Evelyn Day 8 Y’know, if I’m going to start tracking my granddaughter’s days, I should try a different method: math and all that. I use a website to calculate my days quickly – Rod Martin’s site has a “my days” calculator that’s quick and easy to use. OK, back to the regular opening… Good morning! …

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Evelyn Day 7 Good morning! I hope you are well on this Thursday, the 23rd day of March 2023. Today marks one week since Evelyn arrived, and today is looking like a pretty good day. I wrapped up a three-day course yesterday. I know that I sat the course when it first came out, but …

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Good morning! It is 22 March 2023, and it might be time for me to change my post greeting. Good morning, Evelyn. Today is your Day 6. I’m your grampa. You are the single brightest light in our lives today, and that is an undeniable fact. I would love to tell you that you have …

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It is Tuesday morning, 21 March 2023, and spring hasn’t entirely sprung yet, but the wild onions in the yard are peaking up a little higher than anything else that’s green. Pretty soon here it will be time to get the mower, tractor, and gator ready to roll around the property and get some lawn …

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Good morning! It is 20 March 2023, and the US is still not on the metric system. Yeah, I’m in a goofy mood this morning. Day four of being a grandparent is off to the kind of start you’d expect. I stepped on the scale and didn’t receive bad news, grabbed a couple glasses of …

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Good morning, and happy St. Patrck’s Day… it is 17 March 2023, it is my nephew Keegan’s birthday, and it is the day after. Evelyn Kay was born yesterday at 7:40 PM. Mother and child are doing well. She weighed in at a healthy 9 lbs, 20 inches in length, and the right number of …

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Good morning! It is Thursday, 16 March 2023. It is 6 months until I turn 60… and the day Lisa and I will most likely become grandparents. Gracie was admitted to the hospital yesterday – later in the day than I thought (AM v PM mix-up on my part). Poor thing has been in the …

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Good morning to any and all that have discovered my blog. It is 15 March 2023… and today could be the day. In history, this day has been referred to as the Ides of March, the day that Julius Caesar was stabbed repeatedly on the Senate floor. After today, at least in my house, it …

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Good morning! It is Tuesday, 14 March 2023, and we’re starting off a little bit colder today. It’s been hovering around the 30s and 40s the last few days, and this morning it is a brisk 17 degrees Fahrenheit outside (-8 degrees Celsius). I’ve got a few projects to keep me focused today. I’ll get …

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It is Monday, 13 March 2023. It has been a rather eventful weekend around Lawrence, Kansas, as well as other parts of the world. I’m a basketball fan, as I have shared in the past. Kansas did not have a great weekend, as they fell in the Big 12 post-season tournament to Texas. Bill Self, …

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