Category: Rick

  • Cajun Vacation: Home Sweet Home March 11

    The rain continued to come day on Friday morning.  The plan was to pack up and drive all day until we reached home.  Vacation was just about over for us.  This was our last day on the road. After showers and packing up, we went down to load up the car one last time.  Pulling […]

  • Cajun Vacation: Walking in Memphis

    Today, we are on the move again.  We woke up to dry skies, but the clouds were very low.  It’s probably good we are leaving NOLA today.  We start our first leg back to the real world and home.  After packing up, Rich went down to the lobby for coffee so that he would be […]

  • Cajun Vacation: Day 5 Happy Birthday, Rick!

    Happy Birthday, Rick.  Today is my son’s 22nd birthday.  On this day 22 years ago, he woke me up from a sound sleep to take care of some important business.  He arrived about 4 weeks early and has been dragging his heels about things ever since. We weren’t in any hurry today either.  I didn’t […]

  • Cajun Vacation: Day 3 Avery Island and Gator Cove

    Today, we had a bit of a slow start.  After breakfast at the hotel, we headed south to Avery Island.  For Rick, we were doing a tour of the Tabasco plant.  He so loves this stuff.  I do believe he puts it on just about everything he eats.  Rich had been in the area almost […]

  • Cajun Vacation: Day 1 and Day 2 Drive, Drive, Drive

    Vacation came early this year.  Rick had his spring break start on March 4.  I decided that March might be a great time to go and check out Louisiana.  As long as I was paying, Rick was up for joining us.  Sure, why not.  Besides, his 22nd birthday would be during that week.  It’ll be […]

  • Big Sky Vacation Day 1: Through the land of cheese haus

    Luckily, the alarm went off this morning. Otherwise, I would have slept through the time to leave.  Sascha finished the job by demanding to go out and look for squirrels.  I got moving and took my shower.  From there, it was time to finish packing.  Rich got moving, too.  Wow, even Rick got up.  Just […]

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    Actually, my Mother’s Day was all weekend.  I started on Saturday by sleeping in.  Rich got up with Sascha to put her out, but that was just his excuse to go fishing.  It was a beautiful morning and he had made bait the night before.  He was ready for this. I woke up to no […]

  • Derby Party 2014

    This year’s Derby celebration was going to be very scaled back.  There was no fresh Zurekbrau available due to the effects of the polar vortex.  It was just never warm enough out there to brew beer!  With freezing temps, it was hard to be exposed, standing on cold concrete, and trying to use water without […]

  • Smoky Mountains: Day 2 Adventure Awaits

    So as predicted, we slept in. But only a little.  Sascha can’t seem to make it past 6:30 to go out.  It’s not because she needs to go to the bathroom.  She is wasting daylight if she is not out there guarding her yard from the much dreaded squirrel population.  As soon as it is […]

  • Day 9 We’re not in Kansas anymore?

    We made it home.  We were in no hurry again this morning.  It’s vacation, right?  Our last day of lazy mornings and no need to be anywhere soon. I started out in the passenger seat.  I wanted one good day to brown my right arm.  Since I do a lot of the driving, my left […]