Married In Ohio

By unfortunate coincidence, our pool opening was scheduled on the same day that the taxman cometh. It’s hard to look forward toward the lazy days of simmer when you are losing your shirt. As has been the case for many years we have to pay both state and federal taxes. There will be many lean [...]

It was in transit longer than expected but the new bikini that California Girl ordered from Venus finally arrived. They shipped it via UPS to our local post office then it traveled by mail the rest of the way to our house. I’m sure it’s cheaper for them; but it took a long time to [...]

January Did a lot of tinkering with the number of posts on the front page to speed up page load times. Finally I wrote a plugin that shows all posts published in the last seven days on the home page. Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year. February Got California Girl [...]

Today was probably the last day of the year with temperatures above 80°F so we got in the pool for one final time when I got home from work. We had assumed that the Saturday of Labor Day weekend was our final swim of the year; so I was surprised and please when California Girl [...]

Days like today don’t come around too often. The days are long. The kids are out of school. The weather is warm hot and sunny. And we have nothing to do in the evening except get in the pool and enjoy the burning sun. The only thing better would be if we were on vacation. [...]

With the hot weather we have been having recently, California Girl and I have been getting in the swimming pool every day. By the time I get home from work the temperature has been near 90°F. So, we put on our swimsuits and hang out in the pool until the sun gets low in the [...]

Today was the hottest day of the year. The temperature got above 90°F for the first time. Too hot to do much of anything outside unless you have a swimming pool in which case the weather is almost perfect. Nothing is better than getting in the pool on a Friday afternoon after a long week. [...]

California Girl was looking rather fine in her summer attire when I got home from work on Tuesday. That’s one of the things that I love about summer. Unfortunately, shortly after I got home I received a telephone call from a coworker about a problem at work and I had to return to the office. [...]

California Girl usually orders a new swimsuit from Venus in late January or early February. We know that we can’t get into the pool for until May; but watching her model her new swimwear helps get us through the gloom of winter. She didn’t see anything she really liked this year so she decided to [...]

January The Girl got her learner’s permit and The Boy earned a scholarship to college. It really started to sink in how different things are going to be in a few years months. February Celebrated the three year anniversary of Married In Ohio. The Boy wrestled in his final wrestling meet and perhaps the last [...]