A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 2, 2005. Jack was about 4 or 5 years old. I don’t recall where we were. It could have been the kitchen, it could have been outdoors. In any case Jack need to show his mother and me [...]
Once again, it’s time for my favorite Christmas video. From December of 1998. Technorati Tags: Christmas,Beallsville Ohio
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We take a break from our regular blogging to provide this important news announcement. Jack, the middle boy, received his report card today and got – Dum dum DUMMMM – All A’s and B’s for a GPA of 3.78 Samson received – Dum dum DUMMMM — All A’s and B’s as well Though he [...]
A while back (July 5) I mentioned I was going to republish some of the things I liked as a way to help out new and old readers alike. And then I did absolutely nothing about it. Today comes the first in republished entries. Originally posted September 21, 2005. This one is as bad as [...]
The boys thought this was funny. I’m not sure how it will play out in printed form. This is a conversation I had with Jack. Our speaking parts overlapped as shown below: Dad, can I have a drink of your pop. Yep. *Five-second coughing/sneezing fit.* Nope. I had him hand me a McDonald’s [...]
One of Jack’s Christmas gifts came in the form of a five-month old Golden Doodle. His name is Opie. So far Opie has been a great dog and Jack a great dog owner Opie makes his way to the door if he needs to go out and happily sleeps at the foot of Jack’s bed. [...]
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
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 [...]
It has been about a year since Jack wrote the following letters as part of a detention assignment. I felt sad about the whole thing as he was being punished for something he had no control over. He had to get to school early as he had to make-up an assignment. We’d rolled out of [...]
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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