Under the Weather at 3 years old

Daily Picture: “NEXT” Current Audio Book borrowed from the Library…

My current listen is Michael Crichton’s NEXT.  I have actually found a character that has quickly become a favorite, Gerrard the Trans-Genic Parrot.
The morning did not start out as smoothly as it did yesterday.  Today I woke and was rather cranky to start.  I did not [...]

Wake and Roll

Daily Picture: More Cars Lined Up (3yo Lined up some cars out of the 400 he has that he could not identify where they came from.  He then had me identify which were mine, which were 7yo and if I knew when he got the others)

For the most part many mornings involve the baby [...]

Guitar Lessons Online

Well I thought I would give a little time for my older brother today. He is a guitar teacher and has added some different video lessons online.
Dave has been playing and studying the guitar for twenty eight years. He is an alumnus of The Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, CA where he earned a certificate [...]

Being a Volunteer

Daily Picture: Stack of Thank You notes from the English as a Second Language Students.

I have been getting officially certified to be a ESL Volunteer and tutor.  For grant and funding purposes the local College is required to train and certify it’s volunteers.  I am almost done and have one more 3 hour class to [...]

3 Days of the Condor…Um make that Daddy…

Daily Picture: Cut Lumber

Time seems to pick up speed when the weekend comes, but there never seems to be enough time to get everything done. As with every weekend lately time is in short supply and I have plenty to do.
Friday Night Out!!!
We made plans with some friends to go out to dinner Friday [...]

Timber! Lots of Timber…

Daily Picture: The Timber or Lumber if you prefer.

57 Pieces of Arsenic Free Pressure Treated Lumber.

17 - 5/4×6×8′
15 - 2×4×8′
7 - 2×6×8 ‘
7 - 2×6×10′
10 - 4×4×8′
1 - 4×6×12′

2 Van Trips to Menards
Cold Rain
Well today was the day I needed to pick up the lumber and of course it had to rain.  Mind you it [...]

Pondscum in the shoes…

What do you get when you cross a sunny morning, nice walk and a pond full of fish?  Yep you guessed it a 3yo full of pond scum…  We have a nice little route we walk which includes a major retention pond full of wildlife that is easily seen.  Turtles, Frogs, not the little pansy [...]

Happy Birthday Mom…

Daily Picture: The Cake, Notice that Grandma is before mom… Hmmm Telling my brothers and I something…

Well Sunday was my Mothers birthday so we all went over late in the afternoon for Pizza and Cake.  Of course it was Pizza from a family favorite place “Bill’s Pizza & Pub” so we all over ate big [...]

Down with the OLD!

Daily Pictures(Friday & Saturday) The Old Swing Set Before…

The Old Swing Set AFTER…

Saturday was the big take down day for the old swing set. The fun began finding out that there were already a handful of bolts and screws broken. During the take down I also found that much of the hardware was [...]

Friday Night Fatigue…

The end of last week and the weekend were so long I needed some time to recover.  It is amazing how a sequence of events can cause so much fatigue.  Of course the kids were up at the normal times on Friday so the day started pretty normal.  After a full day, Dinner and a [...]