#AtoZChallenge - Quality Time

Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for 2026!

My theme this year is simply things that I’m grateful for.

It’s a broad and varied theme but was surprisingly easy to fill in each letter!

Quality Time

This could go so many directions - and with so many different people. 

Sisters

The Spouse

4 years to the day of our wedding day!

in Alaska

My favorite little guy

The Three Amigas - 

a selfie before selfies were a thing!

Onboard USS Canopus AS34, sometime in 1992

The Three Amigas Reunited!

2017

My first & only dance recital

With the Spawn

If you want a laugh - here's the dance!

The Spouse again

at Miner's Castle in Michigan's UP

One of our first call outs with the search & rescue team

#AtoZChallenge - Photography

Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for 2026!

My theme this year is simply things that I’m grateful for.

It’s a broad and varied theme but was surprisingly easy to fill in each letter!

Photography. 

I love to take pictures!  

Daisy in the Sun

This is actually the lock screen on my phone.  

It's the moon rising over Lake Huron from a hotel in Mackinaw City

Some of the guys from my search & rescue team at K9 training - 

They look like a Rockabilly band

I love how you can hear this photo!

The Spawn's dance team in 2015, winning a giant trophy, medals & fancy jackets. 

#AtoZChallenge - Oddities

Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for 2026!

My theme this year is simply things that I’m grateful for.

It’s a broad and varied theme but was surprisingly easy to fill in each letter!

Oddities. 

I like random, unusual things.  Most of the following pictures were taken at work, so that probably explains why most people don't bother me!

This is at home.  I was so exciting to find this when I was out shopping with Mom & the sisters last Christmas.  

Our missile-toad.  Something that I knew the Spouse would also get a kick out of!

Moving onto the office....

I also like skeletons.  

Thie big white skull was a birthday gift from my manager and the smaller one is made out of tiger-eye that the Spouse gave me for our anniversary. 

Flying pig. 

Walter was also a birthday gift from my manager.

She knows me so well!

The drawing was from the grandson when he came in to visit one day. 

I work for a trucking company, so he had lots of inspiration right outside the window. 

Mini-Chuck.  This is the one I took with me when I attempted to fly to Arkansas this winter. 

I don't remember why I brought him here, but he's chilling in a flower pot. 

A collection of keychains / magnets from various Loves truck stops. 

I have NASA and NYPD ones at home, too.

This is actually a Christmas ornament, but I kept it out because it reminds me of a balloon animal. 

Plunger tree!

And why not have a Timbit semi?