Category: My Family
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Waiting For The Baby
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We have been expecting to have another grandchild for the last, oh, 6 or 7 months now and today is the day. Well, supposed to be the day. If nothing happens today they will induce her. I had understood that that was supposed to happen last night but I guess…
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Nature Versus Nurture – My Opinion
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There are a lot of people from many walks of life and fields of science who have studied for many years on the question of what makes us act the way we do. Are we born into the world devoid of personality and everything is imprinted on us by what…
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2 Shots In The Arm Before Breakfast
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Well, actually, one shot in the arm was breakfast. The new Son-In-Law, an active-duty U.S. Army Infantryman (11B), was up when I got up and made me some eggs-in-the-hole. I am usually the first one up but I think he was awake either before me or at the same time.…
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ABCs of Herb
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A lot of the stuff on the “About Me” page is old and/or irrelevant and while digging through the archives I found this. It’s what they used to call a meme and you would get it in your e-mail or read it on someone’s blog and they would tag you.…
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Ancestry Anomalies
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My wife and I have taken an interest in our family trees. We did the DNA thing and are learning a lot of things and meeting some new people. My wife can go clear back to the 1600s and may be a Daughter of the American Revolution. It’s been really…
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The Bear Returns to a New Trash Can
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I broke down and bought a new, bear-proof, trashcan. I got so tired of picking up his trash that I bought this very nice one on Ace Hardware’s website. It was also the least expensive one I could find that was certified bear-proof. A lot of our trash fits in…
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What Do You Represent?
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Life is full of symbols and representations. My work uniform represents something. People see it and form ideas, right or wrong, about me based on what they have seen or been exposed to previously. I have always been conscious of this whenever I have had a job that had a…
