Today, Amy and I began the day by doing something I never imagined five years ago I’d be doing — marching into our own back yard and picking apples from our own apple trees.

We picked about eight plastic grocery bags full of good apples, plus another six or seven bags of apples that were rotten […]

See spot. See spot run. See spot swimming in his own front yard in flood waters. Swim, Spot, swim!

There once were two children beside us,
Who, when given medicine, would fight us,
Though both Amy and I
Wished to soothe their pinkeye
And the youngest one’s tonsillitis.

Amy’s been somewhat less than excited about the range/cooktop included in the purchase of our current home. So, I’m sure there’s some part of her that’s not altogether saddened by the fact that it died on Sunday afternoon. Yep, while eating lunch, we heard a really loud pop coming from the kitchen. My guess is […]

Last year at this time I was in Romania, which was a neat experience, but it meant two weeks of missing my wife and kids, and missing the annual Cabarrus County Fair. I purposed at that time to do everything in my power to make it out to the 2007 fair. So this evening — […]