From July 17, 2003 The other day on the radio, the topic of leisure suits came up. One of the DJs didn’t even know what they were. Mike couldn’t believe that anyone could not know what a leisure suit was, as he was a leisure suit aficionado. Yes, the uniformed man at work, or the […]
Category: Life with Mike
Super Dolly
Mike has a way about fixing any shortcomings of tools, equipment or mechanical things, and if he doesn’t have the proper piece of equipment, he can make it. As he says it, this is his “ingenuity for inadequacies.” In that department, consider the piano dolly Mike made when we moved from Wichita Falls to the […]
Westerns Save the Day
“Life with Mike” has been on hold the past few weeks as Life with Mike in the house has been a little different. Mike had foot surgery recently. He had a bone spur that needed to be removed, and because he is a diabetic, everything just takes him a little extra time to heal. His […]
The Power of Potatoes
A piece from 2004, when my dad was making regular mission trips to Albania and Kosovo. There’s something about potatoes. In spite of all the healthy people who tell you not to eat potatoes because of the high carb count, or that they’re bad because they have no color to them, we’re drawn to them. […]
The Garage
Our house in the Panhandle was an old two-story farmhouse that had been moved into town sometime in the 1940s and rocked with big pieces of rock and driftwood. The mortar between the rocks was covered with a large bead of mortar, giving it an unusual look. Like happens in a lot of small towns, […]
The Homemade Camper Shell
Just a few months after we moved to the Panhandle, 300 miles away from home, I got a new car — a 1994 Saturn. I must have had gas mileage on my mind, because I sure didn’t think about space. I loved the Saturn. When we traded it in for an SUV six years and […]
Mr. Halloween
It’s October, when orange is not only accepted as a valid decorating color, it is encouraged. Nowadays, we mainly stick to general fall decor, pumpkins and other fally paraphernalia, but that wasn’t always the case. Once upon a time, if you trick-or-treated at the Floyd house, you might have been scared away before you got […]
An Official’s Official
With all the ruckus over the replacement refs the past few weeks, thought I’d show another viewpoint. Mike and I have felt bad for the replacements. I’m sure most were men just trying to do their best, but thrown into a situation where they couldn’t win no matter what they did. Even the real NFL […]
Step Away from the Kidney
Both Mike and I worked at a hospital way back in the 70s. Then, transplants were rare and miraculous occurrences, only done at a few big medical centers. If a patient was diagnosed as needing a transplant, it was mentioned in grave, hushed tones. To us then, a transplant was somewhere out there in the […]
One Wall at a Time 