Category Archives: Hobbies

Picnic Panic

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Mike Foley

I’m afraid this is the beginning of picnic season. I don’t know how you feel about loading up the car with kids and groceries, and heading to your favorite picnic spot for a meal. But I know how I feel, … Continue reading →

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Common Courtesy — Not So Common

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Mike Foley

Yesterday, I visited a club store…the largest in Loveland. I call our local outlet, the “$100 Dollar Store“, for it seems impossible for my wife and I to visit, without spending at least a hundred bucks. Today was the rare … Continue reading →

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The Caddy

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Mike Foley

I know that some of you readers are golfers, and I confess, so am I. Should my feelings about the game be based on my first contact with the sport, I would never have taken it up. Many summers ago, … Continue reading →

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No thanks, I’ll do it myself!

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Mike Foley

Those fatal words. “I’ll do it myself.” Words that are usually uttered after what you perceive to be a ridiculous quote from a tradesman for a project around the house…..after you are given the price for the job, and the … Continue reading →

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Saint Patrick’s Day I’m Thinkin’

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Mike Foley

With a surname like “Foley“, you’d assume the bearer would be at the head of the line of celebrants on March 17th. And since that is my moniker, you might go as far as to assume that if there were … Continue reading →

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Idiot Tube

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Mike Foley

I remember the first time I saw a television in the window of a local furniture store. It was in the fall of 1949; our family had newly arrived in the little town of Payson, Utah. We’d just moved from … Continue reading →

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Uncle Mike’s Spring Care Care Tips

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Mike Foley

Since spring is right around the corner, I thought this might be a good time to get ready for a a “Spring Cleaning” task. One of the first jobs I landed after high school was that of a “lot boy”, … Continue reading →

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Computer Love

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Mike Foley

No one in their right mind, would write a book entitled: “The Joy of the Computer”. It’s an oxymoron, for one can’t use the word “joy“ to describe any interaction with a “computer”. Other than a golf club, has there … Continue reading →

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Twelve Years Later

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Mike Foley

Doesn’t seem that over twelve years have passed since the “Millennium” fiasco, but if you recall, months before the dawning of the year 2000, prognosticators of every stripe were predicting everything from a total computerized collapse to doomsday. Even poor … Continue reading →

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Born Again

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Mike Foley

Some of you who know me, no doubt will do a double take. “It can’t be the Mike Foley I know.” Well, if you’re thinking in a religious sense, you’d be partially right, but let me say, I am a … Continue reading →

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