All my rings out for service

With all my other rings out for service, I decided to bust out my high school ring.  It was fun to wear it again and remember Julie “stealing” it while I was dating Cheryl and then later wearing it as my girl during our early college dating life❣️

I had to try these…

…they sounded good, but weren’t that impressive. 

Random mayfly on me during my workout in our backyard

Do you draw blood during your workouts?

You might if you stop to pick berries along the way hahaha.

Finding Julie’s baby shoe again…❤️

Jeeps and the 4th… ;)

Don’t forget, they helped win the war! well, maybe not THAT war…? 

I even managed to get one of these limited edition celebratory badges to commemorate the day. Happy 250th USA!!🧨🎆

 

Toy Story

We went and saw the latest Toy story with Andy. It didn’t disappoint, especially the legions of Buzz! Always a good story!

I found gold 🎂

In sorting through the stuff from Julie’s parents, I found the recipe for Janice’s legendary poundcake in written form! :) She traditionally made one for each of Julie’s birthdays, much to our delight. You can see that it was actually her grandmother‘s recipe, Buddy, passed down.❤️

Fixing up my dad’s rings

I decided to get my dad’s class rings sized so I could wear them more easily.  I need to do adjust the size on my college  ring as well.  I thought it was pretty cool how they looked all laid out together when the jeweler was sending me my receipt.

Carrying the flag across the United States

My nephew got to participate in one leg of the flags, epic journey across the United States from west to east. You managed to get the peace that summited of the great divide.  Fitting!

Celebrating America’s 250th

As you consider 4 July and the blessings we have as a country❤️🇺🇸, make sure you take a few minutes to think about these three kids in their star-spangled outfits 50 years ago. I can remember these and ringing the churchbell for the bicentennial. Oh, how  time flies!
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Exploring downtown Dayton business incubation

Julie found a fish store we didn’t know existed. After we stopped by, we explored some of these old buildings downtown. Pretty cool looking.

Finding fun stuff

Back in the late 90s, Steve and I each got one of these coffee mugs from the dealership where we bought our Volkswagens. I used my cup for years and years and years. These days I keep it more as a memory than anything else. Imagine my surprise when I found one in their stuff and now have a spare one to use again

A good way to spend Father’s Day

Julie surprised me and scheduled a lunch with all our boys and girls. It was fun to hang out at Elsa’s, catch up, and enjoy good food and laughter.

Thanks Andy!

I always wanted a sheath for my railroad spike knife I made when my mom took Laura and I to Michigan.  But I didn’t have it with me when the custom sheath guy was at the gun show recently. Andy volunteered to drive home grab it and bring it back. I took him up on it. I’m glad I did. SharkTac made the perfect sheath, works great, glad I have it!  Perfect way to carry it and it brings back great memories of that trip and my one heat beat win❣️