My Desultory Blog

It is time for a little more research on better dust and chip control in my basement workshop. Brenda can deal with the noise and giving me a place to escape, but she is not fond of the dust that makes its way upstairs – those with basement woodworking workshops know what I mean. I’ve […]

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Tags: bandsaw, chips, collector, drawing, dust, jet, planer, research, router, sander, sawdust, shop fox, shopsmith, tablesaw, tools, vacuum, woodworking, workshop

My basement woodworking shop is a dust-making mess in our house, but there isn’t much I can do about it now other than to improve how I collect and filter and keep dust from gravitating into the furnaces cold air returns and upstairs. In our previous house in Hudson Ohio, I was fortunate to have […]

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Tags: collection, dust, ideas, miter, saw, video, woodworking, workshop, youtube

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Tags: annalyn, birthdays, ellerie, family, katelyn, Photos, ponytail, sisters

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Tags: 2020, annalyn, archive, brenda, christmas, christmas card, Corbett Christmas Letter, coronavirus, covid19, drew, ellerie, family, idioms, katelyn, megan, postcard, richc, taylor

No … not a pandemic (like Covid19) … or 45 years of Global Warming … or the current adopted term – Climate Change – according to Green New Deal Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or environmental activist Greta Thunberg  … but an asteroid concluded the late Stephen Hawking. Also, there’s some real history, not a political ideology, […]

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Tags: aoc, asteroid, climate change, covid19, extinction, greta thunberg, pandemic, space, stephen hawking, threat, video, youtube

Today’s Music Monday song is due to the minor chastising from my friend Mark Jones last week. He’s been picking up a few old albums for his record collection and to play on his Crosley record player mentioned before … and because I wanted to wish him a Happy Birthday today. Happy Birthday, Mark!  One […]

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Tags: album, birthday, crosley, led zeppelin, mark jones, music monday, musicmonday, record, stairway to heaven, youtube

The music of the late Gerry Rafferty hasn’t appeared on Music Monday and I’m disappointed not to have yet included him in my heavily 70’s mix of musicians. Having to pick one song out for today’s listening is a challenge, but “Days Gone Down” (Night Owl) is a good one since it triggers a memory […]

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Tags: 1970s, ada, college, dallas guilford, gerry rafferty, memories, mp4, music monday, musicmonday, ohio, onu, rebuildables, video

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Tags: annalyn, archive, back porch, drew, ellerie, family, fireplace, hair, katelyn, megan, osu, Photos, taylor, weekend

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Tags: annalyn, birthday, condo1718, drew, ellerie, family, florida, hocking hills, katelyn, keira, megan, taylor

Let me get this out before someone tells me I’ve lost my mind: I love our current house and property in SW Ohio … as well as the community we live in just north of Cincinnati. Brenda and I could not be more blessed with our lives, our family and all that we have worked […]

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Tags: cpp, cuyahoga falls, house, hudson, memories, northeast, ohio, piano, pool, reminiscing, remodeling

Since I spent most of the weekend outside again doing chores and projects as the weather has been great … I spotted a couple of insects enjoying summer as well. The normal bugs don’t grab my attention, but the brightly colored and unusual ones are worthy of photos (still impressed with the camera on my […]

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Tags: barrons, iphone7plus, kadydid, orchard, pool, reading, spider, summer, swimming, tweet, twitter

There is no doubt in my mind that I would have tried to do this if Photoshop would have  been as advanced when my kids were younger (or if I would have been has skilled – I’m basically a retoucher). As it was, I did include one of Katelyn’s computer art pieces (on my Mac SE […]

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Tags: artwork, drawings, Humor, parenting, photoshop, photoshopped, TBT, throwback, thursday

As politicians and most of us in the United States (and probably world) debate how to live under the shadow of the Coronavirus pandemic, researchers, doctors and academics are flooding the Internet with studies and opinions both for and against opening up the country. Some have our best interest at heart … and likely some […]

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Tags: central, coronavirus, covid19, economic, fee.org, freedom, gcc, graph, idiom, idioms, karl marx, liberty, lock down, ludwig von mises, marxism, masks, new york, planning, Politics, prageru, shutdown, studies, sweden, youtube

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Dorothy Jean Gerber passed away peacefully at her home on May 30, 2020, in Twinsburg at the age of 93. Jean, as the name she went by, was born August 2, 1926 in Moran, Kansas to Reverend Roy and Bessie Truesdale. After graduating from McPherson High School in Kansas, she went on to attend Kansas […]

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Tags: family, jean gerber, obit, Obituary

Several posts ago I mentioned that I was participating in the Makers Mob woodworking 6-week Scrapwood Challenge as part of the stay-at-home COVID19 orders. I can’t say that this project is anything great, but it did give me something to do in the evenings besides tweet political garbage or watch more outrage and debate from […]

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Tags: artwork, challenge, design, hooks, makers mob, painting, picture, scrapwood, woodworking

I commented to Brenda, “We must have done something right?” It was both a statement .. and a half question .. when reflecting on the book our son Taylor read, liked and then bought to give me for my birthday. It was definitely a very thoughtful and appreciated gift. Representative Dan Crenshaw’s book Fortitude slightly […]

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Tags: birthday, book, country, dan crenshaw, family, fortitude, ideology, patriotism, Politics, taylor

After mentioning problems last week, the new webserver is up and running with a fresh install of Linux Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver,” MySQL database and PHP 7.2 … well I actually decided to upgrade that to PHP 7.4 for a little better speed (who knows?) I’ve abandoned MongoDB for the time being for the Quickdex.net […]

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Tags: blog, challenge, linux, makers mob, mysql, php, quickdex, scrap wood, update, upgrade, webserver

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Tags: Alexa, annalyn, audio, birthday, brenda, drew, ellerie, family, katelyn, megan, message, mp3, richc, social, taylor, thank you

My wife and kids think I should be working for Ridgid Tools as I have been extremely happy with their cordless tools of late. I have updated my old NiCad driver and drills with newer Lithium based brushless tools and they are so much better. A big thank you continues to go out to Katelyn […]

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Tags: battery, cordless, home depot, lithium, powertools, ridgid, shop vac, subcompact, tools, warranty, workshop

Some of us are fortunate in life to have had a few teachers take enough interest to make a difference. I suspect they inherently knew the positive influence a good teacher can make long after a student leaves their classroom. One such teacher, really an extra curricular advisor for me, was Doris Eggleston. Last week […]

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Tags: archive, brenda, college, curtice, dadc, doris eggleston, funeral, journalism, karen gagermeier, memories, momc, newspaper, obit, Obituary, ohio, onu, oregon, photography, printing, richc, sidney, teacher, toledo, yearbook

After cutting a few miter joints earlier this month with a 45 degree jig on my table saw crosscut sled, I started to contemplate the best way to cut clean tendons and dadoes. In the past I’ve used an added fence to the stock miter gauge, but it really doesn’t do a great job. Of […]

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Tags: clamps, crosscut, dado, dovetail, fixtures, jigs, microjig, miter, project, sled, tendons, woodworking, workshop

With “stay at home” orders issued for 3/4 of the U.S. population, my good friend Jeff Pitts has been obeying the directive and working from home. It is also giving him time to do those “I’ll get to it someday” chores like cleaning out a spare room and finally throwing stuff away. One of the […]

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Tags: ashville, backpacking, camping, coronavirus, covid19, friends, hiking, jeff pitts, jeffp, lindville falls, nantahala, national forest, north carolina, pisgah, richc, TBT

When I was growing up, I had a passbook savings account that was a teaching tool used by my parents to instill responsible money management. I deposited a small amount in it every few months or so when my mom would go to the bank and got my passbook stamped with an update as to […]

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Tags: banking, banks, interest, letter, money, passbook, rates, saving, savings, scan

We are definitely not the only ones praying a little bit more that usual nowadays while listening to those who are trying to help the country and world manage and get through the Coronavirus threat. I reluctantly worry about the elderly and less capable of fending for themselves especially if they have underlying health issue […]

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Tags: abrams, ada ohio, airventure, amazon prime, bookshelves, brenda, college, coronavirus, covid19, family, gas pump, motel, Movies, netflix, onu, painting, prayer, richc, spielberg, stay at home, streaming, super 8, super8, vacation

My friend Jeff gave me a couple “used” books for Christmas this year after we talked last year about our favorite authors and books over the decades. Sloan Wilson, of “Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” fame, also wrote several World War II US Coast Guard and Merchant Marine novels that both of us read […]

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Tags: answers, Books, factual fiction, gray flannel suit, History, ice brothers, idiom, idioms, jeff pitts, military, pacific interlude, questions, quora.com, rabbit hole, reading, sloan wilson, titatic

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Tags: annalyn, baby, birthday, brenda, changing, diaper, dresser, drew, ellerie, family, granddaughter, katelyn, ohio, oostra, perrysburg, richc

Here’s a Twofer Tuesday archive from a couple weekend photos on my phone: First, I tried to use Brenda’s grandfather’s handmade, and well worn, antique miter box to cut a couple pieces of trim .. but ended up using my powered Hitachi sliding miter saw to clean up the cut instead (I did use his […]

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Tags: acura, antique, brenda, grandfather, holmstrom, joinery, miter box, natomount, rdx, tools, twofer, valentine's day, woodworking

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Tags: annalyn, bench dogs, bike, clamps, machinists, mp4, present, square, tools, try square, video, woodworking, workbench, workshop

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Tags: ada ohio, alan jackson, apartment, college, cyber security, jeff pitts, jerry moody, jimmy buffett, memories, mp3, music monday, musicmonday, photo, roommates

Being young, and someone who looked to be vying to be listed in this year’s Darwin Award, had me telling this worker, on a questionable set ladder, that he may not be as invincible to injury as he thinks? (he said to me, “oh, I’ve done this before”)  We noticed a bit of water seeping […]

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Tags: accident, brenda, dadh, darwin award, falling, falls, gutter shutter, jerry, ladder, repair, safety, service, taylor

When chatting about our recent vacation to Florida with a long time customer (friend) in Akron, Ohio, he asked why we picked Delray Beach, Florida as an area to buy a condo (I detected he is beginning to think about retiring). Although I realized that I really haven’t given much thought to how we ended […]

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Tags: aerial, bathroom, brenda, brenich, condo1718, delray beach, encore, florida, History, kitchen, life, Memory, remodel, retirement, richc, sailing, update, VacationOct2019

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Tags: annalyn, autumn, drew, facetime, family, fun, katelyn, legoland, megan, pumpkins, taylor, tractor

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Tags: annalyn, aquarium, babysitting, birthday, brenda, cincinnati, drew, family, katelyn, megan, mp4, newport, richc, summer, taylor, video

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The summer of 2019 around our house has meant more repairs and maintenance updates than usual. This means weekends have been busy with house projects and in also finding and hiring help to complete the updates that are too overwhelming for this one “aging” guy to handle on his own (although my 60th birthday celebrations […]

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Tags: autobody, automotive, bodyfiller, bondo, column, epoxy, home, house, maintenance, painting, pillar, poolhouse, repairs, west system

What would summer be without Jimmy Buffett music and cheeseburgers? How about remembering summer fun with Jimmy Buffett‘s Cheeseburger in Paradise song from back in 1978 with a relatively new personal connection twist? Besides me being a nearly life long listener, this past year or so I have another connection to Buffett as mentioned before. […]

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Tags: cheeseburger, concert, encore, jimmy buffett, megan, memories, music monday, musicmonday, paradise, youtube

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Tags: annalyn, baseball, brenda, cincinnati, drew, family, food, fun, katelyn, megan, mp4, pool, richc, swing, taylor, video, weekend

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So far the Fitbit Versa “watch” that I received for my birthday has been great … and I’m using it far more than expected. It has already encouraged me to be a little more active as I work hard to hit the 10,000 step goal each day. Thank you Katelyn and Drew! This past weekend […]

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Tags: birthday, fitbit, gadgets, gift, pool, resistant, steps, swim, swimming, tech friday, techfriday, versa, watch, water, waterproof

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Tags: accessory, annalyn, birthday, drew, exercise, family, fitbit, gift, Health, heartrate, katelyn, put in bay, smartwatch, time, tracking, watch

After the weekend bonfire for Taylor’s birthday party … without burning down the woods or catching any trees on fire … I told myself, “I’m never going to let the pile get that big again.”  From now on the fires need to be of a “reasonably” safe size. Now, what that size is … I’m […]

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Tags: backyard, bonfire, burning, chores, cutting, debris, john deere, limbs, trailer, trees, yardwork

Nasty bugger … thankfully I think I caught this guy (or any of his buddies) before sucking my blood. Nowadays with Lyme Disease you can’t be to careful with letting ticks bite or burrow. I’m not sure our area is considered risky, but I don’t want to chance getting infected either (I thnk this guy […]

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Tags: chores, disease, home, house, landscaping, lyme, mulch, ohio, Photos, tick, yard

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We added yet another Echo Dot and so it only makes sense to ask Alexa a few more questions. Here’s list that has been floating around the Internet and so just wanted to archive it on My Desultory Blog.   100 Funny Alexa Tricks for the Entire Family For music lovers: “Rap for me!” “Sing […]

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Tags: Alexa, amazon, archive, assistant, echo, questions, virtual, voice

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Tags: annalyn, dance, dancing, katelyn, momc, party, video, youtube

Back on what would have been my dad’s birthday, I posted a photo of my new Ridgid work light hanging on his old toolbox. The toolbox was one of those items of my dad’s that both my brother and I wanted when we were going through our parents belongings – I ended up with it. […]

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Tags: dadc, epoxy, fix, magnet, neodymium, tips, toolbox, tools, workshop

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Tags: Alexa, annalyn, audio, birthday, change, dreams, echo, future, hobby, Humor, life, lifetime, message, mp3, planning, projects, sailing, setbacks, soap, thinking, woodworking

Wintertime offers longer days for reading and thinking and some of my better thoughts happen during my morning shower … although other thoughts aren’t quite so inspirational or deep …like, “Why can’t the sliver of soap be as invigorating as that larger new bar? Do soap manufacturers purposely make the inside of a bar of […]

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Tags: atlanta500, home theater, Humor, nascar, shower, soap, thinking

Just another "Patriots are in the Super Bowl" year again. Whoop-de-do.  Scott Bilik and I have been Internet “tech” friends for a long time … and humorously is my Twitter “Godfather.” He has suffered his share of heartache having lost his wife Michelle to cancer in 2013, but remains strong in his faith and marches […]

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Tags: admin, facebook, football, geek, graphic, Humor, nfl, programming, scott bilik, server, sudo, superbowl, tech, twitter

After finally removing my built-in radial arm saw from my workbench, I was able to rework the area attached to my workbench in order to fit my “somewhat new” 12” Hitachi Miter Saw. With this new sliding miter saw, I no longer have a need for bulky power tool duplication, and as a workshop accumulates […]

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Tags: boots, clamps, drillbits, drillpress, miter, project, saw, sewing, vasque, woodworking, workshop

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Tags: annalyn, babysitting, brenda, championships, detroit, family, figure, katelyn, nationals, perrysburg, Photos, skating

Today would have been my dad‘s 90th birthday. Here is something he would have enjoyed… With it being so cold this week, it was a good time to be working in the basement workshop in the evenings. Besides working on getting my Hitachi Miter Saw fitted to my workbench and dust collection for a new bookshelves […]

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Tags: bandsaw, battery, home depot, ikea, led, light, lithium, murphys law, ridgid, shopsmith, tools, work light, workshop

The recent price increases rumbling through the economy are starting to be felt in the products we all use and have learned to appreciate. One of the services I’ll likely eliminate before the monthly price increase is the streaming service Netflix. We did this once before, but with all the new added content and lack […]

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Tags: adobe, budget, computers, email, expenses, magazines, mailbox, microsoft, netflix, overhead, reading, Software, subscriptions, tech friday, techfriday, ups

Last week while clearing off our bookshelves I came across a ticket to The Music Man from 18 years ago when my nephew Ben played the lead in his high school musical. It occurred to me that his birthday was this month and that I should post it to his Facebook page while sending him […]

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Tags: ben skinner, distracted, distraction, efficiency, engine, heat, model, mp4, musical, sidetracked, stirling, ticket, video

Each year about this time, rodents and varmints are looking at our garage and house as a place to call home when the weather cools. So I’m usually trying to stay ahead of them by sealing up and keeping the garage doors closed more often (challenging when the weather is so nice). The bigger varmints […]

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Tags: autumn, birthday, cattledog, dog, mice, mouse, mousetrap, pet, raccoon, rat zapper, rodent, sticky, tootsie, traps, varmints

Of course my reference by including "The Bandit" in a tribute post to the passing of Burt Reynolds has a lot to do with how I remember him; he died after a heart attack on Thursday 9/6/2018 at age 82. The highpoint for me in remembering him was the making of the Smokey and the […]

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Tags: actor, bandit, burt reynolds, florida, hollywood, obit, Obituary, pontiac, smokey, trans am, youtube

As much as I enjoy working on, owning and driving my inexpensive W123  diesel 300D project car (swapped junk for it in May of 2013), I’d love to have a Mercedes Benz diesel of the same 1970s-80s era with a little more collectability? I spotted a couple cool MBs this week, although I am not […]

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Tags: cars, collectible, john lennon, lapickup, mb, mercedes benz, pick up, truck, W115, W123, wagen

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Adding a few more gadgets to the condo update this weekend as we are one step closer to getting it looking as if we’ll have a kitchen again … or at least a livable abode for the winter renters (or next owner). Hopefully the few extra upgrades I have opted to add will not go […]

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Tags: ani gif, anigif, ceiling, condo1718, fan, florida, kitchen, nest, thermostat

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While reading a bit this past week about retirement savings and planning, it really hit home when realizing just how lifespans have changed in the past 100+ years. Did you know: •In 1900, the average life expectancy was 47 years. Only 100,000 Americans lived to age 85. •By 2010, the number of people over 85 […]

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Tags: finance, investing, money, planning, retirement, savings, wealth

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Tags: Alexa, amazon, annalyn, automation, echo, gadget, gadgets, gif, home, mp3, tech friday, techfriday, voice

I’m chuckling at the “famous portrait” subject line, but then again, how many people actually have a portrait of themselves painted by an artist? (might as well make this a ThrowBack Thursday #TBT post) My grandmother, Ruth Walker Bluhm, was an artist and painted a portrait of her first grandson in the 1960s. She was […]

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Tags: Art, birthday, family, grandmother, painting, portrait, richc, ruth bluhm, TBT

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Tags: annalyn, brenda, christmas, corbett, drew, family, katelyn, rich, taylor

Although my memory is a little bit foggy, Brenda and I probably saw each other a couple of Christmas’s prior our first Christmas? We were dating in 1980 and engaged in 1981 and likely celebrated with each other close to the day, but were home with our families for Christmas Day. Anyway, when scanning the […]

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Tags: brenda, christmas, friends, jerry moody, memories, pam, Photos, popcorn, TBT

Now if I were to be true to myself, I’d be driving a station wagon like this Buick Special Estate Wagon, Model 49 mentioned in Hemmigs. As posted previously, my first car was almost a 1958 Buick Special, but after my stint with wagons in the 1980s (Volvo DL245, Chevrolet Caprice Wagon and Oldsmobile Custom […]

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Tags: BMW, buick, classic, griswold, hemmings, special, station wagon, truckster, x5 35d

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Tags: foxbusiness, gordon lightfoot, mp3, Music, music monday, musicmonday, sundown

A couple days late in posting, but the weather was ideal for jumping on a few chores before the weather turns sour. Since the lawn was still in pretty good shape, I was able to use those weekend hours to repair some of the nearly 2000 feet of 4-board fence that borders our backyard — […]

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Tags: chores, diesel, fence, home, john deere, kubota, logs, paslode, splitting, wood, yard

Last month I spent quite a bit of time prepping and painting the wicker chairs passed down from generation to generation (see post).  This past weekend I used recovering and adding filler to the old cushions as an opportunity to learn a little bit more about sewing — with Brenda‘s Sailrite machine. I’ve tackled a […]

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Tags: antique, chairs, heirloom, projects, recovering, sailrite, sewing, upholstery, wicker

Not too many photos, but Taylor‘s friends all seemed to have a great time celebrating his birthday this weekend in the backyard. The Knockerballs were a hit … and Taylor even showed his love for his mom  Ha! (video below).

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The Kindle ebook reader is my preferred choice ever since getting my "own" ereader. My buddy Jeff has found a new way to entertain me … gifting Amazon books (this one for my birthday). I sense that he assumes everybody reads as much as he does? I assure you that I do not … but […]

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Tags: amazon, book, class, joan c williams, kindle, Politics, reading, white, working

Taylor and I joined in with a group from the Mercedes Benz Club of Cincinnati on a visit to the American Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday. The tour group was lead by an informative lecture from a long time Packard historian and lasted most of the afternoon. Surprisingly I never visited the museum with my […]

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Tags: benz, club, mercedes, museum, packard, taylor

Happy Presidents Day … if you can still smile after the lack of discipline and leadership.  

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Tags: debt, economics, gdp, presidents

Katelyn and Drew are back home in Minnesota after a great time in Europe. Drew’s lung cancer presentation went well in Vienna and they enjoyed the extra couple of days traveling by train and transit back to Paris before flying home. We are looking forward to a few more photos but they sent enough photos […]

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Tags: austria, conference, drew, europe, fmaily, katelyn, paris, vienna