Day 7...   The Utahans make it to Maine!  We left Plymouth, New Hampshire bright and early and headed up the road a bit to the supercharge...

Helping a friend and neighbor...   I've written before about Tim D.'s health challenges.  One of the consequences of his current sta...

Day 6...   AKA “Escape from New York!"”  We spent way too much time on the New York State Thruway, otherwise known as I-90.  The tolls ...

Some mixed granite news...   The granite folks showed up to install the granite on the cabinet that I built, right on time.  It was exciti...

Day 5...   Niagara Falls!  Debbie had never seen the falls before, so I laid out our trip to give us a few hours there.  We drove most of ...

Rodeo night...   Debbie and I went to the Hyrum Rodeo last night (lots of news photos here ).  Most of this was very enjoyable.  The barrel ...

Day 4...  We drove from Champaign, Illinois to Ashtabula, Ohio.  Basically today we were just covering ground; nothing in particular expe...

The final coat is on!   On our grill cabinets, that is.  As planned, I put the second coat on this morning – and now this afternoon I've...

Have I no hope for the future of America?   A friend asked me this by email recently.  Here's my reply: I really have given up hope ...

I recently received the email below...   The inmate James Powell is the despicable “money manager” who stole my mother-in-law's retireme...

A busy day, slightly delayed...  I got up this morning at 4 am, with every intention of putting a second coat of spar varnish on our grill ...

Little things ... about being home after an extended absence are a real source of pleasure.  There are some that anyone could guess about m...

"Castrated poodles" (describing Republican Congressmen)...  That's my phrase of the day, and unfortunately I'm not sure w...

First coat of spar varnish !  The last two days I've been racing to finish putting the cedar “skin” on our grill cabinet (one step at ...

Day 3...   We drove out of Nebraska, across Iowa, and halfway across Illinois today.  We stayed last night at the Westview bed & break...

It's a damned shame...  A neighbor and close friend of ours, Tim D., is hurting.  He had a nasty form of cancer, in his neck and head. ...

I'm in a race with the clock...   We have granite for our grill cabinet scheduled for install on the 25th (next Monday), and I haven...

Home!   We got home as planned yesterday afternoon.  The dogs were overjoyed to see us, most especially our two “old men”: Race and Miki.  J...

Day 2...   We got an early start this morning, leaving Cheyenne at just about daybreak.  Our route was basically I-80 all the way, but we su...