It’s Good To Be Home

 Posted by at 12:32 am  Nick's Blog
Aug 112023
 

We left the Hampton Inn in Jacksonville, Florida at 8:30 yesterday morning, eager to get back home. There was quite a bit of traffic and a couple of slowdowns on Interstate 95, and then when we got on Interstate 10 westbound there was a lot of truck traffic and several construction zones. But we managed […]

Bonsai And Beef

 Posted by at 1:05 am  Nick's Blog
May 112023
 

One of the odd things we have found living in Alabama is that while the local Publix grocery stores stock several different varieties of their Greenwise bagels, which are the house brand, they don’t stock the Greenwise egg bagels, which are my favorite. Many times all I want for breakfast is a bagel or half […]

Home At Last!

 Posted by at 12:30 am  Nick's Blog
Feb 122023
 

It was still raining when we woke up yesterday morning and the weather map showed that most of Alabama was socked in, and it wasn’t going to change anytime soon. We took advantage of the free breakfast at the Hampton Inn in Dothan and then set out on the last leg of our trip home. […]

Feb 062023
 

Let’s talk mud. A friend sent this meme to me, and I can relate. Oh, how I can relate! As I mentioned a while back in the blog, our soil has a lot of clay in it, which keeps water from soaking in very well. It just eventually has to evaporate. After a lot of […]

Jan 222023
 

It’s taken longer to get internet service at our new place in Alabama than we expected, but we finally did, and I wanted to post a blog to let you all know we are still alive and kicking, even if barely. I say barely because Terry and I have both come down with nasty colds […]

Back Home

 Posted by at 12:44 am  Nick's Blog
Dec 092022
 

We left our son and daughter-in-law’s house Wednesday a little after 11 AM and headed home to Florida. We didn’t get far before we ran into a delay as we were leaving Tuscaloosa. Just as we got onto US Highway 82, we found traffic at a standstill because a fire department ambulance had T-boned a […]