I’m sure you are familiar with Charlie Brown’s kite-eating tree.  Well, we have a hammer-eating tree!  It kind of started when Kelly’s boys (Peyton, Logan, Chase) were tossing football with Kelly’s friend Jamie’s daughters (Josie and Julia).  The group came…

We had such a beautiful weekend to head up I-79 to visit our parents.  The sun was shining, the sky was pure blue, and the clouds were white and fluffy.  We even made the whole trip up in daylight!  We…

When my sister talked to our mom last weekend, Mom was nostalgically recalling the age-old tradition of putting flowers on the graves every Memorial Day.  Mom wasn’t certain that anyone would visit her parents’ graves and plant flowers.  So of…

Early this morning Kathy and I headed down Route 119 to Friendship Hill, the home of Albert Gallatin.  This man has many incredible accomplishments to his credit, and I for one am not sure why he isn’t more widely celebrated. …

Well, dog and baby birds!  The eggs have hatched, and it took me until they hatched to realize that Daddy bird is very involved in this event.  I was amazed when I went out on the deck the other morning…

Friday morning I left my house at 6:45am and headed to Cabela’s plaza in West Virginia.  I connected up with my daughter Kelly at 8:15, and we jumped on I-70 and headed west.  To Ohio.  To Amish country and a…

This was a very full day.  It started at 4:45am; out of bed and my mile walk. I went with Ron to his doctor’s appointment.  More on that under the APPALACHIAN TRAIL tab so check that out.  Had to cram…

It started on Friday evening, when Kathy, Paul, Joni and I drove to Pittsburgh in the pouring downpour to teach at His Place.  It was a great evening despite the rain, and the kids did very well listening to the…

We’ve been busy this last week.  Saturday April 29th Nathan had an 11th birthday party for Christina.  She had several friends and a bunch of family (Kelly with Logan, and Nate, hanging out) to help her celebrate. Her cake had…

This evening was a rainbow kind of day.  The first one appeared as I was driving home from work in Jeannette, and it was full and bright against the dark clouds.  I couldn’t take a photo as there was no…