Chronicles of the Willi

We were so surprised to see this in a recent trip to our TN home dealership!
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Filed under: Micro Blog, Uncategorized on April 30th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

This weekend we had the opportunity to witness a Civil War reenactment! (Something they do down here with a bit more enthusiasm and feeling than in NY )

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Filed under: Video, story of the land on April 27th, 2008 | 18 Comments »

One of my hobbies lately, or one of those “things to do in the car” have been drawing costume designs. I am currently taking a break from sewing, but I still like to figure out what my next project is going to be!
I thought I’d share them with y’all, because I do intend to sew [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 26th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

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Yep; the fiendish, contagious, nerve of a disease/illness known as ‘chicken pox’ has entered this household.
Katrina had it first two week ago from who-knows-where and who-knows-who, but she caught it all the same, and Jason figured it was as good a time as any for all the kids to have the pox now and get [...]

Filed under: Odds and Ends on April 24th, 2008 | 31 Comments »

I’m currently reading The Godly Man’s Picture.

“When godliness is wrought in a person…. [his] faculties are not new, but the qualities are; the strings are the same, but the tune is corrected.”

I LOVE that musician analogy! It’s not fun to play an out-of-tune guitar… [Walter]

Filed under: Micro Blog on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

You know I could write a lot about the fun we’ve been having with family and friends, but I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves. Well, actually, it just took me so long to load and organize the pictures so I’ll leave it at that for today .
Enjoy!

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 22nd, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I walked in through the back door and into the kitchen one morning, heading straight for my blue cup and the faucet – I had just returned from my morning jog, and I was thirsty!
“Good morning Kasie!” Joe called from the dining room, followed by a chorus of ‘good mornings!’ from my other nieces and [...]

Filed under: humor on April 19th, 2008 | 11 Comments »

[gulp] Time to take the big step – I’m wiping the hard disk of the family computer! Out with the old, outdated, pain-in-the-neck Windows 98, and in with Fluxbuntu.
I have high hopes!

Filed under: Micro Blog on April 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Well everyone, we’re going to try out a “micro blog” over here in the sidebar! It’s still in testing stage, and we might ditch it if we don’t like it. In this “blog within a blog” we’ll post those little thoughts, pictures and other tidbits that otherwise wouldn’t make it into a normal [...]

Filed under: Micro Blog on April 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments »