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Alice In Wonderland

Lucas — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:19:11 +0000

I have promised my niece that I would take her to see the newest version of the old classic tale of Alice In Wonderful. The only reason I have consented to do so is that I am a Johnny Depp fan and I hear that he has done a good job in this new film. Guess we will see this weekend.

Solitaire

Lucas — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:00:31 +0000

My dad taught me how to play various solitaire games. We used a deck of cards and there were different ways to deal out the hand and set some cards aside or order them that made for game variations.

Now with the use of computers, I’ve discovered there are many other types of solitaire games that have nothing to do with a deck of cards. You can use tiles and play majong. You can use beads and play Bejeweled. And there are dozens of video games of all types that let you play by yourself.

Happy Indy Day

Lucas — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:53:01 +0000

Today is Independence Day! I’m always glad for the 4th of July, we get a three day weekend and an excuse to get together with friends and family and cook burgers on the grill! And then later we go to see the local fire department’s fireworks show. It’s always fun to go there because we bring chairs and blankets and picnic snacks and end up running into people we know and have a good time visiting there too. What makes it better is that the fire department often arranges to have some entertainment going on before the fireworks; a local band plays a couple of sets, there are refreshment stands, face painting for the kids. There is a carnival type atmosphere and the fireworks show is always a good one!

Horsing around

Lucas — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:53:25 +0000

Right after breakfast this morning, I looked out the kitchen picture window and saw a horse in the middle of my flower garden! He was just standing there, looking back at me! I knew there was a horse farm down the road a little ways, but didn’t know the name of the people who owned it. So I called the few neighbors that I do know and asked them if they knew who owned the horse farm. Eventually I got the phone number, and called them and asked them if they were missing a horse. They said yes, and I told them that it was in my yard. They came right down to get the horse back, but the horse wanted to play hard to get! It took them a while to rope the horse and take him home. It was rather amusing to watch the horse toy with them as they tried to catch him! He would trot just far enough out of their reach and stop and look at them, then they would get closer to him and he would trot a little distance again. I could almost hear the horse laughing to himself!

Bike Ride

Lucas — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:38:32 +0000

Last Saturday a group of my friends and I spent the day cruising the roads on our bikes. We had been planning this outing since last winter, and it finally came to fruition. There were about fifteen of us on our Harleys, and we all had our ladies riding behind. We rode for a few hours and stopped at a roadside diner for lunch, and then rode home again using a different route. It was a beautiful day for a ride, and we all had a great time. I hope we can do this again next summer too!

The Golden Corral – a great all you can eat buffet

Lucas — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:14:38 +0000

The Golden Corral restaurant is one of my very favorite restaurants. It is an all you can eat buffet restaurant that actually has food you want to eat! I’ve been to restaurants that advertise that they have an all you can eat buffet but when you get up to the buffet table you find only five or six items, mostly cheap fillers like macaroni and cheese or spaghetti. The Golden Corral restaurant has no options except all you can eat, and their buffet tables include several types of chicken, several types of beef, several types of fish, a lot of different veggies and fruits, shrimp, and lots of different desserts too.

My wife really likes their yeast dinner rolls that they bring to your table. I know they keep bringing them endlessly, hoping to fill you up on them, but they really are good! We know that the rolls they bring to our table have to be thrown away if we don’t eat them, so my wife brings an extra large purse with her and a large gallon size zipper style plastic storage bag with her so when we are finished eating if there are any dinner rolls left over that we didn’t eat she can bring them home with us. We don’t think that is stealing because we didn’t ASK for the rolls, they just keep bringing them! She doesn’t keep slipping rolls in her purse continuously, she just puts the leftovers in after the meal. And we know they will just get tossed out when we leave if we don’t take them. So we take them and eat them the next day. They are almost as good reheated in the microwave the next day if you wrap them in a paper towel and nuke them for ten seconds.

Not too bad

Lucas — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:20:45 +0000

Tonight we were all feeling too lazy to cook, so we decided to cook up the DiGiorno’s frozen pizza we have had in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It was the rising crust three meat pizza. I had my doubts about whether or not I would like it, but I have to tell you that it was really very good. So good in fact that I’ve put it on the shopping list to buy more. And chances are pretty good that we’ll be eating that pizza a lot more in the future instead of going to the pizza restaurant that costs double the amount that the frozen pizza cost!

I’ve tried their thin crispy crust pizza and didn’t like it at all, so I’m really glad I like their rising crust pizza! It’s nice to know I can have a few of them in the freezer for future times we don’t feel like cooking anything complicated!

Company is coming

Lucas — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:16:52 +0000

This afternoon we are expecting a lot of company. My wife’s side of the family is coming over for a “family day” reunion type of afternoon/evening meal. We are expecting about twelve people to come over, everyone is supposed to bring some kind of food to share with everyone else. They are supposed to start arriving around 3pm today and leave around 8pm.

So my wife is running around the house trying to get the house “company ready.” I’m going to go outside and mow the lawn and hide in the garage as much as possible so she doesn’t ask me to do anything inside the house to help.

Good time for Easter

Lucas — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:06:39 +0000

Well we got up early and went to church, dressed in our Easter Best clothes. Then we went to my uncle’s house for the family Easter celebration. They held a big Easter Egg hunt for all of the kids out in the big back wooded yard. There must have been a hundred eggs! Afterwards we ate a huge dinner, the main meat being a large spiral cut honey ham. It was delicious! After dinner, all of the family musicians pulled out their instruments and jammed for hours while the children danced to the music. It was a great party!

No Aprils Fools for me!

Lucas — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:27:21 +0000

Well, April Fools Day has arrived, the day when everyone is supposed to be so happy and giddy that spring is here that they play silly pranks on each other! I’m happy to report that so far no one has sprung any pranks on me and I hope it stays that way! I think I’m safe, I’m home for the evening and I’m not expecting any guests or phone calls! I’m sorry to say that most of the April Fool jokes that have been played on me tend to be cruel, so I’d just as soon not be the butt of someone else’s mean and rude jokes.