When I was young, my mother always made a big deal about celebrating my birthday along with my brothers and sisters. She would go all out with decorations, inviting people, presents and of course making the best and biggest birthday cake. This past weekend we celebrated my grandson Eli’s fourth birthday. As I was watching Eli and all the children gather around him to sing … Continue reading KID BIRTHDAYS
It was the eighteenth year of my two brothers and our sons annual golf outing. We do more than golf during the three days we are together. We have a fun bean bag tournament on Friday evening, which involves some good money for the top three winners, plus lots of card games. Many stories and laughs as well. We take turns each year hosting, what … Continue reading GUY WEEKEND
This past week we took a short vacation and traveled to Norfolk Nebraska and Wichita Kansas. My wife and I debated for weeks whether we should be traveling during a serious pandemic. We finally came to the conclusion that if we wore masks, and washed our hands and did social distancing we would be okay. Plus, the CDC has not banned travel in their guidelines. … Continue reading TRAVELING DURING A PANDEMIC
It is Father’s Day today and as always I think of my dad on this day! I was only thirty-six when he died. My dad died when he was sixty-five, relatively young yet. I’m sixty-two years old now and to think in three years I will be the age my dad was when he died. It has been twenty-seven years since he left us. I … Continue reading MY FATHER
Saturday I was sitting on the beach on the shores of Lake Villard at Canary Beach Resort, surrounded by family. I enjoy watching my grandchildren swim in the lake. Back at the camper, I asked my granddaughter, Adelyn to be my guest blogger today. Let’s see what she has to blog about. We just got our camper a couple weeks ago. I love it here. … Continue reading GUESS WHO WROTE THIS BLOG?
