Hi everyone.... I enjoyed seeing the reunion pictures (despite the multiple attempts to get them posted!!) Sorry I couldn't join you. Where is 2010? Glad to hear all are well. My arm is healing faster than expected according to the surgeon--God's blessing no doubt. Unfortunately He said I will probably have a nagging ache whenever the weather changes or is damp etc.. just like my patients! Now I really feel old!
Nice picture of the retirement house momma-- BUT.... I must say I am shocked by your vulgarity. Last time I checked PUTZ was not a word I would ever expect you to say or print. Boy you sure do find ways to surprise me and make me laugh.
Chat soon

Techno Putz Strikes Again

Last weekend I took my camera to our new house and took quite a few pictures to add to the blog for you guys to see but when I got home there was only ONE on the camera. Not sure how that happened!!! So I decided that I would take more pictures the next day but I forgot the camera! So you only get to see pictures from one side due to my incompetence. The construction is moving along quite quickly and fairly smoothly which is always a good thing.

Where is everybody??

Hey!!What's happening to our blog??? Why doesn't everyone try to post something about how their week is going at least once a week... We NEED to stay connected and know what going on in each others lives....Help...please... Post your blog, today!!! (I'm trying out for a salesman position,,,,just joking...) Love ya all.

Lil' Cutie, Lovebirds, Three Stooges

now I've got the hang of it.....more pictures

Okay..not that I've tried to save these 3 different times........

Okay...I'm not the smartest knife in the Mitchell drawer......

Reunion 2009

Ok...Here's the pictures from this weekend...Had a great time...enjoyed it..Hope you all did too..

This is our guard dog, Lukie. Originally, he was with Joey, but couldn't stay at his apartment, so we inherited him. At first, he gravitated to Cindy, but lately I've become his person.

I'm teaching him to say "Please" by sitting down and holding up one paw. I want him to go to the door and do this when he needs to go out. Whether it will happen or not is debatable.

He gets quite excited when I pay Cindy any attention. I think he's a little bit jealous. He's never been anything more than a nuisance, but the other day he got a tad more aggressive. She was sitting on the sofa and when I leaned over to kiss her, he bit me. In the ass. No lasting damage, though, and the only scars left are psychological.

Look at him! Doesn't he look vicious?

Seems like it's been forever.

I've been working with two other men, both Albanians, to set up and run a tile installation business--Millennium Tile. History is that I was at Starbucks one day about a 1-1/2 yrs. ago and noticed them sitting at another table. Since I was wearing my official Patterson shirt, they approached me and asked for work. We had a few little jobs, so I gave them a chance. After a few months, they came to me with the proposal that I act as CEO for their business, which at that time was disappearing due to lack of work. Since then we have been slowly building to the point of bidding commercial projects, the last of which was over $61,000.00 just for the tile work. Unfortunately, we haven't landed any commercial contracts, but there is some residential work to fill in.

Needless to say, I haven't had a lot of spare time lately. These commercial jobs have bid deadlines which usually fall within two to three weeks from the time I find out about them, so we have to scramble. Not quite sure where all this is going to lead, but hopefully I can parlay this into some "moving money" and, with communications the way they are today, still be able to work the business from Montana. (By the way, Genti and Columbo are expert tile mechanics, so I won't have to lay any unless I want to.)

We're still on for Montana. Cindy has made it clear that she's ready to leave Florida and, as long as she is working and holding her own, I might actually reach the goal of $10,000.00 to move with. It's feasible, but I will have to work a lot of Saturdays to make it.

Any road, I am counting down the days until next Friday morning when I fly out of Jax and head to Rochester. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. I can almost smell the steaks grillin'.

P.S. The staples came out of the head recently. Looks like everything is healing fine. Time will tell if it knocked any sense into me.