First Snow of 2024 Snow had been in the forecast for a week or so leading up to Thanksgiving. It disappeared and would reappear a few times,...

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend. I may have mentioned this before, but Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. I love the foo...

Oliver's First Day at Dog Hotel Last weekend, Carrie and I went to Des Moines, Iowa (see post ) for the weekend and we decided to try ou...

GoodReads Book Challenge Status 2024 Every year for the past few years, I've participated in the  GoodReads  reading challenge. This yea...

Trip to Des Moines, Iowa We left for Des Moines, Iowa on Friday morning. We dropped Oliver off where he would stay through Sunday and we wer...

Election Night and Wine With many months of buildup of texts, emails, commercials, and rallies, the 2024 election is finally over. Oddly eno...

Rainy but we have a tent Saturday was Homecoming at Washburn University . The forecast for the day was rain all day long. That did not stop ...

Carrie and me at Alan Jackson Concert Carrie and I went to Kansas City on Saturday to see Alan Jackson . Neither of us had ever seen him in ...

The King Biscuit Blues Festival  ( KBBF ) took place October 10 - 12 in Helena, AR and we had beautiful weather with great friends and famil...

Tents at HipCamp Site We went on our third camping trip of the year with this one in Missouri at a HipCamp called Hickory Forest TV Camp Si...