A Red Letter Day

August 2, 2023

I am 70 years old today. How about that? I ask myself. I guess I am doing okay for a much older guy than I used to be.

The Black Ribbon

November 4, 2022

I wanted to write something today and then this 2014 post from my FMCA blogging days popped up in Facebook Memories, so I thought “Why not repost it here?” So I did.

Kites Before Breakfast

June 17, 2022

I am a kite flyer. I own a lot of them. I love to fly them. I don’t wait for the wind to be perfect to get out there…..

When I Hear Your Name

June 2, 2022

This is going to be a most unusual blog post for me. Just “read” along and you will find out why.

Diane and Ed Dalton playing Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss at the 85th Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention. They took 5th place out of 59.

The Perfect Dulcimer →

July 30, 2021

The Fiddler’s Convention is approaching so I thought I would feature this story.

The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Diane, my best freind, and I in the Spring of 1972

I Got A Date to the Prom!

December 28, 2020

“We meet in High School. We were seventeen and...”

“Yes” she said, “but we were not children.”

“Well, we were high school sweethearts, and I guess we were a bit older than our years.”

“High school sweethearts? We were just friends.”

I Live In Galax.......

September 2, 2019

As many of you know Diane and I live in a motorcoach resort in the mountains of Virginia during the summer and fall. The closest town is Galax, and technically our address is in Galax.

Catch Some Wind

September 2, 2018

I am passionate about many things in life. One thing is photography, one is Christmas, one is my wife, and another one is Kite Flying.

My Favorite Things (then)

May 7, 2017

It’s been twenty years since I wrote this and seven years since I first posted it here on my blog. Diane came across it and I think it is worth updating a bit and posting again.

A couple of days ago, I started to clean old document files off my laptop. For a computer geek like myself, this is a bit like cleaning out my closet. I may not need a certain shirt, it has a stain, or it doesn’t fit, it needs to go, but I still want to hang on to it.

Looking Up

March 10, 2017

I am not sure if taking pictures of a Great Horned Owl nesting in a large live oak over our coach made me think of this old FMCA blog entry or not, but if it did then that is okay. I wrote it not long after we lost our grandson.

The SS Galileo behind a much smaller ship.

The Tango

April 25, 2016

Before Diane and I became Motorhome owners, and before my son entered college, we were avid cruisers. This is the story of our first one, which took place a bunch of years ago.

Turning a page.....

June 1, 2015

I believe I mentioned in my last entry that Diane and I retired last month after selling our business. We are turning a new page in our lives...

Turner Field (named after my former boss) Atlanta, Ga.

The Phillies and The Giants (True Story about Kids and Baseball)

May 17, 2015

We are well into this year's baseball season. The Nationals are on fire, as are the Mets. Baltimore is not.

Where is someone like Cal when you need him?

Hole 1 Deer Creek Motorcoach Resort (used to be hole 9)

It's a Stupid Game!

May 11, 2015

A famous person once described it as a good walk spoiled. Someone else said it is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. I am talking about the game of golf

Couch Cushion Fort

May 9, 2015

The kids have grown up. They are doing other things now...working, raising kids, taking pictures, playing music.....