A Bob's Life

The sun is breaking over the mountains of Virginia this morning. In all of my recent travels, seeing mountains is a relatively new expe...

Orioles Opening Day 2014 It is finally here.  Major League Baseball returns to Baltimore as the Orioles 2015 campaign begins! With t...

5th Place (Tie) Going to the Game with E-Dawg At the end of every year, I like to review the images (pictures) that were taken to both...

Kitty Departs It finally happened. On the last day of 2014, Kitty, my Jaguar, left the nest and was donated to the National Kidney Found...

Pikes Peak during January 2014 2014 ends tonight. What a year it has been. I am at the same time happy and sad to see it pass. It is t...

It is a beautiful sight in my backyard. The bullseye! It is a Christmas gift purchased with the gift cards that I received form a local ...

The temperatures for the holiday period have been unseasonably warm. Today the temperature is supposed to top out near 53 degrees, and of ...

Weirdest Gift if Christmas Isn't that the question that we get asked the most in the days after Christmas? While we are still tryi...

A funny thing happened yesterday evening--Chris and I were at home. . .  And that was the funny thing! For better than the past two week...

New holiday experiences can be fun and add some variety to the seasonal preparations. Last evening Chris and I along with a few friends w...

Columbia Mall, MD December 18, 2014 What did I do last evening? Scoured the local mall for the final gifts of Christmas. Unsuccessfull...

Steak on the Bar-bee I celebrated unseasonably mild temperatures last evening by cooking a steak on the grill for dinner. It was a mid-D...

1. 10 days until Christmas! The elves better get a move on. 2. What happens when a toilet in an upstairs bathroom malfunctions? Spots on t...

Our Pyramids I'm writing this with the memory of an impromptu party that Chris and I hosted with our some of our closest friends las...

This may seem strange, but I think celebrating Christmas birthdays is awesome!  And the definition of a Christmas birthday is any birthd...

Poinsettia Tree Columbia Mall 2014 A sure sign of the season is a solo shopping trip to the Columbia Mall . It happened yesterday. I ri...

It was a dark and rainy evening. Three grandsons were having an overnight and Chris and I needed a distraction for them. Let me rephrase, ...

Ellicott City during Midnight Madness in the Rain Christmas must really be close. Last evening we braved to cold temperatures and the ra...

First Tree of 2014 in the Family Room Yup, it is definitely the Christmas Season. Beginning on Saturday, I assembled three Christmas tre...

I am in the middle of a round trip to Ithaca to return my parents and officially put an exclamation mark on Thanksgiving. This is my second ...