Family Life

I started blogging about a year ago with the goal of one post per day, wondering if I’d be able to sustain the pace. The first couple of weeks were difficult, as you’d expect for any new venture. But then I got into the stride of it and began to look forward to my daily [...]

Every now and then a female deer comes through our property, on her way to the river and wetlands across the street. Yesterday she was alone, and today she had company–a tiny fawn. The pair wandered around our back yard for a while, long enough for Debbie to gather the boys at the window to [...]

It is increasingly difficult to justify my existence at work these days, mainly because I have nothing to do, but today I managed to earn my wages. I finished putting together ideas for a major upgrade to one of our machine lines. This was the first machine I designed when I started at the company [...]