Thursday, December 25, 2014

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Christmas Past:

It's not Christmas without.....

It's not Christmas without:

 
Cookies for Santa

 
Cookies for Robby! 


 
Cheese steaks for dinner

 
Tater Tots for Robby

 
Trimmed tree ready for presents

 
Tree ready for Santa's visit

 
Babies tucked in.
 
Merry Christmas to All and to All a good night!

Thursday, December 18, 2014

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Not so long ago throw back:

Daily Happy: Shameless Dad Blog

Catching up from previous weeks while I was traveling. Robby keeps getting bigger. He got his first big boy haircut. Watched his first Superbowl. Had his first pepperoni roll.


Here's the boy at Grandma and Grandpa's house for the Superbowl. He's putting a garlic press on his nose and watching Aunt Becky and Noelle.


Look at that big guy!


Another batch of pepperoni rolls. This time for the Superbowl. They didn't last very long.


Robby snagged my phone and snapped this picture. Budding "foot-ographer"?


Reading Highlights with dad


An old freind found this in his parents attic. I was all-county soccer in my senior year!


An Iceberg on the Chesapeake Bay. Photo taken by Dan Goff in Shady Side

Thursday, December 11, 2014

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Just plain old cute:

Daily Happy: Shameless Dad Blog

Robby had a busy week: Picnics, Hikes, and a visit to the library to hang out with a giant stuffed teddy bear.


Or maybe a Tubby Bear?

Here's the bouncy dance -- getting them legs ready to walk.




http://youtu.be/Ohdwru0nAn4


I can't help it. I'm kinda cute.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

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Remember these?

Three Blind Muse: Gallery Spoon Smile

Its everyone's favorite time of the week; the moment you've all been waiting for: Three Blind Muse. This week we did, as the title suggests, Gallery Spoon Smile. Three Excellent Choices.

But before we go ahead, we need to tally the scores from last week: With one vote for Blizzard 2016 and one vote forThe Character's Courtwe have another tie. Reminds me oflast week's post:


Blah Blah Blah, no one votes. Blah Blah Blah, maybe I should have figured out that no one's reading this blog.  Blah Blah Blah dreams crushed under the weight of a cold, uncaring world. 

Wait a minute: one last vote just trickled in through the interwebs. Who could it be for? Blizzard 2016!


By the power vested in me by Shakespeare, Kafka, Swift, Nabokov, Milton, Chaucer, Solzhenitsyn, London, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Conan-Doyle, Poe, Steinbeck, Twain, Goethe, Descartes, Mill, Dickens, Tolkien, Hemingway, Orwell, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Wilde, Vonnegut, Rand, Woolf, Camus, Melville, Dahl, Huxley, Bradbury, Blake, Sheldon, Shelley, Beckett, Nietzsche, Emerson, Lawrence, Sartre, Thoreau, Chekhov, Lewis, Salinger, Dostoevsky, and, most of all, Chuck Norris, I declare Robert Clifford Davis III, begat of Robert Clifford Davis, Jr, begetter of Robert James Davis, as this week's undisputed Champion of the the free world of Three Blind Muse. It's about F*&king time. Took you people long enough. A#%holes. Seriously. I've been giving you F*&king gold for three weeks, people. Make like a straw and Suck it. 


Oh. No. I read it wrong. It was actually a vote for The Character's Court. That means Christina won. Yeah. 


 Anyway. Here's this week's entries. I stand behind everything I said.




Reclamation


Capo gave me a wry smile as he clicked on his intercom. “Another spinner.”
He kicked at the rubble, clearing shards of pottery and wood until we could see a blackened hand. It shook like palsy. “Pull it out.”

“I hate these Infects”, I mumbled. Ever since the change, we’ve spent all our time flying to earth and burning off the stain of what used to be humanity.

“You could be one, you know.” He smiled at me again, motioning at my bio-suit.  “What do you think this place used to be?”

“Before the cleansing?” I surveyed the room. “I don’t know. Museum? Picture gallery? There’s a lot of crap on the walls. Maybe some wealthy guy’s house.”

“Well, the silver spoon didn’t help this guy any”, Capo observed, poking the discolored corpse with the muzzle of his M326 heat rifle as I pulled it from the debris. It flailed like it was trying to get up. Capo pulled his trigger, turning it to dust in a matter of seconds.

I turned to Capo, “What do you say we fly back up to SOH318, clean up, and wait for the next supply delivery?”

“Sure. Some dinner sounds good, Johnny Cake”


A Capital Offense

John dropped his spoon absentmindedly into his empty soup bowl.

“Need something?” asked the waitress.

“No, ma’am,” John said, shifting his gaze toward the door.

She followed his eyes. “Got any plans?”

“I’m going to the theater,” he answered, grabbing the bill and pulling out his wallet.

He threw cash on the table and headed outside. He kept his head down and walked across the street.

There was a crush of people pushing their way in. The crowd was hoping to get a glimpse of the honored guest. They didn’t realize that they would be witnesses to history.

John slid his way through the crowd and made it into the lobby. He handed over his ticket and bounded up the stairs.

The second floor outside the balcony was oddly empty. John paused to take in a gallery of paintings. His heart jumped when he realized he wasn’t alone.

“Can you believe all these people for a play?” the stranger chuckled. “I’m only here because my wife dragged me… Sorry, I should introduce myself. My name is Louis Smith. What’s yours?”

“John Wilkes Booth,” he said with a smile. “Nice to meet you.”
So, what do you think? Is there a clear winner this week? Use the comment section below or send an email torcdavis3rd@gmail.com to enter your vote for this week's Three Blind Muse winner. We'll announce the winner next week. 

The three words for next week's contest are:


Binge Gossip Hamburger


Sweetness!

We'll be putting our stories together here at Ashford Living. 
And if you want to be a guest writer, send your story to me, rcdavis3rd@gmail.com
Remember to follow the rules. If you do, we'd be more than happy to have you in the show! 


Thursday, November 27, 2014

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Summer will be back before we know it!

Bored Walk, then the Board Walk

I spent the day golfing on Saturday, and Christina took Robby to the beach at Rocky Neck. Everyone had a great day, but unfortunately there was a lost item at the beach -- so we went down to the shore first thing on Sunday. No luck at the lost and found, but we did take a side trip to the Niantic Boardwalk.


After a few tries, we finally found the park. Stupid signs.


We did notice that Niantic is famous for Sushi, Dead Egyptians, Monsters from Spice planets and Lady's undergarments


Walking along street, which we thought was the boardwalk. Saw a few trains


Big ol' thumbs down


Train trestle


Then we found the boardwalk!


Jetty


Beautiful Beach



One long baby cage -- Robby went free range on us


The sound


Mommy baby time


Sunshine


And only one nuclear power plant in sight!


Come on Mommy, let's run!


A great day at the beach


And then we went to Lunch on Mystic


That's a lobster roll smile.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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No Noggin!


"Showing" grandma his most recent drawing


Welcome to Cookies!


It's snow season already?!?


It's turkey lurkey time 


Lounging at Starbucks...

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Kid City!

One of Robby's favorite places to go. I had a daddy / baby day last weekend, so we hit the Kid City in Middletown.


Robby you can drive a car


Vroom


Filling the bowl


Birds and Trains. I mean, c'mon!





Hoisting groceries


Driving the little bug


Robby's back



Feeding the pigs


A little lunch for the boys.

Great weekend.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

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Because it'll be here soon:

Finally, a bit of winter in winter

It's been an interesting couple of years as far as New England weather. 2 years ago we had 3 winters in one. Last year we had winter in fall and then spring all winter long. This year....a White Christmas and what looks like the start of a real winter. They call it Bombogenesis.

 
We got 10-12 inches, about.

 
Backyard snow bowl

 
Inside snow bowl. Tasty

 
First snow, delicious

 
"Cold"

 
More, please.

 
Reading a little with Dad.

 
Hanging with my buddy.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

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From August 2011:

Back to our Roots

When I started Ashford Living, I intended to spend more time talking about our Life out here at 985 feet above sea level (no concern for Irene back).



So, to bring my reader back to one of the original precepts of this blog:



Today's Numbers:

Deer sighted: 0
Turkey Sighted: 0
Deer turkey ratio still even.

Skunk Smelled: 1

Link to Turkey Jamboree 2011
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=10150251899339011

Enjoy!

Friday, November 7, 2014

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 It's a thumbs up kinda day:


Swim time with the life vest


Jumping in the pool


Rocking it in the canoe



Thumbs up


IHOP pancakes for breakfast


Thumbs up


The Juicy Lucy at the 5-8 in Minneapolis



You guessed it!