Happy 4th of July everybody! This holiday celebratory picture is a bit different. This historical marker commemorates the crew of a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Bomber that were killed when their plane crashed in Boone County during a training flight during WWII. +++++++ The pictures in the folders 2010-01-19… Read More »2010-01-19 & 2010-01-25
Need to start by wishing Jen a very happy birthday. Happy birthday Jen! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be. Sorry about the lack of iris pictures. +++++++ Time for another and I believe the last collection of tulip pictures for this year. All… Read More »Still Laughing – 2020, Too
I need to start the day by wishing a very happy birthday to Bethany. So… happy birthday Bethany!!! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ I thought this would be the last collection of pictures from the Boone Black Lives Matter event, but… Read More »Black Lives Matter – Boone – Three
I need to start with wishing a big happy birthday to Shannon! She has been a big part of this here online journal over the years. It is for that reason it was actually hard to pick just 5 pictures to celebrate her birth with, but I did it. Happy… Read More »2009-12-05
Today is Jorge’s birthday! Happy birthday Jorge! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you hoped it would be! +++++++ Here is a quick update on Naima. Her surgery went well. The mass they removed from under her shoulder was even bigger than expected, but Dr. Stephanie said that… Read More »Before the Swallow Dares – 2020
I need to start this post by wishing the happiest of birthdays to my bro Nate. Happy birthday Nate! Truth is, I just hope Nate gets a good nap on his birthday! +++++++ The pictures in the folder 2009-11-23 are from a trip I made with the family to Kansas… Read More »2009-11-23
I need to start by wishing my mother-in-law Colleen a happy birthday. Happy birthday Colleen! I hope your birthday was amazing! All the best people were born in May! Can you imagine being born in a different month? +++++++ This is the final collection of images that were triggered by… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 10
I need to start out by wishing my brother-in-law the happiest of birthdays! Happy birthday Jason! I almost starting to think that these birthday tributes need to be more than 5 pictures! I hope it was the happiest of birthday Jason! +++++++ It is time to unveil the second collection… Read More »The Baugher Wedding – Two
I should start by saying Happy birthday to Kalista. So, happy birthday Kalista! I hope it is a very happy birthday indeed! +++++++ It is time for the 9th and nearly last installment of pictures that were triggered by Elainie’s homecoming! I do believe that when you are from Iowa… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 9
I need to start by wishing everybody a happy Memorial Day! Today is a unique Memorial Day, as we honor both our military personnel that have died in military service and the over 100,000 Americans that have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, we will be in a better place… Read More »WPC – WEEK 245 – SELF-PORTRAIT
I need to start this post by pointing out that today is a very important day. Today is Stephanie’s birthday! Happy birthday Stephanie! I hope your birthday is safe and amazing! +++++++ I’m going to be away from computers for much of today, so I won’t be able to reveal… Read More »WEEK 245 THEME REVEAL
I need to start this post buy wishing all mothers out there a very happy Mother’s Day. Take this picture of a Mother’s Day Peony as my way of saying thanks for all that you mothers do! My Mom’s Mother Day wasn’t typical. Teresa bought some Pizza Ranch chicken and… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 4
I need to start this post by announcing that the Sharp family is making laundry detergent like crazy and donating it to area food banks like IMPACT and the Toreador Pantry. However, they need more laundry detergent jugs, so they have set up a garbage can at the end of… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 2
You want even more pictures of the triplets first birthday party? Guess what. You came to the right location! The one thing about having triplets is that there is almost enough babies to go around to all the grandparents and aunts and uncles. Almost. One more collection of Baby Triforce… Read More »Baby Triforce 1st Birthday Party – Beta
Back in October I went down to Nate and Laura’s in Manhattan to celebrate the triplets birthday party. Did I take pictures? Boy did I! Many more pictures from the party still to come!!
There is a diverse collection of images in the folder 2009-10-31. Some of the pictures are from when I went tenderloining with the Defeneffes to Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe in Prairie City. Some are from when I used to have people I actually know trick-or-treat at my house. The rest… Read More »2009-10-31
I need to start today by wishing the happiest of birthdays to Faust! It has been a couple of years since I saw Faust in person. When this virus passes, he will be on the shortlist of people I need to go visit. And not just because he lives in… Read More »WPC – WEEK 239 – ART
I should start with wishing everybody a Happy Easter! Happy Easter! It is definitely one of the weirdest Easters that most of us have ever experienced. I didn’t go to church on Easter Sunday since I don’t know when. Instead, I drove around and took a few pictures of church… Read More »Senior Sunday – Taylan – Volume 2
Happy Maundy Thursday! Traditionally I would have been a the Computer Mine for a full hour by the time this was publishing. However, my mind would be thinking about tonight’s worship service at the Boone First United Methodist Church. Maundy Thursday is traditionally one of my favorite worship services of… Read More »Mish Mash
I took Thursday and Friday off this week to watch basketball. Obviously there is no basketball right now. There is no basketball for at least a month and there is no NCAA Tournament this year at all. I wasn’t sure if I was going to still take these two days… Read More »I Don’t Know Why You’re Mean to Me
I should start today by wising my Aunt Linda a happy birthday! Recently I shared a collection of pictures I took of the old Boone Dump sliding into McHose Park. Aunt Linda sent me a story that I thought I would share, so you would know what kind of people… Read More »Fly Iowa: A New Beginning