After some 3 years of trying, Jacob finally got the hang of riding his bike! He said that the hills in Nebraska made it really hard, and to be honest, he simply wasn’t as interested. But with only about 2 minutes of holding on, he took off with ease this morning! We are SO PROUD … Read more
**Yes, I know this is in Iowa, but it’s easily something that someone in Nebraska could do. Today the family took a day trip to Mount Crescent Ski Area in Crescent, Iowa. Dave and I can now proudly add this small mountain to our “I didn’t realize there was skiing there!” locations that includes Mad … Read more
I’m just wrapping up a pretty nasty cold, upper respiratory infection, whatever you call it. Whatever it’s called, it sucks. I don’t get sick often. I last got quite sick the last week of February 2008. Yes, you read right: 2008. It was a horrible case of the flu, actually. Once I came home from … Read more
First, thanks for answering the poll — I guess changing/washing linens once-per-week is the standard and I need to be better at it 🙂 Now back to our regularly scheduled blogging. I’m at it again. Now that the school year and academic year is in full swing, it’s time to get involved in stuff again. … Read more
I got a “new” pair of shorts from the laundry folks, since they lost a pair of mine. I’m putting the word “new” in quotes because I can’t say for certain whether they’re new or not. For all I know they were misplaced from someone else’s batch of laundry. They look fine, they’re clean, they’re … Read more
I can’t believe it, we’re getting Penn State Football here in Big Red Country! On ESPN2 this afternoon! If we were still in North Carolina, we would have been subject to the Wake Forest game. I’m sure it’s because PSU’s playing Oregon State, so you’d get the most viewers around here rooting for one team … Read more
Hi! We are well here – Dave is MUCH improved from his surgery, although yesterday morning we paid a visit to the ER once again for a migrane that crept up on him. We wanted to rule out that it wasn’t related to anything from the surgery. Now he seems much better. He’s definitely ready … Read more
I got some good news today. “FINALLY! You’re going to tell us something good that happened to the Vollmer Family in Nebraska?” Now wait a second — I posted this a couple weekends ago. “Yeah, but then you were hit with that flat tire on the bike ride over to watch the airshow itself.” I … Read more
We didn’t want to fight the crowds, so we watched the show from the levee of Papio Creek on the bike trail near our house. We had a great view of the Thunderbirds show, Dave and I have seen it enough times that we didn’t need the narration anymore 🙂
Would you do this? This is a Nebraska Furniture Mart promotion between now and the end of the month. Fortunately we aren’t in the market for a new TV. Our existing one, circa 2004, came through just fine.