Photo of the day, Wedensday

Weather was pretty good again today, so I could have rode the bike again, but I chose not to based on a faulty weather report. There was no rain today, but tomorrow, well, we'll see.

I got these from Dave. Taylor, if you get this, well, all I can say is you look so smooth. Also, Thanks to Taylor and all the young men and women that are serving with him around the world. You are all my hero's!

Have a great day!

Pat

Photo of the day, Tuesday!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope all is well with all of you and that a bit of Irish fun was in your day. We had a great time with breakfast and music and then the boss sent the troops home. Too bad I had a customer appointment.

Today we're doing a Birthday Shout Out to Terri. Dear, sweet Terri, nearing a milestone, but not yet there. Terri, can you tell by the limited shots that I need to work on getting some better ones of you.

Here's Terri at Jake's ballgame last summer

Larry and Terri were passing thru and stopped in for a minute.

Boating on Lake Oakland

With one of her favorite brother in laws

Have a great day!

Pat

Photo of the day, Monday

Today the snow birds are returning to where I work. Tomorrow is our high holiday, St. Patrick's Day and the owner throws a big breakfast with a Celtic band afterwards playing some great traditional reels and Irish folk tunes. It will be great especially since I wasn't able to be there last year due that minor knee surgery that I had.

Tonight the boys had a Court of Honor for the Boy Scouts. It was pretty good and the boys each earned a merit badge and all three of us are getting a Klondike patch for the winter scouting skill event that we attended. I took a shot of Spencer regaling the audiance with he memories of the Klondike event, but I was too far away to get a good shot. Instead, Holly took this one of the boys and I gettting our award for the Klondike Derby. In lieu of the actual patch, we were awarded Klondike Bars, the boys loved it. Actually, Holly did too since I can't eat ice cream.

Have a great day!

Pat

Photo of the day, Monday Morning

We had a pretty awesome weekend.

Holly's doing great, sang at church again and was able to walk up and stand. It was pretty awesome. After church the boys went to a friends house and we grilled and ate out back.

Yes, with the weather really nice, it's too bad the motorcycle is still pinned behind the ramp. But the ramp is leaving today. Yay!

Dave and Judy visited Saturday and we had a great visit. Too bad about the cribbage and scrabble games. We went to their hotel and the boys got a chance to swim. I haven't been to a hotel with the pool that busy. We tried to play cards while they swam, but the noise level was really crazy. For a change Spencer was cheering for me, not his uncle. Refreshing!

Dave and Spencer hamming it up. It was really cool that Spencer wanted to teach Uncle David how to play Euchre, a Boy Scout favorite card game. Hey guys, thanks a ton for visiting and hanging out, we all really enjoyed it!

Judy looking good!

Have a great day!

Pat

Photo of the day, Special Saturday Edition

I just realized that today, Saturday, March 14 is my sister-in-law's birthday. While I'm not saying she's old, below she's holding her latest grand baby. (OK, she only has the one, but still...) I guess I don't remember to get the camera out much when we visit because we're focused on having fun and catching up, so I really only found a couple to share. Happy Birthday Pam! I hope this is a great year for you!

Pam and Lexi

Matt, Pam, Unknown person, Mike

Molly and Pam, Christmas

Dave and Judy are visiting the area today and so that's going to be fun. I hope to have some luck at the cribbage board, but I'm not counting on it, he's pretty lucky, not so good, but lucky. Will try to remember to get the camera out for a shot or two of the visit.

Have a great day!

Pat

Photo of the once in awhile

Holly Update: Holly's doing great! She's doing more and more each day. Next Monday the ramp is being removed and that's going to free up my motorcycle for some spring riding. Oh, wait, this is supposed to be Holly's update. Therapy is going really well and she's really starting to enjoy driving her new car. Now we need to find the book to it so that she can figure out what all the buttons are for.

For me, well, work is totally burying me. I really like it when we are busy, but the engineering/new product projects are close to swamping us right now. I hate to complain because I know that many are not as busy. Hopefully some of these will be winners once the economy breaks.

Here's a shot of Ian's high school class ring. Seems like we used to get that between Junior and Senior year. Kids mature earlier and we buy them expensive jewelry earlier. Yes, it's Josten's.

Have a great day,

Pat

Photo of the day, Sunday

Holly Update: She's doing great! While the boys and I went up north on a boy scout weekend, she went to the home show and walked around for over an hour. She's looking good!

Speaking of up north, it was the annual cabin camp out. We stay at a the Roger Chaffee Memorial Bunkhouse. Astronaut Chaffee was one of the astronauts that died on the launch pad during the Apollo program. The link has more information. He was an Eagle Scout from Grand Rapids, and so now you know why it's named in his honor, we don't have a lot of eagle scouts that get famous.

The weekend is a kind of lazy camping trip, what with bunkhouse style cabin, stove, refrigerator, etc. But we do a bit of service with retiring flags and then the boys can play capture the flag, some minor video games, card games, movies etc. Generally a relaxing weekend. Here’s a few shots of the boys working on the flags.
Dismantling is first.

The actual retirement.


Additionally, Spencer, the troop Chaplin’s Aide, lead our Sunday service. Here he is doing a great job.

Have a great day!

Pat