Sandi Chats

Summer is a hectic time at our household with all the stuff we try to cram into the nice weather days.  We try to follow grandchildren in their summer activities.  We shoot Cowboy Fast Draw, and the summer is the season for the titled matches and town folk alley events.  We grow a garden, although that has been an exercise in frustration this summer.  And we try to take a few camping trips and enjoy some family reunions.  With all this activity, something has to give…and at our house it’s the house! I was once told that when life gets busy and housework has to suffer, that your priorities need to be laundry and dishes…because those things tend to pile up and increase in size over time, plus life gets complicated when you can’t find clean dishes to eat on or clean clothes to wear.  So I really try to keep up on laundry and dishes, but sometimes not much else gets done.  Lately, we have begun to wear shoes, slippers or flip flops around the hous...

I have to say right up front that blogging is kind of a new thing for me.  I have followed a few, at least for a time, and have found them very enjoyable.  And writing is kind of like my therapy…and much cheaper than a therapist! So who am I?  I have to say that’s something I am still trying to figure out after all these years!  It seems that I have recreated myself approximately every 20 year all my life, and it’s getting time for a new me. I have discovered that I am something of an oxymoron (some people would just call me a moron!).  I am talented in some ways and inept in others.  I am an introvert but can be chatty with people I feel comfortable with.  I have old-fashioned principles but also enjoy the modern age of computers, tablets and smart phones.  I am usually eager to embrace a new technology but then complain because the technology is leaving me in the dust. The written word is definitely my favorite way of communicating ...

The Buttes overlooking Fort Robinson Family reunions, whether you like them or dread them, are part of the American lifestyle.  It has been our family’s tradition since 2007 to have a Labor Day McCoy Family Reunion…and since Labor Day is only a couple weeks off, we are busy making plans for our 10 th annual reunion. Those present the first year in 2007 The first five years we met at Fort Robinson in northwest Nebraska where we rented some of their facilities and took advantage of the activities offered to have a good time. Fort Robinson, now a Nebraska State Park, was begun in 1874 as a temporary military outpost during the turmoil of the frontier Indian Wars.  It served in many capacities until 1948 when it ceased to be a military post.  For a few years the United States Department of Agriculture used it as a beef research facility until the early 1970’s.  After the USDA phased out its beef research operation, it was transferred to the State of...