Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, and Kiwi and Peanut are quite happy with themselves. They teamed up with Lucy yesterday to figure out the problem with Mom's Chromebook; it was doing some crazy things and couldn't log her in on her profile. Kiwi researched it and said maybe we just need to wash it (set it back to factory and then reload the profile), and wouldn't you know, that was the solution. It's back to normal, Lucy said. The storms may have corrupted the profile, and it could not recognize the keyboard properly. They did an amazing job fixing it. 

I did manage to wake up and get an early start yesterday, and got the grass mowed. I didn't know if it was going to rain or anything, so I made sure to get an early start to make sure I could get it cut. Michelle did the grocery shopping as I was cutting the grass, so we got everything done fairly early. 

So what is on today's agenda? Nothing much, just relaxing and taking it easy to prepare for the upcoming week. It's going to be basically just some downtime. Might even watch a baseball game, the College World Series is going on, and I kind of follow a team that is in it this year. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday

Here I sit in a quiet household yet once again. Kiwi and Peanut are in a semi-anxious mood as they know that, weather permitting, Dad is going to have to cut the grass today. They are both up in the garage, fueling up the lawn tractor and getting everything ready to cut the grass today.

Michelle will do a grocery run, same as every other Saturday. Only this Saturday will not be as nuts as last weekend. She can probably go at a semi-normal time rather than attempting to beat the overflow crowd at a Baseball game with people competing for a spot on Randy's Ridge. 

Other than spending time with the animals, no big plans for this weekend. It might be one where I can actually sit back and relax for a little bit, maybe take a nice nap and rest up from the previous week. 

Have yourselves a great day, make some memories. 

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 Cheap Entertainment this evening, and by cheap, I mean free? Well, head on down to the Ruby Ampitheatre this evening. Leftover Salmon takes the stage at 7:00 this evening. Kiwi and Peanut said they are planning on attending. They said they have a really nice sound, kind of a Grateful Dead thing going on and they like that kind of music, although Kiwi is really a Bee Gees fan. 

No big plans for the weekend as of yet. Things change at the drop of a hat, so you know how that goes. Grass is probably going to me calling my name, so there is always that. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

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 somewhere on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up, recalling or reliving the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task, and sometimes it's not that easy, but one thing it has always been a lot of fun.

This weeks pic goes back to when the country was shut down because of COVID. I was just laid off and Michelle was working from home and we were both at home. Weather was nice and we were both home, so Kiwi got a lot of outside play time with his distant cousins, you know, the wild ones. They would stop by for a visit and say hello. 

The year was 2020, it's hard to believe that that was six years ago, but it has been. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Lucy's Journal

Lucy's Journal – June 10, 2026

Wiffle Ball Madness at Monongalia County Ballpark

Dear Journal,

Today was one of the most exciting days ever!

The gang and I headed over to the beautiful Monongalia County Ballpark for what was supposed to be a friendly game of wiffle ball. Of course, when you put me, Peanut the gray tiger cat, Kiwi the green cheek conure, and the Quackers (those identical twin ducks who still insist they're easy to tell apart) together, "friendly" usually turns into complete chaos.

Our opponents were an unusual bunch: a team made up entirely of giraffes and mice.

Now, at first glance, that might seem unfair. The giraffes could practically lean over the outfield fence without moving, while the mice were so tiny they could disappear between the blades of grass. But we weren't worried.

The first inning started with Kiwi stepping up to the plate. He swung so hard he spun around three times before making contact. Somehow the ball dribbled twenty feet down the baseline. Kiwi flapped his wings and declared it a home run anyway.

"It was airborne for part of the trip!" he argued.

The umpire disagreed.

Peanut the cat was our next batter. He immediately tried to negotiate a trade to the giraffe team after noticing they had better snacks in their dugout. When that failed, he smacked a line drive into center field and strutted around the bases like he had just won the World Series.

The Quackers were unstoppable. The twins worked together so well that nobody could tell which duck was on base and which one was batting. At one point they accidentally switched places three times during the same play, confusing both teams and the scorekeeper.

Meanwhile, the giraffes had an interesting strategy. They simply reached over everyone and caught nearly every fly ball. One giraffe caught a pop-up while simultaneously eating a leaf from a nearby tree.

The mice, however, were the real challenge. They were so small that every ground ball seemed to roll right over their heads. One mouse somehow stole second, third, and home before anyone noticed he had left first base.

By the sixth inning, the score was tied 12-12.

That's when I came to the plate.

The crowd roared. Well, maybe it was just the Quackers quacking loudly from the dugout, but it sounded like a crowd.

I took a deep breath, wagged my tail, and swung.

CRACK!

The wiffle ball sailed high into the afternoon sky.

A giraffe jumped.

A mouse climbed another mouse's shoulders.

Kiwi offered helpful advice that nobody could understand.

Peanut tried to call dibs on the ball.

But it didn't matter.

The ball landed safely in the outfield, and I raced around the bases for the game-winning run!

Final score:

Lucy and Friends: 13
Giraffes and Mice: 12

After the game, we celebrated with cold treats and plenty of victory photos. Peanut claimed he was the team MVP. Kiwi claimed he was the team manager. The Quackers claimed they scored all 13 runs.

As for me?

I was just happy to spend another perfect day with my favorite friends.

Until next time,

Lucy 🐶⚾

P.S. Peanut is still trying to trade herself to the giraffes for a bag of sunflower seeds. We're monitoring the situation.

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is over, now we are staring straight down at another spring time Tuesday, time for a tidbits

* It has been 22,810 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, new, and improved 1,069-day Calendar. Mom is at 30,459, which would make her 28 according to my new and improved calendar. 

* It has been 8,065 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working in my field. Has it really been 22 years? 

* 6,658 days ago, Michelle and I had our first date together. Life has been much better since then. 

* 5,862 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 5,899 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 3,037 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 1,691 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,280 days, I've now outlived him by 1,548 days, making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* Old roommate Gregg proposed to his fiancée 269 days ago, I'm happy for those two. I asked him a couple weeks ago if they set a date yet, he said we would be the first to know. 

* I have 2,080 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.

* 238 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. I'm still mad at the damn rat

* 205 more days to go until my Goodbye 2026 Blog is posted. 

* There are 198 more shopping days left until Christmas 2026. 

* There are 183 days until I hit the age of 63. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are only 67 more days to go until Michelle and I will celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary......maybe

* There are 13 days until my second favorite season begins, Summertime!!!!!!

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

* I have written 8,383 blogs in what is now 21 3/4 years of Blogging.

* Still working 10's this week and probably next week as well. 

* Progress on my Selfie in Space, right here. We are ready for liftoff and holding. 

* Looking for Girl Scout Cookies? Ryleigh's Page

* Looking for Girl Scout Cookies still? Arabellas Page

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end—but if you’ve got to wrap up the weekend, today’s a pretty exciting way to do it. Now it’s time to take our collective noses and press them firmly back onto the grindstone of life. Back to work, back to the hustle, back to doing our part to make this spinning rock a better place.

Kiwi told me this morning, he said: "Dad, I think Peanut and I are going to stay home today and relax, we want to play some PacMan". I think Kiwi wants to play Pac-Man because he knows the little guys moving on the screen will be like his own laser pointer, and he's planning on tricking Peanut into chasing them all day long. She is so easy to please sometimes. 

Still working 10's this week, I pretty much have my big analysis done, and I'm just tweaking a few things to make it more of a complete dataset. They are using this to find obscure easements that we have to get to wells that may be out in the middle of nowhere, based on our vehicles' GPS data in our fleet of vehicles. You would think that would sound simple, but every car puts out a signal every 5-6 seconds over the course of a year, and that was fleetwide (meaning upwards of probably 100 or more vehicles). Then, sorting through the data to make sure we don't capture things like employees who drive the vehicles home and such. No trips to the McDonald's drive-thrus for lunch, all of that had to be filtered out. I have it published, I'm just fine-tuning the results. 

Have yourself a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho