When we were little our parents would pack us all in the back of the station wagon to head to Pennsylvania for certain occasions. Easter egg hunts and double Thanksgivings were often the gatherings. But my favorite was the mid-summer festival that was the fourth of July, We would pack up our illegal fireworks and […]
My Uncle Ed, who I had just visited a couple of weeks ago has passed away. One of the last things he said to me was “Time has finally caught up to me.”
Sue Wiley’s See’s Fudge 3 6-ounce packages semisweet chocolate pieces 2 tablespoons butter or margarin 1 7 1/2 ounce marshmallow cream 4 1/2 cups sugar 1 13-fluid-ounce can evaporated milk 2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts Generously butter a 12 3/4 9X2 inch pan. In a large bowl combine chocolate pieces butter and marshmallow cream; set aside In a
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I need to capture our last family vacation for posterity, but it occurred to me last night to go ahead and record all the college visits we have had with the wee one so far. In one years time she will have decided and be packing her bags to head off. In no particular order
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Last week we took our youngest on a whirlwind college tour, roughly 1500 miles, 70,000 steps and buckets of $$ later. I will record our travels here for posterity. ‣ Day one, drove to Pittsburgh ‣ Official tour of Carnegie Mellon ‣ First time in Pittsburgh so, of course, Primanti Bros for lunch ‣ Unofficial
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We switched over to The Night of the Living Dead version of Zombicide for a change of pace. It really is quite enjoyable and we were cruising along, sometimes playing two scenarios a night until last night when someone made a big tactical error early on in our second game and we lost. We will
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My Uncle Bill passed away. Growing up I spent many summers with my cousin in Clearfied, PA living at his house. We would often go away on vacations, the four of us, to places like Nags Head, NC; Hersey Park, PA; and Atlantic City NJ. He loved to play craps at the casino, would go
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I was doing some routine backups at home today when I came across this montage that I had seen in the past but not for a long time. It is a video collection of pictures of Christ the King Church in East Cleveland, Ohio which existed from 1928 to 2009. The most relevant years in
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My daughter got me a betta fish before she went back to school. Please meet Betta Bilbo Baggins and his supervisor Rick Sanchez, both of whom live on the shelf above my home office. Bilbo, specifically, lives in a pineapple under the sea, on the shelf, above my desk.
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Having bad luck with vehicles lately. This is as close to a classic “grandma” car as you can get, 2013 with only 63 thousand miles on it. Pretty good little car for the kids to learn to drive in. The problem is it has just a tiny little nine volt battery in it. Tonight, it
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