This is the personal blog of Walt White. I am a Drafter/Designer living in Berks County, PA. I have a fondness for Cigars, Photography, and Firearms. Take a look around and you may find something interesting regardless of how different your hobbies may be from my own.
It has been entirely too long since I have participated in the Writers Adventure Group. With some sort of predictable routine emerging, post baby-birth, I found a little spare time to sneak in some writing for this weeks theme. Like in some previous weeks, I have used this writing exercise as an opportunity for a [...]
Just the other day I was browsing through recent status updates on Facebook when I came across something interesting. A friend, and soon to be father, Dr. Terry Simpson, made an observation about child warnings. Terry Simpson says: Funny thing happened to me — I use to laugh at the plastic bags that had the [...]
For this weeks Fiction Friday, from Write Anything, I’ve decided to break the rules. I saw the opportunity to morph two different posts into one when I read this weeks prompt, “I knew it was a mistake the moment it was over”. This piece is not a complete work of fiction and should serve as [...]
A Beautiful Spring Day Saturday was beautiful. Not only was it the first day of Spring but it was also the first day in nearly a week that wasn’t tainted by cloudy skies and persistent rain. This little ray of sunshine was just the kind of motivation required to stretch the legs and do something [...]
The dog owners out there reading this can probably relate to how my night winds down. Before my head hits the pillow, my wife and I move throughout the house taking care a of a few things. We make sure the lights are all doused, with the exception of the light on our refrigerator door, [...]
Pit Bulls are a very special breed of dog. They get a very bad rap, which in many cases they do not deserve. This post is not meant to change your opinion on the breed, but to point out a personality quirk of my own dog Syrus. When my wife and I adopted Syrus, we [...]
My wife and I do not have any children at this point in our lives. We do, however, have a dog. Both of our families have had dogs in our homes growing up and it felt natural to get one of our own when we moved in together. We got Syrus when he was approximately [...]
Yesterday I had a little free time to myself and thought that time would best be used to work on a quick video post for the site. With me being back to work, its been rough falling back into the routine I developed for myself some time ago. Not having anything in mind to discuss, [...]
Feeling the urge to fire up the camera and shoot a video, with no idea what to talk about, has lead to this segment of Shooting The Breeze. I decided to just run with it and fire from the hip talking about a couple of things that came to mind. I started off the video [...]
This week I had plans on either doing a review for Stogie Review or a First Impressions video for this site. Before firing up the camera I discovered that Stogie Review was having server issues. Getting frustrated with the situation, I figured that it wasn’t the best time to try and focus on a cigar [...]
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to shoot a video to share a few words on how Syrus’ obedience training has been going. This week I was unable to attend the class and my wife filled in for me. Without any first hand information, I decided to skip the video this week. [...]
Another dog training week has come and gone, but this time the weather was actually pleasant! After an orientation with snow flurries, a week of rain and mud, and a thunderstorm which canceled a class, I was loosing hope in actually having a nice night to train the pup. After a ridiculously hot April day [...]
Last week I went on to tell you all about the obedience class Syrus and I attended. It was dreary, cold, and wet. This week the weather was beautiful earlier on in the day, so I was looking forward the weather during class. At 6:00 PM my wife and I packed up the car and [...]
Just a few minutes before writing this post, I walked through my front door with Syrus. Our first Dog Training class was complete and I couldn’t be happier with the little guy. We had a couple of stressful moments but in the end it exceeded my expectations. Just like kid on his first day if [...]
This post comes a little later than usual. After a long day of yard work yesterday, and an unexpected visit, I just didn’t feel like writing up something before calling it a night. The topic I wanted to touch on was Dog Training Classes. I’m not sure if I mentioned it before, but Syrus is [...]
