The Nice Dinner I made for you

This Sunday, a first weekend after everything else has managed to settle down, I actually made dinner, a real dinner, like I always have on Sunday.
A whole wheat linguine with a red sauce blended with garden vegetables and fresh basil. There was fresh spinach built in as a side dish, the spinach was great after I got all of the sand and gravel out of the bunches.

School Daze

The update you may have been waiting for is after 30 years of work, and not working, and career, and starting a family and raising dogs and buying a new car here and there. I walked across a stage last weekend and collected an empty envelope to signify a graduation ceremony.  My proud father, my two sons were on hand to listen to the dean of students or somebody like that at the University of Mary Washington call out my entire name. David Timothy Jones, yes now I am college graduate.

Here Linda

Its whats for Dinner

So tonight as we are all recovering from poultry fatigue, I have opted to roast a slab of meat with thyme, chili powder, salt pepper and adobo, yes my roots are showing again. On the side I have a pot of black beans with Italian sausage, the mild stuff this time and not hot stuff inhabiting my deep freezer in the basement below. steamed spinach, fresh tossed salad and something ricey or starchy to help make small bodies go. No helpers, they all fell behind on their reading for the weekend or at least forgot to log it all, (darn paperwork, gee that's just like some one else I know)

I might throw in some kind of fresh fruit for good measure. As tomorrow I get to ride out to the weapons station someplace and work for a short period 0f time chasing trons.

News from the box

There is no way I can possibly provide an update in a single post, nor will I even try. But here goes some finer points. All of my short children are on television lock down..... meaning their television is strictly and formally curtailed. Nooooooooo Television at all except when there is something on that warrants a temporary release of the no television thing. This to force them to read at least an hour a day, and I know there is some lefty well meaning social misfit that will state that television is good for children. Nonsense, we have almost 1000 channels on cable here and the fare is no different now than when I was their age, 88 % garbage and much of the rest of that is for someone with the brain cell count of a drunken fruit fly.

I will have some more pictures shortly, just need to find my way to a computer with direct access to my photo library, can't get there from everywhere, even I have some limitations. Actually there are some new pictures in here after all.

Keep posted and we will try and update you on this reading thing.

So far the reading thing has cut down on the number of hours that the television. And if you want to find out what I am reading these days, stay tuned. I think I am on the 6th or 8th book in almost as many weeks.

These are Daddy's Girls

In each life some rain must fall,

and some of us have children,

here are a few of mine. There are

those that would rather have

boys than girls, and those that would

rather have girls than boys. Since I am

blessed with few of each, I could not be

happier. And yes they are kind of spoiled

and take a look at these faces, who could resist.

On this Day in this House

On the twentieth eighth day of August, all of these wonderful children became our children, until.... well I don't know, how about forever.

We want to thank my father and stepmother for coming down and spending time with us and joining us at the ceremony, my uncles and aunts, the ones that children have met and the ones the children have not met, for their love and support. Our friends near and far for their love and support and eating our cooking from time to time. Yes I really can cook, and of course so can Antoinette.

I want to thank Antoinette's parents, here and there as they have provided support and some useful feedback on child rearing and an alternate sounding board.

Here are a couple of pictures from the show, I mean ceremony.