Archive: Since recent family posts were private for most readers, here’s a very cool night “star” photo of KDAE’s new house

| March 7, 2024

Thanks for the great night photo after the completion of your homebuilding project, Drew and Katelyn

Archive: KDAE February 2024 vacation to Florida Wrap-Up Part 2

| March 6, 2024

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Archive: KDAE February 2024 vacation to Florida Wrap-Up Part 1

| March 3, 2024

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Archive: A few leftover Valentine’s Day photos to make me smile

| February 15, 2024

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Family is busy enjoying the winter weather and MLKJr.

| January 16, 2024

Although the temperatures around the US have taken a deep dive and have brought a cold and snowy winter to much of the country, our family is making the most of it. Taylor and Megan spent the long weekend skiing with some in her extended family in Utah and KDAE made the most of the […]

Archive: Some Christmas photos and KDAE finally moving in

| December 13, 2023

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Archive: Leftover granddaughter photos from last weekend

| November 14, 2023

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Archiving leftover family photos to close out October 2023

| October 31, 2023

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Archive: A couple of Corn-Mazing granddaughters

| October 25, 2023

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Archive: Our family together for Labor Day while Taylor was backpacking in Glacier National Park with a friend

| September 6, 2023

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Archive: Celebration of Life for Uncle Sonny and a stop on the way home in Perrysburg to sing Happy Birthday to Brenda

| August 14, 2023

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Archive: Summer vacation and hiking in Zion National Park

| August 8, 2023

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Archive: The Oostras short summer 2023 vacation to Michigan

| July 19, 2023

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Archive: A great time in Perrysburg with our granddaughters

| July 8, 2023

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Archive: We had a great time celebrating Taylor’s Birthday

| June 13, 2023

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Our six-year old granddaughter’s dance recital weekend

| May 24, 2023

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Archive: A brief overnight stay from KDAE as they head home

| May 1, 2023

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KDAE were hiking in the Smokies as we returned from Florida

| April 27, 2023

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Katelyn and Drew celebrated their 10th Anniversary in Miami, FL

| April 16, 2023

Has it really been TEN years? My daughter Katelyn and her husband Drew (now a family of FOUR), have been married for 10 years! Wow!!! They are celebrating their anniversary by taking a quick getaway trip to Miami, Florida. Congratulations to the both of them … and may they have many more years of health […]

Archive: A few Easter weekend family photos and video

| April 11, 2023

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Combined Birthday celebration for our granddaughters

| March 5, 2023

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A few more family homebuilding photos and using rehab as an excuse to take a winter trip to Florida

| February 15, 2023

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Saving family photos from our Corbett-Oostra Christmas 2022

| December 29, 2022

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Boring shoe waxing and updated family homebuilding photos

| December 23, 2022

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Happy Birthday Drew and creative names for snowplows

| December 13, 2022

My daughter is great at sending links to items she thinks would be great for the blog. The other day Katelyn sent an “Ohio Turnpike Name-A-Snowplow Contest” story that had some pretty creative names — well actually, like her mom, she had her husband send it 😀 (BTW, Happy Birthday Drew!).  Here are the winners: Ctrl-Salt-Delete, Nicole […]

Archive: Christmas trees, homebuilding and Ellerie’s big bed

| December 11, 2022

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Archive: I love seeing “homebuilding” progress photos

| December 3, 2022

Thankfully, even as the weather begins to cool these days, the homebuilding progress doesn’t screech to a halt as it did years ago (showing my age). With that, it is great to archive a photo or two as the walls go up on Katelyn and Drew’s new house in northwest Ohio. There is a small […]

Archive: Some family time with our granddaughters

| November 30, 2022

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Thanksgiving 2022: “Out of the mouth of babes …”

| November 24, 2022

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Our family together for Dave Schneider’s Celebration of Life

| November 15, 2022

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Archive: Promedica CEO Retirement and Succession Plan

| November 13, 2022

A little family hospital business … and related news to archive … as Randy Oostra (my daughter’s father-in-law) announced his retirement last month. It was something we knew was coming (mentioned to me in September), but was no doubt one of those decisions that a successful career driven person does not take lightly. I can […]

Archiving photos from our Trick or Treating family in 2022

| November 1, 2022

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Our granddaughters’ First Ohio State Buckeyes football game

| October 25, 2022

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Katelyn and Drew’s pile of drying lumber gets a tarp

| October 19, 2022

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A beautiful pile of lumber is air drying and beach pop

| October 12, 2022

The sawmill has returned Katelyn and Drew‘s lumber and it’s a BIG pile (very exciting!) What Is Air-Drying? Air-drying lumber simple means to stack lumber and expose it to the outdoors. Depending on the species of wood and desired moisture content the air-drying process could take several months to almost a year. Make sure to […]

Leftover family weekend photos and a Mud Hens game

| September 13, 2022

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Leftover Labor Day weekend photos from the Oostras

| September 6, 2022

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Leftover travel weekend update and photos from our kids

| August 24, 2022

While Brenda and I were in Atlanta celebrating her sister’s birthday, Taylor was once again at another wedding clear across the country. One of his elementary school friends (they stayed in touch) gave a bunch of friends a chance to get together in a nice location – Lake Tahoe. Of course this wasn’t the first […]

Motorheads are slowly showing interest in EVs #automotive

| August 20, 2022

My social participation in automotive groups and forums that were common for me decades ago (CinciTDI, TDIClub, etc) have shifted to social media friends on Facebook groups (not so much anymore) and Twitter (daily). Those contacts include a bunch of automotive journalist as well as people just interested in cars and trucks. The conversations has […]

Oostra lot clearing has begun, a KETO diet and Fitbit update

| July 13, 2022

Instead of starting a rant on our nightmare return trip from the Canadian Rockies flying Air Canada … I’m going to let the stress dissipate for a while. It was painful travel. So instead I’ll archive a couple exciting photos from Katelyn and Drew as their builder has started clearing the trees from their lot […]

Never a dull moment for parents no matter their expertise

| June 26, 2022

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Wishing all the purpose-filled dads a Happy Father’s Day

| June 19, 2022

I enjoyed a very nice Father’s Day on “Saturday” yesterday with Taylor, Megan and their long time friend Meredith, who was “dog-sitting” her sister’s dog “Chase” (below). They enjoyed the nice weather around and in the pool while I busied myself with a few projects … one of which was adding the additional pipes to […]

Weekend Family updates: Dress-up and Taylor’s new iPhone13

| June 7, 2022

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My old bowling ball: A memory-triggering time capsule #TBT

| June 2, 2022

The “bowling” comment I made a couple weeks ago triggered me thinking about what “junk” to put back in my office storage closet and what to toss. There are “functional” but OLD computers (with hard drives and too much CPP customer data), boxes of magazines … and more to the point … my old bowling […]

Archive: A few family photos from Memorial Day weekend

| May 31, 2022

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Birding outing for Katelyn with the family for her birthday

| May 17, 2022

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KDAE looking at their property prior to ground breaking

| 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

| 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

| April 3, 2022

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Holy Toledo! It looks like a Rivian R1T EV being charged

| March 27, 2022

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Happy Birthday! Our granddaughter is already 5 years old!

| March 6, 2022

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Archive: A leftover photo and priming Ellerie’s rocking chair

| March 1, 2022

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Archive: A Sunday afternoon Happy Birthday to Ellerie (photos)

| 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

| February 16, 2022

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Once again, Christmas gifts we use everyday from the kids

| 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 […]

Tech Friday: On the waitlist for some new tech from Wyze

| 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

| 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 […]

Archive: Our 2021 Family Christmas over New Years

| January 5, 2022

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Boxing Day update and our Christmas yet-to-be family rotation

| December 26, 2021

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Messages on the Echo and crazy-faced granddaughter photos

| December 19, 2021

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  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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