Fall is easily my favorite season for grilling, and we’re going strong these days at the ABL manse. I am always a little amazed folks don’t grill more – for us, it’s probably 2-3 times per week at a minimum. But one of the reasons people don’t is that grilling can be expensive, involve difficult […]
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Have you ever had someone reach out after a long absence and act like nothing happened? They just give you the ol’ “Hey, how’s it goin’?” like they were talking to you yesterday, but maybe it’s been years. It’s weird. They typically want something. I don’t roll that way. If there’s an elephant in the
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I’m headed about 500 miles away to West Texas this weekend with my eldest son. Our primary objective is to see a rodeo. Yep, that’s just how we roll ‘round here. Last weekend my whole family went with my brother and his wife to a cabin in Oklahoma. I’m not sharing my jet-set lifestyle so
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One of my goals when working for the Man was to achieve a level where people below me would say, “I can’t believe that moron is making that much money.” That would have been a great sign that I had maxed out my ability. Sadly, as far as I know, I never hit that goal
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It’s a Friday in the middle of summer, so it’s clearly time to grab some snippets and lovely links and throw them in a blender for your reading pleasure. Welcome to another eclectic edition of TGIF! Expect the Unexpected I’ve chronicled how Snufkin the cat used to kill every small animal in sight like clockwork
Last week we made our annual summer trip to Japan to see my in-laws and have some fun. We were gone only 8 days, which many would consider too short for so far. But we’re old hands at optimizing this trip, and we managed to do everything we wanted. It was a great visit. The
There is a vicious battle being waged on my street. Every single house is under assault, and most of them are losing. Badly. Moles have invaded our lawns, and it looks like they’re here to stay. We’ve had issues with moles before, but they were always resolved quickly and free. We’d see a couple of
Things are going pretty well for me nowadays, but I have one inevitable tragedy in my near future. I’m going to have to say goodbye to what is quite likely the best dog in history of the world. My dog Bamble is 12, and even though he’s still in great health, I know we have
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We’re pretty big on summer goals in my clan. Because you can blink and the summer’s gone, I’ll sit with my boys at the beginning of summer and find some meaningful things we’d like them to accomplish. They can span academics, athletics, and general life skills. There are always some groans, especially when I’ve decided
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Gratitude has been called the shortest lived emotion. I’ve seen enough in my many years to agree that statement’s pretty spot on. However, I don’t think that gratitude has a short lifespan. I still feel deeply grateful to a handful of people from even decades ago. So gratitude can live for a long time, but