And, no, *I'd* be dead.

Grand kids are fun! Congrats.

yup nip it in the bud..

Youngest daughter's birthday, took her to see Godzilla. Bought her the Godzilla she wanted. Just walked by her room and saw this.



Like Eddie Munster and Woof.

Shampoo carpets.

The handle of my old sledge hammer split on me this weekend. If I were to pay myself minimum wage it would probably be cheaper to buy a whole new sledge hammer rather than go to the effort of replacing the handle. But the manly thing would be to clean up the head and give it a new life with a new handle. Which is what I did

Realization of Age

So with the advent of my 60th Birthday looming in less than 2 weeks, my loverly much younger wife says

"You're not getting any younger, let's go buy you a log splitter because I love you so much"
"and I can't chop wood if you keel over"

So after much Review Reading and YouTubing we found one inside the budget and big enough to handle our needs easily

(Black Diamond 25 Ton)


So as I am way ahead this year with having 2 cords I bought, and another 5 Standing Dead trees that I can see need to be dropped without even leaving the driveway a plan on having the Wood-Rick totally full before Sept 1

I am getting better at walking away when I start feeling tired now, instead of pushing it to the max and being sore for a week






Just putting along

I had to get some craft supplies from the storage space under the stairs. That means getting down to my knees & reaching in (thankfully, I’m tall enough.). But, considering the effort it takes me to get down to my knees (which are about 40 years older than the rest of me) and back up again, I think it qualifies a pretty manly.

Isn't that taking the whole recycling thing a little too far?

Repaired some old wind chimes. Daughter assisted.

My wife and I took our four and half year old granddaughter to a water park.

That sir, should be worthy of a gold medal!

Through repeated experimentation and observation, I determined today that the typical Florida gray squirrel prefers bacon to peanuts.

Do tell? You have our attention.

In unrelated news, I did 2 hours of physical therapy on m shoulder.
They are making sure that I get ALL the work on the shoulder.

very cool..

It's my fault that they mooch, I usually show up every few days with a can of peanuts. They fight over them with two male blue jays. Anyway today I showed up with a salad with bacon bits in it. Real bacon, that is. They went nuts when they tasted it.

Just returned from a a three day christian men's retreat four hours north in to Canada. Beautiful scenery and good company along with my two adult boys. Stayed at the Miners Bay Lodge near Minden Hill.

Changed oil in the car, mowed about 4 acres of grass, had the oldest grandson over so he could play with the neighbor kids for a while. I have a rather large, uh, playground, I built years ago for the kids, he calls it pappy's park.
An elementary school was selling their playground stuff, so...... .

tp