Random Collection of Pictures November 2025

Time to start catching up. I thought I would have plenty of time this summer to do personal blogging and it was not true - no time!

Random pictures from November 2025!

Celebrated Gina's birthday! A beautiful day within the Southern Appalachians region near Chattanooga!

Not true anymore but sure was fun when Alexa could be programmed for this! Now so many changes can't do anything fun with Alexa Echo.

Beautiful sunrise in the neighborhood at 7 am!

I thought this was really interesting - I seen these different branding names but did not know why. I grew up seeing the Indiana Standard sign in town.

Huge disruption at work as walls were removed and everything moved out of the offices for an unannounced window sealing treatment. Just poor poor communications.

November is Indigenous Peoples/Native American Month and this was one of my two displays for the month. 

Read a book about the Kaw River - really interesting description here of the middle country between the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers. This would include the Solomon valleys.

Began experimenting tucking my long hair through the back of my cap. Short experiment lol. 

Aww to close out - a picture of our grand doggies! 💗

Random Collection of Pictures October 2025

Here we go with random pictures from my phone for the month of October 2025!

We drove out to Jasper and the beauty of the Tennessee River was at full bloom! Just stunning!

I finally found a map that defines the Midwest boundaries correctly. Western Kansas is correctly placed outside of the Midwest.

I love the architecture of the Damar church - St Joseph's Catholic Church. I never realized the backyard of that church was farmland.

Dad had mentioned a few times about the cutoff road to Webster (before the lake and "new" US 24). I found a couple of items about the Webster road.

Grocery prices sure were low back in 1969. On sale items at Webster's Supermarket.

A Facebook memory popped up about the difference between managing and leading. Still good stuff.

An old map of the Missouri Pacific railway tracks.

Plaques that can be seen walking up to my campus office.

I found my Westmar College fine for being in a party with alcohol at Wernli Hall. A whole dollar and 25 cents.

Me at ChattState campus. October was a great month!

Random Collection of Pictures September 2025

We started September out with a birthday! Thank you to everyone for making it a pleasant experience and memories!

Not too much as interesting pictures in September but here we go!

On the 2nd day of September - caught the moon peeking over the tree canopy at home.

Someday I hope to see these natural landmarks in person - Monument Rocks.

A great quote from Willa Cather. It is so true and just a beautiful picture of the Willa Cather prairie - protected from being used for anything but as prairie. I sit on one of the Committees for the Willa Cather Foundation.

Maps have always fascinated me - I would spend hours looking at my Dad's road atlas or other maps. Now I use Google Maps and Google Earth lol. A lot of weird things happened around New Madrid with the river -- here a part of Kentucky is landlocked by Missouri and Tennessee. The road from Tennessee to Kentucky is paved and stripe painted then it turns into bleh at the Kentucky line.

 

Ah - the Roebling Bridge connecting Cincinnati and Covington. Did I drive over that bridge a lot or what? I see that the Ohio side now has a nice river walk and the Kentucky side has a colorful weird shaped building -- neither were there in the 80s. (For context - I lived in Covington for a short while)

A view of Citico Avenue from the family waiting room at Memorial Hospital.

Venus shining bright beside the Moon.

There are no Division 1 athletic conferences that have the elevation gap like the Big 12 conference. And believe me, there's a big difference in higher elevation athletics.

Two very cool Facebook history postings on the same day. For the curious about my hypothesis, the front and back gauges were about the same but the middle one was 1.5 more than the other two.

Picture of me outside of the library building.