Greene Family Adventures

Family Business

dad — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:09:27 +0000

A is starting to develop her entrepreneur skills. She has decided that she wants to sell home made dog biscuits. Since I’m a geek we are going to do it online and sell from her own website as well as Etsy. Add to that that Mom also wants to sell some specific items online that she make and we have a full fledged home based business creating and selling things online. Stay tuned for updates and possibly buy something.

iPad versus Android

dad — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:28:43 +0000

Mom was wanting to upgrade her iPad2 to an iPad (iPad 3) but given the cost of another iPad and the fact that the only big change was the display we started looking at various Android devices. Mom was also interested in the Samsung Galaxy Note which honestly looks pretty hot. While at Best Buy we looked at the Samsung Galaxy as well as the iPad and other Android based tablets. We finally settled on the Asus Transformer TF300.

The TF300 sports a pretty decent display that is not as nice as the iPad but has a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and 1 gig of RAM. The storage is only 16 Gigs instead of 32 Gigs because that’s all Best Buy had in stock. However the TF300 also sports a slot for a micro SD card which makes expansion pretty nice. We also purchased the keyboard add on which also sports a USB port as well as an SD card slot. The external keyboard also adds an extra battery to give it a total of 15 hours of continuous usage.

All in all I’m happy with the TF300 over the iPad. Though I still have the iPad for games and what not, but with it’s limitation on running applications concurrently and suspending applications it still seems more of a toy then anything serious.

The Grandmother Passes

dad — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:14:03 +0000

It’s been two years since Moms grandmother could no longer live alone. Unfortunately she has finally passed on.

Early christmas

dad — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:20:49 +0000

It is time to do the technology upgrades. I decided to spring for a pair of iPad2s to replace the existing iPad that I bought for the wife awhile back. I am not overly excited about the iPad2 but it does seem to serve its purpose and do it decently. We are turning the original iPad into a family iPad that the kids can use and play with, hopefully without breaking it. I also bought mom an iPhone 4S as well as one for myself.
So far the iPads are fairly interesting in their portability and usefulness, but I don’t a ton of stuff with mine and still prefer a real keyboard and mouse.

New Family Members

dad — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:37:06 +0000

Over the weekend we took the kids to a dog show so that they could see one and we could look at some “show” quality Chihuahuas. To be perfectly honest I didn’t like all the show dogs. The body types were more toward the chubby side and I prefer the slimmer version that was more like Coco. However we did end up picking up two puppies that were not “show” quality and were more for pets. I will post pictures of them as soon as I pull them from the camera.

A loss in the family

dad — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:21:05 +0000

Yesterday evening we were working on some repairs to the shed on the property. All of us were outside along with all the dogs. For some reason Coco wandered further away than she ever has before and into the road. Unfortunately she was hit by a car and killed. This was a devastating loss for A as well as Mom. I am also deeply saddened by this and don’t understand why she wandered off that far and into the road

We will greatly miss Coco as she was an awesome dog and very much loved by everyone.

Stafford, the first 6 months…

dad — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:22:43 +0000

It has been almost 6 months since we moved to Stafford and things are going decently. Though the grandmothers health has gone done hill recently making life a little harder on Mom, she seems to be handling the stress well.

The kids also have 2 small chickens as pets and we are planning to get some larger chickens that will lay eggs so that we can have organic eggs rather then the ones that are commercially sold.

Mom also bought a new minivan to replace her aging one, good thing she doesn’t do this that often.

7 Days and Counting

dad — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:21:38 +0000

At the time of this writing, there are 7 days left until we close on the new place. Since the Grandmother in-law has moved in with us ( Moms grandmother ) we have determined we need a larger place for all of us to live. This decision wasn’t arrive to lightly nor without some in-fighting over money and expenses. We have purchased a place that is a single family home on 2.9 acres. The house is about 3,100 sqft and has an in-law suite which the Grandmother will be occupying.

There are 7 days until we close and start prepping the new place to be moved into. Hopefully things will go well ( yeah right ) and the kids will enjoy the new place.

Montebello, VA

dad — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:50:59 +0000

The wife took the kids camping in Montebello Virginia for a week. I was not able to go for the full week but ended up driving down there Friday evening and leaving with everyone Saturday evening. The wife also was camping with another family who had 3 kids of their own. Over all they seemed to have a good time and enjoyed themselves with A being able to go horseback riding and everyone swimming in a lake.

The link for the images is here.

Summer 2010

dad — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:27:43 +0000

School is out for A and summer is now here. The first planned event for the summer is for A and N to go camping with As Girl Scout troop down south in the middle of VA.

Since I bought the kids both CamelBak water packs once they return I plan on taking them on a hike on the C&O Canal. There are some trails there that are easy walks and should be good for the kids.

There are also a few more Girl Scout camping trips planned and we will see what other events we can come up with for the summer.