Category: Personal Blog – Friends and Family

This is the blog for serious or fun thoughts that have to do with Mike’s friends and family. Thus the title. Genius right?

It was a fantastic Birthday

Trina pulled off not only a great surprise by getting a couple of people to come in from out of town. Including Dave all the way from St. Louis. I will follow up and edit this with a list of who the people are… Continue Reading “It was a fantastic Birthday”

First day on the job

Of all the things I have to talk about from these last several weeks the highlight is stuff that happened my first week on the job at Desert Mountain Broadcasting. It was more than I could type so here’s a video of how it… Continue Reading “First day on the job”

Each Chapter brings change

Isn’t that the truth. I can tell that each day I open my TimeHop. A year ago at this time there were all kinds of pictures of Trina and I at Mayo and stories about me getting a biopsy to see how bad the… Continue Reading “Each Chapter brings change”

Where The Donation Money Went

I was embarrassed and humbled of the GoFundMe and silent auction and benefit for me in 2019. I worried that there are people that are more deserving. I worried that people would think I didn’t need it or was going to spend money on… Continue Reading “Where The Donation Money Went”

Where Things Stand Now

Here’s an update of where things are with my cancer. To recap if you came to the party late here, I have prostate cancer and had the prostate removed but they didn’t get all of the cancer because there was cancer under the prostate… Continue Reading “Where Things Stand Now”

My Farmers Only Subscription

I was looking at my bank account the other day And I noticed in the pending transactions there was about to be a charge for $29.00 from farmersonly dot com. I would never use them even if I were single or if I were… Continue Reading “My Farmers Only Subscription”

Charley For A Day

Back in December I needed to do some work around the house.  I mean like real “guy” type work.  I had to put up a medicine cabinet and some other things.  So I put on one of my dad’s shirts that he had given… Continue Reading “Charley For A Day”

Facebook Recap House Buying Day

I did something today. Bought a house. It’s official. Holy crap did I jump through some hoops. Plus that’s what I was doing on Thanksgiving instead of posting how thankful for everyone I was, I stained the front and back deck and removed a… Continue Reading “Facebook Recap House Buying Day”

Damn Barking Dogs

I’ve had other audio of these damn dogs next door and perhaps video and ended up deleting them.  Each time I think they may have gotten rid of these dogs they show up.  This was on a Saturday after they had been barking until… Continue Reading “Damn Barking Dogs”

“Kathy Can You Hear Me?”

Favorite part of the weekend at Trina’s class reunion. Seeing Kathy Nance Dietz  for the first time after her brain tumor. In front of all her classmates that don’t know me who didn’t know how well she has recovered, I walked up to her and… Continue Reading ““Kathy Can You Hear Me?””