The weekend before last Nelson and I ate at Pappy Red’s, a truly wonderful barbeque joint in town. At some point the talk to turned to us trying our hand at cooking some meat. Ribs. Pulled Pork. Maybe a whole pig just like we’d seen on the Anthony Bourdain show. Mmmmm. Well….maybe.
Anyway, this weekend we [...]
After an hour and half of driving 25mph on 4-lane wide interstate between Macon and Atlanta we decided that we had to change the route. We got off, took a potty break, got some food and gave the GPS to Nelson. He tapped on it until the routing did not use any interstate highway. It [...]
If the the propane powered grill on your back deck has trouble starting when using the built-in automatic starter, be sure to SHUT OFF all of the burners and WAIT a few minutes before trying to light them with a lighter. If you light them right away the resulting fireball will engulf your head and [...]
Nelson and I were in car coming home from cheer practice this morning. He was tired. We pulled up to a corner that is overgrown with bushes and stuff that makes it difficult to see whether anything is coming from that direction especially since the cross road curves away a bit there.
Nelson: They need to [...]
So all of you that know me, know I LOVE going to the movies. And yes I am also one of those people that MUST have my popcorn with the movie! Anyway, I am just writing this story as a warning to all you popcorn loving movie goers. Rings beware! My family (all 4 of [...]
We had a great day Sunday.
It started with me getting up and not remembering that the time had changed. When I was getting ready to get folks ready to do things, Mary asked why the rush and, Hey! free hour! Which was really good because no one was ready to go and it meant a [...]
The lovely skin we are using for this page now includes that set of postcards in the top right. Last night I finished replacing the pictures with our own stock. The pictures of the Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, and the clouds were taken by Mary and Caitlin during their trip to Las Vegas this summer. [...]
We took the motorcycle in for it 4K check up this weekend. While we where in the shop Mary bought me a new pair of pants. The weather has started to turn a little cool and the bike has been parked in the garage for eight out of the past ten days. I think she [...]
Ok well here we go on our new home page! Pretty cool stuff out there these days.
So on with the post…This is an update to let everyone know where we are now. As a family we are in our 8th year of homeschooling! That puts Caitlin (17) at the top of the class as a [...]
We have switched our home page to WordPress from the built-from-scratch experimental code I was (not) playing with for a few years. Now let’s see if we can make this place look like we really want it be a place the reports the comings and goings of our little tribe.