FATHER’S DAY 2025

 

This Father’s Day was a little bitter sweet as I conquered the first holidays without Christina. So while it was nice being with family, it still wasn’t the same.I am slowly adjusting to my new reality though. That is for another post though. So back to Father’s Day. The top picture was that last picture i had with my dad. I think this is the only picture i have of just me and him, certainly as adults. this picture was taken after i had just graduated from KU in the spring of 1993. About six months later we loose him to heart attack. He was the first tough loss of my life, but not the last unfortunately. I was closer to him the next six months than the previous 23 years before that. I am so thankful for that time i had with him at the end. I still miss him and wish he could have known my family.  ‘TILL NEXT TIME.

THE GREATONE

Road Trip

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I went on a little road trip this weekend. This was my first trip since I lost Christina three months ago. My cousin Mitch’s  son Zack got married.  That is him and his new bride Ashley during there first dance. You can actually see me in the background.it wasn’t too long after this that I almost had a break down. The whole trip just brought up a lot of emotions for me, but it was a good trip. I needed to get out of town so it helped me in that respect. I think i am going to start taking more day trip or just short weekend type trips maybe to different history museums, especially air museums. But we will see how it goes. This was at least a little step forward and i needed that.  ‘TILL NEXT TIME.

THE GREATONE

The River

 

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What a couple of weeks of rain did for the river. The top photo was a couple of weeks ago, the middle one last week and the bottom one was today.  As you can see in the third photo the river has gone some also. This area has become one of my go to places lately. One of these days i will explore some of the  walking walking trails around this area.  For now i a just content at just looking at the river. To me it is just peaceful and relaxing and lately I haven’t had a a lot of peace in my life lately. ‘TILL NEXT TIME.

THE GREATONE

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Starting Over

It has been awhile since I have written anything on here. My hope is to get back in the habit of doing this again. So stayed to tuned for updates from the Greatone!! I will say it has been a real difficult last couple of months.  If you know you why, if not I will just say a lost my wife almost three months ago. My grandkids, my dog Shinner and God are getting me through this tough time of my life. I am struggling to find new rhythms and find myself at times trying to hold onto routines i need to move on from or trying to go back to old ones had before I knew her. I know as time goes on I will start figuring out on how to live alone. Until next time.

 

Nice to see you again!

Well I think I am going to start this thing up again!  I know I have been saying this for years, but hopefully I am going to stick with it this time. I don’t know what random topics I will we talking about, but that is the fun of it!

Reset

It has been awhile since I have wrote on here. I figure it is time for a reset, not only for this blog, but for me personally. So here goes!!!!

Life has been good for the most part for the last couple of years. Definitely I have had some major ups and downs, but that is just part of life. The two things I do know is that one my lord Jesus Christ loves me and two my wife loves me. As long as I have those two things I am golden . So here is to the future.

2015 Kansas City Royals playoff highlights

http://youtu.be/Q5NUmLDentM

Good highlight video of the Royals World Series run.