So, what’s going on in our life? All kinds of things. Some of them good and some of them not so good. The good news is that I talked to Kenny yesterday, and while he is still in pain, he says he is slowly getting better. But he’s off work for a week and bored […]
Thank you to everyone who sent emails or comments about son-in-law Kenny’s gallbladder surgery yesterday. Tiffany said they did a laparoscopic procedure, and afterward the doctor said it was in pretty bad shape. They had a bit of trouble controlling his pain after the surgery, but they got it taken care of. Tiffany stayed at […]
I’m sure that I’ve told you before how much I respect and love my son-in-law Kenny, and what a hard worker he is. I think I’ve even said that he’s always there when we need him. But as much as it pains me to admit it, it turns out I was wrong. The man’s a […]
In the past, I’ve always had some friends handy whenever I started running my mouth and digging myself into a deeper hole, who would say, “Shut up, Nick.” Unfortunately, they’ve all died off and I’m the last man standing. So I’ve been digging some holes lately. Terry had purchased some rose bushes from Lowe’s that […]
If there’s one thing I learned from our fast trip to Texas and back to pick up my old Chrysler convertible, it’s that I’m too damned old for 13-hour car rides two days in a row, even when I’m not the one doing the driving. It’s been five days now, and I’m still feeling worn […]
Besides a regular whole house air conditioner and furnace, our house also came with a mini-split unit in the bedroom, which provides both heat and air conditioning. If you’re not familiar with mini-splits, and I wasn’t until fairly recently, they are a ductless heating and cooling system. They have two main parts: an outdoor compressor […]
Before I do anything else today, I want to congratulate our granddaughter Destiny on another achievement. As I’ve shared with you before, while attending her last year of high school, Destiny was also attending cosmetology classes at Northland Pioneer College here in Show Low. She graduated from both in the same week, and yesterday she […]
When we lived on eight acres out in the country in Alabama, Alli had plenty of room to roam. Now we have about an acre here in Show Low, Arizona, more than half of it with a high fence. She’s still got room to run and play, but she hasn’t had a lot of socialization […]
Kenny and I were planning to go to the gun show at the Show Low Elks Lodge yesterday, but it turned out to be a family affair. Tiffany wanted to go with us, and then granddaughter Hailey called to say she would meet us at the lodge with grandbaby Tyler. And just as we all […]
Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that we didn’t get any rain yesterday. The good news is that the temperature was in the upper 70s, and I took advantage of it to finally get much of the grass mowed in our backyard. It needed it because it was turning […]
The temperature has been hovering around 90° for several days now, and we have not been doing much outside. But it was slightly cooler yesterday, and we took advantage of it. Earlier, during the hottest part of the day, I knocked out another thousand words in my new Tinder Street book. Meanwhile, Terry was busy […]
It’s going to be a writing kind of weekend. Not me writing but hanging out with other writers. Today is the Arizona Professional Writers third annual White Mountain Book Festival, which will be held at the Show Low Elks Lodge, only a couple of blocks from our house. They were sold out with 67 authors coming […]
I’ve been busy working on my new book, The Forgotten Years, every day, and yesterday I printed out the first seven chapters for Terry to edit and proofread. When she was finished with them, I made her suggested corrections, then sent the chapters off to Judy and Roberta for them to have a go at […]
A few days ago I started on my next book, The Forgotten Years, number eight in the Tinder Street saga, and I’m off to a good start. I’m closing in on 8,000 words so far and hope to get at least another chapter done today. Several readers have requested I create some kind of family […]
I had an appointment yesterday at Virtuous Pain Center in Show Low to get two medial branch block injections. For anyone not familiar with them, they are minimally invasive injections of a local anesthetic near the medial branch nerves, which carry pain signals from the spine’s facet joints to the brain. The procedure is a […]
I didn’t want to do it. I really, really did not want to do it. But they left me no choice. As I shared before, my Ram Laramie pickup, which I absolutely loved and thought I would keep until the day I die, has been sitting at a dealer since May, waiting for warranty to […]
When we bought our house last summer, except for a lot of trees, much of the front and backyard were rather barren. Basically, just large areas of dirt. Dirt that turns into mud when it rains. Which meant that every time I brought Alli in from outside, I first had to wipe her feet off […]
We were finally getting the monsoon rains that we had been hoping for. Our monsoon season actually started a month ago, but until this week, we’ve only gotten one good rain and a few quick showers. But we’ve had a lot coming down this week, and I’m not going to complain about it at all. […]
Thanks to everybody who sent me emails, texts, and Facebook messages wishing for the best in my outpatient surgical procedure yesterday. It was a simple biopsy, but they had to put me under to do so, and I was surprised at how much it took out of me. Silly me, I thought that I would […]
Yesterday we had a visit from Ed Hackenbruch, an old friend from our days as full-time RVers. I can’t remember exactly when we first met Ed and his wife Stevi, but it was back when we had our MCI bus conversion, and at the same time they also lived and traveled in an MCI bus. […]