Last But Not Least

Easter Egg Hunt The 30th Annual Chapel Hills Easter Egg Hunt drew a big crowd this year. In spite of the chilly weather, people were eager to embrace a sense of normality. When the whistle blew, the surge of participants looked like a rendition of Bunker Hill. This patient four year old let the sugar-seeking …

Egg Hunt

Easter Egg Hunt And they're off! At the sound of the whistle, these three 2nd graders wasted no time reaching the scattered eggs. All of the plastic eggs held a treat, but the girls' competitive spirit was heightened to find the 1% of eggs holding cash prizes. Thought for the Day: A horse never runs …

Easter, 2020

Easter Church Service The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc around the world and the Easter holiday was no exception. Our local church in Nebraska has been closed for almost a month, providing services on-line. They even tried drive-by communion one Sunday, but have since resorted to "self-serve" communion at home during the streamed services. We …

Birthday Boys

Last weekend was spent celebrating March birthdays, my wife's and the two youngest grandsons.  All three birthdays fall in a two-week span. On the way to the fun-plex for the party, we stopped at the local farm & ranch supply store to see the Easter chicks and ducklings. Both the chick and the duckling survived. …

Easter Chicks

Nothing says "Easter" like colored chicks.  For a brief moment there was nothing going on in the whole-wide-world, except in front of her.  No thought of the Easter Bunny, Easter egg hunts or jelly beans ... just the marvel of another living creature. Thought for the Day:  Boys, I may not know much, but I …

Down Time

  The phrase, "down time", is little-used anymore.  Down time used to mean unproductive time; i.e. lost time due to injury, equipment failure, power outage, fire drill, etc. Multi-media devices, allowing greater mobility brought on multi-tasking, which virtually eliminated "down time".  Laptops, cell phones, smart phones, fax machines, and internet access from anywhere have made …

Easter Tradition

Once in a while you have to break tradition.  Typically, our Easter is celebrated with the entire family gathered for a special Easter Dinner.   But, one Easter Sunday we found ourselves alone in Ireland, traveling south from Dublin to Waterford to meet our daughter.  So, for Easter dinner we tried Johnnie Fox's Pub.  What? A …

Easter Message

This photo was taken in the local Cathedral during its annual flower show in February, where I mentioned in an earlier blog that I was more interested in the statuary than the flower arrangements.  If you're not a Christian, you might not get the significance of this image, but, if your are a believing Christian …