It Can Be Paralyzing

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Aug 212014
 

Many times in the past we have shared a chuckle over my fear of bridges and my open admission that I’m a wimp when it comes to crossing high bridges. Especially narrow ones. If it is a four lane bridge and I can get into the inside lane I can handle it, but when we […]

A Long Day

 Posted by at 12:16 am  Nick's Blog
Oct 182012
 

Yesterday was a very long day for us, and at least part of it was a lot of fun. I guess that’s better than a long day that was no fun at all, right? We left Harbor View campground and drove about an hour south to visit with our friends Bob and Molly Pinner at […]

Wow, That Was Fast!

 Posted by at 12:37 am  Nick's Blog
Oct 162012
 

Thank you to everybody who left blog comments, sent e-mails, or posted birthday greetings on Facebook yesterday. You all made me feel very special. Wow, 60 years sure went fast! I’m looking forward to seeing what’s going to happen in the next 60! We woke up to rain yesterday morning and it rained on and […]

Oct 142012
 

No, that’s not the title of a new book I’m working on, but it would make a good one, wouldn’t it? Actually, it refers to something that has had us wondering all week long. Ever since we arrived in this friendly little Potomac River town, we have noticed these road signs, which we are familiar […]

Stratford Hall

 Posted by at 12:58 am  Nick's Blog
Oct 132012
 

The Lee family has lived in and been a part of Virginia history since long before America became an independent nation. The first of the long line of Lees to help shape the region was Thomas Lee, who at just 21 years of age was appointed agent for the Proprietary of the Northern Neck, making […]

Stinkbugs 1, Nick 0

 Posted by at 12:08 am  Nick's Blog
Oct 062012
 

In yesterday’s blog, I wrote about all of the stinkbugs here at the Hershey Thousand Trails preserve, and I said a couple of things about them that apparently ticked them off. So they decided to take things to a new level, just to let me know who was boss. I was getting dressed, and about […]

Oct 042010
 

I’m beginning to feel like I have my very own personal rain cloud hanging over my head, dumping on me every time I turn around. It rained three out of the seven days we were in the Washington D.C. area, two of those days so hard that we couldn’t go out and sightsee. Now we’re […]

Oct 022010
 

Yesterday was a very frustrating day for me. As you may know, I am into genealogy, and the National Archives in Washington D.C. is the repository for a tremendous amount of information about our country and our people. Among the things to be found at the Archives are the original Civil War pension files for […]