I know, I know. Despite my aching back I should have finished clearing my mom’s driveway yesterday. I should have expected the unshoveled snow to ice up and harden. Which it did. And if I thought my back was hurting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not taking a shot at the weather man here. Yeah they do get sort of excited when there’s severe weather, and I know there are times when they predict a big storm or in the winter a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Really, except for a dusting of snow a month ago we haven’t had any frozen precipitation yet, until today. It’s so unseasonably. We need a good snow fall every winter, it helps to keep down the insect population in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, have I really seen “It’s a Wonderful Life” now, 39 times? Well, NBC has owned exclusive rights to the film, airing it every Christmas Eve, since 1993. I’m sure I’ve watched it every year so that would mean I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know exactly what happened, that weekend in February of 2001, but my biggest problem with this company wasn’t specifically that they almost went out of business (after I moved with everything I owned from Kansas City to Philadelphia,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could go over all the stuff that happened to me at Hallmark, because I didn’t leave, (both good and bad), but that could lead to a lengthy post. I’ll just add this. In 1997 I got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I normally take time off around the Christmas and New Years holidays, to kind of “wind down” at the end of a year, but I had to take most of these days in the last two weeks of 2020 or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems that every winter, when the television weathermen and women make their forecasts, the public get angry when they predict a snowstorm and it doesn’t snow. Then, if they don’t predict a snowstorm and it does snow, they get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For over 30 years, from 1983 thru 2017, I lived and worked in different areas of the country. Because of that I’d gotten into the habit of storing away vacation time to use around Christmas. That way, I’d only have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…