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

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 22,013 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. Much better than my old obsolete 1,000 day calendar that I had to retire. 

* It has been 7,273 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. 

* 5,861 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. 

* 5,071 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 5,108 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 2,245 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 904 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 763 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,841 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.

* 299 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.  

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

* There are 260 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 244 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 193 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 162 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 153 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 125 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 72 days to go until the start of summer, my second favorite season. We are in my Favorite Season. 

*  In 53 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 7,515 blogs in the now  over 19 1/2 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* Michelle went and bought a new washer dryer combo this morning from Lowes, scheduled for delivery tomorrow. 

* 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 8th 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, a way to make fresh mayonnaise at home. 

* Hi ho hi ho

Eclipse 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. 

We are not in the 100% coverage path, but we are in the 95% range to see the total solar eclipse today. Make sure that you have your protective eyewear if you want to view it, looking at it with the naked eye could do some serious damage to your corneas. I know they had one when I was a kid and Grandma Hall made me and Lynn stay inside until it was over with, but I'm not sure it was a total eclipse back then. If you have animals, the suggestion is to leave them inside today. If you have a welding hood, that would also be sufficient to observe the eclipse. 

For you college basketball fans, the NCAA finals is being played this evening. The game starts at 9:20 which is a little late for me to stay up and watch a basketball game, I can read about it on ESPN tomorrow morning. I'm not a late-night person and my bracket was already blown to bits when Houston lost. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit on a quiet Sunday Morning, Kiwi and I are up discussing baseball season. He now thinks he could lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to the World Series this year, but he wants too many seeds to manage them. 

What is on our agenda? Michelle is going to do the grocery shopping, and I'm going to do what needs to be done around the house and that'll be our early Sunday Morning routine. After that it's going to be a day of relaxation if I can convince Michelle to stop and wind down. 

I did get a chance to talk to Amy yesterday, she said Kaiden as signed up to play football for Morgantown High, I told her to tell him to stick with it, repetition like any sport is the secret to tell you the truth. He's a big strong hard working boy, in my honest opinion it's going to come easy to him physically. Big, strong, big boned, powerful legs, he's got everything you want in a player. My guess is he'll start out on the Offensive Line, but I had all my fun on Defense. I'll be there this fall watching and cheering. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it special and prepare today for the eclipse tomorrow. 

Happy Birthday Terri Rehmani

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my amazing sister Terri a very Happy Birthday today, by my count she is still 21, but I never use traditional calendars and use my own unique temporal measuring system. 

 
Terri just finished up a big battle with Breast Cancer this past week. She is a strong and inspiring woman and now she has the title of Breast Cancer Survivor to go along with everything else. She is a strong and inspiring woman to say the least. 

Terri is one of the most unselfish and amazing person you could ever meet or come across. If you have someone like this in your life you're pretty lucky and I'm pretty lucky. It was her that picked me up at the lowest point in my life and dusted me off and put me on the right path despite me having the fears that I had at that time, that makes her pretty damned amazing in my book and I'm thankful she is my sister.

Not sure if anyone will see Terri today, but if you are fortunate enough take a little bit of time out and wish her a very Happy Birthday today.

Happy Birthday, Terri.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, another workweek completed and me and Kiwi are up celebrating and having fun. Mom has I think finished all her spring cleaning, reorganizing and redecorating. She pained the bathroom, tore down wallpaper in the kitchen and tiled the walls and Kiwi said Dad I feel like I am someone else's house. 

Well my sister Terri had her breast cancer surgery this past week. As far as I know everything went well and and I would assume the prognosis going forward is that she is now a breast cancer survivor. A very unique class of individuals, I am very proud of her, she made it through the tunnel and out the other side. I can't say enough good things about this amazing woman and all that she has done over the past couple of week.

The Bob Huggins Fish Fry is this evening, the featured guess this year is Baseball's all time hit leader Pete Rose and two Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers in Jack Ham and Rocky Blier. Now baseball needs to let Pete in the Hall of Fame, the fans deserve it as much as he does. 

No plans for the day, I'm off and going to have a relaxing day ahead of me. I'm not sure what Michelle has planned or if she has anything planned for us, all I know is it's the weekend and time to relax a little bit. The grass is needing cut, but it's too wet to cut after all the rain and flooding we have had over the past few days. 

Have you got your glasses for the eclipse Monday yet? I'm sure places all around town are selling them. It'll be 95% coverage for the Morgantown area Monday afternoon, I'm kind of excited to see it/

Have yourselves a memorable 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!

Well some good news is that the Hazel Ruby McQuain Amphitheater has announced its Summer Concert Series for 2024. Once again lining up some pretty good artists so that you and I can go and hear a free concert down on the river. This is their third year doing these and they seem to really knock it out of the park every year. It's amazing what this community does at this location, it has grown and expanded and it can be something everyone can be proud of. 

Other than that what is on our agenda? I honestly at this point do not know. Michelle spent over a week spring cleaning, organizing, shampooing carpets, and organizing.  Our schedule could very well be open this weekend. It could be a weekend of relaxation after the past few weekends. Michelle is owed 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.

I'm going to do a little bit of a back to the future with this weeks flashback. Last year Erica was graduating and we were helping her celebrate this accomplishment. Amy and Ralph hosted a Graduation Party for her and we all were treated to a feast and partied. 

This year Josh will be graduating on May 25th and Amy and Ralph will once again be hosting the Graduation party at their home. I confirmed with Val this week on that. Maybe we should do a 1 year later photo. 

Have a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, now we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday and you know what that means. I turned down the job with Brawndo, since yesterday was April fools and Emerald City is a fictional city from the Wizard of Oz and Brawndo is a fictional company from idiocracy. 

* It has been 22,006 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. Muchele better than my 1,000 day calendar that I retired. 

* It has been 7,266 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. 

* 5,854 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. 

* 5,064 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 5,101 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 2,238 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 897 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 756 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,848 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.

* 306 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.  

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

* There are 267 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 251 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 200 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 169 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 160 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 132 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 79 days to go until the start of summer

*  In 60 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 7,507 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. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. Several family members are playing and I am back to 7th place overall among all my friends and family. 

* Girl scout cookies? Help this little girl meet her goal. Get them while you can. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? Looking for an entertaining TicToker to follow, check out this weeks Tiktok, love me some Don Williams. I think he got better as he got older.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday Big Announcement.

All good things must come to an end, and that does in fact include those fun-filled things called weekends. Now it is time to take our collective noses and stick them back on to that grindstone of life and get back to doing what it is that we do that makes this a better rock to live on.

I have an announcement, I had an interview last week with a company named Brawndo to head up their GIS Department. The only problem is that it is located in Emerald City so I may have to be relocating in the very near future. I am a little hesitant simply because Emerald City has been know to have very large tornados, the kind that picks up whole houses and move them still intact. Brawndo is going to pay my moving expenses, and a nice bonus to accept the position. Michelle and I will be flying to Oz this weekend to visit Emerald City and Brawndo. I've been told I can be a big man out there. 

This is one that I really have to think over, it's a dream offer, they want my answer by the close of business today. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho