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  • when I was just a young whippersnapper there was a fella on the radio (that’s these things in cars that played music before podcasts :-D) and he’d give the top 40 songs in the nation each week on a “countdown” … his name was Casey Kasem … one of his tag lines was “keep your… Read more

  • How many times have you walked by somethin’ you’ve seen a hundred, no, several hundred times, and see it DIFFERENTLY ??? yup … it happened to me yesterday … thanks God 🙂 … as lil’bit and I were takin’ our afternoon stroll we passed by the fire hydrant at the opposite end of the lake,… Read more

  • as some of y’all know one of the joys I get is to make my beloved breakfast in bed … and, as a bonus, now that includes lil’bit a lot of the time too (although he’s more of the “chowin’ in the high chair” kinda guy 🙂 ) …. so, menu IS important … I… Read more

  • time’s a weird thing ain’t it 🙂 … it seems that for a math guy like me it’d be a pretty easy thing … knowing that every 60 seconds another minute will pass and every 3600 of them will mean an hour and, well, you get my drift, but, how many of those do we… Read more

  • Whats In a Name … A LOT

    to THIS DAY I can still hear it perfectly … my beloved mother who has found her place in the church of New Jerusalem over 2 decades ago … whenever I had done something REALLY stupid as a kid … she’d use ALL of my names (even the 4th for emphasis!) before tearing into me… Read more

  • today I started to add a coupla items to my shoppin’ list for tomorrow when I thought, duh I get free delivery on Amazon Prime AND there’s a few items that are, let’s face it, not very “lil’bit” friendly to have in the cart, so, “interweb … engage” !!!! … in approximately 6 hours, those… Read more

  • I’m Feelin Hot Hot Hot

    it’s been a minute since I’ve had inspiration to post sumthin’ ‘cause of what I was ‘bout to shove down my pie-hole, but, that ends today 🙂 … you see, as I was boilin’ up an eggselent spread (no yolk!) … ok ok ok … no more dad jokes, well, maybe one more … as… Read more

  • I’m going to start off today again with a question … remember when your parents asked you to clean your room ??? WHY did you clean it ??? because you really wanted to ??? because it made them happy ??? or because you wanted to stay out of trouble ??? … keep that in mind… Read more

  • have y’all ever heard of the game “telephone” ??? you know, where you start tellin’ someone somethin’ and then they whisper it to the next person and then they whisper it to the next person and, well, that’s how Davy Crockett ended up sinking the Titanic while fighting Napoleon in the Civil War by running… Read more

  • Br3@ThE

    alrighty then … gonna start with a question instead of ending with one … have you ever had a Sunday School lesson where ya just walked away going …. wow … welp, that was me today … you see, we were workin with the youngens about Emmaus and the stroll that a coupla fellas were… Read more

  • wow … lots to go over and just a little time, and, as you know, i’m so good with not running my mouth (ha!) … so … this should be interesting 🙂 … you see, last night was skate night for my beloved’s school … an awesome idea where the kids go and get to… Read more

  • ya know what … i was born and bred a dog person … i hear tales that when we lived in a house i don’t remember we had a cat, but, i don’t remember the house or the cat, so, for all i know it was Dr. Seuss’s cat in my book (see what i… Read more

  • alrighty then … ya know, there’s some things that we do several times a day (at least we’re supposed to!) like wash our hands and brush our teeth … then there’s things that we do daily … like get dressed and wash our face … then there’s things that we do a little less frequently… Read more

  • my uncle Vernon got me a really cool fire truck when i was around the same size as lil’bit (a little older, but i was a small kid) … man, i loved that thing … it sprayed water and everything … and my mammaw Ruth’s “fancy dishes” … well, they got pulled out each and… Read more

  • … well, it’s actually TWO stories but they’re so intertwined and let’s start with the bacon (doesn’t EVERY good story start with bacon!) … years ago we were teaching a Sunday School lesson on what gets us ready for worship each week and prepares us for church when one of our students pops up with… Read more