Today we have visitors from Erie. My brother Bob, his wife Cathy and daughter Becca came down to attend Mike's annual tailgate party tomorrow afternoon. They arrived this afternoon and got to test Alesa's new Pot Pie recipe and then we will head to Jeff's for a visit. He and his family will no
Trip Log
October 14, 2010
We have been busy the last few days working around the house. About 20 years ago we bought some wisteria and built a pergola around the deck for it to climb on. It loved it and it has been quite a job keeping it trimmed back. We cut the top off the pergola, made it a short trellis, trimmed the
October 10, 2010
How can you let a day like 10/10/10 go by without a post? You can't, we had Mike's girls for the weekend and we kept them busy especially because they were preparing for their Dad's surprise birthday party. We picked them up on Friday and I can tell you I really don't miss driving in rush hour
October 8, 2010
We pick up Mike's girls this evening for a weekend of work and projects, Nana has it all planned. All that I know for sure is that I will do whatever I am called on to do as long as it does not interfere with watching the Phillies.
October 4, 2010
Jeff's kids came over on Saturday afternoon but Mike's kids were busy for the weekend. The plan was to let the kids earn some spending money by helping clean out our garage. Bailey worked like a champ, helping Nana pull everything out of the garage, cleaning and puting everything back. Bridget
October 1, 2010
Last Sunday we were not able to power up our laptop so we started up our old desktop to maintain an internet connection.
September 25, 2010
Today Alesa & I participated in GIVE (Gannon Invitation to Volunteer Everywhere) by working with other Gannon alumni living in the Philadelphia area and cleaning the Schuylkill River Park which is in downtown Philadelphia across the river from Penn in the Rittenhouse Square area. It was hard
September 18, 2010
Yesterday we finished working on the trailer and took it over to a storage area just a couple of miles from the house. It's a few bucks more a month but is close and is paved. It is nice to have our driveway back. Today was our annual apple picking outing. It is becoming harder to get everybo
September 16, 2010
We are back in the land of kids and grandkids, spacious rooms, big screen HD TV's, fast internet, neighbors who don't move every other day, hot tubs, large coffe makers, dishwashers, big refrigerators, comfy beds, motorcycles, elbow room, mail delivery, yard work and household chores, to name a f
September 13, 2010
We got home just after six this evening after an uneventful drive home. This morning we took a farewell walk on the pier, packed up and hooked up the trailer, the butcher delivered the meat we ordered and we were ready to go. People kept stopping to say goodbye so we didn't get out until about