 6, 2006 - October 17, 2024

18 1/2 Years Michelle had gotten this little kitty years ago, back in 2006 and she has been with us ever since. She was a loving cat with an attitude and would let you know she was the boss. She would always sit on the back of Michelle's chair and bite her hair. The last year her health started to deteriorate and we made the decision that we were just going to make her comfortable. He had a heating pad that never shut off and a circulating water fountain that Michelle would always put ice in for her. We knew the inevitable was coming, and it came this afternoon at around 5:30 this evening. She went peacefully in her home and on her heating pad that she had grown quite fond of. She was a good cat and will be missed. She has crossed the rainbow bridge and is playing with her sisters on the other side.

She would always let me know when it was 3:00, that was her feeding time and she was like clockwork.

We have decided to have her remains cremated and put together a shadow box like Michelle did for Phin. She was the last surviving pet from when Michelle and I moved in together and she did pass comfortable and at home. 

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 picture goes back to 2011. I was actually getting ready to head into work as we were preparing to kickoff an international effort for a Carbon Sequestration Atlas. It was a three-country effort between the US, Canada and Mexico and we were having a two day conference at WVU to kick off the effort. 

It was very rarely that I wore a tie to work, only when I was traveling to Pittsburgh or some special event was happening. WVU was hosting the conference even thought we basically took all of the work away from them and brought it in house at NETL. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Happy Birthday Brittany Talerico.

I would love to take this time out to wish my beautiful niece Brittany a very Happy Birthday today.

It seems like it was only yesterday that she was born, it's amazing how 34 years can go by in the very blink of an eye. It seems like just yesterday I was in the waiting room watching Who's the Boss and Kim and Ed was in the delivery room waiting for this bundle of joy. The amazing thing about all of this is that this remarkable young lady is now nine years older than me.

 She is an amazing young woman, and I think she has found someone very special to her to spend this day with. Wouldn't you know, she just got married last weekend to the love of her life Matt. It's going to to start referring to her as Talerico rather than Cummings, but it will be a quick transition Mrs Talerico. 

 If you get a chance to see or talk to this marvelous young lady today, make sure that you take a little bit of time out and wish her the Happiest of Birthdays today.

 Happy Birthday, Brittany.

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, and Matt and Brittany are experiencing their first Tuesday as a Married Couple, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,209 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,462 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,049 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. 10,000 BC, I was telling Peanut howlusy of a movie it was this weekend. 

* 5,260 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. She knew it was coming, and it was still the best decision I ever made in my life. 

* It was 5,298 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 2,435 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 1,093 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 952 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,667 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.

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 334 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 295 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 146  days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 111 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 let's just wait to see if they come true.  

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

* There are 71 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 55 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

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

* I have written 7,712 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.   

* Michelle and I were talking last weekend, it's getting close to the time of the year when we need to take the Air Conditioner out of the window and store it away for the winter in the garage. I've actually turned the heat on already. 

* I think Michelle is about to finalize Christmas Cookie baking for 2024 and set it up. We is going to get the Woodland United Methodist Church (multiple ovens and equipment) for a few days. You thought that there were a lot of cookies baked last year, wait till this year. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 6th place among friends and family. I'm trying to catch up. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This weeks TicTok, of course this was done with AI, but it was funny hearing Ozzy to the tune of War Pigs singing Country Roads. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end, but this is an exciting day to culminate the weekend fun and get back to business. 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.

My co-workers are all caffeinated up and ready to go, I do have a pretty good office team to say the least, considering I work at home. 

Looking at my week ahead I helped finishing up a project last week that I may be on some today, but we are getting ready to go all hands on a large project for a client. Hopefully this leads into us winning a few more contracts and be able to expand the workload in Geospatial services. I do have a couple of house managers who like to keep giving their opinions in meows and tweets as they drink coffee all day, such bossy pets. 

So in a nutshell it's going to be a busy, but consistent week for me. Kiwi and Peanut will keep me hopping. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi is up expressing his opinion that he didn't get an invitation to Matt and Brittany's wedding yesterday. He stated that he is clearly her favorite bird and should not only have gotten an invitation but to be seated in a place of honor since he is her favorite bird. I had to explain it was a Human's only event. 

Yesterday was a magical day as Michelle and I attended Matt and Brittany's wedding and reception. It was a beautiful ceremony and reception, I'm not going to post any actual wedding pics until I get the OK from the bride and groom considering they had a professional photographer there. Hayley and Tyler came down to attend and spend a little bit of time with us before heading back north for the evening. 

Brittany looked absolutely stunning and I think she found a very good life partner to spend the rest of their lives together. It is a match made in heaven and you can tell these two are very much in love with each other. You can just tell they belong together just by the way they interact. 

It was a good day. 

Make today as special as yesterday. 

Brittany and Matt's Wedding

Today has finally arrived, the day in which Brittany and Matt step in front of the preacher, friends and family and exchange their wedding vows and become Husband and Wife. 

Today at Tuscan Ridge all of the planning and preparation have come to its conclusion and now we are at the point of execution. Today at 3:30 PM Matt and Brittany become Mr and Mrs Talerico. 

Michelle and I will obviously be there, I would not miss Brittany's special day for anything. We went over yesterday evening for the rehearsal dinner, Kim had invited us to come over after work, although Michelle had been there all afternoon assisting. It was a time to run through a trial run for today's celebration.

I'll be there with my camera today, hoping to grab a few moments in time for this young couple. I'm not the official photographer, but I will be trying to grab a few special pictures of the event and the couple as the photographer ins concentrating on the commercial stuff. 

Have a great day, this one os going to be special. 

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 especially happy, because they know that tomorrow Lucy is going to be coming over and they can play with her all day. Lucy is staying here as tomorrow Brittany's and Matt's special day will have arrived and Lucy will be here while the wedding and reception is going on. Tonight Michelle and I will head to the venue for a rehearsal dinner. We got our invitation because the bride is a big fan of George's Journal and we have been invited this evening. 

Now if you are looking for something to do tonight and you are a fan of High School Football. 4-2 Morgantown fresh off a loss last weekend will be hosting probably one of the best teams in the state this evening with Martinsburg. You can watch that game right here if you can't make it. After winning last week, 2-3 University High is traveling to Cnnnellsville to play them. and 3-3 Clay Battelle is traveling to Meadow Bridge to take them on. Should be a good night of action all around. 

Now for some good news. Remember that tree that ended up giving my a concussion a couple of weeks ago? Well that one and the big one that is dying in the front yard was taken care of my Asplundh this week is preparation of the road widening and electrical pole moving that is planned. You should see the top of the hill going towards town, trailer court is gone, they are filling in large voids and removing trees. This is a much bigger project than what I thought it was going to be. 

Have yourselves a great day and let's get these wedding festivities kicked off/ 

HI ho hi ho