A while back I asked everyone to vote for my nephew Heath in a national high school mascot contest. Well to update everyone he has been advancing in each round of the tournament and has made the Final 4! If you have voted for Heath in this contest you have made that possible and I Thank You! If you could please continue to do vote for him that would be WONDERFUL! This round runs from today (10/27/2026) until October 29. He is going against a Las Vegas school mascot in t

Wednesday we had a pretty rough storms pass through Mesquite. Wednesday morning I had heavy rains here at my house, but that was just a warm-up for Wednesday night. We had lots of lightning/thunder, heavy rains, large hail and strong winds. My neighborhood got off light compared to other neighborhoods. We had some hail with a few large stones (I was sweating that it might break some of my windows, but everything held), but we did not have it as bad as other parts of the S

I heard a stat about this election cycle that blew me away. Over 10 billion (yes that is a b and not a m) have been spent in political advertising and materials this election cycle. How sad is that? Imagine if that $10 billion had been put into education and healthcare! Old Elon Musk has spent $276 million compared to something like $250 million something For something like 7 democratic candidate combined. Of course that is just couch money for old Elon. However all this

Someone once told me that Election Day is the National IQ test day. Well in my opinion the country did not test well on the last Election Day. I am nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof about how these will go on this upcoming Election Day. One thing that has me nervous is the polling data that all the news outlets are touting say the Orange Dipshit and many of his minions are underwater deeper than anyone has ever seen. For once he is performing up to his ever constant cla

It has been a dark and gloomy day today, as such, I decided to start gathering up Jennifer’s clothes to donate. I have been waiting to do that activity for a day like today. I have decided I am going to donate the majority of her clothing to Safe Nest (program for abused women). I feel that would be what she would want me to do. Not exactly a fun activity and it was tough because there were items that I know she liked and enjoyed wearing and those would choke me up a littl

Today is one of those days that is why we moved to Mesquite. It is 69 degrees at 6:13 am not a breath of wind and I am sitting on my patio drinking my coffee watching the sun rise and wishing Jennifer was here with me. It has been a relaxing weekend so far. In all reality Jennifer would still be in the rack slumbering away. However I might feel brave enough to go wake sleeping beauty to come out and watch the sun rise with me, just because it that nice of a morning. Friday

This week has been a tougher one. As usual I have had Jennifer on my mind pretty much constantly, however I have had a couple of pretty strong flash backs to the day she passed. It is weird how they come and I can’t put my finger on a common trigger for them, but they sure do suck. I have also reflected a lot of how strong she was in dealing with the news that her condition was terminal. I question whether I could be as strong as she was in dealing with that news. The ans

I am saddened to see the depths that our country has sunk to and sadly we have not, in my opinion, yet hit the bottom. We have a US President saying a communist country’s press is better than ours as he defy’s a court order to allow certain US journalists access to the people’s house and events of significant importance. I often wonder how Jennifer’s dad would have reacted to all of this. Jennifer’s dad was a interesting individual. He was probably one of the sharpest men I

Old couch humper wants America to give the GOP a second chance. So I guess even he agrees they have royally fucked things up. Guess what, I hope the American people have wised up, and start sending these bastards packing but sadly I am fearfully doubtful. If the Democrats do regain control of the House and Senate, I hope they actually do something. Sadly I doubt that will happen as well. I would hope they would roll up their sleeves and get to work on working for “The p

It going on 3+ years and I miss her as much today as the day she passed. I swear the pain is just as strong as the day she passed. I know there are a lot of people who are sharing the same pain as me, especially since today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Many of those people did not get the luxury that I had to be with my loved one the moment she passed. While those final moments are ones that haunt me, and ones I have flash backs of, at least I was with her and I am th

Well the orange whacko is really going off the deep end! Promising a $5000 dollar check to every adult citizen if the GOP keeps control of both the house and senate. Sounds like damn bribe to me! I am not running out and spending that $5K just yet. I got burned on the Doge and Tariff check schemes. My Momma did not raise a complete dummy, I ain’t getting burned a third time. In my opinion, it’s time once again for the 25th Amendment. What do we hear from the GOP? Cr

I started this particular blog a couple of weeks ago and did not get to finish it. So am adding to it today. I know God makes mistakes, because Jennifer would not have been taken like she was. Also many of us have been praying for God to take the blond with big boobs and he screwed up and took Dolly Parton. The world definitely needs a lot more Dolly’s and a lot less Donnie’s. If anyone earned their way to heaven Dolly sure did. What a accomplished person who lived the tr

Well summer is officially over. I base this on the fact that Pumpkin Spice stuff is hitting the shelves. To me that is the ultimate sign that summer is over and that fall is here. Let me be clear I am not a big fan of pumpkin spiced things. I will try things with it but it is not a favorite of mine. Jennifer liked some pumpkin spice things. She absolutely loved pumpkin pie stuffing. She could skin a pumpkin pie crust like a fisherman filets a fish. She loved the stuffi

I know farmers and ranchers are some of the hardest working people in the country. However if you think about it they are some of the biggest gamblers going. Pardon the pun, but they bet the farm that they are going to get the moon and stars to align and that their products (crops/animals) are going to grow and they are going to make a profit when it comes time to sell. Never mind that the weather may screw them (too dry, too wet, too cold, too hot, etc) or that their anima

I have not had a opportunity to post for several days. I have been pretty busy. I attended part of the An Ri Ra Irish music festival and got to see both Lydia and Teddy dance on the opening night of the festival. Unfortunately a lightning storm showed up just as they were about to take the stage so they pivoted and performed in the Old St Mary’s church across the street from the Original Mine Yard where they were supposed to perform. It was very crowded inside the church a

Hallelujah we are getting some much needed rain! It will likely not be enough to end the fire conditions but it will certainly give fire crews a chance to get things hopefully under control. Yesterday afternoon Elaine, Jim and I were able to play 9 holes on the regulation course at the Highland View Golf Course. It was Elaine’s first time playing the regulation course. She did great and hopefully we will play it some more next summer. Elaine and Jim are going to head back

As today dawns I am flooded with memories of this day 37 years ago. I was excited to get the day going and looking forward to many great years of spending my life with Jennifer. Surprisingly I was not scared! We did not have a pot to piss in but we had each other and that was enough. We both were anxious to get through the big day. There were a few challenges that morning, some I knew about and some I did not find out about until later that day. I did not know about Jenn

Yesterday was our great niece Lydia’s 15th Birthday. Kate and Sam had a nice party for her at Pat’s house. It was a fun family gathering that Jennifer would have loved so much. Jeanne and Rob came and it was an absolute beautiful evening except for the smoke and it fortunately was not too bad. I had a busy morning. I cooked some breakfast for Chad and the boys before they headed back to East Helena. Cindy had went home the night before to attend the wedding reception of

Yesterday marked three years since Jennifer departed this earth. I still have occasional flashbacks to that day and they are not fun! Fortunately this year the Galbavy’s came over on Thursday and we knocked off a bunch of projects that we had on our list to get done over the weekend. This kept me from having time to dwell on this. Don’t get me wrong I think about her every day and some days I get to dwell on it too much and feel sorry for myself. I can get a little mopey.

I forgot another movie that Jennifer liked to watch. “The Accountant” was another movie she liked to watch whenever it came on. We both liked that movie. Last night I caught about the last 30 minutes of the movie. Ben Affleck did a good job of acting in that movie. His portrayal of autism is interesting. I think she liked when he gave the gal the Jackson Pollack painting at the end of the movie. Yesterday was a cool morning here in Elk Park. We had 26 degrees and a pre