Sunday

Here I sit once again on a quiet Sunday Morning, Kiwi and I are up talking about anything and everything. He is such a chatter box, I'm just waiting for his next groundbreaking idea that he is going to come up with. 

Yes I am still under the weather believe it or not. This RSV has been kicking my butt for five weeks now. It's just a waiting game, there really isn't anything you can do about it at this point other than wait it out. I'm just thankful Michelle has avoided it and has been able to pick up my slack. 

I'm taking the day off, I worked a full day yesterday (doing GIS) and the day went by quickly, I actually enjoy doing this project. It pays really well and there is not much pressure on you. Just slow and steady and record your billable hours for them. Michelle got up the same time that I did yesterday, right after I turned her coffee pot on for the day, so that made it nice. 

Not much going on for us today other than our normal routine. We;ll wait and see if I can go shopping this morning, I know last week I started to cough up a lung right before we were going to leave so Michelle did all the shopping as she has been doing. 

Have a nice and relaxing day, watch some football or a movie and just take it easy, you've earned it. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up discussing why we have nice weather sometimes and why we have all this white crap all over the place. He's not a fan of it either. Such an intelligent bird. 

Michelle is getting an extended weekend, because of yesterday's forecast they closed her office for the day. There were no scheduled appointments and travel was bad, so they decided to just close the office for the day and give everyone a day off. 

I will be working today for Parsons (my other job that I actually do GIS on), I don't mind working that job at all, it's actually rather enjoyable. I do have trouble getting to work though, I may trip over the cats scratch pads on my way across the living room. Working from home has its advantages.

So what is on our agenda? Same as everyone else's, be snowed in and relax. Don't try going anywhere if you don't absolutely have to be somewhere, that way everyone stays safe. 

Have yourselves a great day, stay warm and stay home.

Hi ho hi ho

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.

No plans for the weekend, I'm hoping to be feeling better but this stuff I have has lingered on much longer than I have wanted it to. To tell the truth I am probably working at least tomorrow for Parsons (doing actual GIS). 

I don't think Michelle has any plans for the weekend, she is due a relaxing one as she has been very busy the past couple of months doing her thing plus picking up my slack from my illness. 

Anyone ready for Spring Yet? 

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 weeks pic goes back to 1997 and me at the Coca-Cola 600 race in Charlotte NC. This is a picture of me with the Winston Cup, the coveted season prize that all the drivers used to try to win. Greatness was measured in how many of these you possessed. This pic was taken outside the racetrack in a tent that they had set up. 

Kim, Ed and I all went to the 1997 Coca Cola 600, the year and we all had our drivers that we cheered for. I was a Dale Earnhardt fan, Kim was a Bobby Labonte fan and I think Ed was a Bill Elliot fan I seem to recall. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, for those of you who enjoyed a three day weekend it's time to hit it again. Time also for a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,929 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,189 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. 

* 5,777 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. 

* 4,987 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. Second best decision I ever made. 

* It was 5,024 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. 

* I have now lived 2,161 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 820 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 679 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! Sunday would have been his 61st Birthday. 

* I have 2,911 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.

* 351 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Didn't I just post one of these? 

* There are 344 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 321 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 270 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 239 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 223 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 202 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* Making its debut on this week's countdown, in 137 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

* There are only 64 days to go until the next start of my favorite Season. Spring 2024. Come on Springtime, Christmas is over. 

* 19 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhogs Day, that's when he tells us we will have an early spring. I haven't seen Phil too often this fall and winter.  

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

* I have written 7,433 blogs in the now 18 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. 

* It's been about 7 months since I last had a soda or anything carbonated. I really have grown to like brewed iced tea although this last month I have learned to appreciate Gatorade and Pedialyte

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I think among my friends and family I'm in 9th place. 

* Girl scout cookies? Help this little girl meet her goal. 

* I've been under the weather for the past four weeks, for some reason I just can't seem to shake this damned thing.

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is This weeks Tic Tok, it's getting harder and harder to find good content as so many creators seem to be leaving. 

* Have a great day

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Michelle Dawn Hall

I would like to take this opportunity to wish what I truly believe as the best wife in the Universe a Very Happy Birthday today. 

This is my soulmate and the absolute love of my life. I do not know what I would do without her, she is an absolutely amazing woman. 

Mother, Wife, Daughter, Grandmother,  Sister, Aunt, Cat Mom, and Bird Mom are things she does and does very well. I have to say that I am very lucky to be able to witness all that she does on a daily basis. 

She is lucky to share this Birthday with her Sister Chris who is also celebrating a birthday today. So if you see either of these lovely ladies, make sure you take a little bit of time out and wish each of them a very Happy Birthday today. 

Michelle, I Love You with all my heart and I truly appreciate everything that you do. Happy Birthday. 

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet but full household. My wonderful wife has returned from East Liverpool and the cats and Kiwi are all happy that she is home. I have to tell you the truth, so am I. Kiwi kept asking me where is Mom and when is she coming home. 

I am still suffering from the RSV. I was able to get it Friday evening to make the Sam's Club Run (boy was that tough on me) as well as get out yesterday morning to dry laundry. It was about all I could do as those were the first trips outside the household since before Christmas. I'm on the road to recovery, but this is a long slow road. 

As I indicated yesterday I am back to working two jobs as I started working for Parsons again this week. I worked there last Summer and early fall until the project got put on hold. I had my Federal Laptop already, so all I had to do was just simply login from that and go. Parsons is a company I would love to work for and this is slowly getting my foot in the door, my managers like me. 

Are you missing your Christmas Cookies? Well Girl Scout Cookies are back on the market and I know a little girl who is trying to sell twice as much this year as she did last year. Ryleigh is attempting to sell 400 boxes this year, so if you are going to order, please follow this link so she gets credit for the sales.

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up doing the guy talk kind of things. He likes to have these intellectual conversations in the morning wondering why when you eat something pleasant smelling your farts don't resemble that smell and kind of stink. And by your farts we are talking mine, because Kiwi insists he doesn't fart, he poops but he doesn't fart. 

Michelle is up in East Liverpool today helping Julie prepare for a baby shower that is going on later this afternoon. She went up yesterday after work and stayed overnight, that way she could get an early start in setting things up today. I'm at home holding down the fort with my aviary and feline friends. 

I did start back to work this week with Parsons, the company I worked for last Summer that has a Department of Defense contract. I've spent a couple days this week getting all my passwords reset and connecting to databases. With a four-month layoff and a secure network, things are no longer accessible to me. I would have worked today and tomorrow, but I need IT support to resolve an issue so I'll be off until Monday. I'm still working full-time for Atmos, but Monday is a Holiday for them and it is a longer-term thing as opposed to a six-month thing. 

Would you believe it has been 4 weeks and I am still battling this RSV, I'm feeling much better and am actually getting out of the house a little nit, but this thing has kicked my butt. 

What's on my agenda today? Kiwi and I will be watching some football, telling jokes and doing guy things as the felines will just lay around being cats. 

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. 

It's actually going to be a three day weekend for me as Monday is MLK Jr Day and we are off that day. I get to make up for it by going back to 10 hour days next week, but I don't mind. I would almost prefer to do 4 10's. 

Well I am on my own this weekend. Michelle is planning on leaving work today at noon and going to East Liverpool Ohio to stay overnight to help Julie out with Emily's Baby Shower this weekend. There is a lot to get done and Michelle is going up to lend a hand and help out and get everything set up. Hopefully I will be fully recovered by today so I can get out this evening and do what I need to do for the household. 

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 weeks pic was from a couple of years ago at Hovatters Zoo. If you know Michelle you know she loves Giraffes, she has stayed up numerous nights watching Youtube waiting for a baby giraffe to be born, to all the stuffed animals she has. She just loves giraffes. 

We were at Hovatters a couple of years ago and she was having the giraffes take the carrots she was feeding them out of her mouth, they of course complied. They had a new baby giraffe born at Hovatters this past fall, so we'll probably have to make a trip up there this spring to say hello. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Sandra Irene Bell

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my Mother Sandra Irene Bell a very Happy Birthday today.Today she celebrates her 20th anniversary of her 40th anniversary of her 21st Birthday, yeah that's 81 in other words. 

 Not sure what her and Gerald's or anyone else's  plans are for today, I'm hearing they are planning on writing an award winning no novel on the ins and outs of her being able to hear and not hear.

If you happen to see Sandra Irene today, take a little time out to wish her the happiest of birthdays. Happy Birthday Mom

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed and so is the College Football season, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,922 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,182 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. 

* 5,770 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. 

* 4,980 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. Second best decision I ever made. 

* It was 5,017 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. 

* I have now lived 2,154 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 813 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 672 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! Sunday would have been his 61st Birthday. 

* I have 2,918 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.

* 358 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Didn't I just post one of these? 

* There are 351 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 328 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 277 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 246 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 230 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 209 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* Making its debut on this week's countdown, in 144 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

* There are only 71 days to go until the next start of my favorite Season. Spring 2024. Come on Springtime, Christmas is over. 

* 26 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhogs Day, that's when he tells us we will have an early spring. I haven't seen Phil too often this fall and winter.  

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

* I have written 7,426 blogs in the now 18 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. 

* It's been about 7 months since I last had a soda or anything carbonated. I really have grown to like brewed iced tea. I do have a taste for soda though. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I think among my friends and family I'm up to 9th place and moving on up. 

* I've been under the weather for the past three weeks, Michelle has whatever I have now. It's a sick household. I have tested negative twice for COVID but this is going on two weeks. .

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this week's Tic Tok, a song that I have sung a thousand times. 

* Have a great day

* Hi ho hi ho

Back to 8 Hours and Still Sick

All good things must come to an end, that includes those fun filled things everyone else enjoyed called weekends. For me however I am still recovering from this RSV. Michelle is a trooper as she has been doing all the running around and shopping that we usually do as a team. Anyways, let's stick those collective noses back onto the grindstone for another week. 

I am back to working 8 hour shifts this week, but next Monday is MLK Day and we'll be off work so I will go back to 10 hour shifts that week to make up the hours. The life of an independent contractor. 

I have some additional training tomorrow at work, not sure what it is but I think it is a review as to how we install and record gas service lines. Should be all kinds of fun. 

The College Football National Championship game is tonight. The game starts at 7:30 so I can watch a good bit of it or all of it if it is a good game and go to bed if it is not. I'm thinking Michigan to win it all, but one never nows. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi is up of course as he must want his worms because that early bird is always up before everyone else. He's fortunate as him and the cats are the only ones who are not sick. 

Michelle developed a case of the blahs yesterday as well. I'm so ready to be over this damned illness, RSV has kicked my butt like nothing I have ever had before. It has been three weeks which is the same time I was out with double pneumonia 34 years ago when I was hospitalized and sick as a dog. If you want stock advice, I have been buying Gatorade, Pedialyte, and Musinex like it has been going out of style, so any of those parent companies would be a good investment. 

I am going to try to get out and do some grocery shopping this morning, Michelle has just been doing too much as I have been recovering from this crap, maybe it is time for me to periodically get out if I am up to it. We already have our menu planned for the week (which we do every week) so it's just a matter of going and getting it. We'll have to wait and see. I helped Michelle bring some things in Friday evening and even that just wore me completely out to where I got into a coughing for and ended up extracting something from my lungs. 

I definitely will not be making it to Ryleigh's Birthday Party today, I still have this congestion in my chest and the last thing I want to do is infect a roomful of people and young children with this crap. 

On a side note, it was on this day 131 years ago that a man very influential in my life was born. Happy Birthday Grandpa Hall. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Rumblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up discussing the finer things in life like, what seeds he prefers and 1if he prefers pooping on the blue bedding or the white bedding. Questions that have kept me up at night all week long. 

Speaking up being up all night, I am still down with this damned RSV and I have had it for going on three weeks now. I missed Christmas, I missed New Year's and here I am still down with this crap. Yes I have done a couple of COVID tests and they come back negative, so I know it is not COVID, but this has limited my sleep during some nights this week to 30-minute intervals if I have been lucky. I am pounding Gatorade, Pedialyte, and about anything else that has electrolytes to try to stay hydrated. I've have been running a constant fever for about three weeks now. I'm just so ready to be over this thing and start feeling normal again. Michelle has been a godsend this entire time, I do not know what I would have done or would do without her. 

I'm not sure if I will be getting into much if anything this weekend, Ryleigh's Birthday Party is tomorrow but if I still have this I don't want to infect a room full of young children. 

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. 

If you haven't noticed, I started to change my sidebar around a little bit. Gone is the Twitter Widget that used to link to a twitter account that I really never used, It's called X now and if they don't want to give access to the widget, well then goodbye to them. I'm thinking about exploring some other widgets or just eliminating the ones no one visits. 

Finishing up 4 10's today to make up for Monday, I kind of like the 4 10's if they would let me work them every week. Give me a three-day weekend every weekend, that would be amazing, but don't see that happening. 

Ang and Moke are having Ryleigh's 8th Birthday Party this weekend on Sunday, depending on if I ever get over this RSV we will try to make it. I don't want to get anyone sick and this has been going on for three weeks now. 

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 be honest, I don't know the time frame or the origin of this picture. I do know it is a picture of me and my nephew Moke taken at my Dad's house. Using simple logic I am going to put this in the early 1990's and that is about as well as I can to for pinpointing a specific time frame. 

Both of us had hair at the time, I actually had more facial hair than him as well. I'm wearing a sweatshirt and long pants, so you know it wasn't summertime. Christmas maybe?

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * The New Years Holiday Weekend is over it's time to get back to doing what we do for a living, good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,915 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,175 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. 

* 5,763 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. 

* 4,973 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. Second best decision I ever made. 

* It was 5,010 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. 

* I have now lived 2,147 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 806 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 665 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! Sunday would have been his 61st Birthday. 

* I have 2,925 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.

* 365 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Didn't I just post one of these? 

* There are 358 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 335 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 284 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 256 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 237 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 216 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* Making its debut on this week's countdown, in 151 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

* There are only 78 days to go until the next start of my favorite Season. Spring 2024. Come on Springtime, Christmas is over. 

* 33 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhogs Day, that's when he tells us we will have an early spring. I haven't seen Phil too often this fall and winter.  

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

* I have written 7,419 blogs in the now 18 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. 

* It's been about 7 months since I last had a soda or anything carbonated. I really have grown to like brewed iced tea. I do have a taste for soda though. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I think among my friends and family I'm up to 9th place and moving on up. 

* I've been under the weather for the past couple of weeks, Michelle has whatever I have now. It's a sick household. I have tested negative twice for COVID but this is going on two weeks. 

* Working 10's this week to make up for the Holiday Monday. Hell I would rather work 4 10's.

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this week's Tic Tok, I really need to think about getting one for Peanut.  

* Hi ho hi ho

Happy New Years 2024

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

and never brought to mind?

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

and old lang syne?

CHORUS:

For auld lang syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,

we'll take a cup of kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

And surely you’ll buy your pint cup!

and surely I’ll buy mine!

And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have run about the slopes,

and picked the daisies fine;

But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,

since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have paddled in the stream,

from morning sun till dine†;

But seas between us broad have roared

since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there’s a hand my trusty friend!

And give me a hand o’ thine!

And we’ll take a right good-will draught,

for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

Goodbye 2023

 January

* We started the new year safe at home sleeping. 

* We all met up with Mom at Texas Roadhouse to celebrate her 80th Birthday. 

* I took a day off and took both of the cars to the Ranch to have their oil changed. Michelle was working and that is how I spent my day off. 

* I bought my girl scout cookies from Releigh. She is in the Girl Scouts and she is who we are buying our cookies from. 

* We all surprised Ralph for his 40th Birthday. Amy kept it a secret from him. 

February

* Phil, my Groundhog Friend betrayed me and saw his damned shadow. 

* Michelle and I got into some bread making, we tried a number of new breads that we loved. 

* Former WVU Basketball Player Joe Mazulla was officially named the Basketball coach for the Boston Celtics. He has an interim position, but they made it permanent. 

* We bought Michelle a new laptop. Hers was outdated and she needed something better so we got her one that she loves. It's touchscreen too. 

* Jerry McClean I learned had passed away. 

March

* Brittany officially moved out and in with her at the time boyfriend, then Fiance and soon to be Husband Matt. They have a nice little house down in Fairmont. 

* We started to use a dutch oven to make bread, I love the way that it tuns out. 

* Took a training seminar Introduction to Agile. 

April 

* I learned my childhood friend, mentor and big brother Dave Van Halenger has passed away. Dave had taken me under his wing when he played here in the mid-70's and re remained friends up until he left to take over the Strength and Conditioning Program at Florida State. Dave also lived in East Gate. 

* Michelle and I attended the bakesale at Woodland United Methodist church. A place I seem to overpay for Pineapple Upside Down Cakes. 

* My Contract with Duquesne Light had come to an end. It was very lucrative and a 3 month contract turned out to be about a year and a half of work on a big contract. 

* Calvin and Jeanetta did a Gender reveal, they Jax's gender was revealed to everyone for the first time. 

* Michelle got a kernel lodged into her teeth, so I ended up buying a waterpic for the household. 

* I took a trip to Pittsburgh, I was going to have an interview for a full time position with Duquense Light, but their system was down before I got onto the subway and I found a Tea Shoppe at the Mall. This was the beginning of our love of Teas. 

May

* I had an interview with ESRI, they make the software that I use when I do GIS. 

* I was hired by Lancesoft to do a short-term contract with Parsons. Another lucrative contract but once again it was through the DoD and was very short-term. 

* Michelle and I took Mom and Gerald over to Chris's for a Mother's Day Cookout at their home. 

* Erica Jean finished her High School Career with her Graduation. 

* I bought Michelle a Hammock for the back yard, why? Because Michelle wanted a Hammock. 

June

* Brittany and Matt went on their cruise, and Matt proposed. They will be married this coming October. 

* Michelle and her sisters made a trip to East Liverpool to help celebrate Meghan's Graduation. 

* I entered into the world of battery-powered lawn equipment. I found a nice leaf blower, weed eater combo at Lowes. It more than meets our needs. I have bigger gas powered versions, but we never use them. 

* Bob Huggins had an incident in Pittsburgh that lead to him no longer being WVU's Basketball Coach. 

July

* My month started out with a Doctors appointment over at the POC. 

* I started my personal music top 12 countdown in July. Where for 12 weeks every Wednesday I would name a song and post the video. 

* Jim and Chris had an auction at the Woodland United Methodist Church. 

* We had a Baby Shower for Calvin and Jeanetta. 

* I gave up Soda and bought a Mister Coffee Iced Tea Maker. Would you believer that I have not had a single soda since I made the change. 

August

* Michelle and I for no reason, drove to Tygart Lake and we spent some time at the Dam. 

* The students returned to Morgantown after a nice three month hiatus. I like this town a lot more when they aren't here.

* I got the chance to meet up with my old roommate and introduce him to Michelle. Greg played football when we roomed together all those years ago. 

* The Johnny Koon Lantern and Butterly Release was once again held at Westwood Middle School. There was a really nice turnout this year as there have been every year. 

September

* Jimmy Buffett, a man I have seen in concert multiple times had passed away. It was a bit of a shocker, he was a big part of many of mine and Michelle's Summers.

* My sister Terri was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. It's a battle she was just beginning to fight and she is continuing to fight with Chemo. 

* The Pitt Panther Football team finally returned to the city where they are most hated to play a football game against the Mountaineers. It was a big event, a prime-time game and one that we watched from my niece Amy's House as she had an inflatable outdoor TV screen. 

* I got hired by my current employer Matrix who became Motion from the time I was offered until the time I started. 

* Pam and I went to Preston County to get Buckwheat Cakes. The Buckwheat Festival had started, but we ate at the church in Masontown. Easier in and out. 

October

* Michelle and Kim ordered their wigs, they planned (and did) to shave their heads in support of my Sister Terri's fight with Breast Cancer. 

* Terri, Kim, Michelle, Amy, Val, Brittany and a few others went to do the Breast Cancer Survivors walk. Terri indicated she wanted to do next years walk as a survivor. 

* I had to go to Pittsburgh to get my TSA Precheck done to work on the current job that I am working, due to it being as infrastructure. I started working for Matrix who is contracted to Atmos Energy. 

* We spent the month organizing the Spaghetti Dinner benefit raffle for Terri. 

November

* We had Terri's Spaghetti Dinner and benefit raffle and I have to say it was much more successful than even I thought it was going to be. It was a whole team effort and everyone did an amazing job, it just warms your heart that so many people stepped in to help pull this off. 

* The day had finally come, Terri had started to lose her hair from the Chemo, so her Kim and Michelle all met up at Terri's and all three of them shaved their heads in support of Terri. 

* I ordered tickets for the Kenny Chesney Concert this coming Summer in Pittsburgh. Michelle indicated that she really wanted to see him and her favorite artist Zack Brown so I got tickets. 

* The annual Thanksgiving dinner took place at the Cassville Firehall. Mom, Kim and Brittany took in the turkey day festivities. 

* Michelle and I simultaneously served on Jury Duty together for two weeks, neither one of us got called in in that time period and mine was done. 

December

* Let's just say that we had a couple weekends filled with Baking for Christmas. Michelle did the first one baking nut breads and making fudge all weekend. 

* I did celebrate another anniversary of my 21st birthday (it was actually my 60th) and Michelle surprised me with a 3 lb box of Redstone Chocolates. 

* Michelle had her company Christmas Party at Muriels in Fairmont and we both attended. The evening was a lot of fun. 

* Our friend Trish had been battling hereditary heart problems that past few years. She had an LVAD put on her heart to assist it a few years back, but that is only a temporary solution. She got the call that there was a donor heart and she had a Heart Transplant. 

* The second weekend (three day) of baking occurred where Michelle, Kim and Brittany pumped out a lot of cookies and did a lot of baking over three days. 

* Christmas Eve at Terri's happened, but I was sick (and I'm still sick) and didn't want to get her sick. Michelle went and had a great time, I did nothing Christmas and Christmas Eve other than try to sleep through this illness. 

* There were 386 Blog Posts this year and this is the last one. 

* I'll see you on the other side in 2024. 

New Years Eve

Here I sit in an animal-filled household, Gracie and May are here and believe it or not I have seen Peanut pop her head out occasionally. Kiwi is happy that we have visitors and can't stop talking about his canine cousins from up north. 

This will be my last regular blog of 2023, at 9:00 AM my Goodbye 2023 blog will post and that'll be it for this year. It is fully written and ready to go, I hope you enjoy reliving my year with me. 

Agenda for the day, we will be doing our grocery shopping this morning as we usually do. We have to get our pork and sauerkraut for tomorrow to bring us luck in 2024. A few chores around the house and that will be about it as far as our day. Naps are on our agenda for the day after we finish up the chores. 

So what is our New Years Eve plans, the same as they always are. I'll be sleeping and if I see that ball drop it's because I woke up and had to go to the restroom. No celebrations her. If you are out celebrating, be careful of all the other drivers out on the road who may have celebrated as well. If you celebrated too much, call for a ride. 

Have a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit with Kiwi, Gracie, Maybelline, Sophie and Peanut is off hiding somewhere. We are dog sitting for a couple of days while Hayley and Tyler go visit some friends. Kiwi is telling stories of about how he saved Neal Brown's Job as he is an assistant coach and wants more seeds in his next contract. 

Well it all depends who is least sick as to who will be going and drying clothes this morning. Both Michelle and I are both sick and have been under the weather all week. I still have whatever I had last weekend and it's not pleasant at all. It's not COVID but it is definitely something other than the flu. Neither one of us are sleeping and we're both still running fevers. Let me tell you that I am a big fan of Pedialyte Freezer Pops and Gatorade this past week. 

Neither one of us have any plans this weekend other than trying to rest and recover. We do have a three day weekend to try to get back to normal. 

My end of the year blog posts tomorrow, I still have some things to write as it is about 3/4 of the way done. Hopefully I should have it done sometime today and ready to post tomorrow morning. 

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 and another Holiday Weekend. 

Monday is New Year's, so this will be a three-day weekend for me. Hopefully, I feel better than I did last weekend when I was sick all weekend. The only difference is we celebrate Christmas Eve, News Years Eve we'll both be zonked out sleeping. 

No plans for us this coming weekend other than Hayley is going to drop Maybelline and Gracie off for a couple of days while her and Tyler go visit a friend of hers for the weekend and New Years. Peanut of course will hide all weekend, although they all used to live here. She is strange around any strangers, hell you should see her with the big stuffed Giraffe Michelle has, she is scared to death fo that stuffed animal. Kiwi will keep everyone in line, he has a way of doing that. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho for the last time in 2023

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 told Michelle last weekend that it's the perfect time of the year to get back into our bread-making. It really is a cold-weather activity that fills the household up with, well the smells of freshly baked bread. The picture above is a Pepperoni and Mozzarella Bread we made last year in the Dutch Oven. The Dutch Oven. I personally think break made in one is some of the best bread, always hearty. It gives it a hardened rust and a warm and fresh heart. Last year we bought a book from amazon called Breadmaking for beginners and it was really helpful in helping us understand the entire process. 

There is just something about a home smelling of warm fresh baked bread. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * The Christmas Holiday Weekend is over for most, mine gets extended one additional day today. Good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,908 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,168 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. 

* 5,756 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. 

* 4,966 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. Second best decision I ever made. 

* It was 5,003 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. 

* I have now lived 2,140 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 799 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 658 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! Sunday would have been his 61st Birthday. 

* I have 2,932 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.

* There are 365 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 342 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 291 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 263 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 244 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 223 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* Making its debut on this week's countdown, in 158 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

* There are only 85 days to go until the next start of my favorite Season. Spring 2024. DOUBLE DIGITS!!!!

* 53 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhogs Day, that's when he tells us we will have an early spring. I haven't seen Phil too often this fall and winter. 

* 4 more days to go until my Goodbye 2023 Blog is posted, I've started my formatting and writing. I have it about halfway written. 

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

* I have written 7,411 blogs in the now 18 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. 

* It's been about 6 months since I last had a soda or anything carbonated. I really have grown to like brewed iced tea. I do have a taste for soda though. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I think among my friends and family I'm up to 9th place after passing Hayley and someone I used to play softball with. 

* I've been under the weather all weekend, Michelle has whatever I have now. It's a sick household. 

* The Mountaineers bowl game will have them playing North Carolina  tomorrow. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this week's Tic Tok, a simple idea to generate infinite power. 

* No Hi Ho Hi Ho for me today =)

Christmas Eve 2023 Video

Merry Christmas

 

Christmas Eve Past Videos

Every year I try, or should I say I attempt to try to put together a Christmas Video from our Christmas Eve. I've done a number of these through the years, enjoy some of my past work and Merry Christmas Eve.

2022

2021

2020

2019

 

2018



2016



2015




2014




2013

2012

2008




2007



It doesn't appear that I did one for 2006, but here is one of the first videos that I ever did to fill in a little.





2005 which is probably my all time favorite one that I have done.




2004



1999 Which was my Dad's last Christmas

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here Kiwi and I sit in a quiet household, we're up discussing this concept of Christmas Eve. I told him to wait a couple of hours and check my blog at about 6:00 and he can see all of my Christmas Eve past videos.

Tonight is the one night of the year Santa Claus actually goes out and works outside the workshop. Our friends at NORAD have once again put up the Santa Tracker so that we can all track where he is on his journey around the world to deliver toys to little boys and girls. 

My traditional Hot Sausage is here and ready to start cooking for this evening's festivities. It's something my Dad started doing and we have just kept up the tradition for about 45 years now. The recipes and how to cook them have changed but it's still Hot Sausage and tomorrow's breakfast. 

So tonight we will be visiting my Sister Terri as we traditionally do, she wants to have it so we are going to have Christmas Eve. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up talking about anything and everything. He's very talkative when no other humans are around, other than that he is kind of shy as was demonstrated last weekend.

We have some errands to run this morning, Michelle's outdoor friends need some food so it may be a trip to Rural King after I get back from the laundromat. After that though, I think it is going to be a day of resting and relaxing. Michelle Kim and Brittany worked their butts off last weekend baking cookies that she might just need a little bit of shut down time. 

Tomorrow's Blog will be where I post all of my Christmas Eve videos from years past. I really do enjoy taking time and watching all of them, each one tells a different story. Kids have grown, we've all gotten older and some are no longer with us. It's a time of reflection. 

Something I may do this weekend is really get into the writing of my Goodbye 2023 end of the year blog. I got it all formatted, now I just have to take time and reflect month by month and grab my bullet points that will be included. 

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 and for me a four-day Christmas Holiday Weekend. 

I'll be posting my Christmas Eve videos from years past this weekend. It has been asked if I have picked this years Christmas Eve Music, the answer is no. I've had a suggestion or two, but I'm always open to additional suggestions. 

I did run to Harry's last weekend to get Hot Sausage for Christmas Eve. I do a trip every once in a while and last weekend I went and cleared space up in the freezer to buy hamburger, steaks and Hot Sausage. I really like Harry's. My sister Kim said they love and use D&H Custom Meats LLC and they really like them. 

No big plans for the weekend that aren't quite obvious. Let's get this Friday started so we can start the Holiday weekend.

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 whole lot of fun.

This weeks pic goes back less than a week, it is of Michelle and I'm and their Kitchen Aid mixers starting our batches of cookies last weekend. It was really nice and helpful that we had two mixers going and multiple hands helping do what needed to be done. It was an amazing effort and one that can hopefully be replicated in the future as I know everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. 

Maybe in future years we can expand this and make it a bigger production with cookies to be enjoyed by everyone. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * The day after cookie weekend is over with, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,901 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,161 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. 

* 5,749 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. 

* 4,959 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. Second best decision I ever made. 

* It was 4,497 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. 

* I have now lived 2,133 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 792 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 651 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! Sunday would have been his 61st Birthday. 

* I have 2,939 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.

* There are 349 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 298 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 270 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 251 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 230 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* Making its debut on this week's countdown, in 165 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

* There are only 92 days to go until the next start of my favorite Season. Spring 2024. DOUBLE DIGITS!!!!

* 60 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhogs Day, that's when he tells us we will have an early spring. I haven't seen Phil too often this fall and winter. 

* 11 more days to go until my Goodbye 2023 Blog is posted, I've started my formatting and writing. 

* There are 6 more shopping days left until Christmas 2023. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

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

* I have written 7,403 blogs in the now 18 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. 

* It's been about 4 months since I last had a soda or anything carbonated. I really have grown to like brewed iced tea. I do have a taste for soda though. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I think among my friends and family I'm up to 9th place after passing Hayley and someone I used to play softball with. 

* Speaking of Hayley, she has went back to the company she used to work for. She had been working at Aldi's, but her old company called her and offered her more money so she jumped at it. 

* The Mountaineers bowl game will have them playing North Carolina on December 27th. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this week's Tic Tok, a simple message that maybe we should all listen to during these holiday days. 

* Have a great day 

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All the baking fun is over with, three days worth of baking cookies plus two days last weekend baking Banana Bread and making fudge. Now all the Christmas Baking fun is done for the year and it is time to get back to doing what it is that we do for a living. Let's stick those noses back onto the Grindstone for another fun-filled week of doing what it is that we do for a living. 

Three long days of cookie baking has been completed, my album should be up on Facebook by the time this posts. I took pictures all weekend of all the fun and festivities and the cookie baking. It was a great time had by all and we are thankful for everyone who came over and visited or assisted this weekend. It was a huge help. 

Looking at my week ahead, I start training today doing something else at work. I finally have access to a website with all of their as-builts so I can see for myself all of the documentation. 

Michelle is still on Jury Duty this week, and will be until next Friday when she will be done and finished with it. She does not have to go in today, hopefully she can be all done with it and not have to get called in. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Cookie Day

Here I sit once again with my old buddy Kiwi, he's up asking what kind of cookies are going to be made today, I told him he would have to discuss this with Mommy. He said he likes all the people stopping by. 

Speaking of my little socialite bird, Kim and Brittany were here all day yesterday making cookies. Talk about a well oiled assembly line, that is what they had. Micelle was mixing and putting the ingredients together, Brittany was putting the mixture on the baking pans and taking them off and Kim was the bake master working the oven. Pam, George and Jax stopped over for a visit, so we had a houseful having fun making cookies. I'll be putting the pictures up that I have been talking once I am done taking pictures. 

Today Michelle will do our grocery shopping first thing this morning and the things we do around the house,  then it is day 3 of cookie day. She made the Chocolate Chip, Butterscotch, no bakes and orange cookies yesterday. I know when is still wanting to do her peanut butter hershey kiss cookies as well as her favorites the spritz cookies today and that should finish up the Christmas Baking. Kim and Brittany will be joining us to finish up all the baking. Come on over, this will be it for Christmas Baking. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Cookie Day

Here Kiwi and I sit once again in a semi-quiet household, he  is talking to me about the strange human that we here yesterday and I told him that is Aunt Kim. 

Now it is on to day two of cookie baking, Michelle and Kim knocked it out of the park yesterday and today I think Brittany is going to be joining us for the days festivities. It was a lot of fun yesterday, I was working and the girls were baking all day. I'll post the pictures when it is all done, unlike years prior Michelle is doing a number of different cookies. 

What's on my agenda for the day? I'll be heading over to the Laundromat to dry clothes, Michelle will be baking cookies and I may make a trip up to Harry's to stock up the freezer and get some sausage for Christmas. We're about out out of the good hamburger, so I'll get some of that and some of his Hot Sausage. 

WVU's December Commencement is today. Most of the students are out of town until the first of the year, so after today traffic will not be as heavy as it is at other parts of the year, The next few weeks are the only real time that the University actually shuts down. During the Summer there are two summer sessions as well as events going on all Summer, this is when everyone goes home. I know when I was working at the NRAC this was the only time of the year the Master's and PHD students from other countries would actually go home for any length of time. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Big Ole Christmas Cookie Day!!!!!!

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!

Today is the first of three cookie days for Michelle, she did Banana and Banana Nut Bread Last weekend as well as home made fudge, this weekend Michelle and Kim will be assembling the 50 lbs of sugar, 50 lbs of flour and a whole bunch of butter into out favorite cookies. Kim has volunteered to help and we are excited for her to come over and bake cookies. Yes there will be my all time favorite cookie, the Butterscotch Cookies that Michelle makes. She will be making : Butterscotch, Chocolate Chip, Spritz, Strawberry, Orange, Peanut Butter with Hershey;s Kisses, Shortbread, Wedding Balls, and no Bakes. She kind of created her own recipe years ago and everyone loves the Buttersccotch. Yes we will be sharing them, I know my Mom loves the Butterscotch ones, as does everyone else. 

I am working today, but Kim and Michelle will be in charge of the kitchen, provided Michelle doesn't get called for Jury Duty. They are both scheduled to be off today and with one agenda in mind. Baking Cookies!!!!!

I know we are all looking forward to today and sharing the fruits of their labors. 

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 whole lot of fun.

I thought for this week I would go back to Christmas Eve 2019 when we all got together at Terri's and were smart enough to grad a (what a novel concept) group picture together. I'm actually in this one (something as a photographer you rarely have the opportunity to do, just ask Amy). 

It was a special moment where we were able to get one big group picture. This is the year that I think the theme was pajamas, as you can see. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday, I loved this one.