Karen's Blog

Karen and I liked to hike. A few years after we married we bought a tract of land in Pickaway county where we wanted to build our “forever home.” After buying the property we faced a situation where our business really needed a warehouse, and instead of building a house we put everything we had…

Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of Karen’s passing. I took the day off and spent some time in the garden and around the yard, and spent time in contemplation. When Karen’s struggle was at the very end, she wanted to hang on long enough to see her wildflowers bloom one more time. She did, and…

Karen’s birthday is the 20th of June, which falls mid week. We’ll be celebrating it the Saturday before. I cordially invite you to Ironwood Manor for a celebration of Karen’s birth on Saturday the 17th of June! Save the date!

I wrote this blog a few years ago, but never posted it, but I told this story several times over the last couple months. I’m not sure that the post below is written well, but it’s been sitting unposted for quite a while, so I thought it would be better to post it, than to…

Earlier this week was our 14th anniversary. I’m a huge fan of scotch whiskeys. My favorite is the 18 year MacAllan Gran Reserva. When Karen and I married, a friend gifted us a nice young 10 year bottle of MacAllan “Fine Oak” whiskey. Karen didn’t really like the 18-25 year whiskeys that were my favorites,…

Greetings friends! I’d like to cordially invite you to join me at Ironwood Manor! Karen’s birthday is actually the following Monday (June 20), and Father’s Day is on Sunday, so we’ll be getting together on Saturday the 18th. I’d love to see you there. I’ll provide some basic snackery, and some sandwich making stuff, but…

In just a few hours, it will be the fourth anniversary of Karen’s passing. I’d like to write a post about Karen, but will also make a separate post after, inviting you to the gathering I’m holding in remembrance of her birthday. The topics of the pieces are a bit different, so I wanted to…

We’re coming up on the fourth anniversary of Karen’s passing and I wanted to make a post to let people who aren’t a part of my daily life know that she’s still a huge part of many people’s lives. The business that Karen and I built is still thriving, and is accomplishing objectives that Karen…

Lousy stuff happens to everybody in life. Karen and I did our best to size up lousy situations and try to look for something good in them. This helped us in the darkest of days. Sometimes the good was really small in relation to the bad, and sometimes there was good, but we just couldn’t…