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365 Day Photo Challenge 186/365 “Happy 4th of July”

04 Saturday Jul 2015

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Happy 4th of July everyone!!  I spent the day smoking some ribs.  I waited until my kids got home from work to eat with them.  It’s the first time I’ve ever smoked any ribs and they turned out pretty good.  I still smell of smoke though.  Kids are already in bed getting some much needed rest so they can go back to work tomorrow.

Tomorrow my plan is to put my new pedals on my bike and get my cleats adjusted and take a short ride into the next town.  I need to have a meeting with a scout parent and this will give me an excuse to get on the bike. I’t been a messy weekend and it doesn’t look to promising tomorrow but I’ll ride rain or shine.

I hope your 4th was enjoyable and I hope you got to spend it with your families.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 185/365 “Good Day Off”

03 Friday Jul 2015

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Spent the day with my wife of 24 years today while on my day off from work.  I really needed this time alone with my wife.  We went out to lunch, just my wife and I.  My two daughters were at work and we left my son at home with his Netflix.  It’s the first time that my wife and I had a “date” in many years.  Everytime we go out on our anniversary we always end up taking the kids.  We always enjoy the company of our kids but there comes a time when you need alone time with just the wife.

We went to Olive Garden, my wife’s favorite restaurant.  After we ate we went to Lowes and I picked up a smoker so I can smoke some ribs tomorrow and then we went to the cycle shop and I picked up my new road shoes.

After arriving back at home, I put my smoker together, put the new cleats on my new road shoes and spent some quality time with the girls once they got home from work.  The girls showered, ate supper and went to bed.  Not too much quality time there but I’ll take what I can get these days.

As with the canoe’s pictured, life can get confusing sometimes and it may seem that it will take some time to get untangled.  My advice is to take your time, have fun, spend some time with your spouse and your kids.  To me that’s the most important part of life.

365 Day Photo Challenge 182/365 “Long Short Week”

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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I’m off Friday of this week for observance of the 4th of July but with it being only Tuesday it feels to be the longest week thus far. The last two days have been extremely busy and long.  Both days I have worked over ten hours and traveled over 400 miles.  I don’t normally get sent out of the building and I’m not sure as to why I’m having to do all this traveling but I’m counting it a blessing to get out of the building for a couple of days.

The above picture is a building not far from our office in Montgomery, Alabama.  It is empty and for sale at this time but for years it has served as a doctor’s office.  I’m not sure how old it is but I know it’s at least 30 years old.