Monday

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.

We're pretty much on our own this week, both of our supervisors for our projects are away at a conference in Palm Springs and will be there all week. We're starting a huge project so we will be good to go this week without the need for too many meetings. 

We should get sophies ashes back from the crematory either today or tomorrow. Michelle wrote an obituary for her over the weekend and it's published on their website. It is a little strange as there is no animal reminding me when it is 3:00 and they are wanting fed. Peanut is all happy go lucky and doesn't care and Kiwi, he just followed sophies lead when she would tell us that she was hungry. 

Have yourselves a great day and let's kick off this week with a bang. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I am once again in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut have decided that they are going to have themselves a down day and a day that they don't want to be a bird and a cat, but two siblings mourning the loss of their big sister Sophie. It is quiet here without her keeping the household straight as she wanted. 

Michelle had a great time on the suicide walk yesterday, Julie and her clan came down and they walked all around Morgantown raising money for suicide awareness. She has another walk she is going to go on this coming Saturday for Breast Cancer Awareness with my sisters and a few others. 

Now as far as the Mountaineers last night, I'm at a loss for words. We played horribly and the team is just not a very good team, I had high hopes coming into the season but Kansas State showed me last night that that was just an illusion. 

What is on our repetitive agenda? Chores around the house and a little bit of grocery shopping for the house. Just a typical Sunday for us. The Steelers play at 8:20 this evening on NBC, so another night game for them. 

Have a great day, make it special and make it memorable and do something special with someone special. 

Saturday Morning

Kiwi and Peanut

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are doing some research to help Mommy (that would be Michelle) pick up a new craft in candle making. We have all the supplies, fragrances, a double boiler, wicks, a couple bags of soy wax and all we are waiting for is the votive molds and they will be all set. Kiwi is still working on his doctorate, but wants to help Mommy make some candles. 

Michelle has been busy this past week, we now have a Halloween/Fall Tree to make it nice and festive in the living room. She has got it all decorated up in a fall/Halloween theme, and she even went and replaced our old cinnamon-scented pine cones with fresh ones that have a nice strong scent to them. It smells really nice in here and Kiwi and Peanut like it. 

If you are looking for some football, the Mountaineers do play at home tonight. It's a 7:30 game against Kansas State, that makes back-to-back night games for the Mountaineers in Morgantown. The Mountaineers are on the road for the next two weeks in Arizona and then at Cinncinatti. I hope for Neal Brown's sake after all the stuff he had to endure from the national media and fans this week they can pull out a win. He made a statement about the fans having fun instead of addressing last weeks loss and he has been raked over the coals for the statement. 

Other than that not too much planned for the weekend, I think Fall has officially arrived this week. I know Michelle is planning on doing the suicide prevention walk this morning at Mylan Park. Her cousin Juli is coming down for the event. 

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.

Are you looking for a little bit of High School Football? 4-3 after another loss last weekend is traveling to Parkersburg South to get back on the winning track this evening. 3-3 University will be traveling to Spring Mills and 4-3 Clay Battelle will be playing host to Cameron out in Blacksville. Hopefully all three teams can come home with wins tonight, but that is going to be a tall task to accomplish. 

No real plans for us this weekend, but the Cancer Breast Cancer Survivor walk is next Saturday at the WVU Football Stadium for any and all who may be interested in participating. My Sister Terri will be joining the walk this year as a Breast Cancer Survivor and I'll be there to cheer her on. 

Oh and before I forget, take a little time out and congratulate my wonderful wife, it was three years ago today she addressed and beat the alcohol demon. She is an amazing woman to say the very least. 

The Mountaineers play at home once again this weekend in another night game tomorrow evening against Kansas State. 

Have yourselves a great day and lets get this party started. 

Hi ho hi ho

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