I hate to admit this, but I’m really bad at screwing. If you don’t believe me, ask my wife. Okay, I know where your minds went, and get them right back out of the gutter, now! What you were thinking is disgusting, whether it may or may not be true. 😊 I used to say […]
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 […]
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 […]
I had a friend who used to say that sometimes you get lucky even when you don’t deserve to. Something that happened a couple of weeks ago definitely proved him right. Terry and I had gone to Lowe’s to pick up some gardening supplies, and when we were loading them into the back of the […]
The other day, after we unloaded the pickup bed full of bags of soil, mulch, fertilizer and such from Lowe’s, Terry used the keypad outside of the garage to lower the door. Or at least she tried to. She pushed the button, and the door came down about a foot or so and then stopped […]
It’s taken most of a year, but we finally have a contract on our Alabama house, with closing scheduled for the first week of June. We are not getting as much out of the house as we invested when you factor in the two decks, the new roof, the storm shelter, and the whole-house generator, […]
If you’ve ever met my wife, you know that she’s beautiful, talented, and one of the sweetest human beings you’ll ever have the honor of meeting. But I’ve got a little secret for you. She’s also a dirty girl. Even when we go to her parents’ house. Terry’s mom has mentioned several times that she […]
We haven’t had a lot going on in the last few days worth sharing with you, so today I’ll bring you up to date on our week so far. I spent most of Monday adding a bunch of new subscribers to my free author’s newsletter, all of whom signed up as part of the promotion […]
I have been trying to figure out how to go about making a better pathway from our back deck to the storage shed in the backyard. Previous owners had put down mulch to make a pathway, but rain and wind have either caused it to be blown away or buried in the mud. I think […]
As I said in yesterday’s blog, it’s warming up here, which means it’s time to get ready for gardening season. Terry’s eyes are so irritated from allergies, even though she got a shot, that she wasn’t able to do any proofreading yesterday. So I decided to spend the day getting ready for the season. The […]
As I wrote in yesterday’s blog, we had two appointments scheduled for yesterday morning. A technician from Dish Network was supposed to be here between 8:00 AM and noon to fix the problem with our TV losing local channels. He called a few minutes before 8 and said he would be here within half an […]
We have a busy day ahead of us today, starting early. For the last few weeks, our Dish Network receiver has been acting up. Several times we have lost all of our local channels, they’re not even listed on the channel guide, and when we try to watch anything on television it switches to internet […]
When I let Alli out to go potty yesterday morning, I heard activity in the garage and looked to find Tiffany and Kenny had arrived while we were still in bed and were busily rearranging things to have more room on our end of the bench, where we have our Dillon reloading press set up. […]
It seems like we never have time to get bored because there’s always something going on around here. Yesterday, Terry and I had appointments with our new primary care provider, and we both like her very much. She’s one of those relaxed, very competent people who make you feel from the get-go that she’s capable […]
Yesterday was a busy day that had us running here, there, and everywhere. We started out by going to Mavis Tire in Tuscaloosa to get the new tires they had ordered for me put on the rear of the Ram pickup. I was very impressed with these folks. They got me in half an hour […]
Yesterday was another busy day for us, with a lot happening. I started the day with an e-mail from Scarlett Braden with the formatted print version of The Ballad Of John Lee. As soon as I got it and had the correct page count, I contacted Elizabeth Mackey, my cover designer, and asked her to […]
Even though another round of cold weather is upon us, with temperatures midweek down into the teens overnight, it’s still not too early to think about spring planting. I can tell Terry’s green thumb is definitely itching because she’s getting ready. The other day UPS delivered several plants that she ordered from Plants By Mail, […]
The double wall oven that was in our house when we bought it is old and has never worked properly, so I told Terry to look for a replacement. She found the one she wanted on sale online at Home Depot for something like $1,000 off the regular retail price. We prefer to shop at […]
We have a shallow ditch that runs alongside the road back to the barn that seems to always stay wet because it’s at the bottom of the slope from yard. Every time we walked across it we wound up with wet feet. That’s no fun at all. We decided we needed some kind of little […]
As I said in yesterday’s blog, the area at the bottom of our deck steps is muddy, and Alli keeps tracking it inside. So we went to Lowe’s and bought some paver blocks to put there. I’m no block layer, but I was hoping to at least cover up enough of the area that she […]