I’ve been a pallbearer a number of times over the years. It’s an honor that I doubt very many people love since it means someone close to you has passed away. A week ago my Aunt Dawn was driving back from Arco. In a tragic bit of bad luck a freak snow storm made the…
Category: Family
Snow and Rain
I just manged to get the kids in bed. It’s 9:00pm. I started at 6:30. I’m sitting here watching the rain letting my brain idle for a few moments until I get back into write code. It’s a bit odd that its raining given that it is January. Over the Christmas break we received treacherous…
I Got Older
I turned 34 yesterday. I assume you’ll ask why I didn’t write this yesterday and my response is it was my birthday why the hell should I have to do anymore work than just get out of bed? I’ve come to enjoy my birthday less. It is a marker that indicates my body no longer…
The Nutcracker
We took Aubrey, Alyssa and Jenna to the Nutcracker Monday night. It is part of our effort to expose our children to culture. Devin doesn’t like ballet and utterly refused to go. Once we were there I sat next to Aubrey. She had all kinds of questions and comments. Why is there a giant Nutcracker…
Last Alfred William Ball Family Reunion – 57 Years
For 57 years the Ball family has held an annual reunion. This year was the last. Alfred William Ball was my great grandfather. This many years later the family has gotten so large that I don’t really know/recognize anyone. For that very reason I was very careful who I dated in high school and I…
Rode Stoddard Creek Friday (A few Fridays ago)
These days I only manage to ride motorcycles with my dad, brother and brother-in-law about once a year. This time we made our way to Stoddard Creek. Its about 60 miles north of my parents house. Very few people can find Idaho on a map which is fine with me. Because of that fact there…
Yellowstone 3
Day 3. More driving. Always driving. We went to Tower and watched more water fall off rocks. That seems to happen a lot around here. There were a couple of colorful characters hanging around near the parking lot with a sign that said, “save the buffalo” or something like that. The guy was really hairy…
Yellowstone 2
Sequels are never as good as the original so keep in mind that this one won’t be as good as the last one which wasn’t that great. I met more rangers today. Two of them seemed like very nice polite people. It probably helped that in the one case the lady was in a brand…
Yellowstone
We went to the happiest place on earth, now we’re off on a family vacation to the stinkiest place on Earth – Yellowstone. Like the Earth’s anus this place belches the nastiest gas you have ever smelled. The girls love it, but hold their noses a lot. I am good with it except for the…
Watching for Signs
I wrote this on May 11th but never got around to posting it: We took the kids to Thanksgiving Point yesterday to look at the gardens. They had a great time. Whenever we travel through the Salt Lake area it seems that my wife has a $10 coupon for JCPenny that “would just be silly…