KDAE looking at their property prior to ground breaking
RichC | May 7, 2022
It is definitely spring and as with many growing families working hard and fortunate enough to be living in the United States, ours are pursuing the American dream of building or owning a home. Katelyn and Drew sent perhaps a final undeveloped photo of their beautiful NW Ohio property on a wooded cul-de-sac. I say […]
Cleaning up some trash and NON-trash on my computer
RichC | April 9, 2022
Saw this “trash” can on social media the other day and don’t know if there was an R2-D2 Star Wars intent or not, but it did make me smile … ALMOST as much as receiving a photo from Katelyn and Drew while on spring break vacation with Drew’s family in South Carolina. It sure looked […]
Archive: A couple granddaughter photos and a good laugh
RichC | April 3, 2022
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Happy Birthday! Our granddaughter is already 5 years old!
RichC | March 6, 2022
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Archive: Toledo Area Parent magazine article – Mar/Apr 2022
RichC | March 5, 2022
What parent doesn’t enjoy seeing their adult children respected enough in their profession to be asked to comment? Since I’m one that does keep an online scrapbook of sorts (this blog) … I’m archiving a recent article with Katelyn in Toledo Area Parent titled “Less Mealtime Stress with Responsive Feeding.” Seems like a week to […]
Archive: A leftover photo and priming Ellerie’s rocking chair
RichC | March 1, 2022
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Archive: A Sunday afternoon Happy Birthday to Ellerie (photos)
RichC | February 20, 2022
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A new-to-me Arabica Bean Coffee and a family photo to save to the 2022 Valentine’s Day blog archive
RichC | February 16, 2022
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The Bengals going to Super Bowl LVI meant a lot to Cincinnati
RichC | February 15, 2022
This post is going to be “a day late (or so) and a dollar short” post … just as the Cincinnati Bengals were in Sunday night’s Super Bowl LVI. Our young Bengals put up a valiant fight, but came away with a disappointing loss: Rams 23, Bengals 20. As so many have said, 2022 for […]
Tech Friday: Just a 2022 WordPress.org update
RichC | January 28, 2022
In an attempt to start 2022 off right, I’ve updated MyDesultoryBlog.com‘s WordPress to the current 5.9 … along with the interface that I’ve never learned to use or appreciate. Someday perhaps? Since this was a pretty short Tech Friday blog entry, I’ll include a JAMA guest link from my daughter that reminded her (and me) […]
Once again, Christmas gifts we use everyday from the kids
RichC | January 18, 2022
Well done again Katelyn,Drew, Megan and Taylor. Thank you. Of all the “too many” gifts this year, you guys have managed to “once again” come up with great gifts. The automated and “generous” (inside joke) liquid hand soap dispenser is perfect for our kitchen. Brenda and I use it multiple times each day and find […]
Archive: Hardly artwork but memories with my granddaughters
RichC | January 15, 2022
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Tech Friday: On the waitlist for some new tech from Wyze
RichC | January 14, 2022
This past Christmas, my daughter Katelyn gave Drew a new Wyze Watch and, as always with all Wyze products, I was impressed with their reasonably low price for excellent products (although I’m still super happy with my Fitbit Versa – thank you K and D). The Wyze gift reminder had me revisit one of their […]
Movie night: Watched a good one called “The Big Year” from 2011
RichC | January 9, 2022
It might not be a current movie (it’s 2011), but it was one neither Brenda or I watched over this past decade, but it was an excellent comedy. “The Big Year,” with Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black (several others), was exactly what the “doctors” (Katelyn and Drew) ordered over our family Christmas. They […]
Tech Friday: Keen 1963 portable phone insight Mansfield, OH
RichC | January 7, 2022
Here’s a look back to a Mansfield News Journal article and something a little different for a New Year’s Nostradamus-y Tech Friday post … also in using the word “keen” it reflects the Christmas present/hiking shoes I bought (well Katelyn actually ordered) for Brenda … along with a bed-desk for her “preferred” office. 😉
Archive: Our 2021 Family Christmas over New Years
RichC | January 5, 2022
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Boxing Day update and our Christmas yet-to-be family rotation
RichC | December 26, 2021
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Wow, the Backporch 14 years ago! Where do the years go? #TBT
RichC | December 23, 2021
While posting to the blog yesterday, I noticed a “Year(s) Ago On This Day” post archiving the stamped concrete was being pour/stamped for our backporch – 14 years ago). And even more shocking is that we were building our house back in the winter and spring of 1996! (click on house photo below of Katelyn, […]
Messages on the Echo and crazy-faced granddaughter photos
RichC | December 19, 2021
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A purposefully belated Happy Birthday to Drew! #TBT
RichC | December 16, 2021
The years go by quickly and I’m not sure how to keep up with the time anymore, except maybe by watching our granddaughters grow up … or noticing gray hair and elbow wrinkles. UGH! The 8 years and 8 months our son-in-law Drew has been married to Katelyn and part of our family have been […]
A couple days of photos leftover from the weekend: Part 2
RichC | December 9, 2021
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Music Monday: An Ohio State Football win and the Sloopy Girl
RichC | November 22, 2021
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Spent a couple days in Perrysburg with our granddaughters
RichC | November 11, 2021
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Archive: Our Halloween Trick or Treating Goblins for 2021
RichC | November 2, 2021
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Our October 2021 vacation with KDAE to Delray Beach, Florida
RichC | October 30, 2021
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Our first Mercedes Benz sedan, but not the oldest #TBT
RichC | October 14, 2021
Although I’ve highlighted our 1987 Mercedes Benz 560 SEL before (see photo in front of my parent’s house in Sidney) and this fall photo at West Branch State Park reminds me that autumn is the perfect time to take my current 1982 MB 300D Turbodiesel out for a drive. The ‘87 was one of those […]
Archive: Weekend chores, family photos and a drip distraction
RichC | October 10, 2021
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Archive: Weekend catch-up with a few family photos
RichC | September 23, 2021
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Home video memories from September 9, 1989 for #TBT
RichC | September 9, 2021
Last month when we were together with the kids, they were talking about enjoying trips to Michigan for long weekends during the summer (Drew’s parents have a house on Lake Michigan). It brought back memories for us and I mentioned that once-upon-a-time we thought about buying cabin property in the Upper Peninsula on Lake Huron […]
Archive: More Sod Webworm damage and a few family photos
RichC | September 4, 2021
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A birthday celebration and fun family weekend in Cincinnati
RichC | August 17, 2021
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A favorite photo of Drew flying his Quadrotor 5 years ago #TBT
RichC | July 29, 2021
While reviewing and purging a few backups to stay under one of my cloud storage service’s data caps, a favorite photo popped up that was backed up on OneDrive. It was a pre-children time for Drew and Katelyn visiting his parent’s place on Lake Michigan when there was free-time for self, hobbies, tech gadgets and […]
A week of summer with Annalyn and Ellerie at our house
RichC | July 11, 2021
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Archive: Leftover personal family 4th of July weekend photos
RichC | July 10, 2021
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Birdhouses and raccoons and a great Drew and Katelyn photo
RichC | June 20, 2021
Received nice photo from Katelyn and Drew last week and since I included one of Taylor and Megan last week, this is one that needed to be archived on my blog. Most most personal photos nowadays are of our granddaughters as Brenda and I have long ago moved past the stage of photos our ourselves […]
Annalyn’s imagination and critter ‘picture week’ at our house
RichC | June 11, 2021
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Back to Perrysburg for Annalyn’s dance recital and babysitting
RichC | May 28, 2021
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A Toledo Mud Hens game and Katelyn’s surprise birthday party
RichC | May 26, 2021
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Archive: Family photos from Katelyn’s birthday weekend
RichC | May 18, 2021
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Forgot about this Hubble Space Telescope birthday link #Space
RichC | May 15, 2021
Yesterday was my “space-camp” and NASA Sharp daughter Katelyn’s birthday and I had been saving a link that I forgot about just for the occasion … so will post it a day late … along with an amazing 2020 photo of Jupiter and Europa from the Hubble Space Telescope. We share an interest in space […]
Happy 35th Birthday to our daughter Katelyn today – 5/14/2021
RichC | May 14, 2021
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Archive: A few saved family photos from the week that was …
RichC | May 5, 2021
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Archive: Granddaughter catch-up photos from this past week
RichC | April 3, 2021
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Weekend mailbox project update and Annalyn’s first haircut
RichC | March 14, 2021
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Handy IFitIt tools for gadgets and Spring 2021 family photos
RichC | March 13, 2021
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Celebrating Ellerie (1) and Annalyn’s (4) Birthdays in Toledo
RichC | March 2, 2021
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Happy Valentine’s Day to friends and family, especially my girls!
RichC | February 14, 2021
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Archive: Professional Brenda and the Hawk Migration #TBT
RichC | January 28, 2021
When searching for a photo of my 1996 Toyota 4Runner (never found one), I stumbled across a couple personal photos from 1997 and will archive them for today’s Throwback Thursday #TBT. One of “professional Brenda” dressed for the office in 1990’s style (ha!) and the other of our family on an October Hawk Migration birding […]
Do all grandparents love their grandchildren as much as I do?
RichC | January 27, 2021
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Question: Can I get the COVID-19 vaccine in Ohio yet?
RichC | January 20, 2021
While talking with a customer on the phone today and talking about when I’ll be traveling to NE Ohio again, they asked me when they could get the Covid-19 vaccine? See Covid-19 Vaccination Program – LINK. So I figured it would be appropriate to include a screenshot from an Ohio-based health care provider in our […]
An interesting #book: EPIC – An Around-The-World Journey Through Christian History by Tim Challies
RichC | January 10, 2021
Thanks to my daughter Katelyn and her family, I’m in the process of reading the Tim Challies book, “EPIC – An Around-The-World Journey Through Christian History.” It is the new book I mentioned in my 2020 Christmas wrap-up post … and it has been challenging to put down. BUT … I’m sort of using it […]
Thankful to have a long time friend like Jeff – #TBT photo
RichC | December 31, 2020
I had lunch “out” this week with my good friend Jeff, although this routine has become very infrequent compared to previous years. Still, we had a chance to catch up, talk about politics (Ugh), the old-days backpacking in North Carolina (an old scanned photo for Throwback Thursday #TBT) … and I opened his cool gift […]
Our family Christmas 2020 and a few too many wrap-up photos
RichC | December 29, 2020
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Merry Christmas 2020 and wishing you a “Hopeful” New Year
RichC | December 15, 2020
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Happy Birthday “daddy” Drew … and very good one he is!
RichC | December 13, 2020
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Our family is getting into the 2020 Christmas decorating spirit
RichC | December 1, 2020
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Archive: 1958 Packard Hawk electrical issues, schematics and an Indian Summer bike ride for Annalyn and Ellerie
RichC | November 12, 2020
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Family Filler: A couple of great leftover weekend photos
RichC | November 4, 2020
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Waiting for a Halloween updates from my granddaughters
RichC | November 1, 2020
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Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
- lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.