We’ve been casually looking at houses for probably 4-5 years now. That’s what you do when your wife is a real estate agent who has access to the MLS 24 hours/day, and when your “starter” home (that fit your three-person family just fine, but not so much your four-person family) gets too cramped. But in [...]
Read more →If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. Tomorrow on this blog, I’m going to post about a very intense and recent disappointment we’ve faced at Casa McGee. So this quote is especially relevant tonight. My mom’s most oft-repeated quote to me as a child was, “Count [...]
Read more →Is it okay to brag for a little bit? Hope so. I’ve been waiting to share some good news — and a tip — about the diet I’ve been on, and I decided I’d post something when my weight loss reached 20 pounds. Well, I woke up this morning and skipped right past that to [...]
Read more →I don’t know the world record is for Longest Paper String Attached to a Hershey’s Kiss (or even if such a record exists), but I’m pretty certain this one is the winner: We had a kiss in our bag that had a 20-inch paper string attached to it! I conveniently placed a normal kiss, with [...]
Read more →When you see a successful individual, a champion, a “winner,” you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details. If you don’t know what this post/series is about, see the John Wooden tag and specifically the first quote I posted.
Read more →I spent the day cutting the lawn. First cut of the year. About five weeks before normal.
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