Our updates for all of you

So, I'll start with the pain as in a pain in both of our backs! My pain started with me doing something around October 12th or 13th, and I don't know what it was so I can try to make sure I won't do it again! But the afternoon of the 13th I was having pain on my left hip and by the next day the pain was down the front of my left thigh too and was extremely painful just lifting my left leg. Just standing hurt and trying to lift my leg to get into a vehicle was almost tears to my eyes painful on my left thigh. You know how something like this happens and you might start to think of a "worst case scenario", kinda like in July 2013 when out of blue I had my BPPV vertigo event happen and was thinking "is this my new normal?" by week 2. Then this also seemingly 'out of the blue' since I had no strain or injury to cause this pain I could recall, I started thinking I was suddenly one of those guys to deal with lower back and leg 'sciatica' pa...

On our Dinosaur Trail Adventure of 2016.  Getting all this information, photos, videos, audio, together has taken waaaaaaaay longer than I thought it should! In an effort to get this posted I'm breaking the story into smaller chunks and getting them posted as soon as I can now! After all, it was 3 months ago now! Overall, and I think I can safely say this trip was, for all of us involved with this trip, .................., a blast!! And Sandy even said she felt it was "the best trip ever"! Yes, taking a trip mid tourista season (July in the USA) has many drawbacks due to those crowds, made much worse in 2016 by (relatively) "cheap" gas and the 100th anniversary year of the US parks service. Then throw in this year's record heat too, but when we weren't at those big ticket crowded places and farther North, like Northern Montana, it was a great time. Almost 3,000 miles in a little over 2 weeks. The day we left had started off very unsure. Frida...

What a nice weekend! Summer had abruptly ended in our part of the northwest with fall like weather and temperatures and even some very much needed rain. Such a relief from a long pretty hot summer. Luckily no fires like last year.  So yes, yesterday was my birthday. Those numbers are the days I've been around since I was born, plus the one since I didn't get to this post yesterday.  Way back when, I was born on a Wednesday, this year a Sunday and when on Mondays, I remember those most from over the years.  As a kid my birthday always meant one thing and one thing only, school was just about to start. With the cooler weather and the three days off, Stacy and I got a jump on some fallen trees on our property for our wood stock pile for this year. We spent much of Saturday on this job with other jobs getting done too.  The rain made it possible for us to use our chainsaws which we wouldn't have been super safe to use with the really dry last couple of months. In this ar...

OK, so this is now a part 1 since I never posted it in July. I guess I got busy and forgot? Yes it was another busy summer month and we did go on our vacation, but that will be part 2 with photos in a few days. Since this post is here I'll go ahead and post it because it does have some information in it. The Ooma experience update So, it's been several months now and I still feel the Ooma idea was a good one. The monthly bill is still the $4.24 a month for the state and local fees. My number one favorite thing is still the ability to monitor calls from my cell phone or computer and I can still continue to add phone numbers to the reject list which is number 2 favorite thing. With the old house phone number, really no one calls that number except for a very few people and places and we know them all. Stacy's father will not answer the phone so that makes it easier yet. With our newer Ooma house number, yes you can have two numbers to a plan at no extra cost, I pret...

Yes! The second photo shoot has been totally completed, all photos and videos, edited, corrected, and in the photo book and the video on DVDs and delivered to the families just last Monday (06/27/16). Finally - DONE! "Where History Is Made Everyday!" The above, and I'm pretty sure I have it correct anyway, used to be the "slogan?" of the satellite and cable "History Channel" years before it, like so many other channels, became 'reality TV central'. The only reason I'm bring this up is because we are all living during a period of incredible "history making" events that will be discussed for years afterwards. I was among the "scoffers" last year when "The Donald" went from TV personality to the out of the blue run for the White house. I do recall a skit I'd heard on a "Prairie Home Companion" show that said Trump's running was as a million dollar bet Trump had made against Bill Clinton, a...

You can never have a second first impression! I'm thinking about those people that think it's a good idea to wear their best pajama bottoms and slippers when they come for their first check in with me or our office.  Nope, they'll never climb out of that deep hole in my view!  Just a hop and skip above a moron going into town looking like that. A lot of high school kids seem to think that is "a look" and I've seen many kids at school looking like they just get up and go to the school without getting dressed. No, don't see any future CEO material looking like that. I bought a new (to me) refurbished smartwatch I've had my Pebble Steel smartwatch since Stacy got it for me, brand new, for Christmas 2015. I really like it, with its always on and easy to see screen and its black and white E-Ink display, and the number one thing, a battery that lasts 6 or 7 days! It used to be a solid 7 days all the time and often still is, but depending how m...

Busy has been the word. Locally early Spring, at times summer like weather, second photo job worked and finally done, and with the above weather back to weekend yard work means so much to do and not always enough time. May 14th, we drive to Spokane to see a show. A 'bucket list' thing one could say for me was my hope to at some point to attend and see a live performance of "A Prairie Home Companion" with the host Garrison Keillor. Then last October on our local PBS radio station it was announced that the current season of the show was going to be Keillor's last, he is in his 70s after all, and has been running the show since the 1970s. And to top that news off there would be one last live performance with him as the host in Spokane, Washington, only 2 hours away. I have listened to his Saturday evening show off and on since first discovering the show in the early 1990s while going through the dial on my motorcycle's AM / FM radio while on a trip, and had o...