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Night before leaving
Four outfits covering four seasons; fitted into a carry-on and a personal item. We will see how this goes!
Turkey cheese sandwiches
Lisa used cheese from S. Clyde Weaver that won some international award. It was yummy!
Test post from my phone
This is a test to see if I can post from my phone
Assassin Bug
More of Dad’s photos
Hot Lancaster County Morning
This Day in Dad’s Photo Scanning
This Day in Dad’s Photo Scanning
These photos came up today in "on this day in the past." Evidently Dad saved these pictures on this date, and now my One Drive shows them to me on this date. This is an eclectic bunch!
Dad’s Birthday
Today was my late Dad's Birthday. Here are some photos of him. The first one is Dad burning huge blocks of packaging Styrofoam in his fire on Lyndell. Lisa was horrified, but that was my Dad - he lived life by his own rules! Media OLYMPUS DIGITAL...
Hot Day in July
At some point in the past few years I saved one of my Dad's photo archives from an external hard drive to my OneDrive. So they keep showing up as "memories on this day." Today it was 95 degrees in real life in Lancaster, PA, but these photos showed up:
Leaving Nairobi for First Home Leave
Mom forwarded this email today.
Harold Dwayne Charles
October 30, 1946 – February 11, 2023
DRJ
DONALD JACOBS DIED 2020Saturday, February 111 Donald R. Jacobs, 91, died February 11 in the family home in Leola, where he lived his active retirement years since 2002 with his beloved wife, Anna Ruth. During his passing, Don was surrounded by his loving family as he...
Trip to Johnstown
KMK 829
Kellys Run 2023
I asked ChatGPT to make up a story about our hike. I forgot to give our names! Here are my instructions and ChatGPT's artificial intelligence created story! write a short story about 2 brothers hiking Kellys...
Charles Family
Trip out West
Happy Birthday, Paul!
Bolar Roast Sliders
Here is a recipe that is very bad for global warming, because it is mostly Beef. It's a recipe from one of Lisa's cousins. Enough Bolar Roast to feed your crowd1 large jar of pepperonciniDump all in to a crockpot, cook overnight.Shred and put on little slider bunsLisa...
Happy Birthday Annisa!
This is a gallery of photos click on the transparent triangle on the photo above to scroll through the photos.
It stays light later these days
Photo from the past
Google says these photos were 2005
Hawk
Winter Musings
As a Board member at my church, we were each told to write a small blurg about winter for our newsletter. This was my submission. On these dark mornings when I put on the heavy sweats and reflective vest to head out on my morning run, it can feel more like a chore...
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
A memoir by the creator of Nike. This book came highly regarded by some guys at work. It was a fast read about how Phil Knight worked really hard, without a plan, and eventually became very rich overnight. I sort of wondered "so what?" after reading it. I guess I...
Photos thru the years
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