Today's look back is going to discuss gardening. Everywhere we have lived I have done some sort of gardening. With experience you are supposed to get better. Doesn't feel that way to me where gardening is concerned. I remember back in Caton, after my college days, I put quite a bit of effort into gardening, … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #27: Strawberries in Kearney
A Blast of the Past #26: Easter 1999
Spent some of today looking some pictures of the beautiful pictures of the beautiful women in my life. See these couple of photos from Easter 1999: I can't help but admire how happy and radiant they both are. Carly was always cute, and Betsy always has such a beauty of presence to match her beauty … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #26: Easter 1999
A series of pleasant surprises.
Today is another quick post. For our 20th anniversary on Wednesday I whisked Betsy off Tuesday night to a surprise destination, and we had and enjoyable evening at that destination, and then roamed around Wednesday, just taking a "Sunday drive" and visiting and revisiting sites, until she thought I didn't have any more surprises. Then … Continue reading A series of pleasant surprises.
Keeping Score: 20 years
Today is Betsy and my 20th anniversary. We are somewhere special I have planned for her and that she didn't know about until she got there. So today's post is going to be short, since I'm doing more important things than blogging 😉
A Blast of the Past #25: Carly’s First Haircut
Carly has always had long hair with curls. Below are the pictures of her first haircut. Â She got it cut and shaped, but it still stayed long. We waited until she was two years old to get her haircut.
Pass the plate, pass the platelets
Yesterday Avondale United Methodist Church sponsored a blood drive. The goal was 16 units, and 25 units were collected. I mentioned the drive yesterday afternoon to the people at my Madrigalia Bar Nonne rehearsal, and someone talked about them passing the plate and then passing the  platelets. It was a good enough pun that I had … Continue reading Pass the plate, pass the platelets
#26 Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart
(Part of a series singing through the hymnbook I grew up with: Great Hymns of the Faith) 1 Rejoice, ye pure in heart, Rejoice, give thanks and sing; You festal banner wave on high, The cross of Christ your King; REFRAIN Rejoice, (Rejoice), rejoice (rejoice), Rejoice, give thanks and sing. 2 Bright youth and snow-crowned … Continue reading #26 Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart
A Blast of the Past #24: Carly’s Second Birthday
Going from Christmas to birthday in the pictures shows a connection in the gifts between the two. The Unfinished Furniture store was getting a lot of business from us. Well, maybe not a lot, but all the business we had available. The big gift of the birthday was a toddler bed. Like the toy chest … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #24: Carly’s Second Birthday
A Blast of the Past #23: Christmas 1998
Browsing through the pictures this way often allows us to date memories that we have. From the pictures I can see that Christmas 1998 was a significant year for memorable objects. It was the year the letter trains. We gave both our daughter and her cousin trains that had cars made of letters that spelled … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #23: Christmas 1998
A Blast of the Past #22: Cute Cousins
The fall of 1998 seems to have a few of clear themes in its pictures: Reading, Cute Cousins, Sleeping in Odd places. I'm going to combine a couple of these, pictures of the cousins with books, and then miscellaneous reading and book pictures.
