“If at first, you don’t succeed” is a phrase that most of us know, and some of us have used. This post is about our attempt to provide and effective cover for our above ground pool during the winter. The first year the first year we had the pool it came with a cover. It […]
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iPhone Miracles My iPhone Miracles are really about the case. The case is not extraordinary; not any more expensive than most. Each morning I take it off the phone in order to insert a device that lets me check my blood sugar and keep track of it on the phone. Consequently, to me, it seems
You don’t know what you don’t know. I need to buy another Skill saw. I also needed a carbon tipped blade. So off I went to Home Depot. All the carbon tip blades were 7 inches. All the saws said 7 1/4. The employee I got to help didn’t seem to know much more than
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Be careful what you wish for. I was just thinking it had been a while since I had something humorous to write. Not long after I had a phone call from my stepson his wife had a flat tire and he was on his way to work. Could I possibly help. You also Wesley suggested
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Senior Moments have returned like Karma to taunt me. I confess I have had more than one chuckle over someone else’s lapse in memory. My favorite still makes me smile. A speaker at one of our Kairos events paused mid sentence and said, “ I’m having one of those, (pause) one of those (long
The almost naked husband vs. the Baby Possum ! This story about the Baby Possum begins a couple of weeks ago. Then we discovered a huge problem in the guest bathroom (see the post called Denial). We had to move lots of our things onto the back porch. This included cooking out there too. Therefore
Denial is not a river in Egypt. It’s a trickle in our bathroom. Seriously, I confess. Denial is my first go to strategy for dealing with problems. It’s a mostly unconscious character flaw. It’s results are usually disastrous. They certainly are in this situation. This is a tale of three leaks. The first was several
Brenda buys a drone This is a story about our Lawn Mower Drone. Yes, you read that right! Read on and watch the videos and see the pictures. Since I hurt my back and am getting older my wife decided we needed a better way to take care of the grass at our place in
This is a story about My Guatemala Trip. While we lived in Tucson, it came turn for the Diocese of Arizona to host the Triennial National Convention of the Episcopal Church. as the Diocese prepared for this big event they felt the pressure of being in a state with a large ‘Hispanic population and only
Some years ago I wrote articles for a site called Helium. They would post topics and the challenge was to write something that was connected to that title. This is what I wrote for the topic Satire: Overpopulated Grave Yards. You’ve heard the old joke, “People are just dying to get in.” Well, it’s true.
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