Locking Doors

Locking Doors

This is what I wrote to Amanda this morning: Our daughter was in the guest room laughing at Cobb, who was on the bed.  I went to check on her and she told me to turn off the light and shut the door as I was leaving.  Of course.  So a few minutes later I […]

Carcassonne Revenge

Carcassonne Revenge

Amanda got her revenge for moderately beating her at Carcassonne a few days ago by moderately beating me tonight.  I say moderate when both games were won by 20 (in this case) or more (in the last game’s case), but given how high scoring they were, 20 points isn’t really all that much.  Of note […]

Fine Dining Restaurant-Quality Dinner

Fine Dining Restaurant-Quality Dinner

Our small group was treated to a fine dining restaurant-quality dinner by the Ayars tonight.  No joke.  I mean their place smelled like a restaurant. The first course was what Paul described as sort of a fisherman’s soup.  Honestly, I didn’t like a lot of the stuff in it, but I did give it a […]

Burning Trees

Burning Trees

I spent a few hours today burning limbs and clippings from what Phil and I cut yesterday.  As you can see from the picture, I had several tree’s worth of debris.  In case you’re wondering, the fire was behind that pile, in the burn pit.  I wasn’t burning that massive pile in the middle of […]

Nick’s Birthday at Outback

Nick’s Birthday at Outback

My good friend Nick Warkentien celebrated his 30th birthday (which was yesterday) today with a bunch of friends at Outback Steakhouse.  Nick said he had maybe been to an Outback once or twice before and had initially planned on going out to Texas Roadhouse, but when Amy called to make reservations they were told they […]