Lord of the Castle

I had my alarm set for 4:45. However, I woke up at 4:40.  In the midst of a 66° evening, the wind suddenly started howling like it did during tornado season, like God just reached over and turned on a switch. This lasted for about 10 minutes. It worked out fine since I had to [...]

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It is becoming painfully clear to me why people tend to gain weight in the Midwest during the winter. First, it is cold outside and the thought of hot food is SO enticing. Honestly, who craves a salad when it is 11° outside? If that weren’t enough of a general, ongoing difficulty, you have all those [...]

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The Los Angeles area has at least five major amusement parks that boast about how great their roller coasters are.  Here in Kansas, we don’t need no stinkin’ amusement parks with no man mad roller coasters! We’ve got the real thing! At 11:00 this morning, it was 59° with 25-35 MPH winds coming from the SOUTH. [...]

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When I lived in Southern California, I must tell you that I thought that people who talked about the weather were really lame. I mean, come on… Don’t you have ANYTHING more interesting to talk about? Now that I live in KC, I understand. Try this on for size… When I picked my wife up [...]

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After I dropped my wife off at Costco this morning, I had an hour to burn before my”Genius Bar” appointment at the Apple store. I had a coupon for a free drink so I decided to do some reading at Starbucks. As I pulled up, I noticed that the parking lot was nearly full. When I walked in the [...]

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The celebration that I am now officially one year older continued today. My wife and two youngest children took me out to dinner to celebrate my birthday at Jack Stack Barbecue. In the semi-finals of the NCAA basketball tournament, the governor of Kansas made a friendly bet with the governor of North Carolina when the two [...]

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My wife and children woke up at 9:00 this morning. My wife started to make breakfast so I went out on the balcony to see if it was still as hot and humid as it was 3 1/2 hours ago. The temperature had dropped about 5-10º, the humidity had dropped and a beautiful breeze was [...]

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The trailer carrying our belongings arrived at the storage facility last night so that we could unload everything on Friday. I arranged this because the extended forecast indicated that Friday was the only day with no rainfall expected. I thought about starting to unpack last night but the intermittent rain forced me back onto the [...]

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The trailer carrying our belongings arrived at the storage facility last night so that we could unload everything on Friday. I scheduled the truck’s arrival today because the extended forecast indicated that Friday was the only day with no rainfall expected. I thought about starting to unpack last night but the intermittent rain forced me [...]

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It is colder here in Kansas than it was in Los Angeles! I realize that is probably obvious but it still makes quite an impression when you experience it for yourself. I mean, I didn’t shiver when my wife or children would call me and tell me how cold it was (10-30 degrees) or that snow [...]

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