Friday Flower: African Violet
:: Bonus picture: a small turtle carving from New Orleans; a gift to Sheryl from her cousin Joni. ::
Year: 2005
EER Blues
At work, people come and go and that’s just the way it is. This week has been a bit different though. My company offered an enhanced early retirement (EER) program* that resulted in a number of people leaving, all at once. Friday is the last day for most of the folks who took the offer. … Read more
Late Afternoon
Just having some fun on a Kansas gravel road: :: It’s true, I do like pictures of cloudscapes: :: Oh, and I see it’s after midnight. Happy Birthday Mom! Love and miss you! Here’s a photo from a roll of film from 2001 that I just found and got developed. She looked so good in … Read more
Photos of Our Yorkie
The most popular page on this site is a bit surprising. It’s the July 2003 archive page. A bit of investigating revealed that the page is very popular due to the fact that it has a picture of our Yorkshire Terrier, Sparkle. That particular picture is the number 5 entry when searching for “Yorkie” at … Read more
Coronado Heights at Dusk
It was a bit chilly and windy when we went up to Coronado Heights for sunset. Sparkle is prepared; he’s wearing his doggie sweater. :: The sunset didn’t really yield any great photos, but this picture of Venus and the Moon turned out pretty nice. :: This image of Lindsborg shortly at dusk is different … Read more
Posole (Hominy Soup) Recipe
I made one of my favorite dishes tonight, for the first time, and it turned out great! Posole (also spelled pozole) is a hominy and pork based stew from Mexico; I first tried it at our company cafeteria where it was quite a hit, but had never tried to make it before. It’s really pretty … Read more
Down Memory Lane
Speaking of the passing of time, today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the happiest days of my life; on September 30th, 1975, I got out of the Army! Though I had advanced quickly, earning my Spec. 4 stripes (corporal) in the minimum time required, it’s safe to say that I looked forward to … Read more
One Year Ago
We arrived in Lindsborg on a Monday morning, one year ago today. We had spent the night before in Dodge City, and eager to see our new home, we left bright and early and got to Lindsborg by mid-morning. We did some household shopping during the afternoon and had a pizza dinner with George and … Read more
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Sheryl took a couple of great pictures of a black swallowtail butterfly that was fluttering around our back yard a few days ago. I contributed a couple of early fall flower images, and the result is a small set of flower and butterfly images up at Flickr; a couple of samples are shown below: ::
Running from Rita
Today there have been reports of extremely bad traffic leaving the Houston area as folks try to evacuate in advance of hurricane Rita. The visuals on TV show mile after mile of stop and go traffic, and one report said there was gridlock for a 100 mile stretch of highway. I’ve seen a traffic jam … Read more