Category Homestead Happenings

OK, my wife is mad at me. Well, kind of. It wasn’t enough that Sam and I are addicted to Madden and Star Wars games on the Xbox. Now that Sam got me Star Wars: Battlefront II for my birthday,…

Since buying my first iPod back in October or so, I’ve gone overboard. Now I’m buying and selling used iPods! Right now, I have a few silver iPod mini’s I need to sell. They’re going for about $205-220. They’re mostly…

For those of you wanting to participate in the ongoing unveiling of some of my writing projects, you can go here! First project for review is Small Pebble…

Ok… when your daughter shows up at your elbow and says, “Hey Daddy,” and you absent-mindedly look up from your book to find this… you can’t help but have a great day!

Waaaahoooo! Yip. Yip. Yip. Yip. Ever had one of those ethereal moments of sublime happiness? Nope? Sorry. But I’m there. Right now. Consider this… a hot cup of Lipton’s French Vanilla black tea an Apple Powerbook G4 867 purring on…

It’s officially a tradition… our once-a-year-family-photo! Caro is an incredible photographer here in town (check out her site!), but each year, we get our good friend David Atwell to take our fall family shots. Thanks, David! Check ’em all out…

My daughter, Adelyn, has become obsessed with money in the last week or so. Somehow she’s managed to scrounge together $27. It’s burning a whole in her pocket. We almost had a meltdown the other night when I wouldn’t take…

Caro and Sam are in our bed watching Sunday night football. Sam is into NFL this year since I’ve set him up a team in our fantasy football league. Joe Theisman is one of the commentators, and upon hearing this,…

Aw shoot. Today was our last regular season game. I’ve been coaching my son’s 3rd-4th grade team. We played the Ryburn Mustangs today who were 5-0, and we lost 20-6. If we’d won we would have sealed up second place,…