The Pinewood Derby for Jake’s cub scout pack was today. He fared pretty well this year–1st place in his den, which got him into the finals. Unfortunately, competition was stiff and he did not advance to the next Pinewood Derby race. Even so, I think he was happy to have …
We watched this for our monthly family movie night last night. Apparently I was the only person in the house to have seen the movie before. While not a masterpiece of cinema, it was better than I remembered. Everyone enjoyed the film, so we’ll be putting the sequel on our …
Work’s been kind of slow lately. Add to that a 68 degree day in March and that equals one afternoon off. I decided to take today off in order to work outside on the pond. The long range forecast isn’t showing a better day than this in the near term …
Since it was such an unseasonably beautiful day out there, I took this afternoon off in order to do some work on the pond. A couple of days ago I decided to redo the front portion of the pond. I ran out of rocks last year and had to compromise …
I guess as far as I’m concerned spring is finally here. This afternoon, Brian and I got the pump running in the pond. Jake helped a little too. We had to clear out the leaves from in and around the pond before doing so. And, I checked my planting schedule …