Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
90th birthday, huh? What’s a birthday? Captain Goodbaby, upon learning he had two living great-grandparents, set out to visit Great-Grandfather Joe in time for his 90th birthday celebration. The ‘birthday’ concept was difficult to explain to Captain Goodbaby, however, since he has not yet had a birthday party. We found Great-Grandfather Joe at my dad’s…
My friend Lisa and I go way back, and by ‘go way back’ I mean I started reading her blog about life in Laos a couple years ago. You would correctly guess that Laos and Japan are quite different, but being a foreigner in a charming and sometimes bewildering culture transcends geographical boundaries, plus our…
To all to whom these presents may come Greeting Be it Known that Chris and Mari having completed the studies and satisfied the requirements—namely, six years of continuous coursework—for the Degree of Masters of Marriage have accordingly been admitted to that Degree with all the honors, rights and privileges belonging thereto. Given under the seal of Matrimonial University, on…
All hail Baby Explorer! Blackwater River State Park—we’d never been! So a couple weekends ago we drove up to the northern head of the Juniper Creek Trail, where the intrepid Baby Explorer led us on a hike through the bluffs along the river. I didn’t know we were this close to somewhere so un-flat! Some…
Pounce leaped onto the bathroom counter as I washed my hands. I blocked with my elbow before he could stick his kitty tongue under the faucet. For absolutely no reason whatsoever, this spurred a cat freak out. You know what I mean—where the kitty in question turns into a blur and expands and contracts like…
Despite extremely soggy weather (18 inches in 24 hours!), we are high and dry here at Casa de Krueger. We crossed flooded ditches and swollen rivers on our way to church this morning, and a walk around our neighborhood this afternoon revealed trees flopped on their sides once the soil got too saturated to offer…
Life is rough here in Training Air Wing 5. For last week’s Change of Command dinner we had to head out to our favorite beach restaurant—Hemingway’s on Pensacola Beach—to honor LtCol Mark “Ziggy” Thompson. Twist my arm…. We started on the topside bar, but soon descended to the Bimini Beach Bar and Grill to escape…
