2025-02-03

Chloe’s stating to get the idea…

She's begun gathering toys to play with.

Some final review before he heads to his test.

Andy's back at the capital to take his back-flow certification test.  He seems really well prepared for it.  

Well, well, well.

This was a nice little surprise for the year.  I guess Michigan can't ruin the season for the Buckeyes any more?  Or at least losing to them doesn't doom you like it once did apparently…

Found my pass from the air show among my photo memories.

My Grandpa took my dad, uncle, cousin and me up there for a week of aviation fun!  It was a great show.  We got to see every kind of plane imaginable and watch most of them fly.  We made a lot of good memories along the way too.  If I remember right, we camped right out of the back of the suburban.  Ron and Uncle Ralph were with us.  Now I need to find some of the pictures to go along with it. ;)

Nice, cold, sub-zero day for a walk…

2025-02-02

I was trying to show Andy I used to have “some” muscles…

His witty response, "Julie fell for that?!" Man, I don't get no respect! 

Glory days…?

I'm always telling the story to the kids about showering from the gutters and troughs when I went on a Christian mission trip to the Dominican Republic.  I was rummaging through old pics from high school and found an example of each, hahahaha.  

Trying not to let negative temps stop us

Zoe and I managed to get out for some walks during the recent cold spell.  Biking wasn't very practical since we either slipped around on the surface of the snow too much or bogged down into it and couldn't make much progress safely. 

Chloe is learning to do planks with me…

Dogs have to go shopping too ya know!

2025-02-01

I did all my kendama tricks this year

Last year, there were a few I could never get.  This year I managed to get to where I could do them all before I headed to Battle at the Border BATB. 

Why lay so crooked and twisted

“Chloe, please play with me!”

Finally assembled my model CJ

Looks good next to a scale model of Brutus.  Gives a perspective of how much they've changed and grown since WWII

Always check your “empties”

I was cleaning off a shelf and found this container that felt empty/. I shook it and almost threw it away, but decided I better check just in case.  It was stuffed with about $40 worth of mostly singles…!