2026-09-02
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.
2026-09-01
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.
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 ;)=
2026-08-31
Cool kendama vibe
I’ve been practicing through my trick list and getting better. I report progress to Andy with random kendama pics. I liked how this one turned out combined with the sword, knife, and pocket watch 🤪
I ordered a watch band clasp
It’s fun to have it arriving from Kowloon Hong Kong where Julie and I have both been during our travels to China. I have fun memories of us shopping the electronics and music shops there so many years ago.
Had fun skimming over this book
Julie’s Nanny had it and left some clippings and goodies in it to support the info in the book. It was a present she received for Christmas in 1974. I thought it was interesting even down to the description of the creation of the type face which my graphic design family members appreciated. It was a book about Dag Hammarskjold.
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
Just an average hike with julie
I turn my back for one second and she’s 12 feet into the woods chasing a mantis…!
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