We had a warm day and a melt off yesterday. That was like a cooler version of minor league Heaven…..being able to drive around again on the black top….feeling the tires take purchase wherever I drove. That was pretty wonderful. … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
I get up early in the morning, as quiet as a mouse, thinking, usually, that I can carve out a few minutes of peace to sit and drink some coffee….and write this blog. Lately, Nate has been waking up early, … Continue reading
I am surrounded by comfortable habits that I take for granted. Like my family. It’s not always “comfortable” to be a parent. I guess that’s true. Life is messy. Things happen. We never know what lays up ahead of us. … Continue reading
You grow up….and life is a lot more than just a cartoon. I think that the safest thing to be is the guy who lives in a cardboard box out in the woods somewhere. Nah….that’s not really practical with a … Continue reading
Ahhhhhhh…. It’s cold here….record setting….and the vehicles might find that hard to deal with. I set out for work yesterday, and 5 miles into the trip, my alternator stopped working. The “check guages” light in the Jeep came on, the … Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about an assuring pat. Last night, I guess that I had a different sort of experience. I wake up to all sorts of different weirdnesses. We have little kids again….so the opportunity for the random event increases … Continue reading
Sparrow has a bed in our room that we put in there so that she could have a place to sleep that was close to us. It’s a nice little bed….comfortable and only feet from where we sleep. Some nights….like … Continue reading
Oh, my. Snow….or granulated water….all over the place this morning….temperatures predicted to be below zero in a couple of days….no one out on the roads that I can hear from my perch beside the closed and locked window. I need to … Continue reading
Depending on how I read the weather forecast, it’s either going to snow 7.81 inches….or snow 1-2 inches and then ice up over the top of that. I’m off today….President’s Day….so that part is covered. I’m off. But what about … Continue reading
What’s a curmudgeon? A cranky old whatever who shouldn’t be old enough to say or think things like, “Why, back in the day we had good bands…..bands like Yes….or even Bad Company….or Jethro Tull….or (fill in the blank)….?” There were … Continue reading