“This is the worst thing in the world that you can do to a teenager!!!!”, said the 17 year old grand daughter of one of our guests when she discovered that there was no cell phone reception at our house a couple of weeks ago. This week, we have 4 teenagers and a single […]
You will never believe the conversation going on at our house this morning. First you have to understand that we live in Rural Ohio, where in spite of the fact that it is 2010, we do not get cell phone coverage. We live within 60 miles of the city of Columbus but in […]
So we cleaned today after guests left the Weston House. Every now and then we find something gross (usually compliments of the people) such as 3 days worth of dirty dishes, or poopy diapers (people with toddlers are the worst!). But now and then we find something funny - which is usually compliments […]
The Christmas Carols started this year a day or two before Thanksgiving – that’s when I heard my first one. Then we got slammed with them right after Thanksgiving, such that for several days 2 out of 3 songs I heard on the radio were Christmas Carols.
And you know, while I like Country music […]
Well, here it is another Thanksgiving - and I was thinking that this really is the time to give thanks for all that we have. Looking back it’s been a great summer. I had a couple of months when I was fearing I might loose my job, because my project ended suddenly, and […]
Ok, so it is the 4th of October, and we’ve had a dry and cool summer. We had our first frost last week on Friday - hard frost. It killed a lot of the soy-beans that hadn’t quite dried out yet. I think they were mature, and hope they’ll be ok, but […]
I went to this convention on Friday - for non-profit organizations, and how they can use technology to help manage their overall costs. It was put on by Groundwork Group. It was really interesting. I’m not a non-profit, but there was still quite a bit of information that may be applicable to […]
PayPal has me mad enough this morning that I’m thinking about cancelling my account with them. I have a PayPal account so that people who want to pay with a credit card can - because otherwise I pay $30.00/month at my local bank for the ability to run the transactions through them. I […]
I guess Summer has arrived - you know that old saying “Time Flies When You’re Having Fun”? Well, I’m thinking that it should be more like “Time Flies when You’re Busy”. I’m wondering where the spring went to - while it’s still beautiful here, and we’ve started feeding the humming birds, the time […]
We had an absolutely wonderful weekend, for April - Mid 80’s for temperatures, and yet, at our house it snowed. Well, it wasn’t snow exactly, but when you look at it from the road, my side yard is covered in white. Upon closer inspection, you’ll see that what looks like snow is really […]