Author Archives: Tom

Tuesday 17 The morning started at 48 degrees. It was my youngest daughter’s birthday. I had called Heather the night before because I wasn’t sure what hours she worked today. She works as a butcher in a restaurant / meat market. Sorry, I don’t remember the name … it is strange. I do remember thatContinue reading “2017 October 17-20”

Saturday 14 We drove in to Cedar Park/Leander to watch Sofia play volleyball. Her team won the first of three games. The other team had girls that were quite a bit older, bigger, and stronger. Very little about what they play could be called “volleyball”. Mostly, if one team finally manages to serve a ballContinue reading “2017 October 14-16”

Tuesday 10 Up at 6 and on the road by 6:30. Country roads can be very dark at that time of day. There was no moon or stars visible either. It was all very peaceful … except for the knowledge that there is at least one new dead deer along this six mile stretch ofContinue reading “2017 October 10-13”

Sunday 01 We went to Union Park United Methodist Church for Worship. Tom was the liturgist for the first service. Nathan, Beth and the kids had broken camp and left by the time we returned to Cutty’s Des Moines Camping Resort. We spent the afternoon with John and Dawn. It was a very laid backContinue reading “2017 October 1st – 9th”

The sun was just coming up when we stopped in Nebraska for breakfast. Mrs. Claus and I left around 4 a.m. on Thursday September 14th and spent about 14 hours driving to Santa University in Westminster Colorado. Western Nebraska had a lot of sky to look at … and nothing else.   Colorado wasn’t muchContinue reading “2017 September Santa University recap”

  The past few days have been so full that I haven’t been keeping up with this blog. Here are some photos from the last couple of days.                

Ella Posts: We, Mrs Claus’s, went on trip up into the mountains today. However, there was a forecast for snow higher up so we stopped in Estes Park and did some shopping at an arts and crafts show

Friday 15th I awoke at 5:30 (mountain time). How did my body adjust to the time zone change and still wake me at my normal time? Or maybe, in reality I over slept by an hour because it would have been 6:30 central time. It was nice to take a L-O-N-G shower! When you liveContinue reading “2017 September Santa U day 2”

September 14th We got on the road shortly after 4 a.m. and headed to Colorado for Santa University. We made our first pit stop about 5. We crossed into Nebraska about quarter after 6 and stopped for coffee outside of outside of Lincoln Nebraska at 6:45 for coffee. The sky was just beginning to glow orangeContinue reading “2017 September Santa University Day 1”

Do you ever think about what the events in lives mean in the greater ebb and flow of our existence? As I’m writing my blog, I am for the most part, chronicling “events”. Mostly they are small events … the everyday events like “Ate breakfast and then went to the Cafe for coffee with friends.”Continue reading “Just Thinking about Journaling”