This week was the Balloon Festival here in Mesquite. The Casa Blanca Casino host the event. The year we were here Jim and Elaine came up and we attended the event. It was a pretty cold January that year, but we had fun watching the balloons take off and we went at night to watch the glow. After Jennifer passed I started helping with crew balloons. What this entails is being a person that helps get the balloon ready to inflate, helping the pilot inflate it, helping them l

Well tonight I am watching the College National Championship game between Miami and Indiana. I am pulling for Indiana. It is weird but I can almost feel Jennifer her with me. Most of the playoff games before this Championship were pretty good games. The exception was Indiana against Oregon. That was a good old fashioned beating. The pro’s have also had some good games. I was saddened to see Chicago’s magical season come to a end. Especially for my good friend CD Holter

As this world we live in spirals down the toilet, I miss Jennifer more and more. I miss having her with me for so many reason’s. I miss having her ear to bend about politics and world happenings. While I do fortunately have friends that aling with my beliefs, and that I can commiserate with about all of the shit happening in the world. It is not the same as what I had with her. I miss that so very much. The world continues to get crazier and crazier. Sadly I am fearful

Since getting back from home, I have been working on getting back into my routine. This week I watched the National Championship FCS football game between Montana State and Illinois State. It was a very entertaining game with one of the craziest endings I have ever viewed. I will be honest, I thought MSU had screwed the pooch a couple of times in the second half of the game. If Jennifer had been here viewing the game she would have gone crazy. She would not have been able

Last night I started down the road of three years without Jennifer by my side. I really wish I could say it is easier, but it is not. I still miss her so very much. As I rang in the new year last night, I had to laugh. This was for several reasons. The first reason was that I actually made it to midnight. In the last years of our marriage we hardly ever stayed up until midnight. However, in San Antonio we always knew when it was midnight because our neighbor hood turned

I guess it is probably normal to reflect back on life experiences during the holiday season. I certainly have been doing that the past several days. Today was my first chance to go into town and get to the cemetery to visit Jennifer’s and my grave site. Today I got pretty choked up. Like I have said before I don’t spend a lot of time when I go, but visiting her does provide me a weird sense of comfort. I pretty much tell her hey and tell her how much I miss her and today

Today I took my Dad to town to visit a old family friend Dan “ONO” Harrington. Dan is currently in a memory care facility. This is extremely sad. Dan was a very good friend to our family. We have a lot of history. Lots of good times were spent with Dan over the years. It is extremely sad to watch such a dynamic guy deteriorating like he is. Dan’s family is a old friend of my family. It all started with my grand parents. My grandpa became friends with Dan’s Dad Dan Sr

The last few days have unlocked a flood of memories. Tuesday I flew up to Butte for the holiday. As I was packing I had several memories of various trips that Jennifer and I had taken and some of the mishaps we had. Like the time we were going on our first cruise and had left our passports at the house and did not realize it until we got to the airport. Thank God for our friends the Searle’s for bailing us out on that one. Or the time we got stranded in Minneapolis and I

It has been a while since I have taken some time to write. I have been going to do it and then something comes up that needs my attention and I have not done it. It has been a very active couple of months with lots of activities/events. Some of these activities/events have been tougher than others. I so miss not having her with me at these events. Thinking about my life, I have come to realize that I have sadly taken so many things for granted and have not realized how ble

I have written how Jennifer and my wedding was pretty large. We were so blessed to have so many people who came and celebrated that day with us. We were also blessed to receive a bounty of gifts. China pieces were many of those gifts. Jennifer had registered for the China and I really was blasé about the whole China thing, but if it made her happy that was fine with me. We ended up with 13 place settings of China. Jennifer was a little concerned about it being 13, but I

Today is the Notre Dame vs Pitt football game. This game is what really started Jennifer to getting into College football. We became Pitt season ticket holders because of this game. It was cheaper to buy a full season of tickets than just trying to buy tickets to the Notre Dame game, plus it gave us something to do together on a Saturday. Sadly I have not been watching as much FBS football this year, I just have not been into it. I have been watching more FCS football (Ca

It was a busy Halloween week. Spent several days helping my fellow Rotarians decorate our haunted house for the Eureka Casino Shreek-reeka event on Thursday night. Our theme was a haunted nursing home (Dead End Nursing Home). I had to scramble to come up with a costume idea. I found a cheaper scary mask at Walmart and then dressed up in a dress shirt, pants and tie with a stethoscope around my neck. I sat in a chair that was kind of hidden around a corner and played like

I have been pretty busy with a variety of activities/events and I have not had a lot of time to write. I am still baffled on how some little/ridiculous things will trigger emotions. Today I was mixing up a packet of flavored drink mix in a glass of water. I had gotten the mix from the recent Pickleball tournament I played in. So I poured the mix into my glass and I remembered that Jennifer had found some longer teaspoons that are great for mixing a tall glass of fluid.

There are so many things that confuse and/or disappoint me in this world today. I never in a million years think that I would be a protester. I have now participated in two “No Kings” protests. What confuses me is that most of the people on the right are totally blind to why these protest are going on. Like I have said, I am just glad Jennifer did not live to see all of this. It would have really bothered her and would have made her physically ill. Meanwhile we get close

It has been over two years since Jennifer passed and I still catch myself thinking that I have to tell her things when I get home. I...

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I am so frustrated with the people of this country. The canonization of Charlie Kirk is sickening. The sheep packed the stadium to...

I have so many different emotions running through me today and I am missing Jennifer terribly. I miss having her here to visit and vent...

Well it has been a active last few days. I got back to Mesquite on Wednesday evening. I made decent time and the trip was thankfully...