There’s a piece in the New York Times about trying to sell a $135 million home. The home is on 95 acres near Aspen, Colo. and is billed as the most expensive single-family residential property on the market in the U.S. There’s a number of nice photos of the 46,000 sq. ft. palace. If you have nothing better to do, take a look by clicking on the link above.
Time at the beach
Family members who had gathered in Paso Robles for a few days made a trek to Morro Bay on Monday, July 9 for some fun in the surf, shopping on the strand and a little sandy recreation. Here Isaiah Atkinson performs some primal terpsichore on the beach in the shadow of Morro Rock.
Expect more photos of the family gathering to show here soon. Family activities included not only the beach trip but a picnic in the park accompanied by some box-sliding activities.
Siblings & cousins
BARSTOW, CA — So, here we are on our annual pilgrimage to visit family and friends in California. We stopped in Barstow to get fuel for both our bodies and our conveyance. Circumstances dictated that dinner was to be provided by the Colonel.
Grandchild 1, familiar with the KFC menu called in his order for the chicken nugget “Laptop” meal. Grandchildren 2 and 3 (siblings) followed suit. When the meals were delivered, they contained among other things a granola bar. Aiden, 5, hands the bar to grandpa for label screening. Aiden has a peanut allergy.
The news was not favorable on that account, so Aiden surrendered his bar. Sibling Priscilla and cousin Davis, without prompting (or necessity) surrendered theirs as well.
“And a little child shall lead them.”
Gramps buys a Mac, for Pete’s sake!
Okay, I finally did it.
I started my formal departure from the Evil Empire. After 25 years of DOS / Win as my main environment with a little bit of VMS, UNIX, and a fair smattering of Linux thrown in, my new main machine at home is a Mac Pro.
It happened this way.
In the fall of [Read more…]
Kenneth survives crash
The investigative officer at the scene said he had seen cars wrap around concrete pillars the way Ken’s truck was Sunday night, but he had never seen anyone survive such a crash.
Kenneth Faulkner is a first. The officer told Kenneth he needed to go to church on Monday.
Kenneth had just merged onto Westbound 19th Street in Lubbock at West Loop 289 when his pickup truck was struck from behind by a speeding Chevrolet Camaro. The impact sent Kenneth’s pickup spinning [Read more…]
