Stickers and fun things from when I was a kid

I ran across these little scratchpads we made when I was going to the international science fair my senior year of high school.  My projects was on the differences in efficiency of girder vs. truss designs in bridges.  Everybody tended to bring something along to give out to other students and visitors.  The Dayton Chamber of Commerce also gave me these Wright Place to be stickers to hand out.  I added both of these to my sticker wall along with an “I ❤️ Dayton” and even an OG In-N-Out sticker I found.  I had to put up one of my out of date Windrock maps just to have a place to put more stickers… 🤪 

My little arm day workout buddy…

It’s fun that Zoe is (mostly) willing to lay on the carpet remnant and wait for me to finish my workout if she’s down in the basement “gym” with me.

Fun kendama practice

I’ve manage to get to the point where I can get through my speed ladder trick list for Dama at the Pond. This kitchen vibe was fun with the fruits, vegetables, knives, watches and tea. :)

Fun with Jewels at the farm markets

We hit a couple others this past week. WOW, that BLT looks good, but the food truck was closed when we went by. I liked the old flatbed truck and Farmall tractor too! The tiny eggplants made for a cute pic as well.

Great satire about Ohio 🤪

10 reasons to move to Ohio.  I love living here BECAUSE some of these reasons!

Here’s the real question, what Ohio city is depicted in the lower left skyline shot…?  I’ll give you a hint, lots of them haha. A pretty cool use of AI graphics I guess.

Fun vibe, pocket watch and kendama!

Laura got me a fifty cent birthday present❣️

I’ve been looking for some 250 year quarters but hadn’t found any yet.  She’d run across these and heard I was looking for some and decided to give them to me.  Fun!

Julie also found me this 1776 silver dollar in her Nanny’s stuff.  I had one I carried around for years as a kid, but haven’t seen it for a while.  I really liked that they incorporated the moon into it as it was back in the first moon landing hype days.  

Happy to add these both to my collection.

Seen in the parking lot

I pulled up for a hike with Laura and these flowers were waiting for me outside my car door. Just laying there looking pretty.  

This could be the start of something big!!

I remember when my dad was excited about giving this to me for my birthday.  After Julie and I were married and got a new car, I’d moved out of my Chevette and given it back to Dad.  When he was selling it, he found this map to Julie’s house under my front seat! It was from just before our first date and she’d been telling me how to get there.  I’d written it down on this scrap of paper and it somehow survived in my car, hidden all those years.  Laura lettered it up for him and I still enjoy it. I recently re-lettered it since it had faded.  

I so vividly remember the first drive over and walking up to her house thinking this was gonna change things.  We’d been friends for a long time… But now we were dating.  Little did I know.  I’m so happy she was willing to on a second date. It turned out well for both of us❤️

Pea puffers hunting snails.

Julie added these cute little fellas to her collection.  You can see them going after tiny snails.  They have cute little faces.  

Adjusting these retro seventies watch bands…

Who knew you could pry these things apart, pull the “staples”, and remove the “links” to make them fit better.  Back in the day you could buy them in different lengths, but you were kind of stuck with whatever was the closest to what you liked.  These days, you don’t have near the selection since they aren’t made anymore so you’re limited to whatever your relatives saved from their dime store purchases back then.  So YouTube to the rescue.  I found a guide for how to bend them open and size them.  I got Julie’s granddaddy’s adjusted so I could wear it last week.

I fondly remember my grandma Morey wearing these kind of watch bands too. I used to get her to let me wear it around the house, or on trips a bit.  My mom still has her last watch.  

Mowing and the duck weed keeps us busy…

The welcome party…!

This is how George Milo greeted me the moment I showed up for work at Camp Jabez last week.  He’s a really cool orange core kitty. 

Tony and Annie Oakley were already at my feet too.

That’s my girl❣️

Shooting a rented short barrel, suppressed, stabilizing brace pistol caliber carbine. I continued the extension of my birthday week (it’s becoming a birthday month, haha) with a free rental and shooting lane at a range near our church.  I won’t tell you that she beat me at half or more of the games we played (battle ship, 9-ball, etc…) What a great better half she is!!  

Cool shot from my Ghost Light Coffee visit…

…which is now apparently Wayne and Clover, at the corner of Wayne and Clover ;)=