Nathan, Tim, and I played a lively game of Sequence this evening.  I should have won the first round, but SOMEONE had to open up their mouth and let on to someone else my strategy which was to win 2 sequences with one last chip!  That play fell through and …

I don’t think I ever mentioned that I was seeing a Physical Therapist last fall for some knee problems.  They said the knee problems could be related to having a weak ankle caused by so many bad ankle sprains.  They suggested balancing activities. Look at what a great husband I …

Most people who enter our church’s car show probably spend the day before polishing and clean up their entries.  Not us!  Nope.  We don’t have a fancy car.  In fact, our rig isn’t even entirely painted.  So, there was no need for polishing and prettying it up!  No, indeed.  Tim …

Our church has an annual car show on Father’s Day which Tim and Josh decided to enter this year.  While most people are out polishing and cleaning their entries, Tim and the kids were out muddying up our entry! They went across the road to our hayfield where it’s still …

Who would have thought we’d ever convince Tim to visit NYC?  Here he is taking in all of Times Square our very first night in the Big Apple!

Since we haven’t used our wood splitter in a good ten years, Tim had to split this pile the old fashioned way.  He split enough wood today to last us through the next winter weather event which seems to be headed our way early this week.

Yesterday, Tim sent a picture of the snow he ran into not far from our home. I didn’t post that picture because, well, snow is getting to be old news and I’m tired of posting pictures of snow. Today, he sent the above picture. This morning instead of running into …

The answer, of course, is whatever needs to be done where your kids (and their activities) are concerned. Years ago when Amanda was just starting school and Emily was just a baby I took the training and certification classes to become a YMCA (and later Red Cross) certified swim instructor. …

My birthday is a week before Christmas. There are a lot of candles on this cake. Too many to count, imo and they generated enough heat to warm my always-cold hands! I know some of you will ask how many candles there were so I’ll just answer that now by …

Please scroll down past this count down to see new blog entries. This countdown will remain at the top of our blog until after Game Day because Josh keeps asking me EVERYDAY how many more days it is until the game. Now that I’ve posted this countdown clock on our …