Shark!

We’re celebrating a milestone birthday for my father-in-law by spending a week at a beach house in Florida  with the whole family.  The place we’re staying is in Carrabelle Beach.  We’re right on the bay across from St. George’s Island.  At low tide, the water recedes and you get an idea of all the marine [...]

Spring Fiddler’s Convention

I just returned from my bi-annual trip to Branson, MO to attend the Ozark Mountain Fiddler’s Convention.  For the past 9 years +, I’ve attended this event with a handful of guys that I know who play guitar and enjoy camping and pickin’ for a couple of days.
The crowd seems a little smaller than it used [...]

Spring Fishing Trip

For the past few years, I have been meeting my Father & my Brother on Kentucky Lake for a little spring crappie fishing.  It never fails that we’re either a week early or a week late.  So we typically end up bluegill fishing, which can be a lot of fun in itself.
This year was no [...]

That’s a winner!

On the last day of our ski trip, we were joined by some friends who live in Denver. Our kids enjoy skiing together every year and we usually hang out at the condo afterward and spend some time catching up. This year was no different.
After lunch, the kids were all making a final [...]

Skiing Breckenridge, CO

Today, we loaded up the gear and made the drive across Swan Mountain Road to Breckenridge.  We skied hard nearly all day.  The day finally came to an end after I took a pretty good spill near the top of Peak 8 on a blue run.  I just caught an edge, spun around, and landed [...]

Spring Skiing

We are in the middle of our annual pilgrimage to the Rocky Mountains to get in a little skiing.  All those years of schlepping the kids gear around and hanging out on the beginner hills is finally paying off.  The kids are able to go straight to the top of the mountain and ski all [...]

Commuter Blues

Here in St. Louis, the major East/West artery has been under construction for the last year.  They actually closed 5 miles of it a year ago (from mid county to the west).  That didn’t effect me much.  In fact, it made my drive to my office in mid county easier than it’s been in 10 years.
However, this [...]

Winter Arrives

Right on cue, we wrapped up the Thanksgiving holiday and winter arrived with a blast.  We had just gotten home from our holiday travel when we began to experience snow flurries on Sunday evening.  By the time we awoke to start the work week, we had ~1 inch of snow on the ground.  This morning, [...]

Geocaching

The past couple of years, the kids and I have enjoyed the occasional geocaching trip.  For those who don’t know, geocaching is sort of a treasure hunt.  Folks hide caches in public places and then publish the GPS coordinates at http://www.geocaching.com.  You then use your GPS to locate the cache.  Some cache containers are big [...]

Sedona & the Pink Jeeps

Today we got up early and took a ride up to Sedona.  That’s about 100 miles give or take.  I wasn’t really sure what to expect and I was a little nervous about how well my wife would do on the Jeep tour that we made reservations for (http://www.pinkjeep.com).
Well I stopped second guessing this decision [...]