20250831 + Up let Forrest out and trying to figure out what to do for the day. Called Gma&paW and they are going to come down for a cookout. I got some things done at the desk and then L&I ran to the grocery to get supplies for the the cook out. Home and things put away and L started food prep and I worked in the shop organizing couple drawers of stuff looking for brackets to fix a hanging table of J's. I got it fixed and then warmed up the grill. Tommy came over, then Gma&paW arrived. We finalized the cooking and dinner was served. GpaW did great eating, more than I've seen him eat in a long time and he was getting around pretty good. Then Doc got home and we shuffled him across the road and got him a plate of food and he ate it all up, eating like a champ. We all sat and had a nice visit on the porch. L&I helped Doc get home, Gma&paW took off and Tom stayed and we watched some football for a bit. What a nice day!
20250830
20250830 - Up in the am and let Forrest out and then G got ahold of L, he wanted to come home. L cancelled her plans with friends and drove over to Plain City to pick him up. I got the garage all cleaned out and his car started to make sure everything was ok. L&G picked up Cane's on the way home and we all sat on the back porch and watched the Buckeyes beat Texas! What a game! I walked over to Nate's after the game and hung out with him and some of his friends for a bit. D, DGF13 and Hank stopped over so I went back home and we sent G to pick up hibachi for dinner. We hung out the porch and watched football for all evening.
20250829
20250829 + Up in the am and to the desk getting things done. Took Hazel on a walk. L&I ran to Reynoldsburg to pick up auction wins and then went to Slabs, a new restaurant to try it out. It was pretty good, but pretty pricey. We then hit Giant Eagle to pic up a prescription, a couple groceries and lotto tickets. Home and got things unpacked and watched some TV. I then attempted to install a new ceiling fan in the room over the garage, now J's room and ran in to some problems... It was going to hang down to far and hit J&I in the head... so I tried to modify the new fan to make it shorter. That didn't work.. so I took down the old fane and figured out a way to use the old base with the new motor and ended up frankensteining the two together and it WORKED! It looks and works amazing! to bed at 4:30am!
20250828
20250828 - L&I watched "The Thursday Murder Club" on Netflix this evening and it was really good show.
20250827
20250827 - Signatures for bingo. Had 10 folks. Got karaoke out after bingo and we all sang happy bday to D and then I got some other folks singing.
20250826
20250826 - Up in the am and headed to OSU eye appointment and 670 was a parking lot so I took 5th Ave all the way across town. To the eye Dr. and lots of sitting around waiting.
20250825
20250825 - Up in the am and in to the Worthington office. L has her first day of parent orientation today and J stayed home from work, hurt his foot playing volleyball last night, G has his first day of classes at UC. Busy morning and just Cory and I went to Old Bag for lunch. Back to the desk, CB stopped in and we chatted about everything and got caught up. Home and hung out on the back porch. K tried to get groceries a couple times without much luck. We had dinner and then she finally got her groceries and I tried the help her log on to the new took her school wants to use. Headed to Bible Bangers and hung out with Chris and Shalyn. Home and watched some tv, got G a graphing calculator and headed to bed.
20250823
20250823 + Up in the am and we were going to go on Gary and Marlene's boat today, but something came up so it ended up only the girls going to lunch. Hazel and I got around and went out for a drive and got my car washed and picked up some food at Wendy's. L home and we headed to to Value City Arena to see Nate Bargatze: Big Dumb Eyes World Tour. We got there in good time and found L's cousins in the crowd, way on the other side of the place. The comedy show lasted a couple hours and it was really good, we had never been to anything like that before in such a big setting. After the show we met up with L's cousins for a late night snack and chatted until late. Home and straight to bed.
20250822
20250822 - Up in the ama and to the desk getting things done. L in to her work to get her room ready. When she got home we walked down to Creekside and got a table close to the Rotary stage and ordered some dinner and let some friends know where we were. Soon Tom, then Bill and Tiff joined us and we hung out for the 'Popp Gun' concert and had the best seats in the house. We ran in to all kinds of folks we knew and it was a great time. After the concert we headed to Signatures and Holly and another girl helped get a makeshift karaoke situation set up and we sang and sang. What a fun night!
20250818
20250818 - Up in the am and to the desk getting things done. On G all day to start packing... L asked G where he wanted to go to eat for his last supper and he requested steak and mashed potatoes and gravy at home, so she ran to the store and got groceries for dinner. Done with the day and got the grill ready. G cooked the steaks and DD, DGF13 and Hank came over and we all had a nice last supper with G. After dinner L&I watched the news and G started packing about 10pm...
20250817
20250817 - L headed to Nicole's church to meet her parents to see Rich, Nicole, Sam and Lena do some presentation at their church this morning and then they all went to lunch. I got up late and helped the neighbor with his mower, but we didn't accomplish much... On the back porch getting organized for a busy week. L home, I got cleaned up and we headed out. 1st stop was Goodwill, post office, the office in Worthington to get a dolly for G's move Tues, VillaNova Ristorante for dinner. We had never been there, it was cute. Home and got on G to start packing...
20250816
20250816 - Up late and D, DGF13 and Hank came over to change the back breaks on his car and play in the yard and pools. We got the breaks changed and L ran to the store and made us some lunch. We hung out for a bit and then the kids left. Tommy stopped by and we went and looked at cars, he needs a new one since his was totaled by a drunk driver a couple weeks back. I showed him the Mercedes that were on my buddy's lot but he wasn't there so we couldn't test drive any. I did call him and he has a car just like J's coming in on Wed so we went home and I had Tom drive J's car. He REALLY liked it, so smooth, so FAST. So we are going back up on Wed pm to see it. Home and Tom stayed for a bit and chatted. We looked up tickets for the Steeler's game on 10/12 and got tickets so Tome Bill, Terrill and I could all go to the game against the Brows. L&I watched a movie and some TV before heading to bed.
20250815
20250815 + Up late and to the desk. Spent most of the day finalizing things with University of Cincinnati to make sure things go smooth for G's move-in next Tues. Finished up my work and then L&I headed to see the movie 'Weapons'. It was weird and scary and tense. Home and watched a comedian on Netflix and headed to bed.
20250814
20250814 - Up in the am and L mowing and trimming and I headed in to the Worthington office. for the day. L sent pics of Hazel after she gave her a bath. I finished out my day and headed home exhausted. Sat on the porch and ate, watched the news, went in and pretty much crashed.
20250813
20250813 - Up in the am, L had already cleaned the entire house and headed to her classroom to do more cleaning or whatever prep. I got to the desk and got the day rolling. Took Hazel on a walk and then back to the desk to finish the day. LG and GGF6 here. I finished my day and we went to Signature's for BINGO! We had 12 at out table tonight and it was a good time. Home late and watched a British show before bed.
20250812
20250812 - Up and ready, L in to school to work on her room, Hazel and I walked to the corner and back, at the desk getting things done. Back to the desk, G asked if he could borrow my car to go pick up food he ordered... What? We had a little talk about all the food we had in the house from J's party a couple days ago, and how G needed to get his car running, and how he wasn't working or listing things on ebay for me, so how is he buying food that he needs to pick up? Didn't go well for G... We got his car running and charging the battery charged up, seems to be fine now, not sure what happened. Hazel and I took a midday walk. Had a call start at 2 that that lasted till 4... got all the new trust, wills, etc. scanned in during the call. Day over, out and L&I had leftovers and watched the news. We then ran to a teaching store up at Polaris for L to pick up some stuff for her room. Home and GGF6 standing at the front door, G was not answering the door, his phone or texts... boy needs to get his shit together... In and G & GGF6 headed out. L&I watched some comedian on Netflix before heading to bed.
20250811
20250811 - Up and still pretty tender so working from home today. L headed in to her classroom to start getting things ready and Hazel and I hung out on the back porch with the computer. Went in for a work call and then had an IT escalation to to deal with. G awoke and tried to get in to his car for a very short period of time before giving up the 'IMPOSSIBLE!' task... Demonstrating some perseverance I got the car unlocked and the battery charger on it. L home from cleaning and prepping her room all day, she brought home a bunch of dress up clothes she has in her room to was and Hazel was suddenly a victim... J had some friends over, I headed to Bible Bangers. Home and watched some TV with L.
20250810
20250810 - Up LATE and got the pork shoulders seasoned and in the smoker. Hung out on the back porch catching up on things and doing some reading. L&I gave GpaW a call for his 77th Bday and he sounded better today and planned on going out for ice cream tonight! I got the pork out of the smoker and helped J get the salmon in. Hung out on the porch till meat was done and needed to pull it as J's friends started showing up. he had about 15 friends over and they played games in the back yard, ate and had a good time. Bunch of nice kids. L&I heled get things cleaned up and headed to bed.
20250809
20250809 - L up early and to the Farm for Liz's wedding shower. I got up LATE and to the desk. Got the bills paid and then J&I headed to Giant Eagle to get stuff for tomorrow, he's having a party. Home and relaxing on the porch, J grilled some steaks and we ate. L home and told me all about the shower, she said it was very nice. We hung out on the porch watching TV until late.
20250808
20250808 - Up LATE and to the desk to do a couple things before L&I headed to Ashland to get our trust updated. That went quick and felt good to get done. We swung by the Farm to see if we could help GmaW with some things for the shower tomorrow and she had a couple little jobs for us. We got those done and things look good and ready. We went up to the house for a bit to GpaW and he was just sitting in the family room head down, not watching TV, not doing anything, looked a lot like Doc hunched over in the nursing home... GpaW talked a bit, but not interested in much. We headed out and stopped at the Black Dog Tavern on the way home for dinner. Home and relaxing the rest of the evening.
20250807 - Heart Ablation
20250807 - Up early and L took me to Mt. Carmel East and we got checked in. Got ready and wheeled in the a super futuristic OR that looked like something out of StarTrek. Got put under At 10:50 and woke up at 1. While I was out I got a heart ablation… This is a pic of heart, left is before, right is after. The purple is electrical current, it was all over the place, that’s what caused me to go into AFIB. So they isolated the electric signals so should be all good now.
Got sent home about 4:30 with just 2 little bandaids on… Had some dinner, a little sore but ok. Couldn’t sleep as I was asleep most of the day.
20250806
20250806 - Up and to the desk getting things done. L, Hazel and I took a big walk. Finished my day and Steph stopped by and we all walked to Signatures for Bingo. We had 17 folks join us and it was a good time. Still no karaoke :-( Chaff took me home as we stayed late to chat with folks.
20250804 - Cleaning Up
20250804 - Up in the am and ran to the computer store on the way in to the office to get the last o the laptops for our refresh project. Once these get deployed we will wrap up 3 year long projects! Today is the first time CB, Cory and I have been in the office together for 3 weeks. We went to Old Bag for an early lunch. Back to the office and I cleaned the bathrooms which led to cleaning out the cleaning closet. Had a call and Erin and one of her daughters stopped by the office. Finished the day and headed home. Home and threw the ball to Hazel and L made some yummy bang bang shrimp tacos for dinner. We watched the news and then I headed to Bible Bangers, good to catch up with everyone. Home and watching Bachelor with L before bed.
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20250801 - Little Doc
20250801 - Up in the am and to the desk. Had a slow day at work and got a couple of important things done. L&I headed to Nazareth for dinner and G and GGF6 came along. After dinner L&I stopped to Doc on the way home. He's pretty small and skinny but in good spirits and enjoyed the greek honey cake we took him and Mis Crews. We chatted for about an hour and then headed home and watched ‘Miller’s Girl’, which was supposed to be a thriller, but was a total stinker waste of time.