It’s Groundhog Day! Phil has told us Spring is in the air. No shadow this year (despite us being able to see his shadow, apparently it did not spook him). Have you ever watched this ceremony? All those guys with top hats, reading from scrolls, being all Monopoly Guy proper. How does one become the…
Reflections on Life
Things always seem to be busy. I have tons of blog posts I haven’t written. We’ve been doing house renovations, the older two kids started ground school, we’ve had holidays, gone to see real mummies, went to the hills, had our last visit (unless someone breaks something) with the Orthopedic Pediatric Surgeon. There are cars…
Mummies!
The Corner Gallery at Playhouse Square in Cleveland has been home to Mummies of the World: The Exhibition for awhile now, and I needed to see it! I could have had many lives, archaeology, geology, anthropology, etc… Forensic Anthropology (like the TV show Bones) is also on that list (along with Egypt in particular), so…
Surviving AirVenture 2023 – Part 3 – Campground Amenities
Living in a tent for a week next to hundreds of thousands of our closest friends is a challenging feat. Hence the reason I call this more of an experience rather than a vacation. The campground has a lot of Red One Markets with very overpriced basics. They have lots of port-o-potties stationed everywhere, so…
Surviving AirVenture 2023 – Part 2 – Super Guppy
So, back in 2019, NASA’s Super Guppy flew into Mansfield, Ohio with part of Orion so NASA could do testing at Plum Brook Station (now the Neil Armstrong Test Facility) in Sandusky. It was a wild day for us, because we had spent the day in Marietta, Ohio having lunch with my parents and grandparents,…



