Great weather, pretty views, and beautiful colors starting.
2026-10-29
Doing a little “spring” cleaning with my mom.
It’s been fun spending time helping her out with chores around her place. With the nice weather, we’ve been getting some of her windows and screens cleaned up.
My mom’s quiet time…
It’s fun to see my mom spending time in the Word, Streams in the Desert, and her diary. It kind of looks like my mornings too. I wonder where I got that idea?❣️ She’s been a consistent Godly example in my life for sure!! It’s funny that I never thought I would keep a daily diary, but I guess this blog has become my version of just that hahahaha.
Last week I bush-hogged a few pastures
It’s fun and a little tricky around the edges. The horses stayed wherever I wasn’t for the most part. It was pretty with the fall colors starting and the horses running around.
When I parked for lunch, they were very curious and checked out the tractor the whole time I was eating (bottom pic).
Crazy, one day later…
It only took them a day to make this old house disappear. It’s just a nicely graded dirt lot now!
2026-10-28
Fish and insects
Aton Brown made insect fried rice and ice cream full of pulverized trout as part of the show… The wok was powered by stage lights and the ice cream maker by fire extinguishers hahahaha.
We had a pretty view of Cincy while walking in
And then we learned the theme for the night (bottom pic).
I also liked the nice view of the moon in the top pic, just over the corner of the theater. I also always like seeing the twin P&G towers on the left of that pic. That’s where they have their headquarters.
Anybody need a wrench?
I sent the boys a picture of this booth from the antique mall where Julie and I were picking. Andy immediately called us and asked us to go get him that orange thing… He’d been wanting a large threading adapter for his black iron pipe threader, but needed an adapter. The problem is the adapter costs nearly $200 these days. That’s half the price of the threader Andy was trying to buy. But somehow he noticed it in this picture and we got it for $20! Andy was thrilled and Brandon is jealous hahahaha.
This booth had this many Craftsman wrenches, and just as many sockets, screwdrivers, etc. A gold mine if you were trying to build a set or replace something that was missing. It’s all the older, better stuff too! I sound like an old guy 🤪
2026-10-27
I wanted some Nescafé for nostalgia
This was the coffee they had in hotel rooms and break rooms around the UK and some of Europe during my travels over there. It wasn’t all that bad and is also super cheap so I decided to grab some. I didn’t realize that you could get a fancy version that is still only cents a cup or so. Pretty decent for the convenience and cost. I stole one of Julie’s measuring cups and started serving myself up a hot cup.
Julie was laughing at my silly games with the measuring cup (and trying to get the coffee in there) so she bought me my very own one and a half tablespoon measuring cup.
Catching my breath in John & Savannah’s yard
I was using their paths to ride my bike with Zoe and decided to enjoy the little spot Savannah cleared out for my heart rate recovery. So pretty and relaxing, especially with the colors this time of year.
John’s learning just like I did…
My dad always told me… “How do you know how much to tighten a bolt? You crank on it until it breaks, then go a little less on the next one.” Hahahaha. He taught me that while we were fastening the stairs onto the back of the appartments on the Hammel House years ago. John got to make the walk out to our barn to find a replacement bolt for his trailer hitch when he took the same approach. 🤪
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