Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Boldly marching down the Unknown Road. Fedorable! When I got my first job out of college as a reporter in Corpus Christi, I put a map of the city on my bedroom wall to look at when chatting on the phone or falling asleep. When Google Earth first came out, my brothers/dad/Chris all became obsessed…
Two nights of window-rattling thunderclaps, constant lighting and terrifying emergency weather notifications buzzing our phones in the middle of the night means our household is probably more sleepy than soggy, thankfully. I am full of appreciation for Chris’ foresight in extensively examining floodplains before we bought our home; we are high and dry. But low…
Emerald Coast A&M Club 2014 Muster Speaker! Captain Goodbaby listening to Dad “You know, you see things on the news, and it just doesn’t have the same impact as hearing about it from someone who was there,” an ‘Old Ag’ said to me after Chris’ talk last night at the 2014 Emerald Coast A&M Club…
I love budgerigars. A budgerigar and a duck bit Isaac within our first 30 minutes at the zoo last spring, and we had fun anyway. Today, which was probably the most gorgeous day in the history of weather, nobody got chomped. We fed lots of gorgeous budgies/parakeets in the free-flight budgiery. And we got to…
Stuffed animal pile jumping! In case we weren’t sure we had a two-year-old in the house…. “Isaac, are you a baby?” “NO!” “What are you?” “I’m a TWO!” “RAR!” “Oooo, are you a baby lion?” “Issac NOT a baby lion! Isaac baby DINOSAUR! RAR! Daddy Dinosaur! RAR! Isaac baby dinosaur! Rar!” “Isaac, let’s go to…
second tea What a tea treat! The grandmaster of the Higashi-Abe School of Japanese green tea, or Senchado, presided over a tea ceremony today at the University of West Florida’s Japan House. Grandmaster Sessho Doi is the fifth generation Higashi-Abe School grandmaster. He is training his 16-year-old son to be the next grandmaster. His son made tea while…
HT-28 Instructor of the Year, Navy League Santa Rosa County “I used to think I got sick a lot. Then I met you,” said my friend Julie the other day. It’s so true. As usual, not blogging is a sign of recent illness. Most of February in the Krueger house was claimed by the flu….
