Vacation- Day 1- The best part
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
The best part of the day was Davis Mountains State Park in general. Of the park, the best part was the second scenic overlook on Skyline Drive, where you could see McDonald Observatory some 13 miles distant. We arrived at the overlook at sunset. E...
Vacation- Day 1- Check in
posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
When we reached Davis Mountain State Park, we were greeted by a very friendly woman ready to check us in. We had hoped for a space near the rest rooms/showers, but she gave us one that was a fair stretch of the legs to get there. Since we had a ca...
Eons ads
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I find it amusing that one ad showcases a girl with pizza encrusted in her old-fashioned braces and another ad is for Pizza Hut. Seems to be cross purposes here.
A reason to celebrate
posted over 2 years ago | 7 comments
We have suspected that our 3 year old grandson Clayton had something "wrong" with him. The family and at least one doctor thought that he was autistic. He was referred to a neurologist who ordered a bunch of tests including one for something calle...
A brave little boy
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I attended my older granddaughter's school Christmas program this evening. There were performances by the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. Autumn's fourth grade classes did well, then the fifth graders came on stage. After singing the first song, they wai...
Come on November 5th!!
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
I'll be so happy when the election is over. I don't need any more phone calls, mail fliers, e-mails with info, jokes, truths and lies about any and all of the candidates. Looking forward to seeing what the blogs will be like after the election.
The great El Do-RAY-do, Kansas adventure
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
My husband's family lived in the Kansas City area at the time that our second child was born in 1976. At that time, we thought that I would be returning to the paying work force, so we decided to take our sons to be seen by my in-laws. As w...
Nighttime intruder
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
A few days ago, someone broke into our storage shed out back. They didn't take anything then, probably because the gate is locked and they needed help lifting things over the fence. Mike immediately installed a thicker hasp and a very thick padloc...
Computer frustrated
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
I don't know which group this might be posted in so I'll just complain about it here.
We got a new computer. Of course, not everything transferred from the old one, including a Mah Jong game that I found and bought through Eons about two months ag...
We got a new computer. Of course, not everything transferred from the old one, including a Mah Jong game that I found and bought through Eons about two months ag...
Drive-in theaters
posted over 3 years ago | 11 comments
As kids, my older brother and I would be bathed and dressed in our PJs on certain Saturday evenings in summer. Mom would make a couple of batches of pop corn(in a pot with a lid on the stove top, shaking it till it was finished) and dump it into a...
