Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again I have a front-row seat for the third match between the Challenger Kiwi and the Cat Grand Master of Chess Peanut in yet another game of chess. Kiwi has been studying Kasparov, Karpov, Spassky, and American Bobby Fischer in preparation for this match for a couple of weeks. Peanut just watched The Queens Gambit and took a nap after each episode. She feels confident that her chess skills are far superior to those of the beginning aviary competitor, who thinks he is so much better. I have a front-row seat for this match, and I'll keep you updated. 

I hope everyone has had a good couple of days and a successful week of Deer Hunting for those of you who are deer hunters. We had a great time at the Firehall for Thanksgiving and Michelle did the majority of our shopping yesterday, so now we get to relax a little bit. 

The Mountaineers play their last regular season Football game today, we are bowl-eligible so there will be bowl game this year, but we have to play at Texas Tech this afternoon. 

Is everyone decorated for Christmas? Michelle has already had the house decorated from Halloween and just converted everything to Christmas already.

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.

Looking for a little bit, and by little bit I mean little bit, of High School Football action this evening. Morgantown High is the only local team left in the playoffs and they are running into the most likely State Champion this evening in Spring Mills. It;s either going to be them or Martinsburg and Martinsburg beat them earlier this year, but revenge might be on their mind. I wish the Mohigans luck this evening, but they are playing a team on a mission. 

Did you hear the big exciting news for next week? On Monday McDonalds is bringing back the McRib!!!! My all time favorite sandwich from Mickey D's, I love the McRib and will not be denied. 

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 went back just one year to grab this weeks picture, it was Thanksgiving 2023 at the Cassville Firehall. The same place I will be once again today and have been for the last 16 years. Jim and Chris do most of the heavy lifting and manage to pull this off every year, but it is one amazing group effort. We paid for this years Thanksgiving last year and will pay for next years Thanksgiving this evening when we once again have our yearly auction to raise the funds. Everyone brings an auction item and Jim Auctions them off to assist in offsetting the costs. 

So I am going to attempt to overdose today on Tryptophan and Ham. Have yourselves a very Happy Thanksgiving. 

Gobble till you Wobble

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,251 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,504 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,091 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. 

* 5,302 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 5,340 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 2,477 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 1,135 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 994 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,625 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 292 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 253 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 104 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 69 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.  

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

* There are 29 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 371 days until I hit the age of 62. 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 7,757 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.   

* Yes the Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, it's going to be coming out soon...I promise I am going to get that out.

* Is it really the week of Thanksgiving? Wow has this year just flown by. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. 

* I have this funny feeling I am being watched, I found Sammy the Christmas Elf hiding in our Christmas Tree over the weekend, now he's found a new place to hide. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This weeks TicTok, a little twist on some classic Bon Jovi. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Valarie Wolfe

I would like to take this opportunity to help my niece Valarie Wolfe celebrate the 20th anniversary of her 21st Birthday today.

Much like me we have both decided that we are not getting any older, and instead, we celebrate anniversaries of Birthdays. Now I use the 1,100-day calendar, Val uses a 710-day Calender to achieve her desired birthday. It's the Hall Rule, that makes the number of days in a year a variable based on how many days need to be in it to not exceed 21 years of age. 

Val is a very inspiring young lady, she is battling a crippling disease head-on and doing it with a smile. She is always one to volunteer and lend a helping hand when needed or just being someone to talk to. I would not trade her for the world. 

 I'm not sure if Aaron or any of the kids have anything planned for the day, unless it was last night, but you know it will be special and memorable. If you see this amazing young woman today, make sure that you wish her a very Happy Birthday. 

 Happy Birthday Val.

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. 

Kiwi and I are working today and for the next couple of months, we have a bug task with Parsons and it all starts today and I'm authorized to work on it until the end of January. Not sure exactly what it is, but I'll get set up for it all today and should be good to go from that point on. I was getting a little tired of sitting around being bored, naps are a good thing sometimes, but not every day. 

Today is the first day of Deer Season in West Virginia, or should I say Buck season with a gun. This will be the most hunted day of the entire year for the state of West Virginia. Tens of Thousands of hunters have all scheduled vacations and will be out in the woods this morning if they are not already en route to their tree stands or spots. Let's just hope all hunters have a good day and everyone returns home safely to their family's with some food for the upcoming months. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi is in his cage and concentrating really hard at how to beat a cat chess grandmaster in chess. Her is bound and determined to stop his two game losing streak to Peanut and he's just getting obsessed with learning the ins and outs of chess. Good luck Kiwi

What is on our agenda today? Well Michelle and her sisters are heading up to Ellwood City for the day for Laura's Baby shower. This will be an all day venture for them so I will be on my own today. 

Have no fear for my boredom, I went over to Mom's yesterday and looked at her Phone system and determined the new phone (housephone) she bought is not working properly, so she went out yesterday and bought a new one. I'll be over there configuring the new phone and making sure that they don't have any issues. 

No Steeler game today, so my football watching will be semi-limited. No games that spark my interest in the NFL so I might watch a movie or two this afternoon. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it special. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi is on my work computer trying to figure out this GIS thing that dad does so he can give me some of his expert advice on a few things that I do. He is such an intuitive bird, always looking to expand his skills sets and learn new things. 

It looks like I am going to have a couple of months worth of work for Parsons starting this upcoming week. They have been trying to get this project and have been approved for it, so that will keep me busy for a couple of months as I continue to look for new contracts to work on. I've been off the last month looking for a new project/contract, so this gives me a little bit more time through the holidays to continue to look. I'm already a Parsons employee, so picking up this task was a lot easier than when I was contracted to them through Lancesoft. 

So what is on today's and our weekend agenda? JT is having a Birthday Party today at noon at Amanda and Joey's house. So that will start our weekend off. The Mountaineers play their last home game of the season this afternoon at 3:30 so there is always that to look forward to. Tomorrow Morning Michelle, Chris and Dani are heading up to Jon and Laura's as they are throwing a Baby shower for Laura tomorrow. The three will head up tomorrow morning and return in the evening, so I will be entertaining our non-human friends and be teaching Kiwi GIS, he is such an intuitive bird. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Big Ole Hairy Fiday

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 has decided to study a little more before challenging Peanut to any more chess games. Last weeks game was a total disaster and even though he thought he was ready, he wasn't. He's thinking of challenging her in another game, perhaps Kluster which is very strategic, but there is a lot of luck that goes along with it. I do have this game, so maybe we can do a multi player game with eliminations. 

The High School Football playoffs after missing last week due to some legal battles, should hopefully have the playoffs set and let teams get back onto the field, or else you eliminate all the adults and just let the kids play without all the adult bureaucracy. We are now a week behind in the playoffs and the clock is ticking. 

Plans for the weekend? Michelle is going to JT's birthday here in Morgantown tomorrow and then turning around and heading north with her sisters for Laura's Baby shower up in Elwood City. Me, I'm watching football...lol

Have yourselves a great day. 

Photo Flasback 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.

What Christmas season would be complete without sipping some cool refreshing drinks out of your very own Marty Moose mug? Marty Moose, the mascot from the fictional Vacation Movie (traveling to Walley World) and a prop in the Christmas Vacation Movie (along with cousin Eddie) is a seasonal favorite. I do in fact have my very own Marty Moose mug. 

It is actually still in a box with the majority of some of our Chrisatmas stuff, but Sammy the Elf on a Shelf has been rumored to be making an appearance this season. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,244 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,497 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,084 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. 

* 5,295 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 5,333 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 2,470 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 1,128 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 987 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,632 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 299 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 260 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 111 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 76 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.  

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

* There are 36 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 13 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 7,749 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 promise I am going to get that out.

* Michelle had an interview last week, she will have an in person one this week. Feeling pretty good about this one.  

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. I finally passed my sister Kim, Woo Hooo time to celebrate. 

* I have this funny feeling I am being watched, I'm getting some Sammy the elf vibes that he may be hiding and spying on me somewhere. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This weeks TicTok, words of inspiration from Denzel Washington. 

* 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. Go make it happen. Give me some fingers crossed this week for Michelle in her Job Search, she has a followup interview. 

Me, I hate the down time I get but last week I started to do some GIS things at home, trainings and an attempt to expand my skill sets a little bit, it makes the downtime a little more bearable during the transition. It keeps me occupied and interested, and I'm growing my skillsets. It helps it keeps my interest and I love what I do, it's fun creating geospatial data and answering questions with analysis.

Is everyone decorated for Christmas yet? Michelle has has a little tree up for over a month, it started out as a Halloween Tree and now is a Christmas Tree, the house is and has been festive for a few weeks. She has actually used the sewing machine and made some runners for the Mantle and the top of the TV stand that all match. She had a set for Halloween as well, and let's not forget all of the candles that we have made. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it a good one.  

Sunday

Kiwi, Peanut and Gracie

Here I sit in a quiet household, Peanut and Kiwi have had a houseguest all weekend as Gracie has stayed with us the last couple of nights. We spent all day yesterday watching Football together and we are planning on doing that today as well as the Steelers and Ravens play at 1:00. All three are really big football fans and it shows. We are all Steelers fans here. 

Did anyone watch the Mike Tyson - Jake Paul fight Friday night? Netflix had a real problem with their servers in serving out this live event, there was a lot of pixelation and buffering going on that made it pretty much unwatchable. My internet speed was good, I could watch other things on Netflix, but the demand for that fight was just too much. I was able to stream it tethering from my phone to my computer and watch it. I was really hoping for a knockout, but father time catches up with everyone including Iron Mike Tyson. I stayed up waaaay past my bedtime Friday night, I was actually up until Saturday Morning watching the event. 

So what is on today's agenda? A little bit of grocery shopping, chores around the house and of course watching the Steelers this afternoon with all of the animals. You know it has been said that they are all three Football fans as well as Steeler fans. 

Have yourselves a great day today, make it special. 

Saturday Chess Rematch

Here I sit in a nonquiet household, Kiwi was preparing all week to play Peanut and beat her in a game of chess. He had studied all kinds of strategies for playing online Chess and he was very confident he was going to destroy her. Well Peanut is a Grandmaster in Chess and despite Kiwi's new strategy, they were to no avail as Peanut was just toying with Kiwi and absolutely destroyed him. It's now Peanut 2 and Kiwi 0 but Kiwi vows he will beat her, he is going to regroup and learn a few more strategies. Peanut is just going to sit back and relax as Kiwi is no match for her. Maybe we will be another rematch next weekend. 

Well there was no High School Playoffs last night, too many adults got involved with the court systems and denied the kids a chance to play. They have been postponed for a week and they will start this coming weekend. 

West Virginia is at home this afternoon with a game against Baylor, the game starts at 4:00 at Milan Puskar Stadium. Which means that there is a home game this afternoon, avoid the stadium area as there will be an increase in vehicular traffic around the stadium. 

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.

Kiwi is absolutely determined to get revenge from the chess game he and Peanut played a couple weeks ago. He's not aware that Peanut is a Chess Cat Master and is very good at playing chess. He is absolutely certain with his new found chess knowledge, that he is going to beat her. I just taught him how it is possible to put your opponent in Checkmate in only two moves (see illustration) and he thinks he's going to try that strategy on her, but I don't think Peanut os that Gullible. 

Are you ready for a little bit of High School Football? I am, too, and it is now the playoffs. Win or end your season with the last team standing. Morgantown ranked #6 in AAAA will host a game against Cabell Midland here in Morgantown. University is on the road to take on Huntingon. Clay Battelle did not qualify for the playoffs and Trinity forfeited their season earlier on. Good luck to both Morgantown and University High this evening. 

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 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 all the way back to the mid-late 1950's, back when Dad still had his NBA dreams alive and he was playing for the mighty Van Voorhis School. My Dad by the way is in the front row and all the way on the left. If my math is right, this was about the time that Jerry West and the Mountaineers were the #1 team in the country. They played for the National Championship the next season, but lost. 

I hear Dad was holding out for a Nike shoe Deal, which hadn't been invented yet, instead of the common Chuck Taylor Canvas Converse that everyone wore during those years. I think I even wore them clear up to about Jr High School. It was Nike not existing at that time that Dad decided to give up his NBA dreams and go back to being a kid. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,237 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,490 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,077 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. 

* 5,288 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 5,326 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 2,463 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 1,121 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 980 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,639 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 306 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 267 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 118 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 83 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.  

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

* There are 43 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 20 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 7,742 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 promise. 

* Michelle had an interview yesterday. We'll just have ti wait and see. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 6th place among friends and family. I'm trying to catch up, I should move up to 5th place by this time next week. 

* Moke has co-founded some kind of a security company called Imagifund. This is their website. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This weeks TicTok, a really good Geocache. 

* 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. Go make it happen if you are working today which is Veterans Day. 

Yes it is in fact Veteran's Day, if you know a Veteran, take a little bit of time out and thank them for their sacrifice so that we can enjoy the freedoms that we do. 

Many restaurants offer free or reduced meals for Veterans including some local restaurants. So if you have served our national, enjoy a free or reduced meal on them. 

Other than that, no plans on the agenda. I have a meeting tomorrow with the state and Parsons is securing some work, Michelle has an interview today, more to come on that when I know something more concrete. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Peanut is off sleeping, but Kiwi is studying intensely and wants a Chess rematch with Penaut next week. He's been studying all night, playing chess on the internet and he is bound and determined to challenge Peanut next weekend and try to get his revenge. 

So what is on our agenda for the day? Typical Sunday stuff, get our household chores and shopping done and get ready to watch the Steeler game this afternoon. I think a pork roast is on our menu for the days dinner. 

Michelle's Cousin Julie came into town, she brought her Mom Charlotte (who is Michelle's Mom's Sister) for a visit as well as going to the auction. They stayed overnight last night and plan on heading back home this morning. 

The Mountaineers went to Cincinnati yesterday and beat the Bearcats 31-24. We didn't play our best game offensively, but the Defense scored two touchdowns and special teams had 141 worth of return yards that helped the Mountaineers bring home the win. Time to regroup and prepare for Baylor next week here in Morgantown. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Auction Saturday

Here I sit in a non-quiet household. Kiwi is taking a break from studying to be a Doctor and has decided he wants to be like Uncle Jim and be an Auctioneer. He's been practicing all night and into the early morning just in case Jim and Chris need any assistance this evening. 

Speaking of an Auction, Jim and Chris (otherwise known as P&P Auctions) is having their biggest auction of the year. The 2024 Christmas Auction starting this afternoon at 4:00, a couple of hours earlier than their traditional start time because of the size of this auction. Michelle will be there assisting at the front door, stop over and say hello and tell her you found out about this auction on George's Journal and you could be a VIP Member (where they let you sit down during the auction). It is going to be a big auction with plenty of Christmas stuff for everyone. They spent all day yesterday setting up for today's auction, so there will be plenty of auction items.  

What is on my agenda? I'm going to watch football. It's Saturday in the fall, and the Mountainers play today at noon against the Cincinnati Bearcats at their place. Hopefully, it should be a good one, and the Mountaineers can return home with this one in the win column. Starting QB Garrett Greene is once again out this game due to an upper body injury (concussion), so Nicco Marchiol will be behind center for the Mountaineers. 

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? Well this is the last week of the regular season, 11 weeks come and gone and this is the end of it. Morgantown is off this week as they prepare for next weeks playoffs. Univerity High is playing host to Oak Hill and will try to secure a home playoff spot for next week, but it looks like they might start the playoffs on the road. Clay Battelle (5-4) is on the road and finishes their regular season at Magnolia. Good luck to all the local teams tonight. Let's have everyone end the regular season on a positive note. 

Are you looking for something to do tomorrow? Well Jim and Chris and P&P Auctions are having their Christmas Auction tomorrow starting at 4:00 at Woodland United Methodist Church. It's always a great time and this is going to be a big auction, doors open at 2:00 and the auction starts at 4:00. Come early, find yourself some decorations and have a great time. 

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 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 one is very special to me, I know the date was January 7, 1973 and it was Grandpa Hall's 80th Birthday Party. It was held at the old house that used to be right beside Drummond Chapel Church,  which is now Suncrest United Methodist Church. Grandpa was the custodian, and used to go to work at 4:00 in the morning, hence where me waking up at 4:00 all the time probably stems from. He either retired its day or around here and we moved down the road to the home where we lived when they both passed. 

I think the church put this on for him, so it extended way beyond family as there was a big turnout that day. Days gone by and a lost moment in time. 

Have yourselves a magical day and make your own memories. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,230 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,483 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,070 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. 

* 5,281 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 5,319 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 2,456 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 1,114 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 973 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,646 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 313 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 274 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 125  days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 90 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.  

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

* There are 50 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 34 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 7,735 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 promise. 

* Today is election day, if you have not already done so go and do your civic duty today. It is the one day you actually have a voice as to what happens in your government nationally and locally. 

*  There is an auction this Saturday, details to come later in the week. 

* 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, Scotty Fox, future WVU Quarterback. He's still in High School, but committed. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

Kiwi trying to figure out what went wrong

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. Go make it happen. 

I think Peanut has absolutely created a monster by defeating Kiwi this weekend. He's studying the board like he never has before, replaying the game in his mind and strategizing talking about how he is going to seek his revenge and beat the cat Grand Master Peanut. I told him may play her in Monopoly, something where he can change the rules as the game goes on. 

It is election day eve, tomorrow is the one day that we have every four years when we vote for President, Senators, and Congressmen both on the Federal and State level. We vote for all the local elections and about anything and everything else. If you have not voted yet, please make plans to do your civic duty today, it is your one voice that you have. If you have already voted like Michelle and I, tomorrow night will be when we are all peeled to the TV to see who will be our next President. 

Meanwhile, I rarely get into TV shows, but I have found one that I really like in Tulsa King. If you have Paramount Plus, it's pretty addictive. I watched all of the first season a few weekends ago and have now caught up in everything in the second season. New shows are released every Sunday. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Sunday

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household, yesterday Kiwi thought he was going to get the better of his sister Peanut in a Chess Game, little did he know that Peanut is a Grand Cat Master and wiped the board with my green little friend. Peanut proved to be the better chess player. The wager she suckered him in on was additional Cat Treats vs Additional Bird Treats. Peanut is celebrating with her favorite treats, Temptations Catnip Fever. 

Yesterday Michelle went over to the Craftsfair at Westwood. Would you believe that all my Halloween Decorations are now stored in Totes and my house including a Christmas Tree is all ready for Christmas 2024. It has been the first time we've really put up a tree other than that little 3' one we have used over the last few years. She has broken out the snow globes, the Michelle's Cookie Factory from OurTowne, bubble lights a decorated tree, stockings, Yoda Claus and a number of other decorations. We went and got some more candle making supplies and potpourri and we are ready to go...lol. 

So what is on today's agenda? Typical Sunday chores and stuff we do every Sunday. Mountaineers were off yesterday and the Steelers are off today, at least I got to watch the MoHawk Bowl friday night and enjoyed some football by at least one level favorite team. 

Have yourselves a great day. Peanut is still walking around strutting that she won the Chess game. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Kiwi and Peanut

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are up or should I say have been up all night playing Chess. Kiwi has been spending a lot of time on the chess.com website trying to trick Peanut into thinking he is a Novice, but Peanut is just playing Kiwi for a sucker as she is a Grandmaster and is trying to lure him into making some kind of stupid wager. 

Michelle has mentioned that she would like to go to the Westwood Craft Show today over at Westwood Middle School. I think she is looking for ideas to either decorate for Thanksgiving or Christmas now that we are in November and past Thanksgiving. The scary Halloween Tree will be losing it's ghosts and black cat decorations this week and will soon be replaced with something more festive to the season. 

Of course if Michelle wants to find some Christmas Decorations, all Michelle would have to do is wait a week (Warning unpaid plog coming up) and go to the P&P Auctions "Our Best Christmas Auction EVER!!!" next weekend at Woodland United Methodist Church on the Mileground. That is next Saturday and it starts at 4:00 with the doors opening at 2:00. They are starting a couple of hours earlier than they usually do because they have so much stuff this year. Tell them you read George's Journal and get a stupid look from my lovely wife...lol

What is up for my day? No Mountaineers and no Steelers this weekend, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to be watching some football. 

Michelle and I did run up to the crematory yesterday and picked up Maybelline's ashes for Hayley. That is the second pet that we have had cremated in the past few weeks. First it was Sophie, but Sophie died here at home. They had to put May down on Tuesday, she just had no quality of life and was suffering. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it a good one and I'll update you on who won the chess game tomorrow. 

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?  We definitely have it happening this week. I think Clay Battelle is off this week after the big win last week. What about the Cross Town AAAA rivals? Morgantown and University, the Hawks vs the Mohigans? 4-4 University travels all the way across town to Pony Lewis Field to take on the 6-3 Morgantown Mohigans in the 2024 MoHawk Bowl. This one is for the bragging rights and has always been a very good game. I'm taking my Alma Mater Morgantown High to bring home a victory this evening. Go Mohigans and good luck to both teams this evening. 

No big plans for the weekend, we will roll the clocks back on Sunday Morning, so this is the weekend that you get an extra hour of sleep as Daylight Savings time ends and it starts to get dark earlier. 

Have yourselves a great day.