Festival Season Is Here!

​The summer festival season is getting into full swing here in Chicagoland. We started it off with Wauconda Fest this past weekend. ​Max and his Mom met us there for a great afternoon of fun and games. The weather was just about perfect and the food wasn’t bad either!​​Max rode a few rides and went through […]

Genealogy Detective Work

Researching your family tree requires you to be a bit of a detective. Sometimes the branch you are following is clear and easy to follow. Other times, you ​ gather every clue you can find and still can’t make the breakthrough that answers your genealogical questions. Genealogists call those ​seemingly dead ends “brick walls” and […]

Happy New Year 2018

​Happy New Year 2018! ​Shortly after we were married, Georgia and I took our daughters on our first overseas trip. We enjoyed England and France but, the part we liked the best was the time we spent in Scotland. I hope we can get back there again​.

Merry Christmas 2017

​We wish you all a very Merry Christmas!Tom and Georgia

James Edward Moore – September 9, 1952 – November 2, 2017

​This last weekend, Georgia and I traveled to Milwaukee to attend a moving memorial service for my cousin Jim Moore.Jim was diagnosed with ALS on December 2nd, 2016. The terrible disease took him from us on November 2nd of this year. He was a loving father, devoted husband and companion, amazing teacher and loyal friend […]

A Long, Warm Fall Weekend

It has been very summer like well into October here in the Chicago area. We took advantage of the weather by getting outdoors over the long Columbus Day Weekend. Max was staying with us so we had fun together.​Fall Festival​Indian Boundary Park in Chicago ​is home to an annual Fall Festival especially for children. Max […]

Added My Genealogy Posts to Winging It

I mentioned in the last post that I would be getting rid of my other web sites. My on;y problem with that is that I think there is some good stuff on those sites and  I hate to just let it go away. As a solution, I am going to import my blog posts from the […]

Catching Up and Future Plans

Before I retired, I thought retirement would mean I had more time to pursue my own projects. In some ways that is true. I can now spend my time doing what I want to not what a “boss” tells me to. Still, I never have enough time to do everything I want to do.This blog […]

A New Feature Of Winging It For Your Security

Happy New Year 2017

Our Arizona vacation is done and we will be back home on New Years day. I hope you all had a great holiday season! Welcome to 2017. I hope it is the best year ever!