Retiring Guy

It’s been another gloomy day, cool and overcast and, now, increasingly breezy. I wore a sweater vest over a long-sleeve shirt today and ...

The Mother’s Day brunch at Mayflower Drive included a mixed fruit salad, Pillsbury orange rolls, scrambled eggs, hash browns (the frozen ...

So far this weekend has been dedicated to sports. After spending the day in Wisconsin Dells, attending a futures planning workshop spons...

Our cool and overcast weather continues. Daytime highs have been in the low 50s so conditions can’t really be described as unseasonable....

I’ll finish this letter while I have some peace and quiet. JoAnna and the boys went to the health club tonight. She’ll exercise while t...

It’s awfully quiet around here right now. Andy is stretched out on the couch playing with his Game Boy. Boxer is studying the back yard ...

With the beautiful weather yesterday, our thoughts turned to baseball. I took the boys to Dunham’s, a sports store, to buy Andy a new gl...

The ground is covered with snow again, but I don’t think it will last too long. About three inches fell during the afternoon, making rus...

Although the week started off on a soggy note, the gray dome of the weekend remaining in place, we found ourselves basing in warm sunshine...

Cooler weather has finally arrived. Nighttime temperatures have dipped into the low 40s since Thursday. By Saturday morning, the cold, d...

JoAnna and I have just finished helping the boys with their homework.   Eddie had to answer some question from a Frog and Toad book he w...

Today started our cloudy and remained that way in spite of the promise of afternoon sunshine in the Weather Channel’s forecast. I drove ...

Eddie’s team, the Sailfish, lost their soccer game yesterday, 1-9, a tough defeat against a team that I thought was a little too aggressi...

It’s the middle of the afternoon and I’m enjoying the view from the deck of Larry and Kim’s cabin. Except for the boys, it’s very peacef...

Andy’s select baseball team played four games over the weekend at a little league complex on the east side of Madison, in the shadow of t...

“The summer is going by so quickly.” I hear this comment frequently -- at the library, at one of the boy’s baseball games, waiting in a ...