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 [...]

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 [...]

Saturday we visited Jerusalem Mill for a Civil War era reenactment of Gilmore’s Raid on the General Store.  Seeing so many people dressed in vintage clothing in the setting around Jerusalem Mill, made us feel like we were back in the late 1800′s. The weather was pretty sticky — mid-90′s with high humidity.  We found [...]

The neighborhood kids came by this evening for some water fun with the Slip-n-Slide.   Henry has yet to work up the courage to try it, so he decided to just watch up close and from all locations around the slip-n-slide. Not sure how he managed to elude all the other kids, but he managed to [...]

It was bound to happen, there was no preventing it. Henry has discovered a love for watching television, well, to be more specific a certain show — Dora the Explorer. Shouts of “Door, Door” fill the house as Henry hears the opening music, or sees Dora on a plate, or T-shirt. He now has his [...]

I often see Linda going into the back room of the basement and then hear strange noises from these two metal boxes that are back there.  Well, she went out to the store today and I decided to investigate what is so interesting about them that causes her to use these so regularly.   I opened the [...]

Today was my 9/80 Friday and also Keely’s last day of her two week swimming class, so I was able to attend and take a few pictures.  The class has learned to put their faces in the water, swim the forward crawl, tread water, jump off the side of the pool, and some of the [...]