It was a big family weekend in these parts.  It started a week ago Sunday, when my mom’s sister Nancy showed up at Mom & Dad’s place.  Dad and I were playing Cribbage after church, and Nancy stopped by to offer us tickets to the Dayton Dragons’ game last...

They were here ... now they're gone ... and some of you will be happy. A shipment of 60 Envelope Punch Boards arrived yesterday afternoon, and Debbie had them ready to ship in a little over two hours. The shipping queue has now reached February 9, so online orders...

It was nice to have a "buddy" with me at church yesterday. Mom always went with me when she and Dad were in town, but was reluctant to be in a crowd of people (and germs) during and after the cancer fight. But they got home from Arizona for the summer on...

I have been off the blogging grid for nearly a month.  It has been a busy month – and I have collected bits and pieces along the way that I wanted to share.  So here they are in one sitting, in no particular order . . . Tuesday, I learned that our friend...

I have been sitting on this for a couple of weeks (not literally, but you get the idea) – there were a lot of requests for instructions for the Paper Bag Album that was the Marco’s Book Club project for March.  And thanks to Chris Mach, here they are – complete...

Here’s a little something to warm your heart.  Dave Nelson, my college roommate, posted the following on his Facebook page this morning . . . “I just completed a book entitiled "When I was a boy!"  It started out as a children's book, end ended up...

When we were walking up the Sabino Canyon tramway 3½ weeks ago, Dad mentioned that he and Mom used to take that walk often, but since her chemo she was reluctant to venture outside their complex.  He was convinced that she would benefit from knowing she could do...

This is how I tried to title this post -- Escape from Ohio to the Arizona Sunshine Chill (Part Two) . . .  But the blogwriter wouldn’t let me use a typeface with a line through it in the title line.  But it would have been fitting – because it got cold in...

Three weeks ago today, my brother and I got home from visiting our parents in Arizona.  I didn’t get through all of the pictures until yesterday – most of that time has been spent shipping Winter CHA items that have been arriving almost daily.  And honestly,...

As promised, I made the trek to the store on Thursday to see what Barry’s newest costume looked like.  He never disappoints . . . If you look very closely, you’ll notice writing on one of the eggs in Barry’s basket.  Karen wanted to know why she didn’t get...