Last night was another wonderful Christmas Eve with family, friends, gifts, food and fun. We had a pinata for the kids with candy, coins, toys and "nana-papa bucks" to be used to buy something they wanted but didn't get for Christmas. Alesa, of course, made sure we had way too much excellent fo
Trip Log
December 22, 2008
We left Lakeland at noon yesterday, visited Alesa's dad's memorial and arrived back home at 4 AM this morning. It was a long day, especially for being the shortest day of the year. It was a good drive with great weather and little or no traffic. Mike and family left after we did and arrived ho
December 15, 2008
Today is Alesa's 60th and we are in Naples, Florida. We left home at 4AM on the 9th and arrived in Brunswick, GA at 4PM that same day. We spent the night there and then visited Pruners in Jacksonville in the morning and with Betsey Fales in Ormond Beach in the afternoon and then spent the next
November 30, 2008
Bailey’s birthday is not until December 8th but he chose this weekend because he has no school on Monday and will have some recovery
November 27, 2008
Today we had a Thanksgiving eve. We thought we would try to have our Thanksgiving dinner the night before to give the kids and thei
November 21, 2008
Today we woke up to snow on the ground and ended up with 4 inches by the time it stopped later in the morning. We continue to work out at Gold's Gym nearly every day and are getting ready for Thanksgiving. The boys and their families will be over on Thanksgiving Eve. Alesa is finishing knittin
November 17, 2008
Last week Nana set up the Christmas trees because we will be gone most of the time between now and Christmas. We put the kids' Christmas tree in the front window and decorated both trees with the Mardi Gras beads from earlier this year. Today we went over to Mike's for Lisa's birthday and Nana
November 11, 2008
Yesterday we got a call from my cousin Paul who had driven up from Florida to visit his brother Mike in Maryland. So Alesa and I drove to Federalsburg, Md.
November 8, 2008
We have the grandkids over again this weekend. The local pharmacy had 'fainting goats' in the parking lot so we thought it would be fun. None of them fainted while we were there (goats or kids) but the kids really enjoyed holding them. (
November 5, 2008
Today we skipped the workout and played a little. We went to Pottsville, about 60 miles north of here and toured the Yuengling Brewery. It is the oldest brewery in the US (1829) and the second largest American owned brewery behind Samuel Adams. On the way back we stopped at Cabelas in Hamburg