Posted in Around Town, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
(Ralph, this is for you.)
I got home from the camp out on Memorial Day, staggered inside, took a shower then headed back out to Ralph and Ruth’s house for our traditional Memorial Day picnic.
Ralph and Ruth like to spoil us when we come over. We like to be spoiled. It is a match made in [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
First, let me say that this year went much better than last year. I can think of ways last year could have gone worse, but they all involve hospital trips. This year was both a fun time and I’m thinking it could very well have been a pivotal day/night/day for me.
See, I don’t usually have [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Today Raquel and I had lunch at the Vietnamese lunch buffet that gave us so much trouble before. We talked about her surgery and the season finale of Dollhouse, about alpha males and a super secret project we’re working. You know, this and that. We’d go get more food and then talk some more. A [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Mar 18th, 2009 4 Comments »
I was at the grocery store today when someone paged Superman over the PA system. “Paging Superman. I repeat, will Clark Kent please come to the service desk.” Weird.
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for Penny Coffee Day at Kade’s coffee. You go in, you give them a penny and they give you a cup of hot, wonderful coffee. It’s genius, really. I took the kids out yesterday and we drank coffee and played cards. It’s an opportunity to have a special tradition that takes [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 19th, 2008 3 Comments »
I went for a walk the other day. I walked down to the new elementary school and tried to find my favorite creek. It wasn’t there.
The new elementary school is built right where the old school used to stand. They tore down a rather ratty looking building and built a bigger, better version. They [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Sep 16th, 2008 4 Comments »
I have been very nostalgic of late. It’s almost embarrassing. I’ll be driving along with Adiel and we’ll pass something that’s different from when I lived here and I’ll start gushing about what used to be there. I’ll do this about places I didn’t even like.
“Do you remember that junky old drive-in theater that [...]
Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
There is a book store out in the world that is like Mecca to the book lover. Barbara Berry’s Book Barn. Remember that name. Josh and Adiel told me about the bookstore and said it was wonderful. I checked out the website and it was nice, but this Saturday I had the chance to visit [...]
Posted in Around Town, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Aug 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I love shopping at thrift stores. I think it has something to do with the thrill of the hunt. Racks of identical items kind of bore me. Plus the extra thrill when, after a successful hunt, I flip over the price tag and it’s fifty cents lower than I expected. Now that’s a rush! [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Mar 10th, 2008 9 Comments »
I have an unusual relationship with the roads in Peoria. The relationship is unusual in that I actually know what the main roads are called and, more or less, where they go. This is unusual for me at least because in Erie I didn’t know many roads even though I’d grown up there. I knew [...]