First grocery shopping after moving into the new house. Hard to keep it to one cart. One of the symptoms of moving, is giving up a lot of the long-term items. In my case, things like ketchup, salad dressings, peanut butter and jelly and my stores of frozen foods. So today I replenished the stocks. … Read more
Whether you knew of it as the APRS station DW3809 or as Wunderground Station KNEBELLE12, this afternoon we disassembled the weather station and will set it up in a couple weeks in Navarre, FL. I’m in the process of deleting our Wunderground tags from this blog and our Vollmer Family homepage. I hope you enjoyed … Read more
I actually blogged about this a little back in 2008. Moving preparations continue. We are at T-3 days until the packers come. T-9 days until we leave the area. We are starting to gather the items we don’t want the movers to pack. Some of the items are for our personal use for the week … Read more
T-10 Days and counting…. I was thinking about new things to blog about regarding this particular move and it was a friend from North Carolina (Hi Faith T.!) who inspired me about my next post: The Vollmer PCS Binder (TM). So, I’m sure you’re wondering, “Major Mom, what, pray tell, IS The Vollmer PCS Binder … Read more
Okay, let’s all sing along (to the tune of Gene Autry’s “Back in the Saddle Again”): I’m back in the O.R. again Out under anesthesia, which I dread…. Where doctors take their knives On what remains of my G.I. Back in the O.R. again I’m writing this corny little song from the surgery waiting room … Read more
*Glossary: PCS: Permanant Change of Station Don’t fret, we still have a few weeks. Eight, to be exact. Almost exact: 8 weeks from Tuesday the 28th. Yep. My brain has officially shifted into “Prepare to Move” mode. This is becoming old hat for me. Let me set the stage here. I grew up a military … Read more
Picture by MAYNARD PAUL Lovely picture, isn’t it? Where could that be? It’s so pretty there…boy…I wish I could live there…. So…those who follow me on Facebook or Twitter already know this, and if you aren’t on either of those websites, you could probably just glance to the right on this blog and see the … Read more
From 2009 12 19 WDW Vacation Day 2 I didn’t make a big deal out of this beforehand, but for Christmas the Vollmers took a vacation to Walt Disney World! We were there from December 18-23rd and the flight home on the 24th was pretty scary. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport cancelled the next flights to Omaha … Read more
As most of my loyal readers know, the Vollmer family has a move coming up. Dave has orders to Offutt AFB, Nebraska, and this week he got the first batch of paperwork verifying things. He had to select what date we want to leave North Carolina…and that resulted in a lot of discussion. It turns … Read more