Sneak Peeeeeek!!!!

At great personal risk, i present to you a preview of the newspaper announcement that will soon be in our local papers!!!!
And so it goes.........

Hi, my name is Bryce Allan Soboleski. I turned one year old on March 30th. I live in Hartford with my Mommy, Tracey (Eldredge), Daddy, Gene, and my two older brothers Michael Eldredge and Zachary Geissler.

I am one very lucky boy because I have a set of Great-Grandparents Glenn and Shirley Eldredge of Stockbridge, a Great Grandmother Anita MacCaffrey in North Carolina, and another Great Grandmother Eleanor Soboleski in Florida. My Babci and Dziadziu (Donna and Gene Soboleski) came all the way from Florida to see me! Many hugs, kisses, and thank-yous to my Mimi, Poppi, Uncle Wogs, Auntie Krissy, Auntie Lynette, and cousins Cameron and Tyler. A special hello to my Uncle Colby and Auntie Boo in Maryland. I love you all so very much!!

The world may never be the same.....but then, that's the point, right?

After much consternation and several late night conversations, Bryce's 1st Birthday went off beautifully!!! Kudos (again) to my wonderful wife for such a fantastic day! Both sets of Grand Parent's were here, as well as aunts and uncles from as far away as FLETCHA! GREAT Grammie and Grampa were here to enjoy the party, too. what a great day. Weather was wonderful, little-ens played outside almost all day, and even Mike got involved. Wonderful.
In the morning, while the rest of the house was prepping for the fete, Weeb and BH fixed the roof for our deck. A great time was had by all, up there on the roof. Used the Tacoma parked in the front yard as a belay anchor. What fun! No one took any pictures, though. Bummer.
We do have, however, pictures from the party. About a gazillion, give or take a billion. Will post some as soon as I figure out how to do that (scheduling wise, not know-how...). In the mean time, here is one for ya to gawk at.
Peace,
BH

the Z-monster is winning

and i need to get to bed. stuck on the web, though. i miss it. fun portal to the rest of the planet. God Bless Al Gore. egads. at any rate.
good night.

peace....bh

party time, excellent!

The dude in this photo turns ONE in a few days. On the 30th of March. wow. born at 0626, i nicknamed him Stitch (although we never call him that. we call him Brycey-Bear). those of you who understand...well...understand. the others? google. add Disney to the criteria.....anyhoooo... found a fun site where you can download FREE (yes, FREE) ring tones. they have 40 endangered (or just interesting) animal sounds. lots of frogs, owls, and then some other things, too. cool site. check it out at www.rareearthtones.org . although i don't buy into the whole humans-are-the-ONLY-reason-that-the-planet-is-heating-up scam, i do think that endangered animals are neat. (especially with sauteed onions and some spicy mustard!!! (JUST KIDDNG!!!!!)) seriously, though, the site is pretty neat. did i mention FREE????? go there. why not?

very busy this week trying to keep my head screwed on the way the good Lord intended it to be. lots of work some days, not so much on others. sleep is again eluding me, even though my eyes burn and my head is pounding. i could really go for about 14 hours of sleep, even if it had to be drug induced. this will not happen, though.

ok, enough of this: i need to finish up with the invitations and do some other stuff on the web.

peace.......bh

Map of first hike

Had enough re-hashing of the first (and so far only) hike? Too bad. Here is a map that shows where I went. The red dot is as far as I went. The trail head is to the East. Fine, brown dotted line marks the AT.
WARNING....this may take a while to download on a dial up connection....egads.
http://www.maptech.com/mymaps/mymaps.cfm?mid=53793378116421027227
Peace! BH

First things First....or third. SHOULDA been first!

ok. I am not too swift. (hence the knick-kname).

HUGE, GRAND, WONDEROUS "THANK YOU" shout-out to my immediate family, especially my wife Tracey. without her support i would not be able to partake on this endeavour. really. it has been churning around in my head for many years, and one saturday afternoon it kinda leaked out of my head. (darned bingo-balls!) so yes.

Thank you, Tracey. For everything. You ROCK!

+1, geno.

oh, yea. the trail head.

this just in...or, rather...my brain is fried. this image should have gone with the first post, but i didn't put it there. and then, to add to the mix, i haven't been able to get on to this site to update the blog. woe is me.

so here it is. many more to come. look for the next post (perhaps under a different heading?) soon.

happy trails!