Hump Day

Well here we are once again, in the middle of the week and me with nothing to really say. I swear this has to be the hardest day of the week to come up with any content for.

At first I thought about doing a Wisdom post, but that would actually require me to come up with something semi-intelligent to say and I just don't feel up to the challenge this morning...lol

I have finally started to write my Goodbye 2015 Blog for the end of the year. It's a simple blog but requites a little bit of formatting to meet years past, that's all done now I've come to the fun part for me and that is reading the content and deciding what will make the year end post. It allows me to relive how boring my blog has been over the past 12 months and get a chance to recall what Michelle and I got into. The weekend road trips and events that may have happened.

It is by far the funnest blog of the year for me to write, but I only get to write it once a year and now I'm populating it.

Have yourselves a great day and remember if you are tired, depressed or feeling down, it could be SAD which I think I'm battling as we are heading towards the shortest day of the year.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well that dreaded thing called Monday is now once again behind us, now it's time to start concentrating on a Tuesday, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits.

* It has been 19,007 days since my birth, using the 905 calendar that puts me at about 21 years old and about right.

* It has been 4,230 days since I graduated from WVU.

* 2,831 days ago I made a second attempt to take a very special lady out on our very first date, this time she did not stand me up...lol

* It was 2,055 days ago that I got down on one knee in the early AM and proposed marriage to this wonderful woman.

* 1,592 days ago in front of our closest family and friends Michelle and I had a little thing we called a wedding.

* I have about 5,830 days to go until I retire, give or take a couple hundred here or there obviously.

* Well it didn't work out in the Bowl game this year, so we have 2,468 days to go until WVU vs Pitt in Football. Yes Panthers we are counting the days until we whoop up on that ass.

* I have around 352 more days to go until we celebrate another anniversary of my 21st Birthday, or until I have to make a revision on the 905 day calendar.

* here are only 291 more days to go until the Springs Festival, we missed it last year due to the rainy weather.

* There are only 271 more days to go until Cruise 2016!!!

* Michelle and I have 235 days to go until we celebrate our Fifth Wedding Anniversary.

* Phil will have his day in 49 days as we celebrate Ground Hogs Day. However with the weather we are having, not so sure Phil will be significant this year.

* I have 16 days to go until my Goodbye 2015 blog is written. I need to at least start formatting that very soon.

* There are only 10 more shopping days left until Christmas. It's creeping up on everyone quicker and quicker.

* I have written a total of 4,294 blogs for George's Journal in the 11+ years since I started writing it.

* Nothing new on the Brother Search this week, not giving up but pretty much at a dead end for now.

* The Hall Family Tree now currently has 281 people in it and still growing. It's amazing to me how far back we are able to trace some of this information.

* We had a great time this weekend traveling to Ohio for the inlaws Christmas Celebration. We managed to grab a couple hundred pictures, Chad was taking pictures of everything. I did put the significant ones up on Facebook.

* My niece Amy did a great photoshoot for Moke and Ang's upcoming baby. I think she did a great job as usual. She has a wonderful Photographer's eye. You either have it or you don't she does.

* Congratulations to my Brother Gary and his Girlfriend Tonya, they just celebrated their first year together.

* Michelle has ordered the Hot Sausage for Christmas Eve. It's been a long time Hall Tradition of having Hot Sausage Hoagies on Christmas Eve. My Dad and jean started it, My grandparents did not do this, and Michelle and I have just moved it to another level by changing the style in which it is cooked.

* I love this weather, not sure if I have ever mentioned it here before but I hate Snow.

* Have yourselves a great day

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

Well all good things must come to an end, that includes those fun filled and relaxing things that are referred to as weekends. It's time to stick our noses back on the grindstone for another fun filled week of doing what it is we do for a living.

Well we had a great day visiting family in Ohio yesterday, I'll have all the images up probably this evening. It was a great time with a great group of people.

Looking at our week ahead, my Company Christmas Dinner is going to be coming up this week. We are going to once again do it at the Fujiyama Steakhouse where we had ours last year. It was the first time I had eaten there and I was really impressed. It is Morgantown's best Japanese Steakhouse and it's always a real treat and they always seem to put on a great show.

Friday at Michelle's work, they are going to do a Christmas BBQ. She's taking our Coleman Grill in and they all want to have a BBQ for their dinner. Hamburgers and Hot Dogs are on their menu for the day.

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Travel Day

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, I'm the fir one to recover from a losing battle with the dreaded Sandman last night and I'm up early watching Gasland on some channel and collecting my thoughts for the day.

Today we are hitting the road and headed to East Liverpool Ohio for a couple of stops today. First stop will be Michelle's Grandmothers House where this years festivities have moved back to after a two year absence. Her Cousin Julie has hosted the last couple of years, but this year it is going back to her Grandmother Ruth's.

After that we will head across town and spend a little bit of time with her Dad and do a brief Christmas Celebration with him and Karen at their home, and of course we can't forget Spencer the 28 toed cat.

After that we will be heading back to Morgantown as we will both be returning to work tomorrow. Sadly this year the travel day is on a Sunday as opposed to a Saturday, with Michelle working ridiculous hours and being there by 4:00 pretty much every day, this may be a shorter day of visitations than normal so we can get her some rest.

Have yourselves a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, I'm the first one to recover from a losing battle with that dreaded Sandman and I'm up early watching Martin Lawrence on HBO and collecting my thoughts for the day.

Sammy was back at it this morning, he's been messing with Santa and dropping deuces all over the place. The good thing is that Sammy is a Christmas Elf and his deuces are actually made of chocolate kisses and are easily disposed of.

There really is no college football today other than the one big end of the year game when two schools representing a couple of our service academies get to take center state in the annual Army-Navy game that will be played in Philadelphia. Navy has hand painted all of their helmets for this game and have to be some of the sharpest helmets to ever be worn in a college football game. My prediction, Navy over Army this year 28-21.

Well since Michelle and I are traveling tomorrow, today will be a day of our Sunday Chores. Grocery shopping, menu planning for the week and laundry.

It's finals week here in Morgantown, WVU students started Finals this past Thursday and they will run through this Wednesday. After that they 30,000 pain in the butts will head home for almost a month during Winter Break. This is honestly the one time of the year when the University actually clears out, foreign nationals go home and Morgantown is actually kind of quiet for a few weeks. They should all be gone by Thursday this week at the latest other than Winter Commencement next week.

Have yourselves a great day today.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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 once again the dawn of another weekend, and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

Well Sammy has been hanging around the house this week, getting into all  kinds of things. I found him this morning sleeping in one of the stockings above the fireplace. I think him and Fin are working together to wreak havoc on our Christmas tree.

Michelle came home a couple of days ago and thought her Dad was having a mid-life crisis. His old car had pretty much bit the dust so he decided to go out and buy a new one. 5.0 Mustang is obviously the answer to that crisis....lol Her Sister Danni had one what was a convertible, but ended up flipping it a few weeks ago so she had to go and get a new car. Dave must have liked that Mustang enough to go and get one of his own.

We will be traveling this weekend, or at least on Sunday. Tomorrow we'll be doing everything that we normally do on Sundays in anticipation of traveling back to Ohio for her family Christmas on Sunday.

I did wake up to some pretty good news, Garrett Bishop, a co-worker of Michelle's has been accepted into Harvard for his MBA  Sidney, Lucas and Ian Switzer, my favorite set of Triplets I know have all been accepted into Cornell University. Congratulations to all of them on their acceptances.

Other than that, not much excitement going into the weekend.

Have yourselves a great Friday.

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 some place 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 is a whole lot of fun.

The two men pictured in this photo are my Grandfather Ellis Hall on the left and the Minister at Drummond Chapel Church (Now Suncrest United Methodist) Harper Callison taken around 1972 or so. Reverend High had left a year or two prior and Reverend Smith had not taken over yet.

My Grandfather was the custodian at the church, so this was pretty much my playground when I was a young kiddie. I'm pretty sure the small church in the background is still there, but our house that we lived in is no longer there. The field that you see in the background, is now a hotel.

My Grandfather and Grandmother were two very hard working people. He would awake and be at work at 4:00 AM and she wasn't much different except on laundry days or Sunday dinner days when she would get up even earlier to start. Speaking of early starts my lovely wife is probably already at work when you are reading this.

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Chugging Along

Well that is two days down under our belts, now we just have a couple more in front of us and all we have to do is get up and over the noon tine hump today and it'll be all downhill working towards another fun filled weekend.

As I have said numerous times before, Wednesday's blog is the hardest one for me to write. It is the one single day that I struggle the most on to come up with any kind of interesting commentary. It should be referred to as Brain Fart Wednesday, due to it being in the middle of the work week and nothing is really going on.

What is everyone doing for Christmas Eve? My Sister Terri is once again hosting a Christmas Eve at her home, which is where we will most likely end up. She is going to have her Chinese Gift Exchange that we do every year. There is a $25 limit and it is supposed to be a unisex gift, meaning not specific to a man or a woman and it's usually the highlight of the evenings festivities. I think after last year, everyone can use a positive memory on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day this year.

Maybe after the first of the year it will be time to start planning and selecting an available date for the 2016 Friends and Family Picnic this year. It's a slow time of the year after the new year and that might be a good time to start the planning.

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well that dreaded and dreary start of a week Monday is now over with, now it's time to concentrate on a Tuesday, still can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits.

* It has been 19,000 days since my birth. That is not an estimate, that is the actual count. Happy 19,000th day to me.

* It has been 4,223 days since I graduated from West Virginia University.

* 2,824 days ago mine and Michelle's lives changed forever as we went out on our very first date. I remember Hayley's advice to Michelle, don't drink pop it makes you burp...lol

* It was 2,048 days ago that Michelle and I became engaged to be married. It's a special time in your life when you find that someone you want to make the lifelong commitment to.

* It has been 1,585 days since Michelle and I stood in front of our closest family and friends and had ourselves a getting hitched dinner.

* I have 5,837 days to go, give or take a few hundred here or there, before I finally retire.

* I'm still counting and there are only 2,275 days top go until WVU vs Pitt in Football is renewed. There is a house beside the stadium that also has this running total going.

* There are only 359 more days to go until my next anniversary of my 21st Birthday.

* There are 298 days to go (estimate) until the 2016 Springs Festival.

* There are only 278 more days to go until or 2015 cruise. This will be our fifth cruise on the Carnival Pride.

* We have a total of 242 more days to go until Mine and Michelle's  Fifth Wedding Anniversary.

* There are only 103 days to go until my favorite season starts,  Spring 2016. Come on birdies and flowers I am willing to sacrifice seeing any snow this year if Mother Nature would be so kind to skip Winter.

* In just 56 more days Phil gets to get a national spotlight on himself once again for Groundhogs Day. I think he's just a showoff...lol

* Only 23 more days of content to write before my Goodbye 2015 blog is written and posted. I will probably start formatting it in the very near future.

* There are only 17 more Shopping days left until Christmas.

* I have written a grand total of 4,287 blogs in my 11+ years of writing George's Journal. That's a lot of words, and if each post has averaged 233 words in it, I'm arguably getting close to one million words written as a blogger.

* There have been a few updates to the Hall Family Website, it's growing slowly but surely. It currently consists of 259 people and is still growing. So far I am at my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents on my Mothers side and I know I can go at least one more generation beyond that.

* Nothing new this week once again on the Brother search.

* Have I ever mentioned my feelings about snow on this blog? I Hate Snow

* I am so happy to finally once again after all of these years to have Bubble Lights again. My Grandmother always had them up under her tree, I am just so thankful that I can once again enjoy these wonderful lights. My favorite Christmas Lights I would have to say.

* It has been announced that West Virginia will play Arizona State in the Cactus Bowl on January 2nd. It's going to be a late start here in Morgantown, but it's a Saturday Night game so that is good.

* As many know, I have a 4 TB MyCloud Drive running at home to back up and serve out all my pictures, movies and music. A co-worker bought one for himself this weekend.

* Michelle helped me find a great site to research old family information in West Virginia. LINK has been very useful to say the least.

* Our Christmas Tree has a few ornaments of people who are no longer with us. My Dad has one and my Grandparents each have one, this year we will add a few more of people who touched our lives but are no longer with us. Jean and Mick's ornaments are both ready to be added.

* Have yourselves a great day

* Hi ho hi ho

Back at it Monday

Well all good things must comer to an end and that does in fact include those short fun filled things that we refer to as Weekends. This weekend however wasn't a run around weekend, it was a get things done around the house and even Sammy was getting on us to get our tree up and decorated which we finally did.

I did set up a small album on Facebook of the weekends festivities. Michelle needs a very big thank you, she busted her butt all weekend with the cleaning, decorating and baking. I ended up being the errand boy, but we still got a lot of baking done and even delivered some to my Mom and Gerald.

Now it's time to stick our collective noses back on that dreaded grindstone for another week of working. Next weekend we are traveling back to East Liverpool, Ohio for Michelle's side of the family, family Christmas at her Grandmothers. The last couple of years we have done it on Saturday, but it's back to Sunday this year which really shortens the time we will be up there. It's about a 2 hour drive home and Michelle walks out of the house to head to work before even the marines get up to give everyone an indication. I'm looking forward to heading up north next weekend, maybe even get a little bit of shopping done.

Have yourselves a great day today

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Well here I sit in a quiet household, I'm up early and am the first one to recover from a losing battle with that dreaded Sandman last night. I'm up early watching Shrek and catching my thoughts for the day and surfing the internet.

Well yesterday was a pretty productive day around here, Michelle managed to get a lot of baking done, we have our tree, we gave the house a pre-decorating cleaning and the tree is up, but just not decorated yet. We do have the TV decorated, but there are a lot of things we still need to do today. We usually do our decorating.cleaning during one weekend and the baking another weekend but since we are traveling next weekend Michelle wanted to try to knock them both out this weekend. So to say yesterday was productive is an understatement.

Today will be our normal shopping and finishing up around the house, but no where as near as intense as yesterday was.

Speaking of yesterday, what the hell was Dana Holgorsen thinking. 4th and 1 and down by a point, we have a running back averaging over 5+ yards a carry and an injured QB who had -10 yards rushing and we call a naked boot leg with the gimpy QB? Yeah we lost a game we were dominating in the first half 24-23 to Kansas State. I think after yesterdays game Dana is back on the hot seat, or at least I don't see any extensions coming his way any time in the near future. At least the basketball team has Bob Huggins who never gets out coached.

Have yourselves a great day.

Christmas Tree Day

Well so much for my quiet household, Fin is going nuts running around everywhere and Sammy woke Michelle up making her some fresh coffee this morning. He brewed her up a cup and stirred in her favorite white chocolate and the next thing I know we are both up. We're watching "Freddy Got Fingered" on HBO and relaxing a little bit.

Well today is our day to decorate and put up our 2015 Christmas Tree, someplace for Sammy to hide in and some place for Fin to probably terrorize this year. We'll head out in a few hours to Southern States to select and pick up our 2015 tree to bring home and decorate. We're about ready to make the Hall household look like Santa Claus threw up Christmas all over the place.

Both the Mountaineer Men's Basketball and the Football team play this afternoon. The Basketball team hosts Keenesaw State at noon and the football team is in Manhattan Kansas to take on Kansas State in the final regular season game of the season before the bowl season begins in a few weeks.

I can't believe Michelle is wide awake at 5:00 in the morning on a weekend when she does not have to work and we are not traveling anywhere. Something tells me there will be a nap in her future after all the decorating takes place.

Have yourselves a great day.

Ho Ho Ho Ho I freaking Hate Snow, Merry Christmas.  

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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 once again the dawn of another weekend, and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

Well both High School and College Football seasons are done as far as local games are concerned for the season, the Mountaineers travel to Kansas State tomorrow for the last game in the regular season (we are already bowl eligible) and all the High Schools are done around here.

Our weekend plans are probably going to be simple. Go buy Christmas Tree. Set up Christmas Tree and start enjoying the Holiday season in our household. Sammy has already been here a while, now it's time to decorate the rest of the house for the season. Other than that no major plans this weekend although we are set to travel to Ohio next weekend.

Have Yourselves a Great Day

Hi ho hi ho

Happy Birthday Kim SanJulian

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my sister Kim a very Happy Birthday today. I am exactly 1 year, 4 days 3 hours and 56 Minutes older than her, so this puts my calculations on her at age about 20 years old, give or take a few years here or there of course.

Kim is a wonderful sister and one who is very accomplished in both her life and career, as she just recently finished up her PMP Certification at work. Not exactly an easy task and one that she should be quite proud of.

I'm not sure what Robert has planned for Kim this evening, my wild guess not knowing at the time of me writing this is dinner at Minards will be on her agenda sometime this weekend, of course that is simply a guess on my part.

If you see Kim today make sure that you take a little bit of time out and wish her a Happy Birthday today.

Happy Birthday Kim

Photo Flashback Thursday

2005 Prime Thyme

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 some place 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 is a whole lot of fun.

This picture reminds me just how time flies. This picture is from one of my favorite softball teams that I ever played for, this was the 2005 season Prime Thyme softball team. It was a pretty good team which makes the ability to have fun just so much easier. This team made it to the Championships and finished second in both the league and the post season tournament.

I remember there was one team that absolutely destroyed us in the regular season and were looking past us in the Semi-Finals to get to the Championship against the local police force, I think we won that game something like 23-1 to advance. They were an arrogant and loud group normally, almost to the point of obnoxious. I don't recall hearing a single word coming from them as we just lit them up on every aspect of the game.

Hard to believe that that was ten years ago. A finer group of men, whom I referred to as my Boys of Summer, you will not find. This team just played very well together regardless of who we were playing. We worked as a team ans we worked as a cohesive unit and beat some pretty loaded teams pretty handily. I miss the days of spending time with my Boys of Summer.

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Hump Day

Sammy Breaks Bowl

Well that's two days down, now all we have to do is get up and over this dreaded noon time hump and it will be all downhill as we work towards another weekend. Friday Eve is just over the horizon.

First of all just in case I missed anyone yesterday, Thank you for all of the Birthday wishes. It was nice to interact with so many people that it was a little over whelming. If I missed saying thank you to you for the birthday wishes, it was not intentional and I extend a big thank you to all the well wishers. In 2014 I got 209 Birthday Wishes I had to say Thank You for, this year that number is 234. Thank God for Copy and Paste...lol

 Well Sammy the Elf on the shelf made good on his promise of a rein of terror if I said I Hate Snow in my Blog, which I did yesterday. I guess that this was just his way to remind me that this is the season for snow and Santa needs snow. Notice the smile on Sammy's face? As if to tell me that he was not the one who followed through on his threat. I guess you play with fire, or in this case Sammy, you get exactly what was promised. I still hate snow, that will never change no matter what Sammy tries to do.

My wonderful wife Michelle showed me a site yesterday to do historical vital record searches in West Virginia. I was actually verifying so much stuff Monday night through Birth, Marriage and Death records that I managed to get quite a few updates done to the Family Tree and have the documentation to support many entries. If I could find a site like this for Pennsylvania that would be quite awesome and very much appreciated.

Have yourselves a great day today.

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Well that dreaded day of the week that we refer to as Monday is now once again in our rear view mirrors, I still can’t think of a better reason to do a tidbits.

* It has been a grand total of 18,993 days since my birth, my 21 years (using 900 day calendars) have been good to me.

* It has been 4,216 days since I walked down the isle at the Wise Library at WVU to finish my academic career.

* It has been 2,817 days since I took Michelle out on our very first date, horrible movie and a Pizza. 10,000 BC has to be the worst movie ever produced. Cavemen do not  have perfect teeth and hair stylists.

* It was 2,041 days ago that Michelle and I moved our relationship to the next level with our  engagement. I felt that I had made her wait long enough.

* It was 1,578 days ago that we moved our relationship to a legal status of married as we had our  wedding in front of our closest friends and family.

* I have about 5,845 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred here or there.

* I am eagerly counting down the mere 2,482 more days until the football game I am waiting for,  WVU vs Pitt takes place once again. There is even a rumor that we may get to beat their asses in a bowl game this year, that would be cool.

* There are only 366 more days to go until my birthday 21st Birthday (Remember the 900 day Calendars).

* Our next cruise is planned in just a mere 285 more days when we will once again set sail out of Baltimore to the Caribbean, this will be our fifth trip as we are both already Gold VIFP members.

* There are only 249 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fifth Wedding Anniversary together.

* There are only 110 days to go until my favorite season begins, Spring 2016. I'm ready for the birdies to start singing, the leaves to be reborn and have a the renewal season upon us.

* There are only 63 more days until the Prognosticator of  Prognosticators, Phil the weather forecasting Groundhog will pop his head up for an appearance.

* I have 30 days worth of content to go until my Goodbye 2015 Blog is posted.

* There are only 24 more shopping days left until Christmas, for you procrastinators there is still plenty of time and for you Black Friday shoppers I just have to ask Why?

* I have written a grand total of 4,279 blogs for George's Journal in the 11+ years than I have been writing this.

* No work on the Hall family tree this week, I know I am slacking.

* Nothing new on the Brother search, it seems as thought the whole search has hit multiple road blocks, not only from our side but on the other side as well. Hopefully something will break soon.

* Sammy the Christmas elf is going to be a terror, he's already threatening to do something if I say that I hate snow. I challenge him.

* I Hate Snow. Now let's see what he does.

* I think after the first of the year, I am going to start looking for dates for the Third Annual Friends and Family Picnic. Last year was such a success despite the weather.

* Michelle finally got some help in the Accounts Receivable Department. Her PIC (Partner in Crime) is on a limited work schedule due to her needing to be there for family health related issues and they just needed some help. Yesterday was his first day.

* The WVU Women's Soccer Team finished up a great season on Saturday night, their season ended with a 0-2 loss to Penn State in the Elite 8, I have a feeling coach Izzo is going to bring home a National Championship before she is done.

* The WVU Men's Football team and Basketball Teams were both undefeated during the month of November.

* It seems like Morgantown will be getting a second Taxi Service as Motown Taxi is set to officially open at the beginning of the year.

* Does anyone use Safetown? I know Michelle loves this Ap and every time an emergency vehicle goes by the house she knows exactly what is happening around us.

* As the winter season is getting ready to be upon us, power outages happen all around us. THIS SITE will allow you to track who is without power and when power can be expected to return. It could be a valuable link this winter.

* Have yourselves a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Sammy Kind of Monday

Well that fabtabulous thing we call the weekend, and in many cases an extended weekend is now over with. Now it's time to stick our collective noses back on the grindstone for another fun filled week of doing what it is we do for a living. It's time to get back to work.

Sammy was up early this morning, he found one of the conk shells we brought back from the Bahamas a few years ago and was trying to figure out how to blow it like a horn. I showed him how to do it, but he is just not getting the hang of it. Sammy said that he will pop by time to time between now and Christmas, I'm just curious what he is going to get himself into this week.

I have to say that I had a pretty productive break from work, last week just flew by and we got to spend Thanksgiving with Michelle's side of the family and my Mom on Saturday evening while setting her tree up.

Now looking at our week ahead, nothing major coming up. We are planning on going and getting our 2015 Christmas Tree on Saturday and maybe even do a little bit of Christmas Cookie baking. The following weekend we will be traveling, so time is starting to close in on Christmas and we have a number of things to do before then.

Have a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Well here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, I'm the first one to recover from that losing battle with the dreaded Sand Man last night and I'm up early watching the Kingsmen on HBO, but not really paying attention, and of course collecting my thoughts for the day.

Yesterday turned out pretty well, we managed to put Mom and Gerald's Christmas Tree up for 2015 and had a great time doing it.

Kim and Terri were both already there and waiting for me and Michelle when we got there, it was a real nice evening and everyone was a huge help in getting the 2015 tree up and ready for the season. It is a tradition that hopefully can continue to grow and grow more and more with each and every passing year.

Our plans for today are just to do our grocery shopping this morning. The Steelers play the late afternoon game today, so there may be a football game on tap for today. I watched the Mountaineers defeat Iowa State 30-6 yesterday afternoon. So it has been a pretty good football weekend for me so far.

Have yourselves a great day today and Go Steelers.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a quiet household, only me, Fin and Sammy are up. Sammy decided he wants some coffee and has found the white chocolate sauce and wants some in his coffee. Good thing we have more of it, it would be a sad day in this household if Michelle couldn't have her white chocolate when she re-wakes up.

I have seen that a couple of my nieces have already set their Christmas Trees up for the season. This afternoon we are going to take a little bit of time out and set up and decorate Mom and Geralds Tree for the season. This will be the third year that we have put up their tree since they moved to their current residence, the tree gets more life every year. It looks like it's going to be a good turn out this year.

The WVU Basketball team won the Las Vegas Invitational last night with a 72-50 win over San Diego State. Richmond, the team WVU beat in the Semi-Finals beat #14th ranked Cal in the consolation game for 3rd place.

The WVU Seniors get to play one last game at Mylan Puskar Stadium as today is Senior day, the last home game of the season. Today's opponent will be Iowa State but we still have Kansas State to play next weekend and our bowl game, so this is not their last game, it's just the last time they will play in Morgantown. Thank you to all the Seniors for your commitment and helping this team transition into the Big XII.

Have yourselves a great day.