The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio.
As you know, today is the last day for Half Nekkid Thursday. Today is our 330th and final post. California Girl and I have thoroughly enjoyed participating as posters and as followers. We want to give our heartfelt thanks to Osbasso for organizing and running it for almost seven years. That is a monumental achievement. [...]
We went and watched The Girl play soccer this past weekend. She is playing really well. All of the hard work that she put in this summer really showed. She still has room for improvement, as with any athlete; but, she’s a better player at the start of her sophomore year than she was at [...]
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 [...]
That’s what I weighed when I visited the doctor today for my semi-annual checkup. I don’t obsess about my weight; but I do take note of it whenever I weigh myself on a balance scale. We’ve got an electronic scale that we use; however, the readings fluctuate depending upon the temperature so it’s not useful [...]
Like many high school girls in Ohio, The Girl was playing soccer this past weekend. (There is a HUGE preseason scrimmage that draws hundreds of teams from around the state/region. They don’t keep score but we (the parents) do and The Girl’s team was undefeated. Plus The Girl played very well. Perhaps as well as [...]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had lost 14 pounds since I started my diet in the middle of April. Progress over the past few weeks has been slow; but, I have finally achieved my goal of losing 18 pounds. Since I’ve been doing so well resisting snacks, I changed my goal [...]
Grades are posted and The Boy did very well in his first semester of college. We were a little bit worried because the first one that was available was his lowest mark; but he got “A”s in all of his other courses including his honors classes. He was a good student in high school but [...]
The temperatures hovered right around freezing with a wind chill of 23°F. Not the best weather for The Girl’s first soccer game of the “spring” season. The field had patches of partially frozen mud between tufts of still dormant grass. But it was still outdoor soccer. So, she and her teammates put in their Under [...]
We went to a very nice restaurant on Saturday night to celebrate The Boy’s college plans. It was fabulous. We all dressed in evening attire and spent almost 2 hours being pampered. We can’t afford to do things like that very often; but California Girl and I thought that it would be a nice way [...]
That’s how far away The Boy will be when he goes off to college. Everything came together last week and his college plans are finalized. I’m happy that goes going to the college of his choice; but sad to see him making plans leave home. That’s about a 4 hour drive for me if I [...]
