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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!

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Dad’s Birthday

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...

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Hot Day in July

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:

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DRJ

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...

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Kellys Run 2023

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...

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Bolar Roast Sliders

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...

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Winter Musings

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...

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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

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...

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