Category Archives: family matters

Happy Father’s Day

We prepared for Father’s Day a couple of weeks ago at the ECGYC.  Craft class produced these super cool cards based on this template.  A few of the non shy students are pictured above with their fantastic creations.  Did you make any fun crafts for Father’s Day?   We hope you enjoyed it, whether face to face with father, or simply a good chat to lessen the long distance between.
Here’s my card for you Dad!

Father’s Day

  I’m a tad tardy on this but I do believe I have heard dad say a time or two, “better late than never.”  Yesterday I met with a journalist writing a book about conservation, here in the Turks and Caicos and throughout the world (stay posted for more to come on that topic) so I didn’t have the chance to get this post done quite in time. Yesterday’s Father’s Day is the very first my father has spent as a retired man!  Last Wednesday, June 15th, marked Larry’s last day at the company he has loyally given his service to for over 20 years.  His nearly 35 year career as a heavy equipment salesman, traveling all over the great state of Wyoming, plus Colorado, Utah, Montana, and beyond, is formally finished.
Now it’s time to . . . . .  
tinker with your favorite toys,

travel,
take to the open road on two wheels,
and take the time to have a beer with your buddies!
Congratulations Dad!  Your family can’t thank you enough for all of your hard work over the years; all the icy roads, the long weeks away from home, and the rough days. I can’t ever recall you having anything but laughs and loyalty from your many customers.  Your attitude was always pleasant and professional, an attribute I aspire to very much in my own career.  Cheers to you, hats off!

Happy 4th of July!

Images by Slim Aarons originally posted on mrs lilien

I like the idea of an independence day weekend being spent near water; a lake, a river, an ocean – no matter, preferably with a bbq, a boat, and a cocktail nearby.  I like the idea of red, white, and blues, fruits, flags, and pies. But I can do WITHOUT the fireworks and if you want to know why, click to Declare your independence from toxic fireworks pollution.  Once you know that those beautiful blasts fill the environment and your lungs with cancer and chemicals, I bet you’ll agree that you could do without them too.  
Doesn’t this blondy scream All-American?   Khaki, gingham, stripes, and pearly whites.  I don’t dwelve much into the topic of fashion but in honor of my homeland, I want to spread the word on a company that hits close to home, the 1939 clothier.  This one is for the fellas, a California based gentleman’s brand of well-mades in the good ol’ US of A.   Jimmy is family and Jimmy’s blog is fantastic, a great slice of Americana-classic cars, denim, and yard sales.

Photographs taken between 1916-1919, depictions were created using hundreds of people