I’m putting the number with the title to correlate them to Wife of a Sailor’s original questionnaires. Here are this week’s questions and my answers (and I’m finally starting to get the hang of the formatting with these):1. What are some of your ideas for staying connected with family…you know, those people we moved thousands of … Read more
*I meant to post this earlier in the day, but some online training took up my evening, so I realize it’s no longer Pi Day on the east coast now…sorry! Happy Pi Day everyone! Dave let me take this great pic of him over the weekend, sporting his favorite t-shirt! A closeup shows the digits. … Read more
…How does your garden grow? In this location, with lots of containers! The wooden frame around the small containers was left here by the homeowner. He had made a sandbox, but never used it. He said we could use it as a sandbox…um…that’s okay. It’ll be more of a bench for our container garden. Definitely … Read more
These are kinda fun! Here are this week’s questions and my answers (pardon all the questions being numbered “1”, I’m in a hurry and I’m having formatting issues): During military separations (whether short or long) how do you keep yourself positive and motivated? submitted by Married/Single Parent I stay busy. REALLY busy! I did this when deployed myself, and … Read more
Part II = The fauna! Springtime in Florida also means the bugs and animals are all coming out of the woods, the ponds, the ground, etc. I’ve already seen more than my share of millipedes in the yard and on my porch, plenty of mosquito hawks, and of course the birds are all coming back. … Read more
I know, it’s only March 10th, and many of my readers (I get 50 new visitors per day now, by the way!) are still sitting underneath snowpacks. But here on the Florida Panhandle, the brief winter* we had has definitely given way to spring: complete with thunderstorms, tornadoes, allergies and weeds! Things were brown when … Read more
A story published in the London Telegraph online brought me a smile this morning. The co-producer of this year’s Best Picture, The King’s Speech, Simon Egan, was celebrating the movie’s Academy Awards success at a Hollywood party with his 15-month-old daughter Lara in attendance. Another party guest let Lara hold the Oscar so folks could … Read more
*Wait a second, wasn’t that a major fast-food corporation jingle? While I was in Nebraska, I did make some time to visit with my Pokeno girlfriends, have a nice dinner out with Shannon (who took me in at her house when the Offutt Inn was booked for the week), and enjoy a trip to Trader … Read more
….doesn’t mean I never have to see snow again, right? Or drive in the snow again? (As promised in my previous post, here’s the story of why I’ll never buy a Ford Mustang north of the Mason/Dixon line!) On last weekend’s trip to Omaha, I was fortunate to travel in between major winter weather systems. … Read more
I might have mentioned it, I might not have, but I kept my Reserve position at Offutt AFB, Nebraska even though I now live in Florida. I’ve received dozens (yes, dozens) of inquiries about why I would want to do that. Three reasons why I kept this position: 1.) There’s very little else for me … Read more