Sorry for the five-day delay in posting to this blog. I haven’t gone that long since the first week we moved here. My excuse: My wife’s been off work for several days. When she’s home, I like to spend time with her, whether it’s on a day-trip, shopping, watching a movie, cooking, talking, or simply[...]
Since before we were married, my wife has been dreaming of replacing my old furniture with new stuff, stuff that she picked out herself. I’d been living with an old sofa that was a hand-me-down from my parents, and a loveseat that was new in 1987. We gave away the sofa before leaving Seminole, and[...]
Saturday, I learned once again to trust my wife’s judgment, even if it’s the simple matter of picking a football score. (To clarify, I always trust her judgment on important things.) I’d predicted 34-20, while she said 14-7, for the final score of the OU-Texas game. Both of us predicted a Longhorn victory. I didn’t[...]
Tonight, we saw our first-ever high school football game in Killeen, Texas. For me, it’s been 20 years since I saw a high school game in Texas; my last one was at Smithson Valley High School, in the fall of my senior year. For my wife, it was her first experience of any kind with[...]
Gradual Progress The photo below is intended to show the progress I’ve gradually made in the appearance of our back porch: (Copyright © 2009 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.) The above shot shows dead, unswept grass piling up near the wall on the left, and tall weeds overhanging the porch on the right.[...]
So Torn! My emotions and loyalties are torn, regarding tomorrow’s football game between OU and Texas. I am native to neither state (I was born in Hawaii, which is only slightly closer to Texas than to Oklahoma). I lived in Oklahoma first, for about five years, and then lived in Texas for more than seven[...]
A few days ago, my wife and I received our first full electric bill from TXU, and boy, were we surprised. We’d already gotten the initial bill, a month earlier, but that was for a partial month so we couldn’t use it to budget correctly. Plus, it had the one-time connection fees and other service[...]
2.4 Million Views I was reading some of my old blogs the other day, and saw where I was *very* excited that my Flickr photostream had 50,000 views! Today, I checked my stats page again, and saw that I had over 2.4 million aggregate page views since joining Flickr. Amazing: Click here to view it[...]
Yesterday, my wife and I headed to Round Rock again, after a hearty breakfast (lunch) of scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, and cinnamon toast. (Lest anyone get the wrong idea, those items were cooked by yours truly…) At Ikea, which both of us were excited to visit again, we picked up several things we’d been missing,[...]
Days Off My wife got off work early last night (to make up for working late the day before), and we watched ” Wanted ” on DVD during the unexpected time. Today, we’re planning another trip to Ikea to pick up a few necessities. The other day, we accidentally broke our pizza stone (which had[...]
This is from a year ago, but I don’t think I ever mentioned it. My wife and I always laugh when reminding each other of this story. We were at the neighborhood playground. Rebecca was drawing on the sidewalk using a white rock to make white lines. Two other girls, probably four and five years[...]
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
This video is is cuter without sound (I forgot to mute the TV before recording). Rebecca was proud that she drinks out of a glass now, without spilling: (Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
Flickr did their biggest change ever this evening. There’s a little more about that on my other blog. I’m seriously considering ending my eight-year relationship with Flickr. If only there were another decent place to share photos (and remember, I said “decent”, so no one suggest Facebook). Rebecca worked on learning my limits again today.[...]
WEATHER: 72-93°F, mostly cloudy RLF requested the playground today, after a few weeks of not going, so I said okay. She wouldn’t walk there; only rode in the stroller. And only played there for about five minutes before she was ready to come home. (This is why we’d quit going in the first place.) She[...]
➤ A couple of nights ago, Rebecca woke up crying about 2 a.m. My wife heard it, rushed in. RLF said she needed to go to the bathroom. MF took her; RLF did. Then RLF went back to sleep. (I didn’t wake up. Noises will prevent me from falling asleep, but very little will wake[...]
After a cooler than average spring, yesterday was the hottest day of the year (high: 92°F) until today’s record high of 96°F. Had a pretty good day with Rebecca (scroll down for photos).
Rebecca did well with potty again today — still working on #2. After an early, short, and surprising nap (she put herself down at 11:50 for just an hour), much of the afternoon was full of fussing and craziness. I got a new debit card today, to replace the old one that was cracking and[...]
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