New policy for the blog: I’m no longer going to offer excuses when I miss a day. When I miss a blog post, it’s because I broke my contract with the reader. There is no excuse. I won’t waste your time any further with blame and weak rationales. Onward. Toward the top of my personal […]

Not much to say about the Weekend That Was. Father-in-Law’s new home is coming together, but it will be a while until everything is unpacked. I did what I could do. Swapped out the incompatible outlet plug on an electric dryer. Hooked up the water to the washer. Installed some shelves. Drilled in some curtain […]

This weekend My Beautiful Wife and I made the run out to The Eleven Acre Wood. Move-in date on the Parent-in-Law’s custom home is nigh. Sometime this week. There was a flurry of last minute outdoor chores that needed tending before they move out of their little apartment in the garage and into the house […]

I made it through Anniversary Weekend and lived to tell the tale. Yeah me! In Friday’s post I wrote of my frustration to find My Beautiful Wife a fitting gift after all these years. I broke down and googled up the traditional anniversary gift list. Anybody know the traditional anniversary gift for Number Eleven? According […]

For what seems like the past twenty weekends, our time has been spoken for by a commitment to one parent or another. This past weekend we had no obligations, but there was a backlog of chores that needed to be done around the grounds of Scotsman Manor, most of which were outside tasks. We woke […]