Daniel's Realm

It has been an interesting summer to say the least . . . It was here and is just about gone already--time sure flies. Took a trip the the National Museum of the Great Lakes that is here in Toledo--near the Veteran's Memorial Skyway Bridge--that was an interesting day trip--we toured the museum and the cargo ship that is docked there. Here is my mom and I setting at the sign in front of the National Museum of the Great Lakes. The museum has many artifacts from the Great Lakes it is so interesting to walk through there looking at all the displays of the various artifacts pertaining all to the Great Lakes--there is even a display from the wreck of the Fitzgerald. Another display shows each of the great lakes (a view of them on a scale model without the water, which has the depths of each of the great lakes). There is a lighthouse display of the lighthouses along the great lakes--it was a very interesting trip, I did not know as much as I thought I did about our Great Lakes--I

Memorial Day 2014 has came and gone already--soon this year will be half over. It has been a little while since I last posted on the blog--busy, busy. The family and I did not really do a whole lot for Memorial Day--we went to Raker cemetery and visited my Grandfather Baldwin's grave and popped into Fulton Manor and visited with Grandma Baldwin--she was glad to see us.  No big cookout, nothing planned. My boss got a wonderful idea at a meeting she attended the Wednesday after Memorial Day--we are creating an Adult Reading lounge at the library on the main floor--we have moved our Mystery Books and Large Print books into this created reading lounge for the summer--we have moved furniture around and it is coming together--the YA Books and our Cafe Tables have been moved over by the Public Computers--the teens sit at the computers and that move has went over pretty good with the teens--maybe we will see more of our YA books going out. Those of you who are in the Wauseon Area, stop

Alas Winter 2013-2014 has came and went--I am not sorry to see it go, we surpassed the snowfall from the Blizzard of 1977-78--ended up with 85 inches of snow for the Toledo, Ohio area . . . Wow! I have not seen that much snow in my life time, I was little when the Blizzard of 1977-78 went through, don't remember too much about it.  I am glad Spring has arrived, even though Old Man Winter does not want to let go yet! It will warm up later this week and I hope it continues to warm up . . . wonder what type of summer we are going to have?  I guess we will have to wait and see. I have watched a few movies since my last post to the blog.  The first one I seen was "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" that was a really good movie it is as good as the first one, but I am going to re-watch the first one so I can remember what happened. I also watched "Pacific Rim" that was different, but it was good, there is likely going to be another part to that one. I also watched "F

Here we are January 31, 2014. What a January we have had! We started 2014 like a lion and I believe January is going to go out like a whole pride of lions. We have gotten the snow and cold . . . pardon me, Sub-Zero Arctic Temps this month in most of the US--this has not happened in decades!  Already the snow fall for the month of January has surpassed the snow amount that fell during the Blizzard of 1978--31 inches of snow fell all at once during the blizzard of 78. We have now gotten over 40 inches of snow in the metro-Toledo area! Let's not forget about the Sub-Zero Arctic Temperatures that came with the storms the first part of January and this last storm that rolled through this past week giving us more Sub-Zero Temps!  We were colder that Alaska a few times this month--that is something for the history books! Those temperatures can stay way up North, thank you very much! I will be glad when spring and summer weather comes in and it stays warm for awhile. But, this is winte

I must say 2014 sure came in like a lion weather-wise--we had 11.2 inches of snow twice this month (January) the first storm was on January 2, 2014 and the second round of snow came in January 5-6, 2014. The second round of snow brought blowing and drifting plus Arctic Temperatures that we have not seen around here in decades.  Caused Level 3 Snow Emergencies the first part of the week and caused school closures.  My employer was closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (January 6-8, 2014). It has warmed up and this snow is melting--til the next round--hopefully not for a little while yet, we will see. Today--January 11, 2014 is my Grandmother's 86th Birthday. We went to Fulton Manor to visit with her and take her birthday gift to her. She really liked her birthday cards from us and her other set of PJs we picked out and got for her. The other set (left side of the picture--the purple set) was exchanged and gotten in her size--a Christmas Gift she was given. the mint green