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I was in the Millennium Falcon the other day, driving the kids from one place or another. I forget what it was. Immaterial to the story. So I’ve got the radio on and the opening guitar strains to “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield comes on. I turn up the music. It’s a warm summer day….
Déla turned 8 Thursday last week (if you remember from my blog post from Friday), but her birthday party was held on Saturday. I won’t go into the problems we had in picking a theme or venue for the party. It may have taken a while, but when we hit on what and where, Déla finally…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an installment, but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know why (and have seen the pictures that I’ve posted). So here we are with the last full week of summer and plenty of pictures. It’s going to be a long one, so strap in and get comfortable.
I am stealing this idea directly from Chris Read (Canadian Dad) and while it wasn’t an original idea of his, it was because of his post that I’m creating this one. Top 5 Driving Songs His were summer specific but I’ve got no qualms about driving with the same music in the summer or winter….
This past weekend the Nordic Heritage Museum held is Viking Days festival. A couple of food booths, plenty of crafts and live music. Initially I hadn’t planned on going, but Sunday rolled around and I was looking for something to do with the kids. While Laura stayed home to get some of her prep work…
I know it’s been a while since I wrote about our trip to Ireland. I want to get this wrapped up. Since coming home we’ve been busy with back to school prep, summer camps as well as getting back into the routine of being at home. I’m almost done with the stories I want to…
I have a cassette player for the first time in well over a decade. This thrills me more than you can imagine. I still have a large number of cassettes, even after going through and purging my collection years ago. I had been thinking of picking up a portable CD/cassette player for a while,…
We’re back from Ireland, but I wanted to make a quick post about yesterday, which was my 46th birthday. I don’t know when the tradition started, but every year for my birthday I go and see movies in the movie theater. This has been going on for decades, as far back as my teen years….
Am I making this post out of some sort of sense of obligation? Maybe. I think the significance of this “event” in our vacation is such it does warrant special mention. So here it is. The blog post about Cave Hill. One of the things Laura wanted to do in Ireland was visit Cave Hill…
After a long day’s journey around the Inishowen Peninsula we were eager to pull into Buncrana and take it easy. We stayed at the Tullarven Mill, just a couple minutes away from the main streets of town. When looking for a place to stay, we had a short list of needs, and this place met…