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Kathryn and her gal pals are headed to the Virgin Islands for a week of sun, snorkeling, reading, napping and relaxing. They are all packed and head out at 3am in the morning. Eric and I will be bachelors for a week. Most nights are full – we are planning on going out to eat [...] My nephew’s daughter has been raising Boer goats, a meat goat, and expecting some young kids. She has three total new births now and here is a picture of the 1st – Little Miss Snowflake. How many blogs are too many? I may have crossed over that line. For the past 12-15 years I have been involved in the organization of a group of contractors playing volleyball every Thursday Lunch Time at the Rome Family Y from September – April. Recently one of the participants suggested a [...] Of course it is snowing as I write this and the forecast calls for a possible 3″ of snow, but I witnessed two promising signs of spring this week. Earlier this week I heard the plaintive phoe-bee mating call of the chickadee – different than their normal chick-a-dee-dee. Yesterday as the temperatures rose [...] I heard Click and Clack’s Car Talk show and was intrigued by their discussion of Car Practical Jokes. They discussed one where a co-worker secretly kept filling another co-worker’s gas tank – completely disrupting their car mileage computations. It prompted me to send in a story. Some number of years ago my co-workers and [...] Ed & family joined us for lunch, conversation and games on Sunday. Over the past 24 hours we received 18″ of snow on top of all the previous lake effect snows. This was one of those shovel & plow twice days, just to keep ahead of the accumulating snow. You can see our snow is starting to add up. Look at the snow piled [...] Saturday I spent a couple hours shovelling snow around the deck, mailbox, oil tank access and paths for the dog to access the lawn. Kathryn took Eric grocery shopping and got Billy, Billie Jo and Dakota for Dakota’s year 2 birthday celebration. Below Dakota debates what to do with her candle.
Eric [...] There was light snow in the air when I awoke the other morning causing a nice snow bow with the sunrise. Eric recently had his year 4 physical and check up – all systems normal. The nurse was entering his data in a laptop and asked him if he knew what letter his name began with. He looked at her and said “E” – that’s Eric, “E”, “R”, “I”, “C”. She nodded, [...] |
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