Like sands through the hourglass

Another year has slipped by.  Hard to believe.
Most of my friends and family can surely verify that I am not a big fan of New Year’s Eve.  I used to be.  When I was in my late teens and early twenties, before all the bad stuff started happening, I did my share of celebrating on [...]

Random holiday pictures

The pets are finally figuring out the best places in the house to hang out.

I finally dug out the manger set my parents got for me as it has a nice new home on the mantle.  Not that we didn’t have a mantle in the old house, it just seems to fit better here.

The [...]

Holiday wrapup

Wow, another year practically over…
I had the entire week of Christmas off from work which was nice, even though it went by way too quickly.  I can’t even remember what we really did early in the week.  Guy hurt his back so we did lots of relaxing and some last minute Christmas shopping.   We saw [...]

‘Tis the season

On Friday Guy and I got our first Christmas tree for the new house.  We haven’t had one at the old house in several years so I was happy to be getting one again.  We have a tree farm close to the house so getting our tree (and Shirley’s) was pretty painless.  It was a [...]

Randomness

I was talking with a coworker last week about our respective weekends.  Mine sounded a lot like many of my past weekends.  “Never left the house”.  It struck me this morning as I listened to people complaining about the state of the roads during Saturday’s snow that once again, I didn’t leave the house this [...]

I’m A DOG …. NOT A DEER!

For anyone who doesn’t understand the significance of the “DOG” lettering we put on Sam’s shirt, it’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to the signs the farmers put on their livestock during deer season down in southern Ohio.  It’s hard to believe, but farmers down there hang “COW’ and “HORSE” signs on their livestock to keep all [...]