Today is a milestone for Linda, she turned 40.  She is now a member of the exclusive 40-and-over Club and I am glad to have her as a member. I was finally able to bring out the present I bought for her and had hiding inside the shed — a new bike. Happy Birthday Lin! [...]

Our caravan of four vehicles and 13 people made the trek to Hilltop Tree farm to get one christmas tree. The yearly tradition is hanging on by a thread — hopefully next year more than one tree will be harvested.

Both Keely and I took pictures around the house on Thanksgiving Day.  We put them together into a slideshow.

After being asked Friday morning by the Baltimore Examiner if I was available Saturday evening to take some photos from a Blackhawk helicopter — it didn’t take long to answer “YES.” Even though I had an already busy weekend schedule — Parkville Soccer Team & Individual Saturday morning, Henry’s birthday Saturday afternoon and the Ravens game [...]

I can finally say, “Yes, I’ve shot an NFL game.” I’ve shot many high school games and some college games, but they don’t compare to the NFL experience. To those who shoot the NFL regularly, it’s probably old hat for you, but for me it was like getting to fly first class after riding in [...]

With autumn knocking on the door, and cool evenings for the past couple days, we pulled out the fire pit, and started burning much of the scrap wood left over from the shed project. Of course, with a fire you’ve got to have marshmallows. Macie and her mom Stacey walked over, so the girls — [...]

We left this morning for our trip to the eastern shore for Larry and Kelly’s wedding, which takes place tomorrow afternoon.  We decided to take a trip to Assateague Island before checking into our hotel in Ocean City. This was Henry’s first time visiting the ocean. All on Keely’s mind was getting her suit on, [...]

  Tonight was burger night and after Linda and I prepared our hamburgers, Henry was relentless trying to eat both of our hamburgers. He wasn’t satisfied having cut up hamburger meat on a plate when we were eating them on a bun with all the fix’ins.  So, we thought we better make him his own [...]

  Our family is growing — growing with the addition of two new Guinea Pigs, Daisy and Blossom.   These two new critters are Keely’s pets. I sure hope these two ladies like to be grabbed and hauled around the house, for that is the modus operadi of Keely. The cage is made from grids that [...]

It’s with great happiness that I post the final installment of my shed project.   Although I have a few minor items to finish up (caulking, stain touch-ups, and the ramp), the shed is, for the most part, complete. This morning I went out and swept out the entire shed to make sure it was as [...]

This weekend brought the completion of the roofing — shingles and ridge vent. It was a great feeling to have that behind me. This morning I went back to Home Depot to get the wood and hardware for the door, workbench and side soffit. Once everything was unloaded, I started work on the door. The [...]

As the weeks go by I am getting less and less productive on the shed. I worked two half days on it which resulted in getting the trim around the window and about 70% of the roof shingled. All I can say after the latest work being performed, “I never want to be a roofer.” [...]

This evening we picked our biggest tomato of the summer. We’ve been eying this big boy for the past couple weeks. A couple more days may have gotten this bad boy a bit more red, but not risking the birds from finding it, we picked it and will let it ripen a bit more over [...]