delmer on January 7th, 2010

We’re getting a bit of snow today. How much we’ll get, I’m not sure; I keep hearing different amounts. Additionally, it’s not due to get above freezing until next Thursday, which should put us right around 10 days of below-freezing weather. (I still go out, in the morning on snow-covered ground, barefoot, to start the [...]

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delmer on December 22nd, 2009

Once again, it’s time for my favorite Christmas video.   From December of 1998.   Technorati Tags: Christmas,Beallsville Ohio

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delmer on December 13th, 2009

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. It is edited quite a bit. Originally posted September 3, 2005. Many of you are probably unaware that just a mouse-click away is a .wav file featuring the St. Brendan’s 5th-grade band playing Jingle Bells. And not just Jingle Bells – but Jingle Bells [...]

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delmer on October 13th, 2009

One of my children, and I’ll not name names but it is the biggest one, has a bit of trouble getting out of bed in the morning. When I give the boys a verbal nudge to get out of bed he’s quick to say, “I’m up,” but very slow to put “I’m up” into practice. [...]

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delmer on April 17th, 2009

Haydn and I were talking about what he might do when after high school. When he told me he thought he might like to go into radio I told him I thought I might like him to go into the armed forces for a few years. “I don’t think I’ll do that,” he said, thinking [...]

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delmer on January 20th, 2009

Haydn had a guitar lesson last night and when he took his guitar (a Christmas Gift) out of the bag he found the headstock had broken off. This, of course, put the guitar terribly out of tune. (We’re not sure what happened; it can’t be a case of it being tuned too tightly… If anything, [...]

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delmer on January 1st, 2009

If chk chk represents the sound a person makes when he sucks air between his tongue and gum at the side of his mouth — like, you know, when you call a dog. (Sometimes Goober would make a single chk when he threw a finger up at Andy or Barney in a pointing motion.) Then [...]

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delmer on December 22nd, 2008

I know I post this each year, but it cracks me up.  This is part of the 1998 Christmas Video. Try to watch all the way to the “yeah-yuh.”   Technorati Tags: Christmas video,Christmas,Beallsville

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delmer on December 21st, 2008

Before I removed the old gas valve I snapped a couple of pictures; my camera was at hand. At one point Haydn made his way to the cellar. After we played 20 questions he picked up my camera, said, “I’ll take this for the blog,” and fired of a shot of me at work. (Isn’t [...]

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delmer on November 24th, 2008

And we’ll play a game with this first one. You tell me what is wrong here.  I’ll provide my answer after the second conversation. Jack and I were at the breakfast table. “Jack,” I said. “I got an e-mail from the library and you have some books overdue.” “Ooh!” he said excitedly, “I know where [...]

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