Think of the dog. Faithful friend, long-suffering, ever-loving companion, and the life he must lead. What is the dog’s keenest sense? The sense of smell.
A dog’s sense of smell is a hundred times, maybe a thousand times more sensitive than our own. Continue reading Dog Food
The year was (about) 1990.
I was serving as Chief of the Computer Division at the Community College of the Air Force, and the staff there decided to have a chili contest. There were to be three categories — the best chili, the worst chili, and the hottest chili. Continue reading The HOTTEST CHILI Contest
Not quite thirty years ago, my sister was expecting her first child. At the time, she was living in Germany and I was living in Montgomery, Alabama. At that time, I had just gotten a new printer, which would print very clearly at very small sizes, and I was a kid with a new toy. Continue reading Raising Young Children
For the first time in years, actually decades, my wife and I finally took a real vacation. Sure, we’ve done lots of travel over the years, but in these days of widely dispersed families, pretty much all our non-business travel has been to go visit family.
Not that there’s anything wrong with visiting family. We love them, and we love visiting them. But visiting family really cannot be considered as a “real” vacation.
This posting is the central index for a series of six other postings that relate our travelogue of this vacation, including both stories and images from this trip. Continue reading Vacation Travelogue – September 2016