As you can see from the smile on Miss Terry’s face, she’s a very happy lady. Why is she so happy? Well, she’s married to me. How could she not be happy? Actually, the truth is it’s because she got to do two of her favorite things yesterday – using tools to fix something and […]
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 […]
It was incredibly hot yesterday, and today doesn’t look any better, with a forecast of a high temperature of 94°. And of course, we didn’t get the rain that we had hoped for. When I went out in the morning, the plants in Terry’s raised garden beds were drooping from the heat. I put on […]
I spent much of yesterday talking to bank loan officers, trying to get a handle on the best way to pay down the loan on our house once we get the proceeds from the sale of our house in Alabama. I thought I could recast the loan, which we did with the house in Alabama, […]
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 […]
Yesterday afternoon I finished writing the last paragraphs of Baby Boom, the seventh book in my Tinder Street family saga. That makes sixty books for me since I began this wild ride, and I’m still having as much fun as I did when I started. I printed those last chapters off for Terry to edit […]
We are still far from having all the boxes opened and their contents put away, but we have made a lot of progress and are getting settled in. I found my underwear and Terry found her coffeepot, so all is right with the world. Terry loves her greenhouse, and I know she will be spending […]
We have had a lot happening the last couple of days and it seems like we have spent more time going places than we have at home. The first thing Monday morning our friend Alan Banks from Banks Construction came over to look at the steps on the side of the house to figure out […]
Yesterday was a good writing day for me and I managed to get about 3,000 more words done in my new Big Lake book. And as happens so many times, the characters threw me a curveball and took the story off in a whole new direction from where I thought it was going. That’s why […]
We have been taking advantage of the nice weather to get as much done outside as we can, because starting today or Wednesday the temperatures are going to be up into the mid-80s. That’s not terrible, but it does drain us doing too much in the heat. And, of course, we’ve got a lot more […]
For someone who could not back my pontoon boat down the ramp and into the water without calling on help from my buddy Jesse Bolton, it may seem strange to think that I’ve become the owner of not one, but two trailers. Most regular readers will know that we bought a 14-foot cargo trailer to […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, my writing activities, what’s happening in our lives since we hung up the keys, and all kinds of other things. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. Now that you live in your “forever home” in the […]
Yesterday was another very good writing day for me. I started out by making the corrections Roberta had suggested after she proofread the last four chapters of Pucker Factor. Then I went through and made a couple of changes to some things in the plot that had been bothering me to avoid confusion on a […]
As I said in yesterday’s blog, we took a road trip to visit family and friends and do some genealogy research, along with gathering lots of stories about interesting places to visit for my blog readers. Rather than cram too much into one very long blog, I will be talking about the overall details of […]
We left the Oceano, Elks campground a little after 9 a.m. and headed north on U.S. Highway 101. Morning fog was lingering over the coast, and according to the dashboard thermometer in my Winnebago motorhome, the outside temperature was 60 degrees. As we moved further inland, the fog dissipated and the temperature began to climb. […]