Happy Father's Day
Just wanted to say that I am privileged to have a good father and mother who instilled in me the values needed to make it through life. For that I am very grateful. Were they perfect? Of course not. Parenting doesn't come with any instruction book. I …
My wife has been on a quest for her perfect salsa. This one comes pretty close the the Mexican restaurant style we like.
This is one of our go to recipes for an easy meal. One nice thing is that you can be creative with the vegetables.
One of the things we miss since leaving Texas is the great Tex-Mex food. So, we have been trying to learn to make some of the dishes that we love. We tried out this recipe from the Villa Cocina channel on YouTube and it was very good. It turned out …
Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama on September 16, 2020 as a category 2 storm with 105 mile per hour winds. As the storm moved inland, it passed over our travel trailer on its trek northeast. We went to my in-laws to have a more secure location to …
It is now four weeks (July 11) since I came down with COVID-19 and it is nine days after getting home (July 31) from my three-day stint in the wonderful Memorial Hermann Sugar Land hospital.
Here are some random thoughts.
The 16 days that I was ill before I got …
Spoiler Alert - I will tell you the answer upfront. I wear a mask for you, my fellow sojourners through a strange new world. By wearing the mask, there is a slim possibility that I may protect someone from contracting this heinous virus.
The mask makes me look stupid. The mask …
Driving over the Thanksgiving holidays reminded me once again of a problem on our highways.
It is the lack of drivers using their turn signals. So, with so many examples
of poor driving in mind, I resolve to make this one small contribution. I will use
my turn signals to …
We have sold our home! We are going to live without a mortgage for a while as part of our plan to save money.
When I returned to work the next day, my co-workers had made a special sign for me.
I owe a huge thanks to Jonathan …
There was a time in America when smoking was much more prevalent than it is today. Yes, people complained about second-hand smoke and how literally breathe-taking it was to walk past a group of smokers.
I remember a little thing. It was the butts. They were everywhere. In parking lots …