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.

Since it is Halloweem I just had to go and use a picture from a Halloween Past. This one is from 2015, Ralph and Amy had hosted the evenings festivities and Ralphie hooked up a trailer with some hay bales to his 4 wheeler and drove the kids all around up where they lice to take them trick or treating. 

Michelle rode along with them, she is in the yellow sweat shirt just having a great time.

Speaking of great times, have yourselves a great day. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, time for a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,223 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,476 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,063 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. 

* 5,274 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 5,312 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 2,449 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 1,107 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 966 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,653 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 320 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 281 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 132  days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 97 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.  

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

* There are 57 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 41 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 7,727 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.   

* Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, it's going to be coming out soon. 

* In a sad bit of news, Hayley is putting Maybelline down today. She was a very loving pitbull who had developed cancer in her front legs and it has spread to her head. She is suffering and has no quality of life, it was just time. Very sad. 

* Calvin and Jeanetta bought a house they got moved in last week. It's up close to the old recourse office, but behind it from another road. 

* 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, not to be a doom and gloomer, but this may be something to be concerned with in the future. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

I hope everyone's Monday is awesome and you do what you need to do to make this a better rock to live on. It;'s what we all strive and work for. 

For me I have a little bit of bad news, my contract with EPE ended on Friday so I'm a guy with two jobs, and no work at this time. Kind of in a state of limbo. I'm still employed by Parsons and AliPro, but there is no billable work available at this time so I have to go to the unemployment office and tell them I have two jobs, but no work at this time.

I do have a few things in the hopper, so we will have to wait and see how things turn out. I am not working at this time, so there will be no hi ho hi ho's for the immediate future. 

Kiwi has told me that he is on top of it and he'll find something in my skillset. I have a very resourceful bird to say the least. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Sunday

Here I sit on a quiet Sunday Morning, Peanut is still napping and Kiwi is in his cage saying the Cancer Walk yesterday was a little much on him, he asked if it would be OK next year if he just flew it. I think his intentions are pooping on some people, so not sure him flying it is a good idea. 

Speaking of the Cancer Walk, it had a really good turnout yesterday and Terri and her gang lead the entire pack from start to finish. I needed a checkered flag as they led the pack all the way around the field. The turnout was so good that they caught up and lapped some of the people at the end of the walk. She was a boot scootin and setting the pace. Mom and I enjoyed the race from the stands. Both Michelle and I did get our flu shots. 

After that we ended up going to the old mall and voted. Turnout for that was surprisingly high, Michelle said her ballot was like #900 or so on the day, and it was pretty much crowded. I think a lot of people are voting early this cycle like they did in 2020. 

Today, out plans are simply do what we do on any other Sunday. Do some shopping and prepare for the week ahead. 

Have a great day. 
 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Kiwi and Peanut 

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are up early talking about how they want to do the Breast Cancer Survivors walk this morning to support their Aunt Terri. They both lost their sister Sophie last week from a cat form of breast cancer and they want to do all that they can do to raise awareness and support the survivors of Breast Cancer. Aunt Terri is their hero, they told me so. 

Yes the Breast Cancer Survivors walk will in fact take place this morning and it will be held at Mylan Puskar Stadium. Registration begins at 9:00 and the walk begins at 10:00. Park on the Silver Lot (where the facilities building is). The Monongalia County Health Department will be there administering flu vaccines and both Michelle and I will be once again getting g our vaccines there. Last year we were going to go and pay for them until we found out at last year's walk that the health department was doing them for free, so we'll take full advantage of the opportunity. 

After the walk I told Michelle I would like to do my civic duty and vote early in the 2024 Presidential Election. That way I don't have to worry about any crowds on Election Day or it interfering with work. Monongalia County has four locations where you can vote early if you choose to go that route. I am officially endorsing Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz for this election. I'm a GIS guy and Tim Walz actually gave the keynote address at this year's ESRI Conference in San Diego. 

The Mountaineers do play this evening, it's a 7:30 game I think and we are playing at Arizona. 

Have yourselves a superfantastic day, make it a good and productive one. 

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?  Morgantown after the road win last week is once again on the road and playing at Hedgesville. University High is at home taking on Preston. Clay Battelle is on the road to Beallesville Ohio. Good luck to all three teams this evening, bring home three wins for Monongalia County. 

Plans for the weekend, well tomorrow is the Breast Cancer Walk at Milan Puskar Stadium at 10:00. I know Terri, Kim and Michelle are all walking, I'll be there to take pictures and capture the events of the day. 

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 picture is from one of our cruises and on a formal night. On formal nights we were served lobster and it was a time to dress up and we did. This was from the first formal night before we went down to eat, we got dressed up. We would usually go down and get our pictures taken. 

I don't remember what specific cruise we were on, but I know we were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on our way to Grand Turk. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, time for a tidbits, 

* It has been 22,216 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,469 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,056 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. 

* 5,267 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 5,305 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 2,442 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 1,100 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 959 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,660 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 327 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 288 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 139  days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 104 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.  

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

* There are 64 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 48 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 7,720 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.   

* Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, it's going to be coming out soon. 

* 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, you have to love when you get these sound people mixing two songs together. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

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

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

Photo Flashback Thursday

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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 was 14 years ago today. Moke and Ang had finally tied the knot and were married, so it's Happy Anniversary to them. They were married at the church where you turned in to go to Dad's old mine and we were all in attendance for this special and memorable day. 

Love was definitely in the air that day, because that young man on the far right and that young lady on the far left would also follow down that same path of Holy Matrimony as that was Calvin and Jeanetta, which makes this special lost moment in time even that much more special. Saturday there will be another special moment in this family as we witness Matt and Brittany taking those same vows and becoming Husband and Wife. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is done and over with, that means this is Tuesday and you know what that means. 

* It has been 22,202 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,455 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,042 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. 

* 5,253 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 5,291 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 2,428 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 1,086 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 945 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,673 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 341 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 302 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 163  days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 118 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.  

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

* There are 78 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 62 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 4 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bonds of matrimony. It's getting closer. 

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

* I have written 7,705 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 is going to Pittsburgh tomorrow night and will stay with Hayley, they are going to go see a Story Teller named MrBallen tomorrow night. 

* 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, I think he learned the hard way you are not supposed to push the Bowling Ball. 

* Parsons did send me a laptop as well. So now I have computing power out the ying yang. 

* 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. 

I have to chase Kiwi away from my computer as he is trying to do some kind of analysis for the research that he is doing. He's trying to be a human doctor and his goal is to be Dr Kiwi by the end of the year. He is definitely a determined little fellow. 

Going to be a busy week this week, Michelle will be out of town on Wednesday, Brittany's rehearsal dinner and her wedding on Saturday. Me? I'm a working fool so to speak. Working full time for AliPro waiting for some Parsons work to come in. 

No other plans for me this week other than entertaining the animals and getting some work done. I guess it is time to go make this a better rock to live on. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi is being nice and quiet this morning, we got him a jigsaw puzzle that he has been hard at work trying to finish. He is a multi-talented bird. His concert yesterday morning earned him enough seeds to share the wealth with his outdoor cousins. I suggested it when some of the birds were giving him poop-flavored seeds and no peanuts. Kiwi likes peanuts. 

Yesterday was a good day. Michelle and I went to the Springs Festival where she got her pure Maple Sugar that she has been wanting. It was a nice weather weekend so they had a really good turnout, no idea why they canceled the Balloons launching, it was perfect weather. 

We hit a few of our favorite stores while we were hin Springs. Went to the Summit Store and the Creamery as we headed back, It wouldn't;t be a trip without a trip to hilltop market, but we bought nothing from there. 

The Mountaineers looked really good yesterday, they went into Oklahoma State and pretty much dominated the game 38-14 and the score was a lot closer than the game actually was. This may be one of the most solid road games of the Neal Brown era to be honest. Of course, Kiwi says he was coaching the Defense. 

Today, normal Sunday stuff that we do every Sunday. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday

Here I try to sit in a semi-quiet household, if course my friend Kiwi has been practicing on the guitar all week and feels he is getting good enough to have put on his own concert this morning. He's charging seeds for admission, hence why all the birds are here this morning. Right now he's doing his version of Rockin Robin. All the birdies are calling our FREEBIRD, so I think that may be his encore. Such a creative little bird. 

So what is on our agenda today after Kiwi's concert? Michelle is wanting to run up to Springs PA for the Springs Festival that is going on. She is out of pure maple sugar that she uses to cook with and they make it right there out in the woods. I guess they get the the maple syrup and boil it down until it crystallizes and then you have maple sugar. We bought some a few years ago and Michelle ran out this year and wants some more. 

After that we'll do our running around and Saturday shopping at ALDI's. Typical Saturday stuff that we do every week. The Mountaineers do play today but are on the road at Oklahoma State for a 4:00 PM kickoff (our time). 

Balloons over Morgantown which was supposed to be going on this week has been canceled or rescheduled due to the weather. They may try to launch at a later date, but with such a short window here with Football and everything else the window is too short to plan anything out, so it may be next year before we see any balloons over Morgantown. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it memorable. 

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.

Looking for a little bit of High School Football? The 4-1 Morgantown High Mohigans are on the road this evening to take on Wheeling Park. Wheeling Park is 3-2 on the year. 1-3 University High is at home this weekend as they host Butler High School from Pennsylvania. 2-3 Clay Battelle off a heartbreaking loss last weekend plays host to Hancock Maryland. Good luck to all the local teams this evening, bring home three wins if you don't mind. 

What are our plans for the weekend? I think Michelle wants to go to the Springs Festival tomorrow. There is a pure maple sugar that they make up there that she loves to use and we ran out of it and we can't let that happen. Momma wants to go to Springs, we go to Springs. It's been a few years since we have been to that version of Amish Country so it'll be nice to get out and about a little bit.

WVU is on the road this weekend to take on Oklahoma State, so traffic shouldn't be too heavy around town this weekend. Of course Balloons over Morgantown is this weekend, so there will be opportunities to get some great Photography shots. Keep your eyes open, there will be multiple launches weather permitting. 

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.

I have to say, I saw a picture this past week of Suncrest United Methodist Church selling Pumpkins, and they had the Pumpkins all spread around the ground, it brought back some memories because I used to live right there with Grandma and Grandpa Hall from about 1969 to about 1973. So I pulled up this photo of yours truly and my cousin Chuck who lives in Moundsville. Chuck was my cousin Rusty's oldest and they had came in for a visit to Grandma's. Juanita used to come about once a month for years and this was just one of those times that Rusty and Renea came with them. 

Yes that was Dad's car in the background and even further in  the background is my old basketball hoop that I used to shoot on. It's where I actually made my first basket. There was always a really good pickup game on that court, I had the opportunity to play with a future NBA player in Lowes Moore who used to live right down the street and would come up and play. I of course was just a Jr High aged kid and Lowes was an All-American, so I gave him a break and let him think he won...lol

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* A very busy Monday has been completed, now it is time to just simply do a tidbits. Is it Really October??????

* It has been 22,195 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,448 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,035 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. 10,000 BC, I could have picked a better movie but not a better partner. 

* 5,246 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 5,284 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 2,421 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 1,079 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 938 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,680 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 348 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 309 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 170  days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 125 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.  

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

* There are 85 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 69 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 11 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bonds of matrimony. It's getting closer. 

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

* I have written 7,698 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.   

* Jim and Chris had a pretty good auction this weekend, I'll keep you updated when the next one is. 

* 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 TikTok, Justin Nunley is one of my Favorite TikTokers, the guy is hilarious. 

* My first day as an Official Parsons employee is in the books. Oh the monstrosity of a workstation that they sent to me. I'm familiar with everyone I work with, so that works out really well. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho