My Desultory Blog

RichC | July 22, 2018

I had fun digging out Katelyn and Taylor‘s old Little Tikes swing that is both made in and  was used in Hudson, Ohio when we lived there … but the frustration part was having bought, then lost, a stainless steel nut for the cable clamp used in my set-up to attach the extension to the […]

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Tags: annalyn, backyard, drew, family, frustration, hudson, katelyn, little tikes, michigan, ohio, oostra, project, swing

RichC | April 15, 2018

Now that our granddaughter Annalyn is walking, our THREE (ugh!) hardwood staircases are serious safety hazards. We thought about the normal commercial gates, but Brenda mentioned she really liked the nautical sailing ones that I made for our kids when they were little tykes in Hudson, Ohio (a lame attempt at a reference to the […]

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Tags: annalyn, ddj, family, gate, house, hudson, little tykes, ohio, project, safety

RichC | December 14, 2017

Wow … is this really the 35th Christmas? With boxes all over the basement in search for Brenda‘s "special ornaments," I ran across the old photo albums of our first year of marriage and our first Christmas. We both remember it fondly since it was a relatively minimalist Christmas. The tree came from Brenda’s dad’s […]

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Tags: aurora, brenda, charlie brown, christmas, dadc, hudson, jerry moody, momc, ohio, onu, pam, popcorn, richc, TBT, tree

RichC | January 19, 2017

Heating with wood is in my genes, since my parents started heating with wood back when we lived on Lake Erie and were constantly without heat either due to power outages in the rural area we lived, floods forcing the power company to turn off utilities or the old finicky oil burner furnace (think “Christmas […]

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Tags: aurora, garage, house, hudson, jamestown, loafing, TBT, woodstove, workshop