parents

For those who viewed the last blog you saw the house that my grandparents lived in..these are where my parents now reside and it also would have been the house where both he and his grandparents lived infact the entire 40 acres was part of the homestead where they lived. This would include the cemetery where they all are now.

It happens to be everyday life for us all and not all that far from where I am living now. I have been trying to locate some of my classmates from College now and have been informed that at least 4 have passed away. We graduated in 1956 so it has been over 50 years since that time. The time sure keeps on going by and it seems to be going faster and faster now days.

from the old to the new

This house in the foregrounds is where my grandparents lived when they were living..now we live in the field to the right of the house..actually in a brickcrete house toward the road going by the field. The old house is still there and my cousin lives there when he is in town...usually the summer since he works in Korea teaching during most of the year.

I would guess the picture would date back to the late 1800's. There is now a cemetery behind the house and many trees so you could not see the buildings way back from the house. The houses on the right are old mining company houses and many have been moved or now are owned by relatives of miners who have long ago passed away and are in the cemetery.

growing up

Hopefully I will get my picture uploaded to make this blog a bit more interesting..hoping to get two loaded but will be satisfied with the one.. This is about my daugthers but esp. the youngest one. As they were growing up I saved all the school pictures and made them into a group picture for each of the three daughters so you can see them growing and eventually leaving the home here...this one just left this year...a month or so ago. As they are growing up it seems like a forever process but now everything is really picking up and going by even faster.

end of visit

our Thanksgiving visit of our daughter and family is now over and all are returning home. In the picture you see my daughter with Matthew and her friend on the left Michael with her daughter Taylor. Matthew and Taylor are on the changed logo pic if it got to where it was intended to go..just have to wait and see.

as in all visits time is just not long enough to do all the things one wants to do but as the title indicates that is just everyday life.

visiting

I will give the blog another try..don't think I can manage putting on more than one pic so will stop with this one. We are visiting our daughter at our house for Thanksgiving and took this picture of her with our grandson Matthew. They will be in town for a few days so it is a very enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend.

posting dificulty

I tried to load a picture on my blog yesterday and it would not load then I tried to write a blog on how much problems are seeming to be happening with this site and it would not even post the blog..I am aware of many of my friends who are also having problems posting and reading blogs on this site so I am very disapointed about it...bad enough that no one even reads a blog on here but even harder if you can't post one....

grandchildren

grandchildren [Photo]The pictured ones above Faith, Brian and Matthew are the grandchildren we have recieved from our daughters Ann, first two children, and Mary the one on the right. They appear to be at their best behavior on the pictures but in real life they do behave as regular children as they should. I have learned that they will grow up quickly even though I felt that my children would never even get out of high school let alone college. My youngest daughgter just this year has moved out of our house here and she is now 30.At least I have learned from my last blog...I let the picture get to the blog page before I started writing the blog. I once before did blogs and got up to 49 of them before I realized I was writing them for no one to read. These seem to be going the same way since I see no comments on my blog and most people who are using these blogs have a problem even getting to see thier blog.

the brewery form my last blog that wouldn't upload

this is the picture that I couldn't get on my last blog..

another same day

I had to look for a picture to find something to talk about. Outside of setting up for our Legion fish fry tonight my day has been about the same as every other day.

The picture I have is of a Chinese brewery down in Qingdao. The company my daughter works for has a part interest in that brewery so I have an indirect connection in it. If I am really lucky I will be able to get the picture on here once I get back on the Internet. another challenge for me

winter driving

Well I was able to get down to Rhinelander and back and the car is still in one peice. The road down was really bad. We had snow, sleet, slush and ice on all the way down so it became a very dificult drive of 62 miles one way.

My wife got a good report on her eyes but since she can not see anything it was not any better than it was before. Doesn't look like they will be able to do anything but keep them in check so there is no more vision loss

Already the second day. I have added a picture of me reading, since I had been a High School librarian when I actually worked some 21 years ago, it is appropiate. As I said in my last post, I do the same things almost every day I can add that I cooked a meatloaf for dinner as well as all the other things. Since my wife cannot see much anymore, I do most of the cooking unless it is store bought.

Tomorrow I take her to see her eye doctor in Rhinelander, Wis. It may be snowing so I may not be able to get back on here till later. Should give me some time to think of something else to write about.

days end

It doesn't look like I am going to get much out of this first post..attempted to load a picture and it didn't show up on here. Nice sunset that I took yesterday from my front porch and thought it would be nice to add to the end of the day.

It seems that most of my days are about the same in that I do the same things every day. Usually will get some reading done at breakfast then go on the computer for a while. We go to town a few times a week to shop, that would be my wife and I. Normally go out in the evening and end up back on the computer in the evening till it is the end of the day...now

On checking the preview I see I have the picture..time to end this day now.