This seems to be my monthly blog now, instead of when things happen. Since the end of February we broke many records here in the U.P. One of them was that for 45+ days in a row, the temperature was below freezing and most of that time, since before Christmas it was more around the 0 degree F. mark. Our heating bill, which is our electric bill ( Read more... )

Wednesday we left about 9:00 a.m. to go to Rick's. We had lots of high winds which caused the gas mileage to go down faster than we expected. it was interesting to see a lot of snow on the ground and Rick stated that it was the longest and most snow they had on the ground in any length of time since he lived there. We did make it with a half hour ( Read more... )

Not a lot has been going on. I can finally do some clock repair again as the clock shop is "put back" and all the clocks are out of our family room. We did a laundry room remodel which is officially done, now, right off the clock shop and I had to move the clocks so they didn't get dusty or damaged. So I have been starting up on repairs again, ( Read more... )

Since it was raining today and I couldn't start on my Christmas Light Show setup outside, I decided to clean the garage. I have one quarter of the floor space filled with things that are going to an auction company on Tuesday. Another quarter of the floor area is clean and ready for my Jeep when the auction stuff goes and the rest is still full of ( Read more... )

I have had a request for a journal entry, so here is one. I haven't written since June 24, so that only leaves about 3 months to remember what went on. I mostly was working on our laundry room remodel. I ended up hiring a drywaller as the walls were so bad because it was a storage shed, turned laundry room and clock shop and it was built in the ( Read more... )

Wednesday, June 19 I went to Negaunee for a haircut, delivered a clock to Ishpeming, did some theater stuff with the director, and brought my Jeep to Fox Motors. The automatic door locks have quit on the front doors, the left side speakers don't work, getting the headlights cleaned, as one has water in the lens, and they put on a side marker unit ( Read more... )

Yup, May 20 was my last entry and I have trouble sometimes remembering what I did a few days ago. I think this will end up just a summary, with not too many stories. The end of May I had some work done on my Jeep - some parts to keep the wheels from shaking while driving, front end alignment and other work. During the last weekend we had two ( Read more... )

My clock sale ended last Saturday, May 11, but not a person came by nor did I sell any clocks, so tonight a bunch of them went on ebay and Craigs list, although my sales don't do well there either, but I made the prices a lot lower, just to break even on what I spent on them. That evening we went to the Negaunee Male Chorus and had an enjoyable ( Read more... )

Saturday, May 4 we attended NMU's graduation for our last niece. We then went out to dinner, but the restaurant should have hired more help one waitresses that knew how to handle large reservations, or had two waitresses per group. The food was great, but slow in getting to us, and she forgot the kids meals and one adults. The h'orderves came ( Read more... )

Saturday, April 27 was finally a nice day in da U.P.! I took advantage of that and took down all the Christmas lights from in front of the clock shop and along our driveway. That evening was Marquette Choral Society's concert where Sally is a singer. I dropped her off for warm-ups and I did some shopping and errands before the concert started at ( Read more... )