Hrmmm… What’s this ancient looking thing here? It’s all covered in cobwebs and dust. Let’s see… if I just wipe this off here… OH! Well would you look at that! It’s a BLOG!!! Wow… I forgot I even had this!

~LoL~ Howdy folks. Yea, it’s actually me again. I thought I would visit the old blog again and toss out some random sparks from what gray matter I possess. The main reason I haven’t been updating the blog regularly for some time now, is due to the fact that things have been going fairly well.

For the exception of some rather hurtful and regretful dialogue with an acquaintence of mine, things have been pretty smooth. We had a nice Halloween and a pleasant Thanksgiving. As always, I ate too much. And without a currently active gym membership, I’m sure my pants will remind me of that fact each morning for the foreseeable future.

My grandfather recently fell in his bedroom and broke his ankle, so he’s been in a leg brace and sitting in a wheelchair for the past week. He’s definitely a unique character. He’s 87 years old and can remember the pet pig he had at age 4… but can’t tell you who came to visit him 8 hours ago. He feels frustrated that his memory ain’t what it used to be… at least the short-term memory. But, I just keep telling him that we’ll remind him and not to worry. He still knows who pretty much everyone is. He’s still got his witty humor that he likes to pull out of the hat when you least expect it. So, the neurons are still firing… they’re just not keeping a current log of events.

I managed to climb up on the roof and hang up our icicle-lights without teetering off the edge and mortally injuring myself… so I count that as a success. I improved upon my jimmy-rigged “christmas tree” of lights out front over last year’s design. My mom found a nice hula-hoop which I’ve used as the base for the cone-shaped strands of lights. It seems to be working well. Although I may need to add another strand of lights next year to sort of “flesh-out” the shape. It still seems a tad on the sparce side to me. But, then again, I’m never satisfied with my own work. The kids like it… so I guess that’s what matters.

I’ve split up a whole mess of dried pine kindling and it’s ready for my rather small and unremarkable “fireplace”… but I still need to load up some good dry wood from over at my grandfather’s place. He’s got an entire shed of the stuff that my dad helped stock. Of course, I always call and ask permission to share in the bounty of wood (even tho we have central heat)… and they always tell me to help myself. He’s got enough wood to keep him warm for TWO winters, so there’s no danger of running low. I don’t burn all that much in my little peanut fireplace, either. It’s really more for atmosphere than heat… even tho it does put out a nice little area of toasty warmth.

We’re supposedly slated to receive a nice little frosty unplugging of Mother Nature’s nostrils on this coming Thursday. I say this because it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be much more than slightly annoying. All of us are really sick of the yo-yo temperatures around here and are ready for a commitment of WINTER to set in. At present, it’s 66 degrees with a projected high of 75 today. By Thursday, it’s supposed to… quote… “drop off sharply in temperature”. I guess we’ll wait and see.

We’re supposed to get freezing rain, sleet and snow. But they always say, “No more than 1 to 2 inches at most”. So that’s why I say it’s nothing more than Mother Nature unplugging a nostril at us. It’s hardly worth getting excited over. It will most likely be melted and gone within 24 to 48 hours anyway. Yaaaay winter. ~sigh~

My oldest boy turned 10 on November 22. He’s finally into the double-digit area. I can remember when his little hands barely wrapped around one of my fingers. Wow… time definitely flies. Now he can almost eat more than ME… and he hasn’t even gotten to 16 yet. This is scary. ~lol~

I really don’t have anymore updates, at present. You pretty well know what’s been going on since my sudden and unexplained disappearance. I’m still sitting here in this office everyday… doing what I’m asked to do and trying to stay awake until the buzzer sounds to go home. ~lol~ A desk job is rather unflattering to the waistline… but it sure beats standing out in the heat, rain or wind.

I’ll try my best to make some more entries into this thing very soon. Until then… take care. And thanks for visiting my little corner of the web.