A Blast of the Past #65: Corn Fields – planting

This was the year I used roundup on the back half of the yard and planted it all in hills of corn. We got a fairly decent harvest that year. At the moment I can't remember if we tried it one more year, but today I would need to make serious plans to protect it … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #65: Corn Fields – planting →

A Blast of the Past #64: Birthday Bash

In 2005 I tried a neighborhood party for my birthday. We got hot dogs and chips and put up signs around the neighborhood for the free food. We got some family to come by, and a few people, but most people ignored it. Still, we have a little commemoration in pictures:

A Blast of the Past #63: Camp Snoopy

Today is pictures from 2005 of things that no longer exist at Worlds of Fun. When the kids area was Camp Snoopy instead of Planet Snoopy, there were all these various rides. The park keeps on changing and improving, but it means some things aren't there that we remember from previous years. We were … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #63: Camp Snoopy →

A Blast of the Past #62: Bowling

One of my favorite memories from 2005 was when I was parental escort for Nathan's preschool class for a bowling field trip. Everyone had a lot of fun, and Nathan bowled some pretty neat frames. I have a picture where he converted a split. Somehow we never seem to do enough of these things in … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #62: Bowling →

Labor Day Weekend round up, part 1

So today was a busy day, and I'm still processing (well, the computer is doing most of the processing) the images I want to share with today's post. So let me do the writeup, and by the time I get done, I'll still probably have a little more video compiling for the computer to finish. … Continue reading Labor Day Weekend round up, part 1 →

Coming of age at 21 …

Today celebrates 21 years of marriage for Me and Betsy. We have reached the age of majority. So today will be a panorama of that growth to majority. It is interesting what photos we had, and what sort of things we took. The eras where I disappeared from our files, and the longer ones where … Continue reading Coming of age at 21 … →

A Blast of the Past #61: The Shaved Look

2005 was also the first time I tried the shaved head look. It was a one-time one-day thing this first time, but I went from the long hair to the no hair look. The above pictures give a sort of serial of the shave process:

A Blast of the Past #60:urban vegetable gardening

I think 2005 was one of the years I put more energy into the home garden. The inherited flower beds became definite vegetable gardens this year. The planting certainly was fun; the pictures show the energy the kids put into the process: We planted onions on one side of the house, and potatoes on … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #60:urban vegetable gardening →

A Blast of the Past #59: Fish in tanks

The year 2005 was also the unsuccessful year of fish in tanks. We got several fish that year, and didn't manage to have any of them survive for very long. And we did everything right per the instructions, but no success. But here are the hopeful pictures, before we learned our lack of skill with … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #59: Fish in tanks →

A Blast of the Past #58: A puzzling situation

One of the Christmas gifts is 2004 was this large puzzle. Here we have pictures of Nathan putting the whose thing together on the floor: