On May 18, 1980 three things happened. 1. Mt. St. Helens erupted. 2. Stephanie Kasper was born. 3. I turned 5. 5 years earlier I was born. A cousin of mine once gave my two sisters and I the very backhanded compliment that we turned out pretty well considering the… Read More »Mt. St. Helens Anniversary
I have been looking forward to today for quite some time. After church Lowell and I attended a Methodist Men board meeting. I learned a lot about our future activities. We are serving the food at the Mother-Daughter Banquet this coming Saturday. We are serving Fellowship in the month of… Read More »False Snake Hype
I went to the church on Wednesday to take a group photo of the stitching group that Teresa started in Olivia’s name. Here is the result. This picture is going to go in the church bulletin, so in the end it will end up looking something like this: I took… Read More »Olivia’s Stitching Time
I said that I would not post a full image of Jay until he returned to Friday Night Supper Club. Tonight he made his return. To celebrate I post this old timey picture of a much younger and carefree Jay. Jay, Jesse and I had made plans to attend Cat… Read More »Smell the Mendacity
I went to a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity at the Community Building with Teresa and Logan. It was a soup supper. The soup was served in a bowl made by a Boone County potter. You got to pick out your own bowl and you got to keep it. I… Read More »Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser
I feel like posting some pictures from Easter. Alexis Carla & Mom Watching Egg Hunt Egg Hunt Neighbor’s Dog that Doesn’t Shut Up Mom Alexis Sorting Eggs Teresa Displaying the Maturity of her Years Brandon Johnathan Jason, Carla & Brandon Elainie Logan Teresa Crocheting Vacation Pictures I also had supper… Read More »My Happy Easter
My grandma is going through the herculean task of downsizing her possessions. She recently gave a bunch of yarn to Teresa. When Teresa was going through the yarn she found our grandpa’s Iowa State football season ticket from 1979. I started attending Iowa State football games with my grandpa in… Read More »ISU Football
Masterpiece Theater is running a series of movies based on Jane Austen novels. In fact they are doing all 6 Jane Austen novels and a dramatization of her life. I’m kind of excited about this and it started tonight. The first movie they showed was Persuasion. This movie is about… Read More »Atonement & Persuasion
I hope you had a great and wonderful Christmas. My sister Teresa unloaded a new batch of beanies on me. I now have 7 new beanies. As it happens, while I was wandering around town last night, Fashion Photographer Jay Janson happened upon me several times and kept insisting on… Read More »Christmas Beanies
Yesterday I went to Central Campus to see Obama speak. I didn’t have a memory card with me, so I had to borrow a camera from a co-worker. It is a good camera, but it only has a 3X optical zoom, so a couple of these pictures are very heavily… Read More »Lunch Break
FNSC added a new auxiliary member this past Friday. Jason Baier joined us on the patio at La Carreta on a brisk summer night. His name will now go down in the annals of history with other Auxiliary Members of FNSC: Jesse Howard Teresa Kahler Dustin Jackson That Kristy girl… Read More »FNSC Auxiliary Member
I am on vacation this week. I have not taken a vacation since before Christmas last year. It has become apparent in the last couple of weeks that I was in a desperate need of a vacation. I had become burned out. I was no longer looking forward to coming… Read More »Vacation
Here are what some of my friends and a family member have been up to lately: Boone’s bands: Everything from Bach to Broadway By: MARY CATLETT, Boone News-Republican 06/14/2007 If you didn’t spend last evening in a state of grace, relaxation and live music, then you’re one of the few… Read More »Catching Up with Some Friends
For the last few years my sister Teresa has talk a lot of jibber jabber about entering the State Fair crocheting competition. In the same time frame, Monica has made a similar amount of dissonance about entering a painting into the State Fair. Last year they were together in a… Read More »Sister, The State Fair, and A Few Jokes
I haven’t had the “pleasure” of being on MySpace much lately. Which means that my “blogs” have become sporadic and if I’m not mistaken, lower in quality. I can’t say that this saddens me. There are more important things I should be doing with my time, but that doesn’t mean… Read More »Odonata
Below is a rare image of BOTH my sisters engaging in manual labor. This picture is not doctored in any way. It is 100% real. You have to believe your eyes.
Mr. Wentworth came over to Boone this weekend. So it turned out to be a pretty good weekend. I took some pictures to remember the events that Bill’s presence triggered. First of all, I have completed the next picture to be hung in Salon 908. Below is a picture of… Read More »The Past Weekend
All false male bravura aside, the ride home from work today SUCKED!!! I can’t emphasize this point nearly enough. You could underline that word about 4 more times and the point still wouldn’t quite be made. I think visibility at times was a negative number. My sister asked me how… Read More »Reflection on the Last Few Days (Part II)
I may have alluded to having a pretty great weekend in an earlier blog. Although it might have been a bit of bragging on my part, I have always been a big fan of the moral philosopher Jay Hanna Dean (AKA Jerome Herman Dean) who argued that “It ain’t bragging… Read More »Reflections on the Last Few Days (Part I)
I know that the deer story did not have the happy ending that we were hoping for, so let me throw this out there. Did I mention that there are also squirrels back there. So I have mentioned that I have this formal American Cancer Society Fundraiser/Oscar Party coming up… Read More »A Tale of Grotesque Proportions
Just thought I would jot down a few quick thoughts. First of all, I would like to share the fruits of my labors from Craft Night!! Okay . . . so one could make the case that painting a frame and matting a picture hardly constitutes a “craft”. I’m not… Read More »Spirit Pumps