After a long couple years, the graduation is over.  Today I graduated the University of Oklahoma putting a lot of stressful times away.  This is tough enough when you are 18 years old but when you are 43 and have a full family life and a full time job, it makes it even more of [...]

  I have been off work the last couple of days because I have poison ivy from cutting down some trees at my dad’s place.  Since I usually have to go to bed early because I have to be at work early, I usually miss out on the good storms.  Last night around 10:45 PM [...]

It has been a couple weeks since I have posted anything on here so I thought I may update what has been going on.  As most of you know, I have been going to the University of Oklahoma for the last couple of years and I am going to graduate this coming weekend.  I made [...]

The last week started off with the dreaded call when I was at work on April 10th that my grandmother had passed away.  She had been in the hospital for 45 days after having a severe stroke on March 1st.  The previouse week my sister and her family was here from Illinois to attend my brother [...]

In life it is difficult to find anything that has universal appeal the way the arrival of Spring does.  There is just some sort of psychological effect that Spring time brings on people.  Every year there is something in the air when the trees start to bloom, the birds are singing and it is warm [...]

This week started as ordinary but turned out to be a pretty good week.  We started off last Monday at 81 degrees and sunny and ended Thursday with snow.  We had a surprise on Wednesday when our youngest son came back home to stay after being gone since September.  I will just say “praise the [...]

It is hard to find anything more pleasing than a nice morning sunrise when you do not have to go to work.  The beauty of my situation this morning is that it is the end of the year and I have some use or lose vacation time that I have to burn so I took [...]

This week we celebrate our country’s independence on Friday July 4th and that will be a day off work.  I have decided that I am going to take off Thursday as well and make it a four day weekend.  That makes it a three day work week and I will take that.  Monday I will [...]