My mother loves Harry Truman…

This morning I was speaking with my mother on the telephone, explaining to her what I had done to help her manage what will soon be her stock portfolio.  With the exception of percentages left to me and my brothers, my mother will take over my grandmother’s rather extensive stock portfolio.  My mother has owned [...]

The end of April…

How can this possibly be the last day of April?  I totally got ripped off on the whole birthday month thing.  I suppose I shouldn’t be too upset about the end of April since the past few days have been so cold.  I actually broke down and turned the heat back on when it got [...]

The need for more shelves…

This is why I really need to get to work on the built-in bookshelves for our office:
 
This is not a stack of books that I haven’t read…  I’ve read a handful of them so far, but I really don’t have any room on our current bookshelves to put them away.  I need more shelves.  I need [...]

More appeal…

While I have been excited by having everything turn green again, I have been lamenting that we don’t have a lot of spring color in our yard.  By mid summer we’re going to have some color.  A good start anyway.  But right now we are mostly green.  Last year we put some bush roses in [...]

Curb appeal..

In an effort to improve the curb appeal of our home, we are going to replace the hedges in front of the house.  It is something I have been wanting to do since the day we moved in, but S insisted that we couldn’t rip out the existing hedges until we had something to put [...]

Spring stuff…

Spring comes late to northeast Ohio.  We finally had a week of warm weather last week.  But today is cold and tomorrow will be cold and Wednesday will be cold.  There is even some talk of a rain/snow mix over the next few days.  And when I say cold, I don’t mean 50 degrees.  I [...]

The grandparents…

It was a good visit.  They seemed to like the house a lot.  Probably more than S’s parents because her grandparents liked the fact that the house is 108 years old, while that was off putting to the parents.  The thing is, we really didn’t get to give them the big impressive tour of the [...]

The NLF Draft 2008…

Ah yes, another NFL Draft has come and gone.  Not as exciting as other years, but entertaining none the less.  My Pittsburgh Steelers had a very good draft, with great players just falling into their laps.
First Round: Rashard Mendenhall RB Illionis (the second best RB this year)
Second Round: Limas Sweed WR Texas (the tall receiver [...]

Visitation…

Today is the day that S’s grandparents arrive for their visit.  We just found out last night that they are planning to stay all night with us.  The last time they visited they just spent the day with us and spent the night in a hotel.  I wasn’t expecting the overnighter.  Which means I now [...]

Shout out…

If she were still alive, today would be Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday.  G_d, I love her voice.  I have a great disk of Ella live in Germany where she does a stupendous Mac The Knife.  I have a dozen favorites by her, and if you put a gun to my head I swear I couldn’t name just [...]