Yearly Archives: 2008

The company where I work sent out their holiday schedule for the coming year. I still have not figured out whether I am going to get any time off for this year’s holiday season and will probably not find out … Continue reading →

Meet Mr. Bun, Mr. Bean, and Sweetiepie Lambiekins.  They are somewhat sloppy as I hand stitched them and they were my first attempt at making stuffed animals, but I love them anyway. I made them last weekend after some surfing … Continue reading →

Bryan sent us this great picture of his Dad and Mom, Walter and Arlis Joyce. He took the picture when Walter, who served in Korea, put on his uniform for Veterans Day. We have very fond memories of past Veterans … Continue reading →

I went to a meeting with the North Carolina Department of Non-Public Education (DPNE) yesterday. The meeting was in a small, kind of shabby conference room on the floor right above the North Carolina Governor’s offices. There was a very … Continue reading →

Christian, Kelly, and I went to the Borders bookstore on Saturday morning while Lorena, shopped at CostCo. My plan was to find an introductory trigonometry book and a book on the writing part of the ACT test. I did pretty … Continue reading →

I like to plan things.  I may never execute my plan, I may never hope to see it as a reality, but I still enjoy planning things. I love to share my plans with people, even though they don’t always … Continue reading →

We ran like crazy for the last month. The trip to Mexico, Cousin Julia’s visit, and the excitement of the election are now over. Tonight and this whole weekend, we plan to do nothing more than hang out together as … Continue reading →

I loved Kelly’s post from yesterday and the wonderful comments Eric wrote below it. I think he expressed the feelings of a lot of right thinking people in those comments. His links to web pages here and here about Solomon … Continue reading →

I wore my special patriotic stars and stripes T-shirt, I updated my status on Facebook with McCain/Palin cheers, I even baked chocolate chip cookies!!!  And all for naught I suppose. But do you know what? It’s OK.  It’s OK to … Continue reading →

We did not stay up last night to listen to the election returns. It did not go so well for our side. Notice from the 2004 posts below that life was a lot better four years ago. Still, the sun … Continue reading →

I did not post on the weight loss death match for a couple of days, so when I checked this morning I saw that Brad (Bradley Lemond) Joyce had joined the chart. WELCOME Brad! Lyle is going strong, too. Now … Continue reading →

John J. Miller of National Review‘s phi beta cons blog linked to a very interesting article at the Inside Higher Ed website about a tenured college professor at a liberal arts college who has given up on the system. He … Continue reading →

My niece, Julia, recently graduated from Dartmouth and now working as a tutor for the children of rich, famous people, is flying down here for the weekend. She speaks Spanish (having lived in Spain, she does not speak the pure … Continue reading →

Tomorrow my cousin Julia is coming to visit!!! Cousin Julia is amazing. She’s funner than Jiffy Pop (As fun to make as it is to eat!) or Silly String or knitting or all of that stuff combined!  When I turned … Continue reading →

Some of you might have noticed that Christian has started drawing some of the Betty Blonde comics. He is equal in responsibility with Kelly for the invention of the characters and for many of the ideas for individual strips that … Continue reading →

After the chaos of our recent trip to Mexico, we are just now starting to get back into the groove. In the evenings, I usually read aloud to the kids while they work on their art (Betty Blonde) and Lorena … Continue reading →

Most of you know that Grandpa Milo, our friend Ron, and I own a small business in Idaho named Quality Corners. We make moulding accessories which we sell through distribution to big box stores like Lowes and Home Depot. When … Continue reading →

As Dad mentioned, I was feeling especially crafty this weekend.  I have rather strange weekends.  They all have a feeling. I have lazy weekends, baking cookies weekends, organizing weekends, e-mail weekends, crabby weekends, reading weekends, swimming weekends… the list goes … Continue reading →

As part of our recovery from vacation plan, we did nothing too strenuous this past weekend. We went to the bookstore on Saturday morning and to meeting on Sunday morning. After meeting we went to a Southwest cuisine place called … Continue reading →

This morning I got on the scale and saw that I am now down over 40 lbs. from when Bryan and I first started the weight loss death match. I see that Lyle is posting regularly again now and he … Continue reading →