What lies below are a few pictures my sister Teresa took of the painting. Yep. That is Jesse trying to break my front window. More Jesse trying to break my window. Another angle of Jesse trying to break my window. There may be more action packed painting pictures coming your… Read More »Painting Vol. II
The great national nightmare, or maybe it was just my nightmare, is finally, virtually over. The 2 day house painting party this weekend is over and my house is painted! Just a couple splashes of paint here and there, and hanging a few things up and it is over. So… Read More »Painting!
Apparently signs didn’t trip the trigger of many people. Hopefully this week’s category prompts more participation. This week’s submissions: Angie DeWaard Becky Perkovich Becky Perkovich Christopher D. Bennett Time to reveal next week’s exciting new theme! Camera Camera… hmmm…. interesting. CAMERA – noun – a device for recording visual images… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge Week 2 – SIGNS
Looks like the new kid on the block Faust dominated the action this week. This week’s standings: 1. CAF: 23-6 2. CDB: 20-9 3. JLB: 19-10 4. RMK: 16-13 5. DRE: 15-14 OVERALL STANDINGS 1. CAF (1) 1. JLB (1) 1. RMK (1) 4. CDB (0) 4. DRE (0) THURSDAY… Read More »The Experts – Week 4 Results
Sunday was my church’s annual block party to kickoff Sunday School. Once again, I manned the PET Obstacle course. Only this year it was more like a PET Area, with a couple of chairs thrown out there. There were way more people there this year, so it was more than… Read More »PET
This was an awesome week of participation! Hopefully this continues. A quick note because I forgot to mention this last week. The photo needs to be taken the week of the challenge. This isn’t a I have this photo I took 3 years ago that fits the category challenge. This… Read More »Weekly Photo Challenge – Week 1: Night
Feel like revisiting my Instagram account. It has been a long, long, time. Obviously, if you follow me on Instagram, like a boss, you’ve already experienced these. A few of my favorites: That was fun! We’ll have to do that again sometime!
Once again, don’t read if you don’t want to know what will happen in the most important football games this weekend. TIE-BREAKER IOWA STATE AT TOLEDO – SATURDAY 7 PM (ESPNNEWS) CDB: IOWA STATE 13 TOLEDO 10 (The most important thing for this game is that Tucker will be back.… Read More »The Experts Week 3 – The Picks
I have to take my hat off (doing lots of stuff with hats lately) to JLB this week. He had a monster week. The kind of week that create legends. I don’t expect him to duplicate this feat. Remember, if you want to compete, get your picks for this week… Read More »The Experts – Week 2 Results
For the third time in as many years I was an auxiliary member of the award winning competitive barbecue team Baby Got Rack at the Pufferbilly Days Barbecue Contest. In many ways the Pufferbilly Days Barbecue Contest was a much bigger success than in previous years. There were 15 teams… Read More »Baby Got Awards
I warn you once again, if you do not want to know what will happen in the football world, turn back now! TIE-BREAKER IOWA AT IOWA STATE – SATURDAY – 3:45 PM (FOX) CDB: IOWA STATE 27 IOWA 6 (Did you watch Iowa State’s defensive line on Saturday? Crazy! That… Read More »The Experts – Week 2 Prognostication
The first week of THE EXPERTS was a barn burner*! RMK edged DRE by 3 points in the tie-breaker to take home the Week 1 title. I did not award him a weekly prize though because he celebrated by saying something ridiculous about Kobe Bryant. Here are the results, for… Read More »THE EXPERTS – WEEK 1 RESULTS
Don’t forget that today is Election Day! If you live in Boone, you need to get yourself to your polling place and vote for the guy below: I would get into the details of his agenda, but my personal endorsement should really be enough for you. PARTICULARS CAMERA: Samsung SM-G900V… Read More »Vote Scottie D.!
A couple months back I went to Minnesota to visit Bethany, Becca, and Dae Hee. We spent one muggy afternoon visiting Minnehaha Falls. I do plan on revisiting these falls in the winter this year. Hopefully. Better prepared. Hopefully. PARTICULARS FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm (35mm equivalency – 27mm) ISO: 100 APERTURE:… Read More »Gravity
For the last couple of years I have selected a collection of games and asked some of my sporting expert friends to give me predictions on the winners. Last year JLB ended up being the wisest of my experts. I thought I would open the game up and see if… Read More »The Experts: Week 1
My friend Anders recently did a project where he wrote one short story a week. The point isn’t that you will write 52 great short stories, but it is really hard to write 52 bad short stories. Any way, I should I would try the project myself. Hopefully I’m not… Read More »Surprise Ahead! Reboot
Tuesday night was the annual night where they let people take their dogs to the pool in Boone. This is the 3rd straight year I’ve taken Naima. For the 3rd straight year, she loved being in the wading pool and any place where her paws could touch the bottom. However,… Read More »Wet Pooch
I know quite a few people that would dislike this picture because one of the subjects isn’t giving a nice smile right at the camera. That is the exact reason why I love this picture. This picture was taken at my Grandma’s 90th Birthday Party. These are her children. A… Read More »Ohhh… Uncle Gary
I keep saying I’m going to get back to bloggin’, but it never seems to happen. Well I think if I get a lot less ambitious, things might work out. So I’m just going to try to throw up something daily-ish. I didn’t want to get back on the horse… Read More »Night Driving
Probably past time I posted some pictures from the mission trip to South Dakota. In reality I could tell a thousand stories about this trip and write a page about each picture, but I’ll hold back and be satisfied with a brief description of each picture. If you want to… Read More »South Dakota
The other day I had to mow my Mom’s lawn. Thought I might as well take a few pictures of her flowers. One of the few times that mowing was a joy.