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Cleaning up the homestead

I had Friday off from work. While Eric was at pre-school in the morning Kathryn and I took the dogs on a long walk to the old homestead on the top of Pen Bonc Hill. We found the house and barn foundations and the old well. Everything is pretty overgrown as you can [...]

Tomato Soup Cake & My Weekend

This weekend I celebrated my 55th birthday. It began by taking some time off work early; going to my friends Jim & Pam to get a load of aged horse manure for the garden. While Kathryn and Eric visited with Pam it took me about 1 hour to fork a heaping load on the [...]

Situation Wanted

Lately I have been focusing on my WinterCampers.com poem “I’m Not Going To Lie To You” – but this was a good poem that I wrote for Robert. In 1996 my beloved brother Robert was leaving DMC and his friends were having a going away party for him.  Like most activities associated with my brother humor [...]

Spring, finally.

In the duration of 4 days we have gone from snow

and ice on the pond.

to no snow and ice and [...]

Alphabet Stories from Pre-school

Each day at pre-school the kids learn and practice letters of the alphabet.  Wednesday night at dinner I asked Eric how school was. Eric said “Not good – we did the letter Y.  It’s not for me”.  Apparently he had problems drawing his Y’s.

Friday when queried about school he said “Yahoo! Dad – guess what?  We [...]