Category Archives: Life

Morning skies

Sorry about the radio silence of late, folks, but I’ll be honest: Current Events are consuming more of my brain cycles than I want to admit, and while I could fill this space with my thoughts as to how the Election … Continue reading

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Wifi? Iffy!

Our spiffy high-speed wifi router that we got a few months ago died. Now we’re back on our older, less fast high-speed router. Sigh! This is like going back to a horse-drawn carriage for the several-hour trek to Mankato!!! That … Continue reading

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Contrails

This morning it fell to me to get up and take Hobbes out for his morning relief walk, which this time of year happens before sunrise. On the way back, I saw a jet contrail in the sky, and this … Continue reading

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Memories of Twenty Years Ago

Twenty years ago, a drive to the hospital in the morning. Twenty years ago, calling off work because it was time, the baby was on his way. Twenty years ago, bright sunny skies over Buffalo. Twenty years ago, a very … Continue reading

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On Mom’s birthday…

…something she liked. I’ll never forget watching this with her as it unfolded, more than 36 years ago.  

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Dispatches from the Faire

Last weekend, The Wife and I attended the Sterling Renaissance Festival. We went by ourselves and The Daughter stayed home, because we didn’t want to board the dogs overnight; but never fear, The Daughter was able to use the third … Continue reading

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“Hey, why no posting for three days?!”

Well, let Inigo tell the tale here: Yeeeeeeah. That was…a weekend. Friday was busy wrapping up stuff at work so I could enjoy a three-day weekend. Saturday we went to the Sterling Renaissance Festival, where much fun was had and … Continue reading

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Doggos: an update

Hobbes (the greyhound) and Carla (the pittie) are both doing fine! Carla has been struggling with some arthritis in her joints, but last week she went to the vet for an injection of fluid into one of her troublesome joints, … Continue reading

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“The Force will be with you. Always.” (a repost)

Today marks the 47th anniversary of the release of George Lucas’s “little space movie”, which wasn’t even 20th Century Fox’s projected “Big Movie” of that year. Little did the world know what was about to happen…and certainly a five-year-old kid … Continue reading

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Twenty-seven

Today we’ve been married twenty-seven years. How did we make it this far? Mainly, it turns out that if you don’t ever want to give up, you won’t.

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