Birthday Weekend
I seem to have survived another year . . . two more and it’s Medicare City, baby! The photos are from our road trip to Las Vegas, October 30-November 2, 2009. Click on any image to enlarge.
Road Trip
Dateline Las Vegas, Nevada. The proximate excuse for this trip is a Las Vegas Hash House Harriers weekend event, but we’re really here to let the kids know we’re still kicking (so that they won’t forget us and neglect to care for us in our rapidly-approaching dotage). Also they wanted to see Schatzi, who once […]
Car Show
My friend Darrell gave me a free ticket and VIP parking pass to the annual Tucson Classics Car Show, so I spent a happy morning mooning over beautiful metal. Car shows and auctions these days are dominated by 1970s muscle cars (this one was no exception), but I’m interested in older, stock cars, the kind […]
Chez Paul: Nexus of Disaster
Seven or eight years ago some guy veered off the highway and ran into a tree on the back of our property. I was mowing the lawn inside the fenced area of our yard and heard it happen, so I went to see if anyone had been injured and wound up keeping the driver company […]
American Cars
As the kids pulled out of the driveway to start their trip home to Las Vegas earlier today, I thought about the fact that we and they drive nearly identical Chevy Trailblazers, and how well these cars serve us. I started buying American in the early 90s. During the 60s, 70s, and 80s, I’d only […]
Big Weekend Wrapup
Three more photos from the kids’ visit: They left Tucson for Las Vegas around noon today, and are probably still somewhere in Arizona. We should hear from them, reporting in safely at home, in a couple of hours. A month from today, on October 28th, we’re driving to Las Vegas to see them, our daughter […]
Big Weekend Update
A visit from the grandkids is a great excuse to post, right? We spent most of yesterday at a park near the air base, watching Taylor play fast pitch softball. It’s been years since I’ve been to a girls’ softball game, and my, has the game changed. It’s more aggressive than it used to be, […]
Big Weekend
And it’s almost upon us. Our son Gregory, daughter in law Beth, and grandchildren Taylor and Quentin will arrive tomorrow and stay till Monday. The occasion’s an away game for Taylor’s high school softball team. That’s where we’ll be all day Saturday, cheering her on. Sometime Sunday, my niece Gwen may drive down from Phoenix, […]