• Bucket List

    Building A Bucket List

    Welcome to the newest category of my blog – “Bucket List”.  For the past couple of years, I have been adding things to my bucket list as I think of them.  I decided having a category for these items, would not only help me keep them in order, but give me a place where I could write about them as I accomplish them,  as well as record my journey getting there. Even though a Bucket List is a list of things you want to accomplish before you kick the bucket, it is not a morbid or sad list.  It is merely a list of things you would like to do,…

  • Adventures & Travel

    Hockey Night In Boise, Idaho – The Steelheads VS The Walleyes (Toledo)

    I am not a t.v. sports fan.  I do not really follow any particular sport.  I will occasionally watch a football game when it comes on, and I’m usually good for catching a few events during both Winter and Summer Olympics.  Otherwise, if I am not actually at the game, it just isn’t going to hold my attention very well.  I have found though, that most sporting events where I have actually been there, watching it, I have really enjoyed the sport – no matter what it was.  Whether it is a result of getting swept up in all of the adrenaline, excitement and yelling of the crowd, or the smell of…

  • Adventures & Travel

    Schweitzer Mountain – Sandpoint, Idaho

    2019 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!     2018 went out with a bang (and a bump, and a faceplant) on the ski slopes of Schweitzer Mountain in Sandpoint, Idaho! Learning to ski happens to be #2 on my Bucket List.  After a day of “skiing”, it is still #2 on my Bucket List.  I have not been on skis since I was a Freshman in high school – and even then, I spent more time laying in the snow than I did upright on skis.  Yesterday was a vivid reminder of my one time on skis in high school.  Obviously, the ability to ski does not just happen with age.  It was…